ZX Spectrum loading screen

[@ogaitu5661]

The sound of my childhood.

[@DarkAnomaly]

Mine too 👍

[@Palbizu]

Your childhood was loud af

[@adrianlmcleod]

All our childhoods! I come here often for relaxation.

[@jane1975]

@ogaitu5661: Me too, I was 9 when we owned the 48K. Ant Attack, Maziacs, Atic-Atac [ my favourite ], Halls of the Things, Corridors of Genon [ the amount of times that Bogul got us ], Sabrewulf, Return of Things, Luner Jet Pac/Jet Man, Factory Breakout, I even had a Maths game called Fairshare.

[@nelsonhibbert5267]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SCRIP. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SCREEEEEEEEEP. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SCRIP. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SCRRRRREEEEEEEEE BLAAAAAAAAAA BLOOOOOOO BLOOOOO BLEEEEEEE etc. 10 minutes later : "R - Tape loading error" "oh for FUCKS SAKE......." Punches tape deck in anger......

[@bitzandpcs]

Thanks for sharing, awesome memories, bought my first spectrum 48k back in 1983 when i was 14 for £130, and the tape deck cost me another £30 to load the games....favourite games were manic miner and jet set willy

[@dontcallmebones.]

i loved jet set willy!

[@johndriver6998]

Elite and Mercenary were mine. I had a thing for vector graphics.

[@PepekBezlepek]

this is how Aphex Twin was born

[@poker_cat]

How ventolin was made

[@ThoseMemes.]

Me: ok I'm gonna do my test My brain:

[@DarkAnomaly]

The memories that come flooding back to me when I listen to this. This along with the Atari and Commodore 64 were my Childhood.

[@Yo_fox_YT]

Only early 1980s kids will remember

[@schmoooooop]

clearly not you

[@mannypardo8900]

Am I the only one that gets cold goosebumps around old technology?

[@machetemccloud4965]

si, amigo, es terrorífico... lo veo cómo sinónimo de un mundo distópico.

[@Atmatan]

​@@machetemccloud4965More dystopian than the neo glitz and glamour keeping your mind obscured currently? Is your cellphone somehow less dystopian? Old technology represented a hope for the future. What you hear are the ghosts we left behind in pursuit of more and more profit. The old net still lives, and it calls to us.

[@uwalakab]

Those times when you entered in several lines of code of BASIC from Your Spectrum Magazine, and then you forgot to save the stuff to tape, and somehow managed to accidentally enter the command "NEW", wiping out all your stuff in a second.

[@trefwoordpunk2225]

I never had that problem, but I had a spectrum +2 so you would have had to type NEW by hand, it was also Your Sinclair for me cos I'm not an old man yet :D But the problem I did have, which was a problem only people who had the +2 will know, was that my tape deck died so there was no way of saving anything I type in even if I wanted to. So yes, type everything in, and then admire it and power off to start something new, or watch it crash and have to start all again from scratch!!! Great computer.....no wonder I was a depressed child!

[@nelsonhibbert5267]

@@trefwoordpunk2225 The +2 had an auxilary output/input jack socket so you could connect it to a regular tape recorder. I would've told you thirty years ago but I was mesmerised by the loading screen counter on Indiana Jones.

[@trefwoordpunk2225]

@@nelsonhibbert5267 we tried various external tape decks at the time but nothing worked…eventually realised that the socket on the +2 was mono and only had tape out, I had the +2A (the black version) which had a stereo jack (like the +3 which had one channel in one channel out) but the +2A had both channels wired into one mono output channel, so using an external tape deck was not possible without performing a little mod. I’d be more than capable of this now but at the time I was a mere child…and my father was more a welder than a solderer!! He wondered where the coal went…

[@nelsonhibbert5267]

@@trefwoordpunk2225 That sounds familiar, I can't remember how I got round the problem but I think it was through "pissing about a bit". I had the plus 2A, it was a bitch and had all kinds of compatability issues so I got a second hand +2 which came with +D (i think that's what it was called) disk drive, but the world had moved on to Amigas by then which resulted in all kinds of classroom arguments. I seem to recall there being a faulty power lead or something, and my Dad soldered that in permanently because he was more of a solderer than a welder.....

[@PedroTP15]

RIP Clive Sinclair 1940 - 2021 (the creator of ZX Spectrum) I wasn't born in the 80's, but I'm sure this guy made everyone happy in that time

[@supervitu64]

2021???

[@PedroTP15]

@@supervitu64 Yup he died on 16th September 2021

[@DiscontinuedChannelProbably]

@@PedroTP15 the zx spectrum is 40 years old now

[@jane1975]

@@PedroTP15 I wonder that is why the game Cloudpunk had a trophy called "Load "" " for finding an old game for an NPC, the games graphics were also very ZX spectrum but 3D.

