Great memories are still attached to my old C64 - trying to copy games in a shitty double deck recorder, breaking all my old Atari joysticks with California games and hearing my first "real" sound sample on a computer (a second long clip of "gunna be a kung fu fighter").
I'm really happy Access are deciding to go the tape route. They are even talking about putting in a colour screen, so you can watch the coloured stripes flash as the patches load.
