[Russbmw]

Originally Posted by Quantox

That was when floppy disks really were (physically) floppy, and only 512kb (?) if DS?, and not encased in a hard shell and upped to 1.44mb.

Oh, the hours spent uploading 13 x 1.44 disks for a flight sim that didn't work because my processor power / vid card were too weak...........Arrrggghhhh!

I remember it too well.

Q

LOL! I remember waiting 30 mins or so for a game to load BY TAPE!

[335dJa]

Originally Posted by Russbmw

LOL! I remember waiting 30 mins or so for a game to load BY TAPE!

...only to come back and find "loading error" on the screen

[Andrewthefirst]

Originally Posted by 335dJa

...only to come back and find "loading error" on the screen

Character forming wasn't it! Load game, pray and pray that it will load for 30 minutes, oh the anticipation. These kids nowadays haven't a clue.

I had a Commodore 64 Hated the rich buggers who got Amigas, lol'd at the spectrum boys tho

[Quantox]

Originally Posted by Russbmw

LOL! I remember waiting 30 mins or so for a game to load BY TAPE!

Me too, an Amstrad tape deck and a BBC B 'puter, Dungeons & Dragons eh?

Wow.

Q

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Originally Posted by Andrewthefirst

Character forming wasn't it! Load game, pray and pray that it will load for 30 minutes, oh the anticipation. These kids nowadays haven't a clue.

I had a Commodore 64 Hated the rich buggers who got Amigas, lol'd at the spectrum boys tho

I arrived late to the PC stuff.

First one was an Amstrad 128.

There will be people thinking we are on about Mb's lol.

[JustChris]

Wait a moment, could this really be true, my goodness that would cost and what would be done with them?

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/in...irregularities

[rich100]

Originally Posted by Andrewthefirst

Character forming wasn't it! Load game, pray and pray that it will load for 30 minutes, oh the anticipation. These kids nowadays haven't a clue.

I had a Commodore 64 Hated the rich buggers who got Amigas, lol'd at the spectrum boys tho

Lol this makes me feel almost nostalgic.

Games crashing in the last minute just before they fully loaded, sprite collision and that horrendous flicker as characters stuttered across the screen I remember some games that required you to stop playing and then start the tape up to load the next level all the time hoping it wouldn't bloody crash again.

Still an avid gamer to this day but use a high end (ish) PC these days which is probably due an upgrade soon.

[rjwojcik]

Originally Posted by lobeydosser

For the Fortran and punch tape fans, here's a video that will bring tears to your eyes -

https://youtu.be/hxVbRz6udmI

Whether they're tears of nostalgia or of frustration I'll leave up to you.

300 instructions per second.