Sinclair ZX Spectrum Loading - Jetpac

Wczytywanie gry w czasie rzeczywistym do komputerka ośmiobitowego Timex 2048 klon ZX Spectrum.

[@mr.y.mysterious.video1]

I'm getting extreme nostalgia from this noise. It's actually taking me back to sitting cross legged on the floor of my cold bedroom waiting for something to load as a ten year old.

[@Кинарет]

Oh yeah,the same memory

[@gooseywhispers]

mines still loading, what year is this?

[@retropcscotland4645]

@@gooseywhispers You mean it worked? Mine always got to the end and failed.

[@jameshardy6277]

No central heating, freezing cold winters in the UK. Sat on the floor in front of a 14" Portable TV waiting for a Speccy or C64 game to load. The good'old days my friend.

[@NewPorlock]

RUN USR 1331

[@ChrisNorris]

2:27 always a relief when a game loaded :)

[@hazyblue69]

The rage was real back then when the game crashes just as it finished loading 🤯😡

[@ChrisNorris]

@@hazyblue69 One time I was round my friends house to play cricket on the ZX81 - 25 minutes it took to load so we went outside to play football while waiting. Came back in all that was onscreen was the flashing cursor! so rewind the tape, turn the volume down a touch and try again. Now I get frustrated if I have to wait more than 10 seconds on the PC but always remember back to those times.

[@DannyTillotson]

@@ChrisNorris Yeah I can't believe watching this now long it took. We've seriously lost our patience these days. Wow

[@markbaker5599]

Ours was so sensitive we had to leave the room whilst it loaded

[@andriikolesnyk279]

Tape loading error.

[@Woltato]

Youngsters of today will never experience the joy of sitting watching a game loading for 5 minutes only for it to crash back to the start up screen. It's all new-fangled hard drives these days.

[@roo_parfrey]

Woltato I'm 12 years old and still have a zx spectrum. Yes, it may take a long time to load, but it's great! Way better than modern ones with windows 8.

[@grahamalexander5800]

R tape loading error

[@richbeach9664]

@@grahamalexander5800 "Gaaahhhhhhhh!!"

[@TheT0nedude]

Hair splitting of course but jetpac fit in 9k of ram and only took about 60 seconds to load....be thankful we didn't own a c64, that can take 20 mins for a 40k program, whereas the speccy took around 5 minutes..it had a much faster tape baud rate...

[@markbaker5599]

I think you're playing fast and loose with the word "joy" there

[@mickeyscratcher]

the loading screen sound, particularly when the color attributes come back, is a thing of pure beauty.

[@hermanbruner2913]

Even better than sex.

[@superviewer]

Yes, it's amazing how recognizable details like that are, so many years later. This game in particullar was one I loaded more often than others.

[@fegstachops6746]

Used to play this with my whole family in the eighties, we all took turns , and loved it , Horace goes skiing also.

[@dreadhead170]

One of the best sounds ever, I could listen to it in my sleep. Takes me back.

[@repboy1]

I think on my death bed I want to hear that sound one more time , so many happy memories of being a teen in the 80 s

[@nz_7863]

How old are you now?

[@dimitristripakis7364]

I remember the crazy joy of Friday noon school bell. It meant we had all Friday to play Spectrum with friends. Oh my God, how happy I was at that moment!

[@KajaFax]

I used to love the noise change as the games colour in the loading screen.

[@spleeeen4it]

many a winters evening was spent playing games like this on the speccie, couple of hours before bed, happy memories

[@julianna-01d35]

Oh my god this was and its still my top favorite game! I played it for hours and never got bored of it! Love ZX!

[@AlfredoAntonioMartinez]

if there is a noise that represent my childhood, definitely should be this, even that I am from 80s, my brother that born in 1970 grews up with ZX Spectrum, Sinclar, Commodore, Texas, and I have share with him all this amazing computers, thanks for uploading, this brings me very beautifull times.

[@Khayman71]

This is my childhood. Thanks for posting!

[@abigail3383]

Liked for the nostalgia cos I had a ZX Spectrum back in the 80's. The sound is so ingrained and remembered, it's like listening to dial-up again after years of Broadband.

[@HiveMind3006]

Omg! Wow that certainly is a blast from the past. I can remember thinking at the time "imagine if the in game graphics were as good as the loading screen!" lol !!

