The other day I decided to dust off my old Amstrad CPC, I set it up on my new TV and tuned in all in, perfect, (that tape you can see is Fantasy world Dizzy)
Here it is chugging along in action.
Then i dug out an old demo of Lemmings, It chewed up the tape so bad it wont work anymore.
Used to hate the cassettes, especially the evil multi-loading games where you had to rewind or fast forward to the right part at some points, and the loading times were rediculous, I had one game called Twin Kingdom Valley which took 20 minutes to load. They were cool to stick one in the stereo though, it was like having your own rave.
It's in quite good condition still , i'm suprised most games still load since some are about 20 years old. Dizzy 3 cost £2.99.
@AT, I tried putting a tape in a stereo, they are LOUD! and not my taste in music im afraid, actually i think the loading sound is kind of spooky.
Strangly the games I played that day were quite quick to load, by todays standards though 5 to 6 minutes is crazy.
@Phizzy, I think only Britain used tapes back in the day. Most european countries used disks.
@CIubsoft My tv is about 15 inches. Maybe it looks small because the Amstrad is quite large.
Lol, a long time ago I had a Commodore 64 we didn't have tapes though (I know the Commodore could use those) but we had these gaint floppy disks! Jeez!
DaVince This fool just HAD to have a custom rating
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7th July, 2005 at 05:45:23 -
I had a C64 with tape thing. It was hard to load, though, and the game crashed often.
Also, if you put a tape in your casette deck, you get the same result as putting a data-CD into an (older) CD-player: Lots of noise.
If my C64 didn't bite the dust I would have posted some screenies now, too.
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, i'm suprised most games still load since some are about 20 years old. Dizzy 3 cost £2.99.
we didn't have tapes though (I know the Commodore could use those) but we had these gaint floppy disks! Jeez! 
