The tape we’ve been waiting for is out, and it’s full of treasures! I was thrilled while listening to it for the first time. The piano version of Motion Picture Soundtrack, early version of Nude, new, unpublished songs… But there is something more. As a kid I was an owner of the Commodore 64. I remember that all my friends already were the PC users but my parents declined to buy me one for a long time. So I sticked to my old the tape-based computer listening to it’s blips and waiting for the game to load. Over 20 years later I was sitting in front of my MacBook, listening to the digitalised version of the tape my favourite band just released and then I’ve heard a familiar sound… ‘This must be an old computer program, probably C64 one’ I thought and I’ve sent a message to my friend — Marcin Skoczylas, who is known from his old computers knowledge and works for the demo scene (check out his achievements: http://csdb.dk/scener/?id=28820&allhandles=1 and his YouTube channel).

Ok Computer Program

Everything you’ll see down below I know from Marcin and it was him who run the secret message for the first time :)

Step 1: Get/open audacity

Step 2: Load Cassette Side B.mp3 file and trim it at the end where the weird sounds start (38:57–39:12) — this is the program’s code