[@AlfredoAntonioMartinez]

The game covers were a true work of art, the game then was a blue pixel shooting another green pixel at a bad red pixel. jajajajaja XDDD

[@mez7736]

I had a Spectrum 128K and have very fond memories of many an hour spent gaming on it, but the loading screen and sounds were enough to give you epilepsy and want to stick needles in your ears. Just totally mental.

[@retro-reels5652]

This brings back nostalgia. The times me and my brother would sit waiting for a game to load and then spend hours on it (especially games like dizzy) taking it in turns. Sometimes, while the game was loading, we would talk about how to progress further or read about pokes or new game releases in Crash, your Sinclair or Sinclair user. Happy times. Then came the sega megadrive. Now I have a PS4 and playing games like red dead redemption 2 or last of us is just mind blowing.

[@jameshardy6277]

Pokes!!! Man, I've not heard that in so long. Good memories.

[@alejandrofabianlopez3985]

My-Goddddd!!!! I still remember those sounds. And I still remember the relief I felt when the file fully uploaded... Sometimes tapes got damaged mysteriously

[@christopherwalker9767]

'R tape loading error' Agggghhhhh!!!

[@uirusux]

I was born in 99 but I've always had an interest in older electronics. I hope to have a boxed model of every significant computer/game console for my collection, and as soon as I can start that project full-time, I'm jetting for a working ZX so I can experience that staticy jank for myself.

[@AlwaysEngland]

Oh those were the days? I used to enjoy watching those loading bars & hearing that sound. When I programmed on the spectrum I always looked forward to seeing & hearing what my code sounded like.

[@simonjohnwright5129]

Jetpac, Knight Lore, Jetman, Sabre Wulf, Pyjamara. Jet Set Willy. The Key. Thanks for sharing, brings back good memories.

[@toastedroast]

So much memories from the zx spectrum Sinclair. Nice to see some nostalgia being uploaded on the web. :-)

[@JeremyRiley]

Thanks for uploading. This was one of my first and favourite games as a kid and I just showed my daughter what it was like waiting for it to load. It's funny, but even though it takes a long time to load, it seemed so much longer back then!

[@DannyTillotson]

Seems the opposite to me. I'm surprised watching it now how long they took. I don't remember games taking so long to load in those days. Nowadays I get impatient when KZbin is refreshing for a few seconds haha. What went wrong.

[@CatGoneCrazy]

You know, I completely agree, but I do think maybe time speeds up as you get older. I used to play Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix on Spectrum and if you qualified, you had to sit on the grid while it told you how many seconds there were before the start of the race. Half a minute seemed like an absolute age back then, but now the race is starting in no time. Really odd.

[@guidolavelli6277]

Very good video, my preferite game when I was super young. It's good also the sound of the loading game! Thanks from Italy

[@Megalocade]

I was 5 when this game came out I still remember my older bro getting a zx specy for Christmas back in the 80s and I fondly remember this game this and Manic Minor, lol I remember us two gripped around the small glow of 13" crt TV and blown away by the graphics lol great game and I play it now on the pc with retroarch fuse I love the fact they have included the whole tape loading sequence on fuse it very nostalgic listening to that load screen it's like the sound of an internet dial up connection of the 90s it's crazy how long we used to wait to play the tape based games and hoping and praying the tape was good, vol was right and tape path and was clean 😂, man we gen x were the patient generation.

[@haeleth7218]

Fantastic game and a fantastic computer. Still have mine as well as my ZX81, my Commodore 64 and my Commodore Amiga 500.

[@glynharper]

Fantastic dude. Took me right back there to the 80's. I still have my Spectrum as well!

[@eugenealive]

You know what's ridiculous? Almost every game had the loading screen picture. And we had to wait one more minute just for this picture to load.

[@bartoszboruta4298]

256x192/8 = 6144 bytes of B&W bitplane and 768 bytes (32x24) of color blocks = total 6192 bytes of addional waiting. Sometimes line by line, sometimes wait only for end part when color blocks revel the whole picture :)

[@Lukasz2010]

One of my first ZX Spectrum games...

[@bwc1976]

I never had a Spectrum but it looks like a respectable machine for the time. I love how it lets you hear the tape as it's loading!

[@joebill3400]

So many good memories...Thanks for bringing them back.

[@greedygreggor]

so many great memories of this loading, such a great game :)

[@EA7SC]

Recently bought this and Atic Atac 👍👍💯💯

[@tedblight]

To the rest of the world this is annoying - to me, it's heaven...... They will never understand

[@Urko2005]

Well said.

[@user-jt1tp1jh9o]

This sounds like a radio transmission that you need to decrypt.

