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@xenon I think it should work fine? Each track written to a CD is handled separately, and can be different types of data

and playing it back wouldn't be hard if you were worried about that, by the way. Just about any DVD player can play video CDs, even if that's not a feature most people use outside of southeast asia (where VCDs were much more popular than videocassettes due to better resisting that region's humidity, and where they continue to be a popular low-cost format)
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@xenon would it be possible to encode part of a CD with red book audio and part of it as a video CD? (not to be confused with CD video, which was just miniature laserdiscs and never came in writable formats)
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@xenon dual-sided cd/dvd combos aren't allowed by the spec and iwrc are actually slightly out of spec so some players won't read them, so i would be surprised if writeable ones exist. they might though
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@noiob remember also that SCART was never a thing over here. the only connector most TVs had was an F connector for 75 Ω coaxial RF input (or on really old ones, four screw terminals for twin-lead VHF/UHF)
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@noiob I don't know what the market was like in Europe but over here a majority or at least significant minority of households wouldn't have upgraded their TV since maybe changing from a black and white one to a color one. a lot of people still *had* black and white tvs in the 70s when the first VCRs were being made, even

a lot of tvs sold even into the 90s didn't have composite input, just RF, and everyone had a VCR with composite input by then so they didn't need to
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@noiob over here, VCRs had composite *input*, and TVs typically didn't until approximately the 90s, so you would use the VCR as a composite-to-RF converter, and it couldn't be used the other way around
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@noiob Someone else from Germany suggested a VCR, and we discovered that European VCRs typically output composite--North American ones never did, they always output RF over coaxial, the same thing we're trying to get something to convert to what our capture card can take as input
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@LexYeen A demodulator, rather, but yeah.
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also we discovered that our dad's atari is apparently a really rare model, one of the "heavy sixers" (the physically heavier of two models that had six switches on the front; this is the first model that was made) with a label that says "made in taiwan" (they were only made in taiwan for a few months, and not in large volume as they were switching over to the light sixer design that was made in hong kong) to the point that there are people on collectors' forums saying they don't exist
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@LexYeen we have a capture card that can do composite, component, s-video, and HDMI, so the problem is getting the RF to one of those
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@xenon it's not, it's hooked up to the TV through a balun that converts the 300 Ω balanced twin-lead to 75 Ω unbalanced coaxial
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and a pretty fun space-invaders-like
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we have one we'd never played before called Phoenix that, it turns out, is actually *ridiculously* impressive for a 2600's hardware
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while our parents were visiting recently we got out the atari 2600 and played a couple games with our dad (it was his atari when he was a kid and he thoroughly beat us at all of them despite not having played in probably over thirty years), and it has me kinda wanting to try streaming some atari games but: how the *fuck* do you video capture the output when it's RF only? this was well before any TV had any input other than twin-lead RF for an antenna
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@heatherhorns there are some really small details that can matter a lot too

like playing super metroid on anything other than an original SNES controller or something modelled after it is a pain, because the original SNES controller had the buttons arranged in a ♢ instead of a ⋄, and that game requires you to press X while holding B a lot, but you don't want to accidentally press A or Y
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@patchwork i just like multi a lot

i'd probably be into multi-spleen if we knew what a spleen was
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@patchwork multi-innards is just really good, you know?
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@patchwork *catches it and tosses it around a bit, then puts it in its chest next to the other one* Nice! I just like having extras of things. 💚

Let me know if you want it back!
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@patchwork mind if I take it if you're not using it, multi-heart sounds neat
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