Howdy! I just fell upon this video. To say it takes me back is an understatement! For my sins I programmed Freeload, what has become known as "The Ocean Loader" back in the 80's. It was like watching six years of my life fly by. Cheers for doing it. - Paulie.

@Four_X

6 жыл бұрын

Are you Paulie Hughes, I think you are? If so you worked for Ocean Software Ltd and coded the Ocean loader (Freeload) right. Wow, it's an honour to have you here, you guys at Ocean made my childhood with so many great games. Thanks for the memories Paulie and thanks for taking the time to comment on my video.

@Paulie68000

6 жыл бұрын

:) That's me. Who would've thought 31 years on there would be videos of my little turbo loader on a world wide network of computers! You are very welcome.

@thesh1ttygamer960

6 жыл бұрын

YOU ARE A LEGEND

@weazelbeast5400

6 жыл бұрын

All hail! you sir are an absolute legend :D

@VideoDotGoogleDotCom

5 жыл бұрын

@Paulie68000 Please reply to this comment, Paulie. Anything - gibberish will do. It'd feel like closing the circle. Thanks in advance!

I'm 62 years of age and almost cried when I heard that #1 loader.

@valomestari

11 ай бұрын

I'm 43 and the reaction is quite the same.

@fullcontrol1000

4 ай бұрын

52 and I did shed a tear. Beautiful times.

@Ama-hi5kn

Ай бұрын

I got my C64 in 1986 and I remember the Ocean loaders vividly to this day. I don't have a C64 anymore but you can relive them with Vice/WinVice. The emulator recreates them exactly.

Ocean loader 4 is probably the best loading tune on the c64. It says “shit is about to get epic”, even though it often didn’t get anywhere near as epic as the actual music. 👏

I´m 50 years old and thats the music I´ve heard every day as a child....my commodore 64 is still alive......greetings from germany

I am 40 years old and still own the original hardwares of the Commodore 64 (tapes / disks / cartridges) and Amiga 500 😺👍🕹️. Retrospective greetings from Vantaa, Finland 🇫🇮.

Martin Galway was so ahead of his time, that some say he's currently composing loaders in the year 10191. Just loaders, mind you, they're so good that actual games are no longer required. 😉

I always feel so sad when I hear these loaders, so many happy times from my childhood and the realization that I am now almost 50 and living in a world so much more unforgiving.

@tommylee4127

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. Most currently, man turns the world to place not worth living in anymore.

@jomjom1207

4 ай бұрын

You are not alone

@luvair6765

4 ай бұрын

Curious what you mean about unforgiving?

@fullcontrol1000

4 ай бұрын

@@luvair6765 Guess I meant I was young without a care in the world. The world felt more innocent, people didn’t seem to be so self absorbed like they are now. I would go back to being the age I was when I loaded up my C64 hearing these songs like a shot. My dad would still be alive, my mum wouldn’t have dementia. Happy times.

The memories of getting a C64 bundled with a bunch of Ocean games and just listening to the loader while the machine ran on the dining table will never fade.

I'm 49 but when I heard Rambo's loader a tear has falled from my eye

I loved that the C64 could play music while we waited for the games to load. This was a massive plus over the other 8-bit micros.

Ocean Loader 3 is my favourite tune, of all times, I am 47 years old, I had Commodore 64BN when I was 11, oh God what memories!!

@Four_X

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, I also have great memories from back in the day.

@TheTaskurapu

Жыл бұрын

The feeling of C64-nostalgia is something else. I'm 42 and i still ache for the feeling of waiting for the game to load while listening to the Ocean Loader. Best days of my life!

Loved Ocean Loader 2 back in the day. I remember a group of us Speccy users got invited into a friends house, who had not long had the C64. He put on Rambo and our jaws hit the floor when we heard the tape loading music. Brings back such amazing memories from my teenage years (now 51)

@dash8brj

6 ай бұрын

The C64 for its time had the most amazing sound. That little SID chip worked it guts out to make many friends impressed who had "lesser" computers. Even Apple couldnt compete. And here I am watching this again on an Apple iPad :P

Timestamps: 1:19 Ocean Loader 1 5:08 Ocean Loader 2 9:46 Rambo 13:33 Ocean Loader 3 16:39 Ocean Loader 4 20:05 Ocean Loader 5

@lutherburgsvik6849

3 жыл бұрын

@@rastas_4221 no worries mate. 👍

@buzby303

2 жыл бұрын

1 & 4 are my favourite 👍🏻

@lutherburgsvik6849

2 жыл бұрын

@@buzby303 4 really is in a class of it's own, isn't it. Heck of a tune for a loading screen.

