Manic Miner on Speccy 48k

[@Matthias_SZL]

In the 1980s, Spectrum games were broadcast over the radio once a week in Poland 🫢

[@CuriousCritter9]

Oh wow, I didn't even think of that way of distributing them, but of course that was possible. Nice that they did that!

[@skywalkermj76]

Portugal radio also.

[@darkstatehk]

There's something so satisfying about the loading sound.

[@8824snipe]

I love that loading sound. Brings back memories

[@ESSEXDAVEE]

I am now 40 yrs old and told my kids tonight about Spectrum 48k.This brings back so back memories, not so much the game (this and Jet Pack) but the actual LOADING SEQUENCE !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@onlineamiga]

I hooked up the sound output of my laptop into a real spectrum, and played this video. The spectrum loaded up manic miner :) So what you've essentially done, was put a copy of Manic Miner on youtube :D Awesome huh? :)

[@SebWilkes]

Okay .... how did you get the ZX spectrum to read it? Very interesting, btw!

[@onlineamiga]

Seb Wilkes I have a +2 so used a car CD casette adaptor, and plugged it into my laptop, put the volume to max. LOAD "" press play on teh cassette, press play on youtube.. viola.. it loaded :)

[@DougPaulley]

onlineamiga yeah. called "direct loading". you can load speccy games from MP3 players and all sorts. When the first person did this off my KZbin video, I did wonder about copyright, but then somebody suggested "Bugbyte" (if it still exists) probably wouldn't care :-)

[@onlineamiga]

Doug Paulley Yeah its really cool. I use Tapir on my laptop to load .tap and .tzx in. Just thought it was cool to be able to load it straight off a youtube video, where someone has just put the loading sequence in there for nostalgic reasons.. yet actually by doing that has made a copy of the software itself.

[@RTAC_1234]

i dont know if you know this, but i heard / read an interview with matthew smith and he said the first time that manic miner was ever loaded it was played down a telephone line in a similar way to how you loaded it. i think he was talking to someone he worked with at the time.

[@killerkitten7534]

It’s really cool how innovative games were even back then. My grandpa was telling me about this magazine he used to get, and one of the parts of the magazine was showing an entire game in binary. So for example Pac-Man with 6 pages of extremely small print 1s and 0s. And if you knew how to convert it and wanted to spend an entire afternoon imputing all the digits you could have the entire game running.

[@deluxedjsireland224]

it's true

[@Speciation]

The ones I've seen were in machine code.

[@simonjohnwright5129]

Things were different back then. It sounds like your grandpa was in the golden era of gaming.

[@mariowario5945]

​@@simonjohnwright5129what era are we currently in now? The dark ages, I suppose? Games arent that good as they once were

[@BenoSaradzic]

In Yugoslavia, Socialist Republic of Slovenia specifically, there were multiple radio stations which broadcast games at certain times of the day. The radio DJ would announce it first. We were little kids, recording minutes of hissing and crackling onto cassette players and playing games all day long. Our parents wondered what the hell we were taping as you can imagine. We also swapped cassettes with other kids at the school and the cassettes full of games sold by the crates at the local flea market. This literally seems like another life in another universe.

[@anicetune]

Hours of entertainment ... and that's just waiting for the game to load. :))

[@StuSiney]

anicetune lol. Yes. And frustration when it did not load 🤣

[@DAFUKAMATEVAFUCK]

I WAIT WAY TOO LONG FOR GTA ONLINE RO LOAD :))))

[@robvinyl2314]

Jesus that just took me back around 37 years I used to love this game asa kid I used to play it on my brothers spectrum 48K

[@sherbie35]

Think I have just blown my ears up. Thanks for the memories lol

[@mdnmdn1655]

That takes me right back to my first computing days. :0) I'll always remember my Speccy with fondness, it had so much soul!

[@fillipo1972]

That word, soul, perfectly sums up early home computers. ZX81, Oric-1, Sinclair QL and the dial-up bulletin boards. RIP Sir Clive

[@metafuel]

Wow. Memories. A piece of the past is archived here. Great work.

[@paulgilson2347]

Who would have thought that spectrum loading noise would eventually become a music genre 'extratone'. Love it though, had one of these as a kid and this brought back memories.

[@mcpeelmeister71]

flashback to childhood, many time sat and waited for speky to load and crash at the last minute.

