ZX Spectrum plays Imperial March with loading noise

#zxspectrum #loading #noise
Dedicated to Sir Clive Sinclair (1940-2021) the man who changed my life.
ZX Spectrum (British 8-bit computer) plays famous tune from Star Wars known as "The Imperial March" or "Darth Vader's Theme" while loading piece of prepared data from cassette player.
10 years passed like a blink of an eye since publication of this simple video just for fun. I don't understand why, but it is my most popular video on KZbin. 26K views in 10 years not that much by modern standards, but I'm happy.
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I think that the fact that Spectrums loading sounds were actually somewhat pleasant helped us a lot to endure the about 5 minutes it took to load a program.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

I remember back in the day with my Commodore 64 I'd start a game loading on tape and turn the volume up on my monitor (actually a small color television...) and then go watch TV, make a sandwich, do some homework...until I heard the game start. When I got my first floppy drive it was faster, but not as much faster as I was hoping (until fast load games became the norm). Good times...

[@handlesarefeckinstupid]

If you had a +2 it could take 20 mins. Then crash as it finished. That's why when you got a game loaded it stayed loaded, sometimes for days. Anyone else remember adjusting the azimuth angle on the tape heads so it sounded 'crisp' , especially with copied games.

[@thesingingmagpie5642]

@@handlesarefeckinstupid I recall games taking an age on the Speccy +2a which was the model I had. Though I think mine had a dodgy tape head as not all games loaded and it still puzzles me to this day why. Now your comment makes me think was my Spectrum faulty or was it a flaw of the +2a model especially with playing older games meant for the 48k

[@Murderdogs]

Surely not the fault of the +2 but of the fact you were probably loading a 128k game which is much larger - loading times would be the same on any of the 128K Spectrums, 128K original, +2 or +3! It crashing at the end though, well that IS either the machine or the cassette at fault, sadly.

[@andyukmonkey]

@@Murderdogs Copied games are probably less reliable too.

[@vaitoshi5301]

As someone who has watched this very video at 2021, i hop everyone gets this in their recommended to see this beauty

[@ZXSpectrumHotel]

If you are not trolling poor old man, thank you for kind words :)

[@deraykrause4517]

@@ZXSpectrumHotel He ain't trolling. I'm 50 and I know how cool this video is. This just popped up in my TL on 8/27/2021 and I'm happy it did!

[@neozeed8139]

2022...

[@vaitoshi5301]

@@neozeed8139 :D

[@Jonathansyoutube]

Love the r tape loading error at the end, too.

[@ZXSpectrumHotel]

It was a valid code block, but I pressed stop on recorder. It was more like lucky accident. And what do you mean by "they"? It was just me :)

[@77sugarcoated]

Hey, Darth Vader called, he wants his zx spectrum back.

[@ZXSpectrumHotel]

No way, I'm a Rebel.

[@nicadi2005]

@BoxyLabs "Darth Vader called, he wants his zx spectrum back." - Well, tell him to use the one that came with the suit - you know, the one on his chest he keeps flashing around to the troops. All he needs to do is connect it to a regular TV and cassette player and presto! ;-)

[@cardyfreak]

I could listen to spectrums loading all day.

[@TimelordUK]

Tape loading error. Ah, my youth x

[@gamepad3173]

I'll likely never get the chance to mess around with a ZX Spectrum.

[@izzard]

Huh? They are always being sold on eBay and there are dozens of great emulators if you don't want to spend anything :)

[@ReiverBlue1971]

...and there are also the Nexts and a couple of clones originating from South America which aren't too bad apparently

[@ahmedshammoh2048]

Thank you, for reminding me of great days

[@urmo345]

The best loading screen for a Speccy game i ever saw was playable one, it was simple mini game. Forgot the name of the game. PS: Got the name: Joe Blade 2 loading screen was playable pac-man clone!

[@ZXSpectrumHotel]

"Yeah, I know"

[@BTRaven7]

ВАще крутяк !

[@rescuero]

Шедевр, однозначно.... Как давно это было.

[@stevenpavelish6017]

Darth Vader approves!

[@sarosvideos4429]

There should be a full song of this

[@Sultan-hw5dg]

The perfect song doesn't exis-

[@Lemonidas75]

*In Palpatine's voice* "Goooood... Goooood..."

[@Retro_B8]

I’ve never ever heard that before!!

[@ZXSpectrumHotel]

And what do you think? Can you show it on your channel, please?

[@Retro_B8]

@@ZXSpectrumHotel sooo cool, normally when you only hear the usual random noises this was totally unexpected!

[@klausambrass1460]

Lol, frickin awesome! 👍👍👍

[@Otouto72K]

Freaking genius!!

[@Emmamoo]

Tape loading error!!! haha I haven't seen that in years!

[@leobragasilveira]

It's the same system used in the Death Star. They were loading it in the exact moment that Skywalker bastard shoot that damn torpedo. Everybody knows the result: reboot.

