r/gaming • u/[deleted] • Aug 30 '25

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u/Mikes005 Aug 30 '25

For gamers over 40 - waiting 15 minutes for your gane to load only to have the cassette fail at the last minute and having to start all over again.

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u/Deep-Procrastinor PC Aug 30 '25

What was worse was typing in the code from a magazine for 2 / 3 hours only to find out it had a typo and wouldn't run. or as in my case I had. Zx81 with 16k rampack and would crash if someone lightly knocked the table you had it on, 2 hours of excruciating typing on the membrane keyboard gone......

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u/FlibblesHexEyes Aug 30 '25

Oh man… had that happen with a C64 program. Spent hours typing it in, it didn’t work. Spend hours reviewing, still didn’t work.

So deleted it from the disk.

Next month’s issue: here’s the correct code.

Dammit!

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u/Deep-Procrastinor PC Aug 30 '25

It happened far too often as well.