[@wallerpaul70]

mcpeelmeister71 Just class. Putting the tape in ,waiting a million years,then crash.

[@DougPaulley]

R Tape loading error; 0:1.

[@justanotionX]

Holy moly, the loading sound alone makes this worth watching. Plus, I loved Manic Miner!

[@dominictoretto9505]

yeah

[@kingqueen3065]

looking back on this I really wish I'd made the effort to upload it in HD.

[@Octamed]

+kingqueen3065 No way. This looks like it actually did back then :)

[@belstar1128]

Did youtube even have hd support in 2007.

[@DougPaulley]

about as much as the ZX Spectrum dealt with HD in 1982. fffs.

[@Bannerman1903]

Thankyou for leaving the loading screen on, brings me right back to my childhood.

[@richallenxbox1976]

You wouldn't be able to, back in the 80's HD was like Star Trek level technology, it hadn't been invented yet.

[@tsrenis]

Dude a solid contender for best game OST of all time

[@simonjohnwright5129]

That haunting sound. Glorious. And then with Jet Set Willy there was a physical card with lots of colours to get into the game, because of The Key, where we could copy games tape to tape. Security was introduced, unnecessary safeguards.

[@MrLeiduowen]

1:22 - 1:44 I still remember those sounds, the music of my youth 😋

[@elweegee3575]

XD

[@marksims68]

Oh yes!!! I could listen to that all day!!! Brilliant memories of a fantastic game, and you can almost get melodies from the loading call! Spectrum>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>PS3.

[@seaskimmer]

Thank you so much, God I've forgotten how annoying and brutal that sound was on that game. The loading screen, that was music to my ears.

[@jimmymoledigital]

Those were the days of our lives.....

[@dreadhead170]

Makes me smile because I can remember the different sounds.

[@brandonwhittaker85]

Oh god, my brain is melting!

[@SebWilkes]

We played this video around school; us vintage gaming fans loved it, but everyone else said it sounded awful ...

[@thefourminecraftians]

Is it me or is the music playing in The Cold Room level "In the Hall of the Mountain King"?

[@hakanstorsater5090]

The whole game, it seems... As it wasn't annoying enough, already...

[@archvaldor]

Yes, it is Grieg.

[@spenspuma]

Best game in the history of computer Barr none. spent half my childhood playing this and jet set willy

[@colintinker7778]

I was stressed watching your video. Reminded me of the many hours trying to finish this game in the early 1980's. Never managed it!

[@MrLeiduowen]

I did, and I still remember the moment: we were at my friend's place and I called his mom to come over and see the end of the game. Well, she was a little underwhelmed, to say the least, but so were we.

[@colintinker7778]

@@MrLeiduowen Well done for completing the game. My 11 year old son reckons he can easily complete the whole game. I'll have to get the Spectrum down from the loft and see how he gets on. Hopefully it will still work. Not been switched on for over 20 years!

[@jayrave4]

Damn right - these were bastard hard to play! Army moves still haunts me to this day.

[@landfillbaby]

if this had a bassline it would be oh-so-popular among the youths.

[@georgejbaker]

Jesus does this sound evoke some wonderful (or frustrating) memories for me!

[@isrbillmeyer]

This was one addictive game. Brings back memories.

[@CaptainOatwright]

watching it load brings back so many memories...the noises and rythms in the loading are memorable - it is engrained in my memory - i must have sat and waited for it to load so many times c1983-86

[@mrs_thought_and_memory]

This way my fav game of all, how we used to wait for it to load, they wouldn't wait that long now!! Oh and the despair when loading it and it crashed near the end!!! But we just loaded it again. Good times :)

[@jbradshaw4236]

Load "" that's my youth right there.....

[@MrAndroidData]

wow, a warm smile feeling on my face now,

[@shelingEB]

What;s kinda funny is that as a kid, I HATED the load screen - I used to end up singing it when I wasn't playing (I know...). Now I'm nothing short of ecstatic to hear it go through it again. Good times. :)

[@markosimic74]

And this how I got infected by computers....and I am still passionate about computer games :) As someone said "Pure nostalgy"

[@neil73]

Tape loading error! God what a bummer that was! I had a spectrum 128k +2 back in 86 thought it was the pinnacle of technology, because some of the games had speech samples on them!lol! 20 odd years later, its amazing how far computers and tech has come; i wonder what it'll be like in another 20 years?

