Loading Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record [video]

As far as I remember it should be the other way around: Sinclair had analog audio input/output so one could hook up a turntable instead of the tape. Commodore 64, on the other hand, had a proprietary tape recorder called Datasette so there was no way to hook up a turntable to it. Of course, one could always just copy the signal from a vinyl record to a casette tape and then play it back to the computer.

Pete Shelley's album XL-1 had a bonus track with a ZX-Spectrum program with some visualizations to look at while you listen to the album

It's on youtube, very cool for 1983

Back in the 80s most of the (monthly) magazines had a cassette tape glued to them, with demos or full games.

But there was also a brief period of time when you'd get a vinyl instead. I remember loading games from those a couple of times, though the tape deck was the standard approach and much more common.

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/jul/07/video-games-on...