[@quimfilipe]

i do

[@DubzCo]

youtube sucks it is/was/is

[@robotnikkkk001]

=YEAH,YOU GOT WEIRD HUMANITY CRITERIA =..............

[@SrawberrySunday2]

The current generation on PC gamers will never know this joy!

[@stevesimpson6558]

Memories are made of this.

[@johnmunro4952]

Rip sir Clive

[@reynoldssurfboards]

😍.. Wonderful, sitting as a kid with mates waiting for this to end... Great memories.

[@Geckatron]

If added to the correct computer - this sound will make it play a game. The fact games where on a tape back in the day blew my mind.

[@kasiaprzepiora-owoc1392]

jeez I'm just showing it to my son. Music to my ears :))) we're both laughing and I got tears in my eyes, thanks for that man!

[@craigtaylor7990]

killed many joysticks playing daley thompsons decathlon and hyper sports.games used to keep you fit in them days all that wagling of the stick lol

[@JotaJotica]

loooool se me pusieron los pelos de punta, que recuerdos, no se de donde sacaste esto, pero es genial..... pase muchas horas de mi vida escuchando mi spectrum +128k de Sinclair..........

[@mindriot110]

Goosebumps here.... Good old memories.......

[@louise_8546]

My brain can still remember the Jetpac image loading noises, 40-odd years later. I could even sing it to you (though it wouldn't be pretty).

[@saabirmohamed636]

The good old days

[@Ozziek79]

Never thought I would miss this sound

[@DB25k]

Thank you so much for sharing... its brings back so many loading memories....

[@hermanbruner2913]

This game is absolutely top 10 of 8bit games all time. Amazing 😘

[@brighty7109]

Still got my spectrum somewhere. Horace Goes Skiing was one of my favourites along with Beach Head and James Bond. Kids nowadays don't know they're born, no saves or restarts back then. You died, you had to rewind the tape and start again lol

[@zxGHOSTr]

I never knew this was a ZX spectrum game. I used to play this in Donkey Kong Country 64 where it was a mini game.

[@Bammer2001]

I don't know how Chris and Tim Stamper did it, but Jetpac is a very fun game! Sure, it looks simple and outdated, but it's the limitations of the ZX Spectrum and the beauty of pixels that makes it so fun!

[@simonjohnwright5129]

Probably the best game. About the same time Boba Fett was on screen at the pictures. And Jetpac had the best graphics so far. And movement what a great game. Where are the Jetpac games today? Can you remember Cookie? Another great game, played it for hours on end. The world today has been found lacking.

[@Bronco541]

man the 80s were filled with good times weren't they?

[@kalyanamitra2048]

Ahhhh the happy sound of my childhood 🤗

[@kavehchannel]

Loved your video. You brought back sweet childhood memories. !! Cheers

[@AuralVirus]

no wonder i loved acid house so much when it came out

[@Mirality]

This brings back the memories. I had this game. (Still do, actually, though I haven't tried to load it.)

[@mechengue8538]

Por Dios , ese sonido de carga ! inolvidable , mientras leias algo esperando que termine ! que recuerdos !

[@Кинарет]

I remember that impatience....Monty on the run ,Saboteur,Zinaps...

[@kapsarovfvfvkapsparov7647]

me too...and then....... r -tape loading error...lol

[@swskating3865]

Loved this noise... Playing this game I wedged matches in the enter button ( fire ) , he was on rapid fire all the time.... same with Lunar Jetman ......

[@MarkWilliams-mx1nf]

Brilliant I played on that for hours I strangely enough I watched a video about Steve Wozniac and ask dad if he still had my spectrum I'm 51 I got it working literally yesterday and found out sir Clive had died on Thursday RIP

[@successsystem2468]

Strangely therapeutic 38 years later 😊

[@dazmaz4356]

the most defining game of the 80's.Ultimate made all the best games....airwolf anyone?

[@Avrelivs_Gold]

anticipation is greatest joy this is why waiting for games to load made us happy

[@franperez364]

Manicminer and Jet Pac My first two spectrum games!

[@boymanic]

Utter class !!! Happy memories

[@teppo9585]

My favorite game in childhood. Remember getting over 800000 score after which I pretty much got tired of the game.

[@dazmaz4356]

great stuff man,takes me right back.

[@tomstickland]

I had a brilliant Spectrum game that I played every night for months in about 1992. The game involved flying a helicopter round various islands collecting hostages.

[@atilllathehun1212]

Now there is a sound that takes me back.....

