Slowest loading computer?

[mjnurney]

Chatting at work today a guy was moaning that his ps3 has long loading times..

Surely the c64 had the longest loading times ever?
I'm sure I remember 15mins from cassette..

Was there a slower loader??

 

[Templar]

15 mins is nothing compared to Atari 65 or 130XE. How about 45 mins?

 

[FOL]

Chatting at work today a guy was moaning that his ps3 has long loading times..

Surely the c64 had the longest loading times ever?
I'm sure I remember 15mins from cassette..

Was there a slower loader??

Speccy,

I can remember waiting up to an hour for some things to load.
Outrun was a nightmare, as you had to load each level. If it screwed up, you would have to start reloading.
Kids got it easy these days, instant loading and they still moan about speed.
I personally, like the whinning and hiss of the tape as a speccy loads, its strangly soothing, lol. My wife calls me nuts, but hey, .

 

[mjnurney]

Speccy??

I don't remember it being that bad?

 

[davideo]

My wife calls me nuts, but hey, .

What does she call them?

:rofl3:run:

Dave G

 

[FOL]

Speccy??

I don't remember it being that bad?

Some games were.

My wife calls me nuts, but hey, :smile:.

What does she call them?

:rofl3:run:

Dave G

lol.

 

[mjnurney]

I never had an atari so I cannot comment but I did buy a c64 floppy drive 1542... Very little improvement on cassettes lol

Until I bought the action replay thingy anyway

Games in 2 mins!!!

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I tried to avoid multiple load - super hang on was another , labyrinth too

Really 45 mins on atari ???????

 

[Templar]

Yes, I had an Atari 130XE in 83-84, and I remember it like yesterday.

Donkey Kong, Tarzan, Bruce Lee needed approx. 45 mins.

 

[mjnurney]

45 mins !!!!!!!


That's just not funny

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I don't recall what the baud rate was of the c64 but you were filling up to 30 something kbytes ...

So were the 128k machines even slower back then?

 

[chiark]

Manic miner on the 64 was horrendous... 15 minutes was an eternity when you're 9 or 10...

 

[Geraldine]

Loading, Loading, Loading .....CRASH!

Loading, Loading, Loading .....CRASH!

I agree with FOL on this one. My old speccy took ages with some games and always and I do mean always, if it crashed, it would do it when the loading was almost complete :roll: Redo from start!

No wonder I loved my miggy 500 when I finally got it in the late 80s. Goodbye unreliable tapes, hello (a bit better) disk drives. Saying that though, the +3 speccy had a disk drive didn't it? I never got the chance to try one of those out.

 

[specialK]

Yes, Atari XL\XE series with non-modded casette player (XC12 or XC11) took ages to load even a small game, on average from 15min to 45min!

what we used to do was put the TV\Monitor volume up and walked away, this way we could do other things while we waited for the game to load

off topic;
you needed some sort of third-party (backyard) modification to increase the boud rate. very popular in eastern europe, turbo systems like Turbo Blizzard, KSO 2000 and others were developed by Atari users and widely available.

however, a point to note was that a non-modded Atari disk drive (LDW2000 or CA2001) was faster than non-modded C64 disk drive

 

[nkarytia]

I remember waiting by the hours for games to load on my speccy and somewhere near the end of loading gettin' a "R Tape loading error"... Holly, f$%$, s^%&. But I still love my ZXs more than anything else in my collection.

 

[rkauer]

ZX80~81 with 4k or (very little) more... :banghead:

I remember a friend who just joined his 3 hard-to-grab games into one cassette via his hi-speed cassette audio system...

The source reading head was dirty and the final cassette was so faint the computer cannot read the games at all.

I must say he sold the games just after he did the "backup"................................

 

[FOL]

Saying that though, the +3 speccy had a disk drive didn't it? I never got the chance to try one of those out.

Indeed it did, I managed to get one to towards the end.
I had an interface, that let me save the game data to a disk, so I could then put games I liked on to it, after loading it via tape, .
Made life so much easier and loading was much quicker.

 

[mjnurney]

I never had a 128k machine, i don't even remember them being advertised really.. It seemed to be c64 and then Amiga.

Was 128k loading by tape even longer??

 

[hayesey]

Commodore 16 was the worst one I ever had. Me being about 6 or 7 at the time just made it worse too, it was a long time for a kid to wait for a game!

ZX Spectrums were lightening fast to load in comparison.

 

[morcar]

ZX81 for me full 16k games took almost an hour to load and you had about a 20% chance it would work.

 

[Merlin]

My original Spectrum 48K was nicknamed 'Brain Damage' (it's name was in black Dymo tape on the top - very retro ), due the the errors it used to have when loading from tape, as well the Kempston joystick interface that crashed the machine if anyone walked across the carpet and disturbed it.

I remember well the stress of waiting for The Hobbit to load, only for it to crash just before loading finished. ARRRGGHHH!!!

Looking back at the Spectrum now, it was somewhat pants.

 

[mjnurney]

@merlin

i think all spectrums were brain damaged

I had more tape errors of my zx than i did on the C64 but then i could never reload anything i typed in on the ti99/4a ...