[@SilkyBadger]

This is exactly how far I'd get in the game as a kid.

[@psunjka]

Brings back some fond memories. 25 years have passed...

[@amtha9077]

37 years have passed

[@Teab8g]

man this takes me back to when i was a little kid.. around 4 i was. Ahhh memory's.. i remember my dad loading up pac man for me... Fast Fwd never worked as i found out

[@TheAlanpt70]

This brings me back to the mid 80's great stuff

[@SteveRes]

the best spec game bar none, was never beaten for sheer FUN

[@SouthwesternEagle]

How is there synthesized music at 3:25? I thought the 48k Specturm didn't have AY capability, just a beeper.

[@DougPaulley]

rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/publications/all-aboard-the-impulse-train-a-retrospective-analysis-of-the-two- refers "This paper begins with an overview of 1-bit sound and the range of tones that are natively supported by a 1-bit system, followed by a demonstration of how these can be extended using frequency dividers and counters to create time-varying tones and pseudo two-channel sound. The limitations of this technique are highlighted, and the key adaptations that would make it a viable approach for two-channel sound in later games are outlined."

[@FKDart]

Top ten gaming OST's

[@itschad493]

Dammit, the music is so loud my brain exploded.

[@Nikyc1]

The loading of the game brings back memories of loading games on the Speccy with a screwdriver in hand ready to adjust the tape player header if needed to finish loading the game.

[@sapien82]

yeh it was never that long but as a child waiting so patiently to play a game , you never ever got used to the magic carpet ride over the seas of mystery ! ( I always thought thats what the screen was) even though it was probably around 5 minutes it always felt like ages, I remember eating my dinner then coming back and it was still loading ! or had loaded then you hit enter then it crashes !

[@limeylemon459]

This was the first video game I ever played

[@Lachlant1984]

Are you using a real Spectrum computer, or are you using an emulator? Which model spectrum are you using?

[@DeanHenderson]

that load sequence brings back some serious memories

[@StuSiney]

Totally forgot but it all came back. Dam those keys on the top

[@AACLAGE]

This is funny i remember going out to play until the game loaded, 2 times the fun. Great games "commando, sir Fred, saboteur, rainbow island, Rambo...."

[@successsystem2468]

I wish I could go back to 1983 😩 Just that. 1983.

[@adelesteele5475]

Can you really imagine waiting around 3 minutes for a 'triple A' (as this game was (had of course the term then been coined) at the time) to load. I mean today when you just press a button and 30 seconds or so later you can be transported to Egypt, Germany, in a truck around Europe, or doing some 'car borrowing' around America, if you had to wait would people of today?!

[@System.10]

Fun fact: About 10 years ago, the title of this video used to say "Spectrum 48k", and I didn't like the term "Speccy" so the the title was actually changed just to annoy me! In hindsight, I'm so glad you did :P

[@DougPaulley]

Lol sorry for my childishness

[@Xuxalot_]

Queimei uma tv a p/b a jogar isto, jumping jack flash é jet set willy..eheh, bons tempos! 😀

[@Dan261178]

Ooooh the memories this brings back :-)

[@altfest]

Spectrum and the HC 90 based computers FTW !

[@gibbo909]

The best bit is 1.24 really kicks off then. sounds like yesterday.

[@gfr73]

RIP Clive Sinclair :(

[@TLAizaakZtriker]

1:39 Nice beat

[@no2embish]

yeah great vid this... feel like this should be in a museum, was it really that long ago. love the load sequence, nice touch, loved this game, i was 8 when i played this, pixel perfect jumping, v.hard when games were games. 10/10

[@FairPlay137]

Imagine if game consoles today had to load like this! It would take hours!

[@Humaricslastcall]

No, days. It'd only be hours if using a Turboloader.

[@DougPaulley]

+Humaric Anishtan if using a turboloader it would be weeks because the blooming things never worked - tweaking the volume knob a millimetre and trying again...

[@Humaricslastcall]

It'd still be longer if you just did it vanilla, only on the last possible MILLISECOND it'd err on you.

[@dingo137]

I have a game on my PC that's 50 GB in size. Transferring that at a Spectrum's tape loading rate would take about 9 years

[@jurakratec]

First game I have ever played on ZX Spectrum... 1985?

