Dick Smith game Depth Charge Tape for the System 80

[ChickenMan]

Thanks to KimJohn for making this cassette tape available to be recorded and scanned. Recorded at 44.1kHz stereo and saved as a 16bit WAV file using Goldwave running on my Windows 11 PC. The Left and Right channels were then saved out as separate Mono WAV files. The Right channel looked the best and loaded into TRS32 emulator error free. I then wrote the WAV file to a tape which loaded error free into my System 80.

Depth Charge was written in 1981 by Rick Maurice (he also wrote Turbo 2000 & others in following years) and © 1981 by Dick Smith Electronics, although it didn't appear in DSE Catalogue until the 83-84 issue -

Depth Charge ....... $11.95
The latest version of the arcade favourite.
Your mission is to destroy the enemy submarine
pack. Good graphics and includes sound. Cas-
sette based, Req. 16K T1, S1, S2.
Cat X-3686

   

The game is a system game, so at the Ready, you type in SYSTEM. Then to load just use D and start tape. It starts loading at approx the 10sec and the screen then fills with this message as it continues to load the program -

   

When its finally loaded (approx 3min 22sec), type in / and at the READY again type in RUN and your presented with -

   

So in the Vintage Repository in the System-80\Software\Tapes folder we placed

dse_depth_charge.wav

dse_depth_charge_sideA.jpg <-- in the Documentation\Pictures\Tapes folder
dse_depth_charge_sideB.jpg