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Try doing that with a dodgy jack socket that meant you had to apply precisely the right pressure to the plug for the entire loading process, otherwise it would
by regularfry 6y ago
Try doing that with a dodgy jack socket that meant you had to apply precisely the right pressure to the plug for the entire loading process, otherwise it would crash when it was done and you couldn't tell until it was finished. You had to breathe really gently so as not to move it for however many minutes it took.
From memory I could successfully load from and use about half the tapes I ever bought for my speccy, and I still don't know whether it was me or them.
Worth it, though.
- xd 6y agoI remember one of my friends would make us wait outside his bedroom whilst loading "Daley Thompson's Supertest" .. if his picture on the loading screen was to see us the load would fail. Good times.
- pjmlp 6y agoI never had to do that, but fine tuning the tape recorder head was a regular activity. Then there was those tapes where that alone wasn't enough due to how much the head would move as per screw position, so in addition I might need to use a screwdriver to move the tape holder just a couple of millimeter more on top.