For those that can't stand disk load times for your games...

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Star Scream on 17 August 2009

Some worked, but from what I can remember it worked much easier on Spectrum.

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phinch1 on 17 August 2009

I had to show these pics finding this thread, i still have mine boxed :)

the commador itslef is in the loft boxed , all i remember is that it has rambo and robocop on the box, yeah tapes took ages to load, and they had to many colours on the loading screen the spectrum was also similar

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richardhutnik on 17 August 2009

sguy78 said:

Behold 15 minute load times!

You literally could start the tape playing, and then go eat dinner, then come back when it was loaded. What a pain in the ass it was loading those games for the Commodore 64. The thing is, you had cartidges too, which loaded immediately.

Please don't bring back memories of that. Oh my. And try the cassette going bad also, and it wouldn't load. Or, I remember doing data entry for stuff out of Analog magazine in BASIC, using an Atari 400 membrane keyboard, to be able to play one of their games and hoping it worked. Disk drives felt like miracles back then. We have come a LONG way since then.

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sguy78 on 17 August 2009

I didn't think this many people would remember it.

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richardhutnik on 17 August 2009

sguy78 said:
I didn't think this many people would remember it.

Dude, you can't expect someone with an Atari Mount Fuji symbol NOT to remember it. I also did eventually pick up a Commodore 64, when they had a a disk drive, so I didn't face that.

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sguy78 on 17 August 2009

richardhutnik said:

sguy78 said:
I didn't think this many people would remember it.

Dude, you can't expect someone with an Atari Mount Fuji symbol NOT to remember it. I also did eventually pick up a Commodore 64, when they had a a disk drive, so I didn't face that.

I don't feel nearly as old now.

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Retrasado on 17 August 2009

Radziel said:

MEATER said:
But I think you were even able to copy games with a regular two deck stereo. Guess that was the reason why most of my friends preferred their c64 to my NES: Being able to copy games.

Not only that. At that time, there were some radio stations that "played" games and programs. You just had to start recording at the right time.
and after that you could play it on your C64 :)
Before any of you start babling about piracy, at that time there was no such thing as illegal software in Poland. First bill about copyright protection was in 1994 i think.

that is freakin' awesome.

Not trying to be a fanboy. Of course, it's hard when you own the best console eve... dang it