Atari 8 Bit memory

[boatofcar]

So I was thinking about back in the day when I was waiting for my games to load on my old 1200XL, I could always sing along with the loading beeps on my favorite disks. Did anyone else do this? :)

[Nature Boy]

Ummmmmmmmmm, no.

I do like the fact that the Atari makes those noises as it loads though - the quietness of the C64 always results in me thinking: Is it loading? Is it loading? It's loading, right?

[CrazyImpmon]

You haven't used the old 1541's before? They are rather loud and when the head bangs, it'd sound like something's broken inside. One of the worse head banging noise I heard was off a disk of Turtle Graphics II, it would bang for about 5 seconds.

[diskoboy]

You haven't used the old 1541's before? They are rather loud and when the head bangs, it'd sound like something's broken inside. One of the worse head banging noise I heard was off a disk of Turtle Graphics II, it would bang for about 5 seconds.

You wanna hear a loud 1541 load!!?? Find an actual copy of EA's Adventure Construction Set. When I was a kid, I thought my 1541 was gonna die whenever I loaded this game. I had TG2 on cart, so I wouldn't know about the disk load on this one...


But on to my Atari 8 bit memory... The day Pac-Man came out for the 2600.

My friend bought it, I came over to see the all mighty Paccy, finally released for a console, and I was SO pissed. It sucked so bad... He took it back to the store 3 days later. I bought a copy for $3.00, 2 years later. Because that was about how much it was worth.

2nd place would be the day Yar's Revenge came out.. I couldn't quit playing that game. I got grounded because my parents caught me up at 12am playing it.

I was 8 when it came out. My bed time was 9. :)

[Daniel Thomas]

So I was thinking about back in the day when I was waiting for my games to load on my old 1200XL, I could always sing along with the loading beeps on my favorite disks. Did anyone else do this? :)

Ha! That's funny. LOL For me, it wasn't the beeping that bothered me; it was when the beeping suddenly stopped. Whenever the Atari was loading a bad disk, everything would shut down while you wait for one solitary beep every five seconds. I don't miss those days of long loading times at all.

[Nature Boy]

You haven't used the old 1541's before? They are rather loud and when the head bangs, it'd sound like something's broken inside. One of the worse head banging noise I heard was off a disk of Turtle Graphics II, it would bang for about 5 seconds.

Actually I have. At least the Atari makes those beeping noises so you know the file is loading. No noise at all/massive gunshots coming out of the drive aren't condusive to realizing that you're game will be there in a few seconds...

[boatofcar]

Ha! That's funny. LOL For me, it wasn't the beeping that bothered me; it was when the beeping suddenly stopped. Whenever the Atari was loading a bad disk, everything would shut down while you wait for one solitary beep every five seconds. I don't miss those days of long loading times at all.

Actually, I remember when games wouldn't work, you'd get the one beep every 5 seconds accompanied by the ol' BOOT ERROR. But if you really had a screwed up disk, it would go berserk, beeping like crazy and give you

BOOT ERROR
BOOT ERROR
BOOT ERROR
BOOT ERROR
BOOT ERROR
BOOT ERROR

forever and ever...I remember waiting for one of the Ultima games to load, it would give you the beep ever 5 minutes or so, then be replaced by the ERR ERR sound made by the old 1051 (?) disk drive. Those were the days all right. LOL