To think us oldskoolers used to put up with this!

Go to http://www.dreamfabric.com/c64/jsidplay/ and you can play a variety of classic C64 soundtracks. If you check out http://www.hvsc.c64.org/ also you can find almost everything :D

For example enter 'Cooksey_Mark/Elite_Loader.sid' in the enter SID to load bit to hear my fave tune from the era

Only a couple of years ago I found that it was shamelessly stolen from a cheesy early 80s song :D ( Trans X - Living on Video)
 
haha love it, use to load a game then go and do something else.

Worst bit was coming back to see the loading had failed RAGE
 
Who used to put there game saves at the end of the tape the game was on? I got tired of doing it on a blank as I could never find the right tape quickly - how useful was a tape counter back in those days :p
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Nah, 'put up' is the right term. Tapes were an awful system and, when after taking ages to load, you had to use some awful 'Lenslok' system...

I defy anybody to go back to that nasty system of squawking cassettes and, hand-on-heart, prefer it.
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I dont think people would prefer it but considering other methods of loading/setting up games its these tape loads that Ill remember fondly over things like modding autoexec.bat to make sure DOS XMS was as free as possible or making sure Soundblaster compatible was chosen with the right DMA settings etc. Naah nothing touches tape loading...

Now I wonder if people remember Sam Coupe or Crash/YS...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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My brother had a Commodore Amiga CD TV, but I couldnt stand the thing compared to my Mega Drive =D

I still have it in a cupboard somewhere, along with my mega drive and an Atari 7800.

And a game gear, but both the screen and the sound are completely naffed on it.

The Atari and Mega Drive were mine, the Commodore Amiga and Game Gear my brothers. I had the better ones =D
 
Wow great memories reading this thread.

First thing that springs to mind is borrowed games from a mate, a C90 cassette and a twin tape deck :D

I was lucky to have both the Speccy and the C64 but i preferred the C64 as it had better graphics and fantastic sound (Rob Hubbard and Martin Galway were kings back then).
Went onto an Atari ST but i hated it to be honest and wished i had saved up the further £100 for the Amiga. Dungeon Master on the Atari ST is my favourite game of all time though.
 
I had Dragon Ninja on the CPC 464! It was one of the few games where the Amstrad version looked better than the C64 version BUT it was only single player. I remember Double Dragon being the upcoming game that everyone was talking about but when it arrived it didn't live up to what it was supposed to be
 
I started my computer gaming career doing loading screens on the C64, so I've got a huge level of nostalgia for that era.

It was one of the most exciting times to be involved with games, because they were evolving and changing so rapidly. Those of us who worked in games then were very much pioneers and trailblazers for the games industry of today.
 
Ahhh... great days!
Personal favourite was Dune on the Amiga but remember those 8 bit wonders on the old speccy - and the frustration of using tapes.
As for piracing I can't remember the amount of software I had for copying floppys on the amiga, though IIRC could never get a copy of Elite to work. Firebird I think that was, and rainbird software wasn't bad either.
 
Tony343 said:
Ahhh... great days!
Personal favourite was Dune on the Amiga but remember those 8 bit wonders on the old speccy - and the frustration of using tapes.
As for piracing I can't remember the amount of software I had for copying floppys on the amiga, though IIRC could never get a copy of Elite to work. Firebird I think that was, and rainbird software wasn't bad either.
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Dune was awesome, yeah :)

My spectrum +3 was awesomely useless at playing tape games, though I had lots of with BASIC and saving my programs to the 'high tech' inbuilt disk drive.

I remember hacking Cricket Coach for my dad (it was coded in basic and came free on the cover of an issue of Your Sinclair/Crash/etc) by using the MERGE command rather than LOAD and then saving out the game code to disk. So leet for a 9 year old...honest.
 
reminds me once when my tape player was almost finished loading up chequered flag and I knew it had a minute to go and it just stopped lol
 
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