Games that take forever to load

[Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

These game were designed with a harddrive in mind.

Yeah, but who had HDD back in those days?

[Retro-Nerd]

Me, i've played at least Indy IV (1993) and Beneath a Steel Sky (1994) on my A1200 with HD.

[mailman]

Originally Posted by sanjyuubi

Dune2 and Walker was not that bad with loading. The rule is simple more data to load - longer loadings, but there are some loaders that loads data like it attempt to load 10 times more than real amount of data loaded through this time:

Cannon Fodder 2 - what made them to do a loader working far far slower than first part? I just have strange feeling, that CF2 creators never saw first part - or was it part of goverment program to test a community patience?

CF1 is NDOS and CF2 is DOS. The data these games load are exactly the same but the access to them is different.

[dlfrsilver]

CF1 use an MFM system with a file table. CF2 is directly amigados file access, way more slower than track reading on CF1.

[amiga_Forever]

....and Body Blows...


I often wonder why they deliberately took soo long ..... I could get a cup of coffee in that time. i know maybe parts on multiple disks were to blame, but can also be blamed for everything but still they were quick..... maybe the compression, and/or inadequate code. ?

Nothing like changing 15 floppies..

[Galahad/FLT]

Jurassic Park is pretty fucking slow.

[Hewitson]

CF2 is even slower than the first one? I found the loading on the first one made it almost unplayable. Whether the original is like that or whether it was the crack I had, I have no idea.

[ransom1122]

Dominator by system 3 took ages to load. I thought the game had frozen. But I let it load on my gotek and eventually the game started lol