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Press Play on Tape is a revival and tribute rock band to the music used in games on the 1980s' Commodore 64 home computer. The six-member band, hailing from Copenhagen, Denmark, has released a couple of albums and has done several concerts in Britain, Norway and Denmark.

The band's name comes from the message "PRESS PLAY ON TAPE" that the Commodore 64 displayed when the user issued a command to load a program from the tape drive. Upon pressing the play button on the tape drive, the program would then load.

Discography

Press Play on Tape's first album title comes from the text sequence in the Commodore 64's loading sequence: LOADING READY RUN. After pressing the tape drive's play button, the computer would display "LOADING" while transferring the program into the computer memory. At completion, the prompt "READY." would appear, and the user could then "RUN" the program.

The second album's title, RUN/STOP RESTORE, refers to two specific keys on the C64 keyboard. RUN/STOP was the button to stop a BASIC program's execution. RESTORE was used in combination with RUN/STOP to break ongoing interrupt loops, restore the corresponding interrupt vectors, and reenter the operating system at a known program location (all this constituting a "warm start"), thus (hopefully) bringing the C64 back to a responsive state.

Samples

"Commando" (Ogg Vorbis sound file) – The theme from Commando

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