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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
@@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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 !!
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 :)
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.
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!
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 CZcams is refreshing for a few seconds haha. What went wrong.
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.
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.
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
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..........
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 ......
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 🤣
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.
@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
Oh yeah,the same memory
mines still loading, what year is this?
@@gooseywhispers You mean it worked? Mine always got to the end and failed.
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.
RUN USR 1331
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.
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.
R tape loading error
@@grahamalexander5800 "Gaaahhhhhhhh!!"
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...
I think you're playing fast and loose with the word "joy" there
2:27 always a relief when a game loaded :)
The rage was real back then when the game crashes just as it finished loading 🤯😡
@@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.
@@ChrisNorris Yeah I can't believe watching this now long it took. We've seriously lost our patience these days. Wow
Ours was so sensitive we had to leave the room whilst it loaded
Tape loading error.
I used to love the noise change as the games colour in the loading screen.
Used to play this with my whole family in the eighties, we all took turns , and loved it , Horace goes skiing also.
the loading screen sound, particularly when the color attributes come back, is a thing of pure beauty.
Even better than sex.
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.
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
How old are you now?
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!
many a winters evening was spent playing games like this on the speccie, couple of hours before bed, happy memories
One of the best sounds ever, I could listen to it in my sleep. Takes me back.
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.
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!
This is my childhood. Thanks for posting!
Memories are made of this.
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
'R tape loading error' Agggghhhhh!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pokes!!! Man, I've not heard that in so long. Good memories.
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 !!
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
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.
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 :)
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
One of my first ZX Spectrum games...
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.
Fantastic game and a fantastic computer. Still have mine as well as my ZX81, my Commodore 64 and my Commodore Amiga 500.
Jetpac, Knight Lore, Jetman, Sabre Wulf, Pyjamara. Jet Set Willy. The Key. Thanks for sharing, brings back good memories.
So much memories from the zx spectrum Sinclair. Nice to see some nostalgia being uploaded on the web. :-)
To the rest of the world this is annoying - to me, it's heaven...... They will never understand
Well said.
This sounds like a radio transmission that you need to decrypt.
i do
youtube sucks it is/was/is
=YEAH,YOU GOT WEIRD HUMANITY CRITERIA
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so many great memories of this loading, such a great game :)
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.
Fantastic dude. Took me right back there to the 80's. I still have my Spectrum as well!
So many good memories...Thanks for bringing them back.
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!
I remember that impatience....Monty on the run ,Saboteur,Zinaps...
me too...and then....... r -tape loading error...lol
Goosebumps here.... Good old memories.......
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.
Never thought I would miss this sound
This game is absolutely top 10 of 8bit games all time. Amazing 😘
Loved your video. You brought back sweet childhood memories. !!
Cheers
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).
Ahhhh the happy sound of my childhood 🤗
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!
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 CZcams is refreshing for a few seconds haha. What went wrong.
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.
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.
😍.. Wonderful, sitting as a kid with mates waiting for this to end... Great memories.
man the 80s were filled with good times weren't they?
The current generation on PC gamers will never know this joy!
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
the most defining game of the 80's.Ultimate made all the best games....airwolf anyone?
Very good video, my preferite game when I was super young. It's good also the sound of the loading game! Thanks from Italy
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..........
no wonder i loved acid house so much when it came out
great stuff man,takes me right back.
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 ......
This brings back the memories. I had this game. (Still do, actually, though I haven't tried to load it.)
The good old days
Por Dios , ese sonido de carga ! inolvidable , mientras leias algo esperando que termine ! que recuerdos !
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!
Strangely therapeutic 38 years later 😊
Awesome - used to love Jetpac.
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.
anticipation is greatest joy
this is why waiting for games to load made us happy
Utter class !!! Happy memories
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
And in the end.. R Tape loading error
Now there is a sound that takes me back.....
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.
Manicminer and Jet Pac
My first two spectrum games!
My favorite game in childhood. Remember getting over 800000 score after which I pretty much got tired of the game.
nostalgic sigh.... Altho I do also remember the frustration of sitting through all of this then the programme not actually loading!
Man, the noise it used to make!
One of Rare’s first games.
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.
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.
Used to love this game back in the day. ❤️ Y'all remember bombjack too?
One of the first home computer classics.. Old school gaming! Can't behave the didn't even make it to the millenium falcons :)
memories!!! :))
i really hope it doesnt say tape loading error at the end of the video Oo
Haha I had that alot! But still love it!
now im starting to wonder if sonic 06 loading screens are longer than this...
what a flash back....the anticipation waiting for it to load...will it load?!
I miss spectrum loaders
Rip sir Clive
Good to know, I was planning to backup all my old tapes in a compressed format. It is uncompressed WAVE PCM from now on.
my 3d printer got me here love the loading sounds
The dark side of nostalgia. :)
Ahh bliss sounds!😁
Very nostalgic!!!
Recently bought this and Atic Atac 👍👍💯💯
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 🤣
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
Omg back in the days i didn't have laptop nor ps3 but i was lot happier :/
Ipnotico...
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.
Did that as a kid, now I wait for my SSD like "Come on already damnit" load those freakin 100gb
Without Reagan, Thatcher, Gorbachev, the Cold war, the ice hockey and the tennis and the ZX Spectrum 48k my 1980s would have been incomplete.
them were the days
a fantastic game for that time.
Those 5 minutes loading a game felt endless!
@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.
@@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.
@@robinmeade7573 I seem to have less patience now than I did when I was 9.
The sound of my childhood.
Loading used to sound so cool music to me.
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.
And just like that I can smell the aroma of PCB’s and the solder heating up to hazardously hot temperatures.