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And this without actual compression tools like exomizer or zx0

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My ears

Hi decicoder, thanks for the video. Maybe you should put a warning on the description regarding the sound volume. Also, you could put there how to make a game fast load, please. Ta.

What kind of connection do you use between laptop and amstrad???? can you post a pic please?? Manu thx :)))

I have a 48K and I used a PC and a Samsung Galaxy SII phone to play tracks, nothing happened. Only my CPC 6128 loaded fine in tape mode, :-(

I wish it loaded that quickly when I was younger! I can remember waiting at least half an hour for it to load only to find that the dam thing would crash and you would have go start all over again. Ha ha! =)

or MUTE :-)

this camera is ancient

I am suspicious.. Found this wondering if there were mp3 files i could run out of my pc into a speccy. But seriously, how does using new technology speed up the loading time of a spectrum prey tell?

@arhpa Imagine the schizoid technology that would've arisen had the ZX Spectrum remained in mass use up till this day.

@arhpa Codemasters released a Spectrum games compilation on CD back in the day...

HELP MY HEARING HAS GONE MAD

Any machine with the ability to record and playback sound in mono can be used to load a program into a Spectrum. This includes a modern PC playing back specially downloaded programs as a sound file. The Spectrum can only interpret audio signals, not video signals: it generates a video output, but that's not the same as video input. I'm sure the same goes for most other home computers of the time that used tapes instead of disks.

I had that lol exact one with the same monitor lol those were the days

I have been thinking about this for some time but i have no speccy to muck about with... i like the tv though, my god i sound old :( But first have to find a decent 128k spec that people don't want a kings ransom for! I just wouldn't mind playing target renegade again, or spy vs spy arctic antics or saboteur ah i could go on.... no really. Anyone know what happened to the compact flash card interface?

I used to have the same old model.Thanks for uploading

holy f*ck what were they thinkin "Yes what noise should the ZX make when u turn it on..... hmmm yes a very loud screeching sound.... why didnt i think of it before"

so faaaaaaaaaaaaaaast yeah remember the read error lol or eof met

@1861robertelee i assume it would but i had no need in the end because i discovered OTLA, it compresses the game loading into seconds rather than mins, just plug the laptop directly in the spectrum

@maiki60fps Sorry for the late reply but i got a mini amplifier that came with some portable speakers, ill let you know once i get my spectrum on tuesday if it works.....

@decicoder You can't. You'd have to change it and then re-upload the video.

@arhpa Hey, you are not the only one. I did the same thing myself; Had a Sony Discman D145 back then :p Now I am using some cheepoo no name portable CD player as external "CD-ROM" for my Spectrums; Yea, I have a rubber keyboard 48k and several clones.

I'd like to find a real spectrum and try this for myself, BTW what were you saying at the beginning of this video?

fast loading on spectrum? what's the point?

aaaaaaaa my poor sennheisers >:(

Of course instead of putting a lame warning about the audio being very loud on here, you could have, I don't know, *made the audio softer*!!!

@RandoAnonymous LOL

OMG, this is ManicMiner!!! ^^

similar DINAMITE DAN!

@collector2002: You cannot change the play rate, yet leave the pitch unchanged - Especially in THIS case (i.e. serial communication using FM signal encoding) ! Also, "that little screw" has nothing to do with the speed at which the tape travels in front of the magnetic head ! Please get your facts right...

@bruvajon I have never had that problem with any of my 464s in 25 years of use. On the other hand an CPC 6128 with external tape works much like your ZX Spectrum or C64 and has some problems with loading

@fmrshadow In the seven years that I had and used my CPC464, I never recall a single game not loading properly. Maybe I was lucky I dunno, although I always thought the Amstrad had better build quality than most 8-bit micros of the time. However I did have a lot of problems loading and saving with my ZX Spectrum 48K; it was a black art getting things to load on that machine!

@shalroth I had something similar for the C64, I think it was called TurboTape or something. I downloaded several demos from the net, processed it through a program that makes cassette tones out of the files and then finally processed it through the turbo loader program. It worked perfectly when loaded from CD or my MP3 player :)

@nrdesign1991 I would imagine there's a bit of TurboLoad going on - I used to have a machine code routine from 1983 that halved load/save times, the frequency of the tones on tape were doubled and the duration of the tone was halved, I guess there's an extreme form of this going on, and videotape certainly has enough fidelity to cope with it without dropouts. Or it could be magic.

@shalroth Woah! What an improvement! I guess it loads a loader before loading the game

@decicoder Is there some digital trickery going on here - recording the spectrum's signal as a NICAM track for instance? That would help explain the ten-fold increas in bandwidth...

@nrdesign1991 About four minutes.

how long does it take using regular tape?

@collector2002 In my post I was actually referring to the comment of tigruspolosatus about a patched ROM and 4x faster turbo loader/saver. In the old days I wrote a 3x turbo loader/saver and that was the fastest my cassette player with ordinary cassettes would record and play with enough quality so the game could be loaded without errors. For that I had to crack the game, integrate my turbo loader somewhere, and save it all with my turbo saver. I don't know much about this K7 wmp technique.

You could copy games from tape to disc to and watch them load even quicker too, back in the day. I guess this works, as the way the tape worked for cpc was sort of speed independent afaict

manic miner is the best

omg you ll burn that amstrad

omg you ll burn that amstrad

Aaargh! That startup noise! It burns! LOL, In The Hall of The Mountain King.

I have noticed in your monitor you have something in the 12v socket. I wonder what it is for? A supply that powers an external tape drive?

lol, if only you have a time machine. but I rather use that with Sinclair spectrum. as MSX got its diskette pretty early.

Well, would it work with the FastLoading-converters?

@VintageJunior You can get a tape/mp3 adapter very cheaply