[@PedroTP15]

@@jane1975 Cloudpunk? I heard that name before I was supposed to play that game on PS4 but I'm waiting for a discount

[@GuTTs1975]

Reminds me of Commodore 64 loading game with Cassette tapes. Some game you needed to put like 10 cent under the tape when it failed the loading. good old times :D

[@johndriver6998]

It used to put me in a bit of a trance when I was a kid. You'd wait 4-5 minutes, and then the computer would crash in the last second of loading!

[@dmitrydmirty4233]

It's very upsetting if that was your favorite game.

[@kar351]

Good old times! The best!

[@csterea]

I love it how they reserved a minute or so of tape loading for the splash screen, in spite of the slow and limited tech back then. Beautiful, that's art right there!

[@absol102]

Slavya from Everlasting Summer 😮

[@Vakoda]

Бесконечное Лето!

[@S54B32_]

Оно самое

[@Pduarte79]

The time were more time loading the game then playing lol. Imagine something like that today,lol

[@Robbie_-gu8rd]

Ever installed Call of Duty on the PS4? 😐

[@SiLoMixMaster]

It's worse today ffs lol

[@lovemadeinjapan]

You did not play Chuckie Egg 2 then... We could do runs of 8 hours on a single 5 minute load.

[@MrNormalPerson]

I'm surprised no one has made a ten hour version of this tbh

[@ahotmic]

Challenge accepted!

[@nelsonhibbert5267]

It was called Robocop.

[@Southpoint2019]

Oh dear This brings back memories of monty on the run

[@danielmarkmiller7066]

Can I get an app for my kids phones that makes them listen to Spectrum loading sound for 10mins before they can play a game?

[@Nexokus]

Why?

[@danielmarkmiller7066]

@@Nexokus it was a joke. But there was something quite positive about having to wait for a game to load, it meant we always had to do something else and it hard scheduled in breaks.

[@nelsonhibbert5267]

They're not born with patience we were so I wouldn't even bother. Stick a tape loading error on the end and their tiny little minds will melt down.

[@Tenraiden]

Tge red + blue sprites and the tone associated with them was SO SOOTHING, specially after the SKREEE of the yellow-blues 🥵

[@est4058]

Yes! That sound from childhood. And that basic language prompt))))

[@MickeyMichaels348]

I just realised that the sound does not have any significance to data transferred.

[@nelsonhibbert5267]

Like when women talk?

[@lovemadeinjapan]

Do you remember how to set this up? It is a bit of a lottery. Sometimes I get to see yello/blue stripes, but often not, and there are also some errors with "rewind to 26" and then the loading hangs. Which is weird, as tapes don't have "timestamps" or such. Setup is ZX Spectrum 48+ with Sanyo DR202A

[@AlastairCroxton-fd6tv]

Never known any error like that. You must have a different speccy in Japan. 0 OK 0:0

[@SlyHikari03]

Here from Aphex Twin talking about this sound in an interview.

[@peter486]

GOT DAMN this triggers memorys from when i was a kid...

[@nelsonhibbert5267]

Before you got to lick the back of a womans head?

[@wayevs]

I had a spectrum 48k the one with the rubber buttons I could load a game go have some food and then eventually play it ahh the good old days of paperboy and head over heels

[@nelsonhibbert5267]

Exactly. Spoilt little shits today have no idea.... I used to cook a roast dinner loading Robocop.

[@wayevs]

Ah music to my ears

[@SB-dx7kb]

Still remember my dad saying, 'Load, dip dip, enter, play.'

[@johndriver6998]

The 48k Spectrum soon got hot, and used to keep your lap warm. Probably caused fertility problems in 40-50 year olds.

[@babis2900]

Chilling sound!

[@cynewulf1]

All these years later and I'm still annoyed at their decision to split the pixel data into three chunks, and load the top row of each chunk, then the next row and so on. It made it way harder than it should have been to calculate memory location->pixel location and vice versa.

[@nelsonhibbert5267]

I never understood that either. My first attempt at machine code was to write a screen clearing routine and the maths involved became a fucking nightmare. I haven't attempted programming since....

[@user-jm3xl7rg5k]

"Everlasting summer" on ZX!!!

[@angelriverasantana7755]

If ya wondered what Julie Powers' censor sounds in the 2010 Scott Pilgrim film were? This is where they came from. Like an indicator to Edgar Wright, the director, being British

[@ianinkster2261]

The Sinclair to Anime pipeline.

[@mashedrecords]

"Is this what you kids are listening to these days?"

[@roshwyinstaicoon2593]

this is my brain 24/7 when i get asked a question

[@gabrielirlanda]

The noise of happiness did exist!!

[@nelsonhibbert5267]

It reminds me making sandwiches and then coming back to see it had crashed. Me and my mates were convinced that if you didn't watch the entire loading sequence it would know and deliberately fuck up when you'd left the room.