[@palmitokm]

I REMEMBER THIS! Thank you so much!

[@BrokenCircus]

Hell, it takes its time to load.

[@fedevaru]

Quanti ricordi... W lo ZX Spectrum!!!! ;-)

[@Pixoniatus]

Listening to this 2h a day is the only way to stop the voices .. Oh no they're back, I refuse to kill again, time to repeat the video !

[@JOSELIO23]

Sonido celestial

[@oscartravis5740]

The loading sound is like home :)

[@elweegee3575]

Sound like HELL

[@SynphamyMusic]

haha.. I'm just imagining the excitement when these games first came out... like space invaders... "OMG guys!!! this amazing game called space invaders is coming out this summer for Atari!!!".... "really?" ... "Yeah i saw some pictures in a magazine, it looks amazing!!! You have to move left and right and shoot at these monsters at the top of the screen, but you get fully destructable castles to hide behind!!!!" "Woohhhh just think where we'll be in another 10 years!"

[@Tenraiden]

Memories of such an optimistic past 🥲

[@crazycraigy01]

great loading, used to use big hi-fi for loading copies...

[@MrBlueSky474]

Great memories! mine used to say tape loading error half way through loading! ARGH! Remember Ant Attack and Maziacs?

[@schmoop1337]

wow. it took 3 minuts to load a game like that. now the ps5 can load games in less than a minute

[@RobertPayne556]

In The Thrall Of The Attic Bug intensifies...

[@elweegee3575]

HO GOD EAR THIS IS SO PAINTFUL.

[@nodarkthings]

I had a friend who used to make screaming whining noises into the tape recorder when trying to copy games

[@jondoglegs7124]

Penetrator? I hardly know her

[@izzard]

Great to see it not on an emulator for a change! Thanks :D

[@Khorne_of_the_Hill]

I used this as a droid language in my cyberpunk 2020 game lol

[@broken1394]

Sgt pepper levels of greaaatness here.

[@Aurochhunter]

Who could forget the foot stomping the miner into the garbage bin?

[@lolnamelollastname9788]

3:26 Caddy jumps off a roof

[@Ringtar]

Pure nostalgy! :-)

[@gurtygurt64]

Just bought a Spectrum on eBay, loaded it up and...ow my ears! But fun! Pain has never felt so good! Thanks for uploading this, now I can torture others like I was tortured!

[@Dullbedsitblogger]

I really want Rockstar games to reboot manic miner.

[@gg41r]

My claim to fame was being able to do "The Bunyan Tree" level.....which at the time....IIRC...was considered quite difficult

[@pschiptunes64]

oh damn 1:37 is a bop

[@pbella29]

i hated it when it got almost to the end and then failed to load... adjust the volume and start again... man this takes me back

[@hmlee7795]

1984 Make a cup of tea during loading because I hated the loading sound. 2024 Watched the entire video because I miss cassettes in today's internet world.

[@notanfningain]

at one point the loading sound becomes quite musical about 1.38 for a few seconds or more

[@router_BasedUser]

10 PRINT "FLAN" 20 GO TO 10 RUN That's what the Impossible Quiz Book told me to do on the ZX Spectrum.. Thank god there's this letter called N.

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

1:40 UGH, DID THESE OLD SYSTEMS REALLY HAVE TO BE SO DAMN LOUD WHEN THEY LOADED A GAME!? THAT NOISE MAKES ME WANT TO RIP MY HAIR OUT, OMG the game looks decent, tho. c:

[@Couch-Cusion]

that popcorn pops sound took my hearing

[@HazelTheHare]

@bazfanv2 you can mod the 48k spectrum to composite video and he captured it with a PC capture card

[@LaPornaMusic]

this video makes me cry! in a good way

[@Saavik256]

you junior ;) that's how we used to load games back in the 1980s ;)

[@skelkankaos]

I wasn't around in the 1980's, but I still love this game and I might be getting a Spectrum for my birthday

[@realgroovy24]

Did you get one?

[@officialmashitup]

@edwardszzz Well actually, in an interview Matthew Smith himself said that he stole gameplay elements from an Atari 2600 game called miner 2049'er. That being said, he put his own british twist to it and came up with a fantastic and fresh-looking game that innovated on the spectrum (Sound in-game without a sound chip, genius!)