Ooeeh! Look what I have found!

[Dennisch]

The only thing missing is the Batman sticker

The tape seems to be in good condition!
Anybody got a Commodore 64/128 to spare?

 

[ozyran]

All of a sudden I'm having flashbacks of

LOAD"*",8
RUN

Or, better yet...

**** COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2 ****
64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE.​

READY.
FASTLOAD
LOAD"*",8,1

SEARCHING FOR *
LOADING

 

[Tyger]

I don't remember having to do all that to load my C64 games? Or was it just that game? Awesome game by the way, I had it on the Spectrum, was pretty cool on the Amiga too, the driving sections were in 3D on that

 

[bevo]

The only thing missing is the Batman sticker

The tape seems to be in good condition!
Anybody got a Commodore 64/128 to spare?

I have a 64, but I'm not coming off of it The last time I tried it out, it still worked, but that's been years ago. Mine never used cassette tapes, it was strickly floopy and 3.5.

 

[Dijital Majik]

Nice one. Still have my Amiga version around here somewhere, including the sticker!

 

[ozyran]

I don't remember having to do all that to load my C64 games? Or was it just that game? Awesome game by the way, I had it on the Spectrum, was pretty cool on the Amiga too, the driving sections were in 3D on that

Typically, the command line was LOAD"*",8,1 and then it would load.

Sometimes, though, it was

LOAD"*",8

The program would load into memory and the prompt came back up, and to execute the program you simply typed RUN and hit enter.

 

[Tyger]

I thought it was something like Shift-Run, just a keypress or two, to load most C64 games...perhaps my memory is playing tricks on me.

 

[Dennisch]

I've had so many different "consoles" and pc's, I wouldn't know what to do anymore to start up a game on a C64/128.

I must have been 8 or 9 when I last played this game. 20 years ago.

 

[Tornado]

What I think is funny about this is that I wouldn't be surprised if many people didn't even know what a cassette was whatsoever, let alone what it was in relation to a C64.

 

[bevo]

What I think is funny about this is that I wouldn't be surprised if many people didn't even know what a cassette was whatsoever, let alone what it was in relation to a C64.

I had a 64 and I don't know what the cassette is for. It must have been an add on or something. I never had any cassette games, mine were all the big floppy disks.
I remember my mom setting up all night one night, and typing in all this code from a book she got. She knew nothing about computers at all, and was so proud she came and woke me up to show me what it was going to do. She hit enter or whatever and all it did was make the screen flash like 3 times and hold a beep for a few seconds. That was the end of her computer interest.

I also remember I was still using it when nintendo came out. My friend got a nintendo and none of us had any idea what it was. I went over and played a few games and thought, this is stupid, I'm going home and play hardball, 4th and inches and some Karateka!!!

 

[jacnob]

What I think is funny about this is that I wouldn't be surprised if many people didn't even know what a cassette was whatsoever, let alone what it was in relation to a C64.

I knew, even though I'm to young to own or know what one is. Stupid google always pulls weird things for me.....

 

[Dijital Majik]

What I think is funny about this is that I wouldn't be surprised if many people didn't even know what a cassette was whatsoever, let alone what it was in relation to a C64.

 

[Dennisch]

👍

 

[Tyger]

I had a 64 and I don't know what the cassette is for. It must have been an add on or something. I never had any cassette games, mine were all the big floppy disks.
I remember my mom setting up all night one night, and typing in all this code from a book she got. She knew nothing about computers at all, and was so proud she came and woke me up to show me what it was going to do. She hit enter or whatever and all it did was make the screen flash like 3 times and hold a beep for a few seconds. That was the end of her computer interest.

I also remember I was still using it when nintendo came out. My friend got a nintendo and none of us had any idea what it was. I went over and played a few games and thought, this is stupid, I'm going home and play hardball, 4th and inches and some Karateka!!!

Weird, in the UK nearly all new games were on cassette, and very few on disk (though I think you could back the games up to disk). C64s came with their own proprietary cassette player called the datasette, which was notoriously inflexible for dealing with "difficult" copies of games and not loading, as there was no volume control or tone or whatever. However it did make it harder to cop..."back up" games as it was tricky to get the levels just right.

I'm with you on the NES too, my friend had one that was bundled with that daft robot thing, though he also had the gun and Duck Hunt, which was kinda fun, and when he later got RC Pro-Am and Super Mario 2 I pretty much spent all my time there