Commodore 64 C64 game Robocop loading screen and music from tape.

[54spatula]

My mate had an Atari 800xl when i had a C64 years ago. When we were playing games over his house, we would start the game loading and go to the shops, come back, and it STILL wasn't done.

[RuggeroAcque]

Ocean loaders... fantastic music! The best is Ocean Loader 2 by M. Galway

[satan666himself]

lol found this in my loft , when i was a kid the loading time seemed like a week

[SuperBrain1997]

Load screen remind me zx spectrum

[CommodoreisAwesome]

one of the best loader sids ever :D

[randomforum]

First loading the loader, then background music, then image and then the game :D, or is it in that way? Or multiloading? Hmm :D

[MrMLD72MLD]

♥ .

[curls2006]

Isn't it weird that a film that is brutally violent even by today's standards became a kids' videogame?

[scaleop4]

1983 the year i was born fucking good times

[iosnick]

Fantastic, happy days :)

[TheViper77wsb]

This music was the same in all Ocean's games loading.... I remember it in Batman The Movie and others..... =)

[stimpyx1]

Used to scare the shit out of me when the music came on unexpectedly on some games when loading. The good old days :)

[HippyMcSlippy]

With this loading system, you always hoped that the presence of one single colour in the border didn't last too long :)

[fortressofcomfort]

continuing... so the audio starts at 1:22 meaning at that point about 5k of data has been loaded. Think about... that accounts for the music "driver" or code (which probably persists into the game itself and located at $1000), that raster bar algorithm (maybe 50 bytes), and the picture loader code. So I bet the music data for the loader itself is probably around 2k or less even (albeit using some of the "custom routines" for vibrato, arpeggiation, filtering, etc). Just amazing.

[fortressofcomfort]

"What do the coloured bars outside the main bit of the screen do..." - VectorOmega

@VectorOmega: Nothing. Those "raster bars" occupy a very small amount of memory to implement. See, the C64 disk drive loaded at a speed of 256 bytes/second and the tape drive was slower at, I believe, 64 bytes/sec. I suppose it was deemed worth it to "have a loader" at all, to hold the interest of the player, but still it had to be tiny. Which makes the Ocean Loader 4 music that much more amazing!

[AllyJC]

The music in the Ocean loaders was the greatest. This tune is so burned into my brain I still whistle it occasionaly

[TheEllawayShow]

oh yes, LOAD "", press play on tape, sod off for a cuppa tea, come back just in time for the music....

Games were about gameplay not flashy graphics....not like today....

Now if you'll excuse me i have some slippers to put on, a pipe to smoke and whippet to walk...

[MadCommodore]

@TheEllawayShow

Weren't that bad on C64, loading music was only on turbo loaders really, so maybe 1 minute for music to start :)

[Parasite1101]

Ahh those we the days lol, anybody else remember just getting excited hearing music knowing your tape is making progress and actually loading properly as opposed to stopping halfway through?, getting even more excited when the game (any game) has finally loaded?

[smeltzerinho1980]

music was and still is epic

[BobFan75]

Oh the memories.. I used to love this game.. :)

[BeatMakerTV]

I just bought a real C64 and the design and weight of it is slick. Very light. I know the psu is external but the box is still very ligh for its age. MSSIAH should arrive soon!

[jerryteacup]

Commodore 64 for the win! Back then they knew how to code. Think about all the stuff we got to see in such low computing resources. Uncomparable to what happens nowadays.

[MrFooknuts]

I remember when you died you had to load the game all over again lol.

[BACasey81]

OMG this loading brings it all bad, i love it!! Hated it back in 1990 as the chuckie game (my favourite) would sometimes crash whilst loading lol

[RibNSpicY]

"SEE THE BLOCKBUSTING VIDEO NOW..." Anybody esle still call it the video shop? What are the hip young groovy kids of today calling it? The Blueray shop?

[MechWarrior324]

@RibNSpicY I still call them "videos", but I grew up in the 1990's lol. I suppose they would call it the "movie store" or something. lol

[illuminatioracle]

even to this day, i'm still amazed how the most violent and even sexual films became children's franchises back in the day

[masterblaster40699]

Yeah, good old 8-bit times. think i gonna make a revival party 4 thiz machine-tunes ;)

greetz 2 all gamers,fans and freaks !

[TheFunktipus1]

As soon as i heard the tune i started humming it

havent heard in nearly 20 years.

Never forget.

[Gnomefather]

I got seizure after watching that loading screen

[ClockMixer]

ahahaha robocop commodore rofll this game just sucks XD

[madmomentsgo]

good music.

[Rosskoid]

Aaaaah the nostalgia. A ten min wait just to hear the music great ! Anyone know where to find the loading tune for Hunters Moon c64 can only find intro ? Help an old c64 addict.

[Rosskoid]

Aaaaah the nostalgia. A ten min wait just to hear the music great !

[Supportahol]

Brought me back years watching this!!! Thanks man!

[VectorOmega]

What do the coloured bars outside the main bit of the screen do other than colour cycle? Just curious. Also, is it possible to recreate the bit where the loading screen for the game is revealed on the screen with Playstation 3 era graphics?

[rocko306x]

wow the colors...! iforgot about that...when i used to see the colors like that i used to get exited coz i knew the game was loading....lol...man the old days

[bazfanv2]

This ocean loader is my fave loading music off all time.