@justint9517

2 жыл бұрын

Loader 4 takes me back to a very happy time and place....IK+, Rambo 3, Robocop, Target Renegade....so many happy memories of me and my older brother ❤️

Thank you for uploading this great collection of Ocean Loaders. The music has remained with me throughout my life. Even when other people think I’m mad for listening to these Chiptunes. Just a big thank you to Rob Hubbard, Jonathan Dunn and others that contributed to great tunes. But it still remains a fact that Galway is God.

Don't worry; the C64 fans are still around. We are here and now among you, hidden in plain sight. You might sit next to one of us on a train or bus, we could be the voice on the end of the phone when you call your electric company. You might even work with us, but you'll never know the joys we had and still do with the C64...

@foxgloves321

Жыл бұрын

Or work for us.

@BillAnt

Жыл бұрын

Any guy/girl between 40 to 60 years old are a good chance they were kids back in the C64 years. ;)

There is something very relaxing and nostalgic about these ocean loaders. It takes me back to simpler time as a 10 year old playing on my new commodore 64.

Man these loader tracks are great. I never grew up with the C64, but i can completely understand the nostalgia you all get from hearing these tunes. When I hear Loader #2, I get the phantom feeling of nostalgia from a part of gaming I never knew growing up. I think the term is anemoia. The same warm feeling I get when I go back and play a DOS game made by Apogee software and hear that iconic jingle.

Not sure which one it was now, but when I first heard *one of* the ocean loaders, perhaps the first c64 music I heard (had a BBC before that) I actually got up and walked around to try and work out what I was listening to. I literally had to unpack it in my head and work out what I was experiencing. A defining moment for me creatively and I went on to later work in the industry making a few pieces of commercial music in the 80s/90s and still do from time to time, even these days :) Never forget these memories!!!

Seems like a whole lifetime ago. The anticipation was part of the pure joy of any home computer back in the day. I dont think we realised just how awesome the c64 Sid soundchip was. Thanks for the memories.

3 and 4 are the best. Man I can't believe this chip was around when i was a kid. This is like having a synthesizer or something. It really gives a soul to the the machine. The tone it produces is so emotional.

@jimmyhirr5773

Жыл бұрын

The person who designed the Commodore 64's SID sound chip (Bob Yannes) later founded the synthesizer company Ensoniq.

@Me-zo8yc

10 ай бұрын

It really was a unique 'voice', in the artful sense not the technical sense. Greater than the sum of its parts. And of course amazing artists that coded for it.

that anticipation before a game started, long loading times with that hypnotising screen effect. For me as a kid, the C64 had a a lot of mystery and secrets, and I wanted to see it all!

Im 49 years old...After hearing this...im 17 again...thank you

2:37 The Commodore's anthem. I'm with my hand on my heart and my head up.

@Gollumfili

2 жыл бұрын

I pledge my allegiance to the C64!

The nostalgia...its hard to accept those days are gone

The crescendo at 11:30 ... stunning.

I could hardly wait for the game to load....now I could listen to this all day long. Some of my most cherished childhood memories are from the geniuses who created these loaders. Will have to dust off my C64 now! Good times....for those out there who grew up during this time, we are EPIC!

The chills down my spine when I hear these tunes. The anticipation that a game is loading and I will be playing it soon......"The delay of gratification" springs to mind. Thank you for sharing.

@22:47 take the time to appreciate the graphics. Absolutely fantastic when considering the limitations of C64 colour mode.

When I feel down and depressed I listen to this, it instantly takes me back to better times, thanks for the upload.

@trydowave

2 жыл бұрын

me too

Pure epicness!! I get so emotional every time I listen to this again and again...reminds me of a great time, when life was as simple as joyful...

@GeeseH

3 жыл бұрын

...And there was more time than we knew what to do with

Loader 3 is STILL legendary.

@retrogamesrevived1189

3 жыл бұрын

Got to admit Lynn that this one is my favourite too. I remember buying SlapFight and loading up, couldn’t believe it when the music changes from Ocean Loader 2 to the new iteration. So many memories ☺️

@GregDaniel78

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. I love it. I didn't own a c64 during the era Ocean used Loader 1 & 2. But Peter Clarke did a great job of keeping the cohesion but bringing a much heavier sound.

