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Offline paul1981

Re: This annoys me
« on: November 10, 2013, 11:53:18 PM »
Quote from: foleyjo;752427
As I said
Lie 1 he says there is a problem loading games when he has clearly pressed runs top to break out of the game
Lie 2 he says that the game has crashed during loading and makes out it is a common fault when there is no evidence of a crash and load errors are rare
Lie 3 buggy boy takes about 4 mins to load not 10

I also find his presentation to the kids lacking. There is another video on YouTube of someone introducing his kids to a c64 and he does a much better job

I think I'm with you here. Only a few days ago I saw a Windows 7 Quad Core laptop with 4GB of ram take at least 10 minutes to actually load the desktop and be in a usable state. Crazy.
And load times from cassette tapes really aren't that bad. I think most of my C64 cassette games load up quicker than the average persons PC boots up.
As for UK users with 1541's, I only knew one, and he got his C64 rig in 1996... I don't have a 1541 either as I'm happy with my tapes and always have been. Might get a 1541 Ultimate one day though, but I do like loading games from tape.
 

Offline paul1981

Re: This annoys me
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2013, 06:49:45 PM »
Quote from: TCMSLP;752498
I think the 'snobbery' comes from childhood views.  In the US tape was seen as inferior to disk.  In the UK tape was the normal option, only a few could afford disk systems.   I think you'll see bias in comments depending on geographic location.

Tape bias :laugh1: