HOW TO: Loading Spectrum Cassettes

[@DanielDotM]

That’s not a horrible sound. It’s beautiful. That just engaged the flux capacitor and took me back to my childhood. Good times. No worries in life. Miss it!

[@thesegaguru]

Trust me sometimes I wish I could relive my first memories with these beauties!

[@Atmatan]

The sound of machines making love to themselves.

[@morratut]

Wow some memories. I just showed this to my kids who are 7. Both of them looked at me as though i was a caveman.

[@thesegaguru]

That's awesome dude! I'm glad it could be used to show how incredibly hard it was to game back in the day and not instant like nowadays 🤘

[@arfanmedni7294]

Ah, the iPad generation

[@BilloBillo1]

I'm 13 at the moment and I'm trying to revive my dad's old spectrum 48k

[@BilloBillo1]

@poof I found all the cables but rn I'm struggling to find my Walkman to run the game cassettes

[@catherinemosey4255]

It's taken me back to my childhood, I managed to get a go when my brothers went to scouts, but as it took so long to load, they'd be back just as it had finished loading. lol.

[@andrewb7753]

I always remember "J load" Look how far weve come in my generation. Thanks for the vid

[@thesegaguru]

No worries Andrew. Thanks for watching ✌️

[@gavinrichardson3918]

Omg I'm sure I spent years actually typing the word LOAD " "

[@Mzuka-Moto]

As a child I remember the weird loading screens with the stripes

[@bullshitdetective1]

i was always a c 64 man, so much easier to use, this is a real bastard!!

[@thesegaguru]

I was always an Amstrad man :)

[@FoxyLad]

I had to look when you uploaded your video I’ve just dug mine out the loft the Spectrum 128k +2A version it’s actually powered up after 35 years it’s seems to be loading games ok but there is a clicking noise when tapes playing might just be a dirt thing or maybe new belt needed lol Loving the background music 🫡

[@thesegaguru]

Thanks my friend! I am glad it inspired your want to get the little beast back out! :)

[@edvinvojnicmijatov]

I never played on this before so it’s helped me a lot. Many thanks :)

[@thesegaguru]

No worries my friend 😊

[@DeLorean4]

The +2 is an amazing machine, but Amstrad deciding not to put a tape counter on the datacorder was criminal.

[@Electrotat]

Just bought one today, thank you sir! 🙂

[@thesegaguru]

Anytime my friend :) Enjoy! What you going to play or do first?

[@Electrotat]

@@thesegaguru Ive bought it to test a game called "The evil dead", made by Palace software, it was never released for the spectrum due to the controversy over the video nasty releases of the 1980s, they included it as a free game on the B side of their other game "Cauldron". I never had a spectrum growing up, my friends did but I had a Commodore 64 and then an Amiga hence me not knowing how to load a game on a spectrum lol. Wouldn't mind playing "jet set willy" or "manic miner" though. 🙂

[@weemadangus1834]

It was helpful! Now to figure out my sound issue!

[@thesegaguru]

Thanks for watching my friend 🙂 good luck with the sound issue ✌️

[@badtuber1654]

Oh yeah baby Double Dragon, two player , the best

[@jb-sz2kw]

Hi, do you need an old Analogue TV or can you also upload using a Digital TV? Would be really useful to see how it can be tuned in. Cheers.

[@joaquimjesus6134]

some questions: 1 - why, on loading, the screen go to black? 2 -what are the error list likee: 20:1 ? my problem now is how loading the tape\game.

[@Atmatan]

From what I understand, anything that can interface with the audio on this can load programs to it? People have loaded programs off of KZbin videos.. I want to use my flipper zero and see if I can keep a bunch of audio programs loaded 😂

[@Retrofi]

Have you tried an RGB scart cable?

[@miguelangelrodriguezandreu1072]

When I write LOAD"" +enter, LOAD ?"" appears on the screen and the machine does not read the tapes

[@thechompster2000]

Love the strip music lol

[@peddersoldchap]

the musics too loud it makes it difficult to hear you

[@TeamSilvertail]

I wonder... can you play regular tapes off a ZX Spectrum?

[@joshua.jebadurai]

Yes you can. It produces even weirder images.

[@cygil1]

Yes, but the sound is distorted.

[@netnavigator149]

That video uploader is an absolute jerk he put the tape wrongly then there is no guerrilla war to show to nobody and finally he did not stopped the +2 DATARECORDER when right after loading freddy hardest

[@thesegaguru]

Yes indeed, turns out there was an error during recording and the original cassette had issues. Therefore the game had to change. Still a useful video for early users of the system. Thanks for watching ✌️

[@netnavigator149]

It was positive to upload this video but we have all sure that you are not a Spectrum guru @@thesegaguru