I have to say, I mostly only remember it for the painful loading time, made all the more painful by the fact that the game crashed a lot. I love adventure games but I never got very far in that, simply ran out of patience and tolerance

@derSammler

The reason the numbers don't seem to add up is that programs are stored twice on the tape for error correction [1]. I remember accidentally stumbling on that effect once before learning about this: a game that would fail to load actually worked fine if you hit run/stop-restore around around a certain counter number after the halfway point. Even as a kid, this was quite suspicious: if the game already works, then what on earth is it doing all the time after?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette#Features

Also, even with the slow kernal routines, 40 minutes would load over 100 kb of data. There's not enough ram in the C64 for that.

I think memories often trick us. It was not that slow.

The venerable floppy drives were only a little bit faster, though again turbo loaders made all the difference.

These days I have a Kung-Fu Flash cartridge which makes it like magic.

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