The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an industry (2013)

Re:The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an indu... by phire on Monday July 02, 2018 @08:01AM (#17440933)

It's my understanding that the majority of C64 users in the States used disks, while the majority of European C64 users used tapes.

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Re:The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an indu... by dahauns on Monday July 02, 2018 @08:21AM (#17441017)

It was different per country. In the UK, tape was quite dominant, but at least here in Austria, the 1541 was far more common. AFAIK it was the same in Germany.

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Re:The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an indu... by royjacobs on Monday July 02, 2018 @08:29AM (#17441062)

Indeed. I think in the US basically everyone had a disk drive whereas in the UK almost nobody had one. In The Netherlands and Germany they were quite common, as well.

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Re:The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an indu... by digi_owl on Monday July 02, 2018 @10:32AM (#17441936)

Not sure if the nordics were a mixed bag or not, as i don't recall anyone using tape for their C64 (but a few had UK computers, the Amstrad CPC in particular).

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Re:The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an indu... by ekphrasis on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:06PM (#17444017)

My impression is that the clear majority of the Nordic C64 users had a datasette and tapes.

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Re:The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an indu... by phjesusthatguy3 on Monday July 02, 2018 @12:40PM (#17443159)

My cousins were part of a cracking crew on C64. Almost all of the (hundreds of) games I had were ISEPIC'd and 5-10 to a floppy disk.

It took me years to realize that was pronounced "ice pick" and not "i-sep-ick". I didn't know any better.

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