You know how we all complain about loading times?

HoneyTribeStudiosHoneyTribeStudios Member Posts: 1,792
edited March 2012 in Miscellaneous
This is how a REAL game loads...

(If you fast forward it you are a cheater)

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  • butterbeanbutterbean Member Posts: 4,315
    edited March 2012
    Haha! Love it :)

    I can just see myself telling my kids....

    "When I was a kid, in order to play a game, I had to wait 10 minutes for it to load, and played them on floppy discs, and the graphics were 8 different colors! :P

    Kids nowadays are so spoiled!!

  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394
    I had to cheat :)
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  • Braydon_SFXBraydon_SFX Member, Sous Chef, Bowlboy Sidekick Posts: 9,273
    Haha! Nice post, HTS!

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  • HoneyTribeStudiosHoneyTribeStudios Member Posts: 1,792
    @butterbean ..."and the games came in a 'boxes'! Made out of processed trees!"

    And here's some great gaming music from the past. Commodore systems had the best sound chips...



    Hmm, I think I need to go and redo some music and make it better...
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  • SparkyidrSparkyidr Member Posts: 2,033
    The SID chip was the best.
    Also... Rob Hubbard is my musical hero.
    He is one of the main reasons I became a music producer.

    Best 8bit theme EVAAAR


    Most epic piece of 8-bit music ever made


    :)
  • SparkyidrSparkyidr Member Posts: 2,033
    Also....at the risk of giving away some of my "trade secrets" for making the 8-bit style music I sometimes do......

    There is a popular dance music synth (it's actually a rompler...but hey) plugin called Nexus. There is a soundbank available for it called SID, which is all kinds of amazing.
    Also, the same company, REFX, do a plugin called Quadrasid. This is, as you might have guessed, an emulation of 4 SID chips in a synth plugin form.....Hubbard did a pack of patches for it too. Ace!
    There is also a plugin called "Unknown64". But the website seems to be dead for that now, so might be harder to get a hold of...but that uses an interface very similar to how you would have used a synth editor on the the c64 back in the day.

    (When I say plug-in...I mainly mean a VST/AU plugin for something like Cubase or Logic)
  • EatingMyHatEatingMyHat Member Posts: 1,246
    Any one here ever loaded a game from an audio cassette? those were the days...

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  • SparkyidrSparkyidr Member Posts: 2,033
    Yeah. I never had a disc drive for my C64 (cassette games were more popular in the UK I guess). :)
    I had drawers and drawers full of cassette tapes back in the day.
  • micksolomicksolo Member Posts: 264
    edited March 2012
    yes! I was obsessed with the America's cup in the mid 80's. I bought the game on cassette at K-Mart for about 10 bucks, it took about 20 minutes to load and it was !@#$%!!! I think second only to ET as the worst game ever made.

    I fast forwarded that video, only because I spent many hours waiting for games to load. The Last Ninja was one of my favorite games of all time. Beautifully designed, great graphics, nice puzzles. Plenty of room for games like that using Gamesalad.
  • POMPOM Member Posts: 2,599
    edited March 2012
    Snaped

    Most epic piece of 8-bit music ever made

    :)
    Very good piece indeed ! it sounds like the whole Tron theme music was inspired by that one ;)

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  • HoneyTribeStudiosHoneyTribeStudios Member Posts: 1,792
    Discs for c64? Did you all live in the future back in the 80s?

    Here's a bit of classic Galway magic:
    (If interested someone did a PC remake of Wizball not that long ago and it's really good)



    And an really nice live take on it from Reyn Ouwehand



    @Sparkyidr - Also Plogue Chipsounds is very good. Emulates c64 and a bunch of other stuff too - nes, atari etc
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  • The_Gamesalad_GuruThe_Gamesalad_Guru Member Posts: 9,922
    Oh man I remember my commodore 64 and tape drive..LMAO oh man when I was young!

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  • RPRP Member Posts: 1,990
    Man I finally got arround to playing Red steel 2 and those load times are one of the worst things you could have in an action game, just like Duke Nukem Forever.

    I remember the clicking and chugging of the old floppies when playing those starwars clone games on the Franklin 2000 and those games booted faster than the load times of those mentioned above.
  • mynameisacemynameisace Hull, UKMember Posts: 2,484
    I remember my Spectrum 128K loading up... Loved that thing. It was 50/50 wether the game would actually load after waiting forever listening to brrrrrr zzzzzeeee mmmmfmfffffffa sdjdjdjdjjjjjj and looking at coloured squares haha.

    Ace
  • TouchTiltGamesTouchTiltGames Member Posts: 1,162
    This thread brings back so many memories, thanks guys. My fav was TechnoCop and Racing Destruction Set :)


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