@dash8brj

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, its my fave :)

@MysteriousFoxy87

2 жыл бұрын

I think Loader 4 is great too!

@fullcontrol1000

4 ай бұрын

@@retrogamesrevived1189I loved Slap Fight on the C64. Played the arcade version recently and it’s not a patch on the C64 version.

I think I spent most time listening to these musics than playing games on C64 :D

At 21:38 SID is giving all it's got. Loving it so much. Everything about this video. Thank you!

I remember listening to the rambo loading music and then crying when I actually played the game. such was the difference between the music genius of Martin galway and the sid and the limitations of the c64 :)

@Four_X

4 жыл бұрын

Martin galway's a chiptune god.

Goosebumps on Rambo, the music while loading is always great !!

@Chimpjedi

2 жыл бұрын

I had a Spectrum at first and loved it but visited Boots and saw the Commodore 64 loader for Rambo and instantly was amazed a the fact it could play music whilst loading and how good it was!! I still love SID music even at 47!

Holy shit man, brings a tear to my eye! Thanks for this!

@taffelost6221

4 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@PMCRetroGamer

2 жыл бұрын

Me 2. Fantastic childhood memories right there. Reason why i love Electronic Dance Music today

I was a ZX Spectrum kid in my youth but the C64/synth music amazed me oh my i love ocean loaders - Galway Hubbard I love them - well done ;-)

@henkiedenr4817

9 ай бұрын

I am as well a speccy kid, but has a lot of love for the c64 that i owned too.

Absolute class, for me when i opened my Commodore 64 for Christmas, i had the bundle with "The In Crowd" pack all the blockbusters pack and there also was the Quiz Show pack included too. When i saw the loadihg screen for Rambo, holy flurkin schnitzel 😲😲😲😲, it was epic. Versions 4 and 5 of the Ocean Loader became my favourites. Thank you for an amazing trip down 8bit / 64k memory lane.

Brings back so many memories, thanks!

my childhood 😭❤❤

HMmmm .... the pure gold of nostalgic feelings. Thanks for this Gem ^^ I will keep this Vid in my list and play it whenever i feel that the world right now keeps pushing me down to the ground.

@Four_X

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks bud, Keep your chin up.

1:20 Ocean Loader 1 5:09 Ocean loader 2 9:47 Ocean Loader (Rambo) 13:34 Ocean Loader 3 16:40 Ocean Loader 4 20:07 Ocean Loader 5

Honestly gave me goosebumps listening to this...

25 minutes I waited and still the game never loaded. :(

@dash8brj

3 жыл бұрын

Haha didn't they take for EVER to load from tape ;)

@perihelion7445

3 жыл бұрын

And THAT was much of the time the actual case! 🤣 Time to adjust to screw on that Tape head again 😖🤗

16:40 - Loader 4! I didn't realise how great a track this was until ~30 years after hearing it

@Kerchak3

5 жыл бұрын

Loader 4 was always my favourite

@tharkthax3960

4 жыл бұрын

Same here

@hellsong23

4 жыл бұрын

Have to agree with others. 4 was just the best! :) I love 3 as well, but it had a kind of urgent tempo that always gave me the fear when loading games lol.

@nickphillips528

4 жыл бұрын

To be honest, Loader 1 & Rambo were the last tunes I remember hearing before emigrating to Atari ST & then Amiga. So I did not hear loader 4 til now. But I love it ! So many great old C64 tunes - I guess which you remember is an age thing,. Crazy comets, Monty Mole, Thing on a Spring - my era. As good as any other album ! SID music really is awesome.

@carbonunit3191

3 жыл бұрын

Loader 4 and the theme to Commando. My 2 favourites

Always my favourite era. I named my account after The Ocean Loader

Qué recuerdos de mi infancia. He podido ver y recordar muchos de mis viejos juegos del C64.

@Four_X

2 жыл бұрын

Gracias mi amigo

Stumbled by accident. 1988. Wat a trip down memory lane. This was the load up track when loading up wizball

Back in Time ! Its the Original 👌

ahh im 52 and still love to listen to these tunes , people I know ow hear noise , I hear greatness , I remember having to upgrade my freezeframe and my expert cartridge to freeze these games and swap them at school for new ones , in my opinion ocean had the best games and games you had heard off , some were crap , others good , but it was alleays the music that made them and let's not forger the superb artwork for loading screen

@Four_X

2 жыл бұрын

Some great memories.

