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Did you know Commodore 64 games were once sold on CDs?
Although the company eventually released a PC with a CD-ROM drive in 1991, the Commodore 64’s heyday was long before CD-ROMs became popular. But that didn’t stop Rainbow Arts from releasing a collection of classic C64 games on CD in 1989 with all the data stored as audio files.
An included adapter allowed games to be loaded — very slowly and unreliably, as Wolfgang Kierdorf discovered — using a CD player connected to the C64’s cassette port.
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