Loading retrogames on tape on C64

It took 5 mins to load a game with the "turbo". No wonder we played them for so long...

For Swedish readers, see more at http://spelpappan.se/2011/04/sa-har-g...

Update 120824: Someone asked me how it sounds when you play a data tape in a regular cassette recorder - and this is the answer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVsY9P...

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[ArcadeGames]

So it takes 5 minutes to play a game?

[spelpappan]

If you played truncated copies of an original game - i.e. pirated software, then yes - it took about five minutes just to load it :) First you needed to load a Turbo program, that could unpack the truncated file and afterwards the actual game file itself.

[legoguy151]

so does it play music?

[spelpappan]

I'm not sure I get what you're asking - do you mean if the datasette plays music? It does not - it only reads data and transfers it from tape to computer, like a common diskdrive but with tape cassettes instead.

[legoguy151]

oh i meant does it play audio cassettes

[spelpappan]

No, it only reads data.

[spelpappan]

You will hear a high pitch noise on the parts of the tape that contain data. Between every game there is silence, that is how you knew if the tape was empty for use or if you already had recorded something on it. I could put up another video of that, if you like.

[VincentGreece]

I love to see the reel rolling.

[kondiprz]

amezing!!!!!!.............

[Paperclown]

Be Kind, Rewind LOL!  we didn't use tapes in the US .. floppies were standard

[MrOmeMan]

i just sampled this. lol

[KoderXofXACT]

I have the Super Tape Turbo By Elgar and the Red & Black one too, all my turbos from over 25 years ago still work, i have been copying them all to disk now to preserve them, The C64 is still great, Will the machines of now be remembered in 25 Years? in the same way. I can just hear my mum now, shouting "your dinners getting cold, i'll pull the electric fuse out if you dont hurry up" and i would say "Just finishing this level" Those Were the dayz

[Pasi Sivula]

turbo 250...memories <3