[@Just_A_Random_Idiot_3.14]

it tried and I love it

[@walkingwithtamson]

Most excellent 👌

[@Ze_Ninguem]

I still have my 128 k zx +2

[@РусланЗаурбеков-з6е]

Хоть бы заголовок за 11 лет исправили... "Имерский марш" ... )))

[@ZXSpectrumHotel]

Ох тыж ёжик! А я то думаю - что меня 11 лет никто не смотрит?

[@davidhall7648]

Now do the greatest hits of the Beatles

[@Pocomaxaee]

Impossible. Best.

[@gerardsweeney9063]

Sorcery!!

[@VANHELSING433]

I can't believe people complainty if they have to wait more than a minute for their XBOX/ps3 games to load.

[@intrepidis1]

After the ZX Spectrum, I got the cartridge based Sega Master System and was blown away by the graphics and instant load times. Then when I got a PlayStation I kind of felt like we'd taken a step back, in terms of instant access. ... It never got better.

[@BleughBleugh]

Just discovered this thanks to the algorithm picking up my speccy related clicks! Would love to know how this was done! (Seems easy enough in theory but I’m lazy and would like someone to tell me :-p)

[@SynopsisLAB]

Tape loading error :D

[@Sploo256]

what does red/teal mean and yellow/blue mean

[@ZXSpectrumHotel]

Well, home computers in 80s used tape recorders to load and save data and even games. When you play such tape, you hear sounds like in this video. Raster bars of different colors were needed to control aspects of loading process like speed and volume. Red/teal are preparing before data, yellow/blue - data itself. It's a very old stuff.

[@grahamsmith9691]

cool and fun

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

Ah but could you make a coherent picture and a tune?

[@ZXSpectrumHotel]

Maybe with custom loader

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

@@ZXSpectrumHotel I adopt the waiting position 😁❤️

[@zondervanamo]

Good lord

[@brianmchugh8419]

I went through about 10 tape machines......... I would never smash my Speccy. 😊

[@ReiverBlue1971]

Now that I can empathise with ;D

[@amigalemming]

Does this prove that the music is a valid ZX Spectrum file or does it prove that the ZX Spectrum loader considers everything as data? Would the sound be the same if that picture is saved to tape, again?

[@SeboDigital]

He simply find a way to write glibberish data that match the speecy loading sound in assembly, saved as "Screen$", and loaded it. If you listen carefully, you see that isn´t a picture, but some random pattern of junk drawing.

[@SeboDigital]

Used an old and dented tape, got an error! haha

[@ChrisWalshZX]

That is sooo funny!

[@Rednosty]

Da da da dah da da bahhhhh

[@vitorjunior2023]

Hahahahahahahah. Nice.

[@Mahatma618]

That was awesome,but something was missing... Thanks for making my day :)

[@Linux_Tester]

Круто, а можно узнать как такое сделать, или хотя бы tape файл

[@ZXSpectrumHotel]

Тапки лежат тут: spectrumcomputing.co.uk/list?label_id=18801 Объяснение тут: spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=12723#p12723 Удачи!

[@Linux_Tester]

@@ZXSpectrumHotel Спасибо!

[@TSAREVICH1]

🤣🤣

[@ZXSpectrumHotel]

No. No. Yes.

[@mikeymcmikeface5599]

I want a copy of this file!

[@whitedragon3560]

error glitches

[@anykey7126]

Can you share .tap file?

[@ZXSpectrumHotel]

Sure! spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/34342/ZX-Spectrum/Happy_30th_Birthday_SPECCY

[@klanoriion1671]

POKE it :)

[@bebenoeliaisabel]

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

[@RobotDude-wp1bs]

ERROR

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

Kind of reminds me of the old Commodore 64 program that played "Daisy" using your 1541 floppy drive's drive head. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5jRfpqjobCcldE

[@ZXSpectrumHotel]

This video was inspired by Star Wars on PC's floppy

[@deraykrause4517]

I had that back in the day. My file was called "drive music". Adults told me "Don't do that it's bad for the drive". No it wasn't. And why should I listen to you? I'm 12 and I already know more about this computer than you do. I also remember using this on a 1571 drive and it didn't sound as good.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@deraykrause4517 I suppose, in theory, if you played this on your 1541/1571 ten times a day, every day for years on end it _could_ damage it, but that is super unlikely. Heck, virtually every commercial game's copy protection scheme rattled the hell out of that drive head anyway. Ah...copy protection. Those were the days...

[@deraykrause4517]

@@JustWasted3HoursHere haha back in my day we had to walk 3 miles uphill in 10 feet of snow to use a copy program that took 20 minutes and 4 disk swaps just to play G.I. Joe which couldn't be beaten anyway!

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@deraykrause4517 LOL! If I remember correctly, one of the most difficult games to crack on the C64 was "Bruce Lee". I seem to remember reading somewhere that hackers really respected the publisher on that one because it was a tremendous challenge. Various "snapshot" carts made copying a bit easier but not in all cases. What's weird is that, at least in the US, you were allowed to make up to 5 copies of your software yet software companies were under no obligation to make it easy to do. In fact they went out of their way to make it as difficult as possible.

[@romanpetrov492]

фальшивит!

[@ZXSpectrumHotel]

Мьсе знает толк? А горизонт не завален?