16:41 My goosebumps start here. 😍

Like I'm sure many others, I stumbled across this on my KZread Feed and it brought back so many great memories of our C64! This in itself highlighted the gulf in technology between the C64 and the Speccy with it's ear shattering sounds of pain :D Q: Anyone know where to get these as a ringtone?! I need the Ocean Loader on my Pixel now!

Man, Galway's original and the permutations that followed are such epic pieces.

In 1982 I asked my parents for a Spectrum 48k for Xmas as I had played Jetpac in a computer shop previously on a 16k version. I wasn't aware of the C64 until a little later. I still have and will always love my Speccy, but secretly later I wished I had of asked for a C64 as it was far superior, but of course it was a lot more expensive. Never bothered me all the same as I didn't know what I missed until years later until I played games on a friends C64. In 82 the Speccy was so cheap that Xmas there were huge queues outside computer shops in the UK to even buy one at that time. I was lucky to get one. Now many years later I may buy an old bread bin C64 to finally own one.

Martin Galway... right up there with Rob Hubbard imo.

Ocean 3 is the Classic! I was thoroughly brainwashed by this tune! I asked a friend once if he liked this music as much as Van Halen? He said, hell yes! 👍🤘

The very last Ocean loader is what I remember most and what I associate with ocean C64 games. Awesome tune! Truly AMAZING what they could do with the hardware limitations back then. Hats off to you guys!

According to the load screen at 18:36, Robocop isnt available on video, but it is "Avaliable!" 😂 Wonderful video btw!

@ArttuTheCat

3 ай бұрын

I still have ROBOCOP as a tape version (boxed) for my Commodore 64 😺👍🕹️. Sadly, it doesn't work 😹.

Dave collier was a genius programmer at Ocean but Martin Galway's music was top tier. Happy times.53 year old gamer.

Ocean Loader 4 is an absolute banger.

#3 was my winner

Dear god nr 4 does it for me, the memories.

I remember I could tell by the loading patterns that the game wouldn’t load properly.

@Four_X

2 жыл бұрын

I know, rewind and start again. errrrrrr.

I love each one of them, and i ripped each one of them back in the days for our demos. Martin, Rob, etc. thanks for the amazing music..

The last tune was my fav by far . Great memories

@retrogamer33

Жыл бұрын

Mine too.

Wow, just looking at all artwork brings back so many happy memories from my childhood, and the music. The awesome music! Thanks for uploading!

Wow! I am totaly impressed as much! This video is awesome! What a hell of a work you did that. Doublewow! You let the commodore 64 live again for 24 minutes and 28 seconds. You did a great job! Thank you! All oceantracks are genius but my favorite track is ocean loader 3. Evrytime I hear it I remember the time when it was absolutly normal to wait for a game 5 minutes. But with this music in between it was a pleasure.

The C64 remembeted that games are played by human beings. The PS4 just has a black screen for two hours because Progress.

This is an AWESOME nostalgic video. Thanks a lot for making it and to the legendary creators including probably the best SID composer there was: Martin Galway -featured in this video songs too

Wow, Loader3 is the soundtrack of my childhood! Many great memories!🖤 Thanks for uploading it bro! I got more tingles listening to this, then all ASMR combined!🤘

@Four_X

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it bud.

I'm 45, i listen this playlist every working days, several times, i need it👾👾👾👾

Damn... the OL5 intro and outro are so fucking sick!!! For the rest it's a very nice variation of the excellent OL4 classic

God bless you for putting this up , my childhood right there ❤️❤️⚡️🔥🔥🔥

Talking of loaders, I once wrote a very simple but quite funky utility that I put on the start of cassettes that contained my own home-written programs, character sets (fonts) and other memory dumps - it was a 'Menu' program that gave you a table of contents, like a disc directory but on cassette, and you'd pick the program you wanted from the menu, and it would tell you to press FFWD on TAPE. It would then wait until the tape got to the right position for the chosen program, then stop the motor of the cassette deck. It would then get you to press STOP, it would release the motor, then tell you to press PLAY - then it would LOAD the program. Those cassettes all got chucked out when I moved from my student digs and embarked on my first of many ill-advised "downsizing" exercises in the summer of 1995. The C128, a hundred or two game cassettes and quite a few music tapes too also disappeared at the same time.