[@gabrielirlanda]

@@nelsonhibbert5267 true, that screen had poweeeers...😄

[@mondrus72]

Curious as to why you used PAUSE 1000. If you do PAUSE 0 it waits until you press a key

[@ZXDunny]

@Stefano Pavone PAUSE 50 is one second. If PAUSE 1000 waits for a second then your emulator is broken.

[@recycledsteel3693]

Maybe he wanted a pause but did not want to press a key.

[@TimelordUK]

LOAD "" my teenage years

[@triculescutricu2191]

That sound :)

[@Havanacuba1985]

I like stuff like this more than games

[@PavloLukashuk]

Downloaded programs from the tape, just for the same sounds!❤

[@tabby6431]

don't you just to feel like you're looking directly at slenderman while your image loads

[@danielelston7457]

Brilliant 🤩

[@touhouspam]

goated username and pfp

[@bigandycraik]

sweet sweet sounds

[@user-ix7fz5it9o]

Back before the grip of Facebook and over priced mobile phones

[@uwalakab]

❤️ZX Spectrum

[@lionelbeauclaire]

Of course you had to make sure the volume on the cassette player was set just right, otherwise the game wouldn’t load😂 My favourite game was ‘Haunted Hedges’ a Spectrum version of pac man.

[@Scripture-Man]

Nice pic! Sounds like it's crashed at the end. Did you hit BREAK by accident? :D

[@rkhcraft]

Загружать надо в паузу работы холодильника.

[@pixelcrunch300]

Does anyone know how I can load my own ZX Spectrum art like in this video? Is it even possible via BASIC?

[@Havanacuba1985]

That’s what I wondered

[@user-jm3xl7rg5k]

Its possible. LOAD "" SCREEN$ )))

[@JanKowalski-vj9py]

Has anyone tried to upload this to actual ZX Spectrum?

[@recpercusiones3772]

excelent!!! can you call this load after ,NEW or CLEAR , from some POKE or something like that ? thank you

[@K-o-R]

You could LOAD the picture into some other part of memory (LOAD "" CODE [something],8192) and then use a FOR loop to PEEK then POKE each byte into the screen memory area. Or, use the silicon disk (RAM drive) to do the same thing (LOAD bytes somewhere, SAVE ! them to the disk and then LOAD ! them with SCREEN$). That's if you want the whole screen to appear at once. Honestly part of the charm is watching the picture be drawn.

[@nuggiebear4435]

Awesome 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😂

[@fiscal_registre]

спасибо. а то соседи совсем достали

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

What game is that? Doesn’t look like any cassette I’ve ever loaded...

[@brookegross8974]

It's anime

[@narccc7837]

It's actually someone's demo with a picture from a Russian Eroge game Everlasting Summer

[@brookegross8974]

Oh ok

[@narccc7837]

@buterbrod vasilevich Блэт, они не говорят на русском. Я и так написал уже это.

[@brookegross8974]

@buterbrod vasilevich ?

[@lemonadelemonade5491]

So this is what Monika was talking about

[@TransistorizedCharlie]

DDLC runs on BASIC confirmed

[@scalextrikx1978]

so cool

[@awesomeimagination]

true horror

[@brookegross8974]

True

[@-Rook-]

the true horror was when your tape had a glitch on it.

[@Revale07]

@@-Rook- when you didnt find out there was an error after the full cassette load

[@RealKotoVasya]

The true HORROR is "tape loading ERROR"! :-)

[@nelsonhibbert5267]

True horror is recording your favourite sex scenes onto a VHS and then coming home from school and finding your Dad has taken the entire VHS collection to the local charity shop..... Don't ask me how I know this.

[@insumisoenelcielo]

Noooo!esto si q es nostalgioso...

[@b213videoz]

is she a commy ?

[@alexmacleod3728]

*What does the ZX spectrum say*

[@nelsonhibbert5267]

Computer says no.

[@ATOMarchive]

L o a d M e

[@lemonadelemonade5491]

MonikAAAAAAA

[@Spartanhero613]

gaijin girl jumpscare

[@indianaliam1]

...how are you doing that with your mouth?

[@lucatoni4509]

и тут холодильник....

[@williamclark8262]

Terrifying

[@stuwba68]

Waiting 5 mins to load then error lol

[@lucianavodopivec1226]

Que bueno😂

[@bebenoeliaisabel]

🌈🌈🌈yes, betamax was in the years 80 and now and ever many BEST than the VHS🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

[@Sploo256]

anybody was scared of the sound when they were young

[@Kainlarsen]

I grew to love it. :D

[@henrykhenrykowski2745]

It's not scary. It just could be unpleasant for someone.

[@nelsonhibbert5267]

There were scarier things in the 80s. Like the sound of Jimmy Saviles jewellery jangling down the corridor....

[@jonatkinson1971]

Randomize usr 0

[@aphidaks]

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