[@AndyUkLeic]

One of the first home computer classics.. Old school gaming! Can't behave the didn't even make it to the millenium falcons :)

[@its_4life]

now im starting to wonder if sonic 06 loading screens are longer than this...

[@woowoo0739]

I think I spent about 5,000 hours playing this as a kid with my cousin Steve. He had a portable TV/Cassette box with a 5 inch black and white screen. It's probably the reason I now wear glasses 🤣

[@richardhough3265]

Awesome - used to love Jetpac.

[@PhilWilkinsonMusic]

Used to love this game back in the day. ❤️ Y'all remember bombjack too?

[@Karagianis]

The specific border colours meant something, Red+Cyan meant it was loading in BASIC, yellow+blue meant machine code. The Speccy's DEFAULT was basic, but professional software would be machine code as this was more efficient. The little bit of red+ cyan you alwas got at the start was a machinecode loading propt to change the data type.

[@joegordon5117]

nostalgic sigh.... Altho I do also remember the frustration of sitting through all of this then the programme not actually loading!

[@goldzilla77]

my 3d printer got me here love the loading sounds

[@waynebutler6103]

Ahh bliss sounds!😁

[@Ausvaldo]

what a flash back....the anticipation waiting for it to load...will it load?!

[@CarbyGuuGuu]

One of Rare’s first games.

[@ThermionicValve]

After the main part of the bytes data has loaded for the game, you probably noticed that it followed by 3 very short bytes. They are data keys which the game checks before the game starts. If the numbers don't match, the spectrum resets and you have to reload the game. To make it even worse, the 3rd or last bytes data changes every milliseconds. This is a anti piracy measure.

[@dm-a1916]

Охуенно!!! Я чуть не кончил от оргазма :)) Как же я обожал эти моменты, когда рисунок разукрашивался под эти супер-звуки :)

[@guillepankeke2844]

The dark side of nostalgia. :)

[@Retsler54]

Without Reagan, Thatcher, Gorbachev, the Cold war, the ice hockey and the tennis and the ZX Spectrum 48k my 1980s would have been incomplete.

[@scottishserenity]

I miss spectrum loaders

[@robinmeade7573]

Those 5 minutes loading a game felt endless!

[@jane1975]

@robinmeade7573: Some games can take up to 3 hours to install on a Playstation depending how many Gigs there is, and the internet signal too. 5 minutes is nothing.

[@robinmeade7573]

@@jane1975 I'm saying back in the day when I used to load them. I had no patience. Besides, you talking about installation. But nowadays you install a game once and then wait to start a game is not that long, c'mon now.

[@jane1975]

@@robinmeade7573 I seem to have less patience now than I did when I was 9.

[@alialhaddad4795]

Omg back in the days i didn't have laptop nor ps3 but i was lot happier :/

[@mrblack61]

memories!!! :))

[@005AGIMA]

See back then it only took 5 mins to load a game. These days, you go to play a "quick round" and have to wait for 3GB of updates :D

[@quimfilipe]

And in the end.. R Tape loading error

[@RubenMorenoMontoliu]

Good to know, I was planning to backup all my old tapes in a compressed format. It is uncompressed WAVE PCM from now on.

[@mehere3013]

Pitty the ps5 didn't load like this

[@mrwriter1357]

Man, the noise it used to make!

[@melthebell33]

i really hope it doesnt say tape loading error at the end of the video Oo

[@julianna-01d35]

Haha I had that alot! But still love it!

[@MrSniganoo]

Some games would only load successfully on a certain volume on the cassette player. A little too loud or too soft and the game would fail to load. A lot of patience was needed to play games in the 80’s.

[@HybOj]

Did that as a kid, now I wait for my SSD like "Come on already damnit" load those freakin 100gb

[@georgegrennan6328]

Very nostalgic!!!

[@Sicmundusest]

Thanks! Übernostalgia. Loading and playing this with grandpa. :)

[@CoolDudeClem]

The sound of my childhood.

[@lesnuitssanskimwilde883]

It actually doesn't take not that much time, a bit more than 2 minutes. Sometimes big modern pc games like GTA5 take like 1 minute to load so that difference is not crazy. I had several computers in the 80s (spectrum, C64, amstrad, st, amiga) but the spectrum graphics had plenty of charm. Ok there's the color clashing thing but they were very precise whereas they look somewhat blurry on the other systems. I've always wondered how much of the loading time was because of the drawing. Sometimes they were very nice, like in this game.