Dude that made me smile. Well done man. Brings back memories!

This is awesome and brings back so many memories. Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge loader was a good one that's not here.

WOW the Memories. this is very Emotional thinking back when I was young and hearing this for the first time. 16:41 is my favourite.

I can never stop loving this video.

And now I have a real deal C64C! :) Complete with 1541 disk drive :)

@IzthatafaC

4 жыл бұрын

Gotta have tape to be legit dude

@ilmediosu

4 жыл бұрын

some tape versions deserved being buyed for the music loaders that disk version hadnt

If you have compiled this in the old skool way that the intro suggests then, you Sir, are a Legend!

@tongey1

4 жыл бұрын

Ok ,after watching the video through I guess the old skool way is not really possible. But, great Video. Love the Ocean loaders!

Ocean loader 3 = instant goose bump 😄 thanks for vid and comments, seems to be few legends there 🙂❤

@Four_X

Жыл бұрын

No problem Thanks👍

ocean loader number 4 is a personal favourite. it was on the game "the untouchables" which was the movie and I must have heard this about a zillion times at the age of about 6 / 7 years old. I remember leaving the commodore on so i didnt have to wait ages to play though :)

@djpheeze

7 жыл бұрын

_The Untouchables_ used Ocean Loader #5 :) I was pretty obsessed with that game back then (although I never did complete level 4 without cheating). I remember loading _Gutz_ off a tape that came free with a magazine - that one uses #4, and it blew my mind that there was a different version of the tune I knew so well.

@tonyppe

7 жыл бұрын

Nice! I guess I remembered incorrectly. You done well, i struggled with level 1 and then never got passed level 2 :) Speaking of impossible games, did you ever play "cosmic causeway"? A few years ago we loaded it up in an emulator and it was hard even then! We used the save and restore function to get through it.

@djpheeze

7 жыл бұрын

Don't know that one. But lawks, all the games were hard as hell back then! I think TMNT was the only game I ever completed without cheating. Until the UK started getting into console gaming, the idea of actually _finishing_ a game was like science fiction!

Loader #4 and Robocop. Muh childhood.

@4:00 bitd for me, you just knew your game was about to load any second. Mum was like, can you you turn it down a little but don’t turn it off.❤

hhhm wonder why I grew to enjoy electric music?

Thanks for this video. It took me 32 years back in time. ;)

The part of the Rambo loader that starts at 11:17 uses the same chord progression as the Gerudo Valley theme from Ocarina of Time: i bVI bIII V

3 is timeless. Barely noticed it back then, compared to 4. Now it's completely reversed. Same with Commodore systems. Back then moving to Amiga was the biggest thing. But 6851/8580 has aged on a whole different level of grace.

This brought back so many memories.

This takes me back.

This time in my life can never be surpassed

Operation Wolf, always brings back memories of this loader

RAMBO !!! oh the memories... BUT then V3 Turbo came ^^ dealing with 90min TDK´s and thousands of games haha

@Four_X

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I remember the Turbo Tape days, but sadly we lost the Loader Music.

Rambo loading music is still my favorite

I never had a game with the first Ocean loader music on it. I think the third (Peter Clarke) was my favourite.

It's nice to hear the authentic Ocean Loaders for a change. ofc v5 is my favourite :)

Great collection of them all there =) Nice to see them all in one place!

@Four_X

8 жыл бұрын

+GadgetUK164 Thanks, hope it triggers some good memories from back in the day.

@BenWillaert

2 жыл бұрын

@@Four_X Indeed

Imagine excitment of watching Wizball load nodding to good sid music, and knowing your favourite game is filling up your RAM and it will be ready soon.

@Four_X

2 жыл бұрын

The good old times. I miss those days as a kid.

Rambo first blood part II loader is my all-time favourite. I'd buy it just for the music. Rob Hubbard is a legend

@aperry383

3 жыл бұрын

It was Martin Galway that did the early Ocean Loaders including Rambo.

I remember stopping the tape during loading to prevent the game from completing loading and cutting the Ocean loader music before it had finished, yes it continued to play until the end, but the loader wouldn't recover forcing a reset afterwards.