[tonystark001]

Ok nobody move or the game will crash !!!! 0_o

[Tweekender27]

@tonystark001 Ha ha!! We would think the same thing. We'd move our eyes and look at each other oh so quietly 'till the game menu appeared then jump for joy. lol

[RogueSeraphim]

Holy poop, my parents and I did the exact same thing with this as well, none of us would even stand up and walk across a room when a number of c64 games were loading, doing so would seem to jinx any chance of it loading up properly, Robocop especially for some bizzare reason, and then we'd have to go find the 'azimuth tape' which supposedly would realign the tape heads (or something) and improve chances of loading. We too jumped for joy the first time Robocop ACTUALLY loaded the first ime. xD

[cormack007]

@tonystark001 lmao !

[SickDashRendar]

Ahhhhhhhh, that takes me back. Damn, I feel old :)

[starbask]

when I hear this music why do I feel like I'm about to crack something

[akkasoothy]

im having a seizure with that flashing background

[thedigitalemotion]

God damm send me back to the good old days now with my friends who I no longer see to sit round the C64 and play games all night after tea. How life was beautiful them :'(

[dobsondale]

@thedigitalemotion just become like me and go on the dole (jobseekers allowance) thats all me and my friends still do and were all 30 ! all it takes is the job centre my friend !

[thedigitalemotion]

@dobsondale Absolutely man! Might have to consider that! Still got a 64 in my cupboard too, bring the old days back!!

[dobsondale]

@thedigitalemotion hahah amazing !!! i was expecting a rant about how i should grow up and not be on the dole at 30 hahahaa !!! you really have a c64 still wow ! are you old enough to have a spectrum zx ? those were some crazy games on that that would never exhist now ! chow ! have a nice evening !

[dieselboy87]

you're telling me it only took like 4 minutes for these games to load up? it seemed like forever when i was a little kid!

[cm1179]

@dieselboy87 felt more like half hour. load it up, eat your tea, come back the game was nearly done ..... or it had crashed

[soutarm]

Oh man, that takes me back. I used to LOVE the music in the main menu... I even recorded it from the tv with a microphone attached to my tape deck. 4 and a half minutes to load a game, now we get shirty if it's 4 and a half seconds!

[1989gamemaster]

Why is Robocop looked damaged on the title screen?

[TheTrancerBoy]

I want to play it.

[dhkelly86]

Man does this bring back memories I was 5 when I played this game on the amiga 500, Absolute classic. It was up there with captain planet.

[nathiebaby]

music was the best part about this game.

[rvounik]

now avaliable! :)

[VectorOmega]

Pity we can't recreate that raster bar border bit on today's consoles or DVD titles when something's loading.

[MadCommodore]

@VectorOmega

But we did get the colour bars whilst the cracked games decompressed on ST/Amiga :o)

[KopyKhat]

I simply love this tune..! Thank you so much for sharing this..! I've been searching high and low, and suddenly - There it is..! Funny how recognizable that tune really is.

Ah, really brings back memories..! Me and my older brother used to laugh our asses of when we used the SAM app..! :D

[DEATHFLY187]

Oh the memories! Going to look for Antiriad now.

[cosine303]

amazing loading screen by SIT.. you should check out his other pics in demos etc.. he was like what FD thorpe was for the speccy.. regarding loading screens

[luisadas]

Ah.... The good old days... :')

[HardWarUK]

This was in the day when publishers had a relationship with their customers, hence the fast loading tapes and games that people wanted! Americans wanted strategy and sim and got it, Europeans wanted arcade games and got them. Two different markets catered for. Now, it one big boring worldwide market ran by the marketing men!

[CitroenC407]

This was one HARD bastard of a game back in the day. I never completed it, it was simply far too hard for me. I seen someone uploaded a Longplay where they completed the game fully though which was nice to see :)

Excellent upload man - great to hear this tune again :)

[hondoismondo]

the only cheat I ever sussed by myself!!! if you press c v b n during the game you floated!!! I still couldnt get past the bastard chemical plant though. games were hard then and you got your 9.99's worth. not like fucking the usual resident evil standard shite that take about 10 minutes to clock!!!!!!

[Mistatic]

can anyone tell me where i can play this game

[StRoRo]

Did any one else ever stop the tape to just listen to the music?

[C64Revolution]

@StRoRo I'd rarely hear the original loader tune cause most of my games were cracked, copied from my friends or from local pirates, hehe!

Though I was lucky enough to enjoy the sounds of the best demos in computer history made by notorious C64 cracking teams.

[Supportahol]

@StRoRo I did! lol

[DusteDdekay]

@StRoRo Yeaah, I did that too :D

[Wezzipooh]

Whatever happened to Ocean?

[Amiga1200Mark]

Sadly mate ocean were swallowed up my infogrames in 1998. Infogrames renamed thwmselves Atari uk in 2004. I miss the good old games....Batman The Movie by ocean was awesome, on 64 and amiga...i had both.

[alanporic]

One of my favourites of all time...  Ah, the memories...

[KafelObrotowy]

i loved ocean's game

[andyochse]

Anyone knows the Armalyte song for c64? not on youtube yet

[cosine303]

SIT is one of my fav c64 artists. I've seen loads of his artwork, loads of it really cool. I'm surprised he didn't do a lot more for games

[X24RIDER]

Wow, haven't heard that for a long long time. Always used to make me jump as a kid when the music started.