Loading Repton Infinity (Master version) from tape

Don't watch this. No really, it's completely pointless.
The Master version of Repton Infinity was, I have calculated, the slowest-loading BBC Micro game of all time. If you had this game for your BBC Master, and didn't have a disk drive, I salute you.

[@BinaryReader]

its like music to my ears. These were the days

[@hjalfi]

Bloody hell, is that really loading 64kB of sideways RAM data, uncompressed, off 1200 baud tape? Were they sadists or masochists?

[@elijahvincent985]

Notice some of the tiles are drawn out at 11:39. There's something cool about hearing and seeing data be drawn onscreen from an audio cassette.

[@gmoar]

Two people feel the need to compulsively watch the hex count incrementing...

[@8bitlion]

This was a common trick to increase the available memory. Screen memory can be used as normal memory if you don't mind garbage on the screen.
The game itself used a custom mode which used less RAM, so the data was no longer visible.

[@EvilStreaks]

Why in god's name did they have to output the data as fixed-full-volume audio....

[@cm603]

Any quiet data may not be picked up by the computer, and if that is critical data, errors may occur.

[@TheChloeRed]

@@cm603 Also for effect of the video - in normal use the tape deck was muted, you had to _want_ to hear the blocked data. The BBC and electron had a pair of errors (data? and block) which if they appeared, you'd rewind the tape back past the block, adjust the volume, and play again, it'd pick up from the missing block.

[@pjgathergood6987]

3:56 is my favourite bit.

[@aidanodonnell2490]

Made me look!

[@Elfsinger]

SUPERB!!!! This is completely what I was looking for. I want this as my phone ring tone. Takes me back 1000 years to my youth :) TA :)