This takes me right back to unboxing my Spectrum as a boy at 4am on Christmas morning. And for years to come, I'd know that that beautiful rainbow screeching sound & light show signalled the promise of patient reward. As much as our modern instant connectivity is very convenient, I am still ever thankful to have been perhaps the last generation to feel the thrill of waiting ten minutes for my humble personal computer to deliver happiness. Fuse this waiting with prayers of hope that the 'Load Error' devil would not strike, and there you have real childhood magic...and joy with each successful advent of the game's welcome screen. It felt like mooring at a safe harbour after sailing stormy uncertain seas. It was the game before the game, and winning it brought just as much satisfaction as the game itself. I wish I could go back and see the excitement on the face of my younger self. Just once. Just for a moment. Memory is a wonderful gift in many ways.
I was a spoiled brat as a kid. When I was bought an Atari STE at 8 years old I was SOOO happy about floppy discs loading so quickly. Not feeling a game today? Pop it out and put a different one in. Nobody in my school had anything like it, I suddenly became really popular. Must of been my natural charm and likeability.....
A work colleague said the same about CB, it was a faff, having a massive twig in his back garden ( fun during a thunder storm ), something to do with squelch ration, getting the burner modded etc. - but the faff gave picking up a distant voice from the US ( in England - so he claims.. ) true magic.
@@ryanisstuckin93 I've never met an actual Atari ST user in person, but I have the feeling they were mostly nice to get along. I've had Amigas for around 6 years and It's sad to say the majority were smug a**holes. Even as a fellow user, I could have punched half of them in the face for being obnoxious and feeling like they were gifted geniuses. Some of them are now vintage collectors and users 30 years later, and are still unbearable. 🙄
Watching the tape loading process is pure 80's geek childhood. We'd happily sit through the whole thing and gather around the screen in eager anticipation of some good gaming. And Commando on the Spectrum certainly delivered.
@@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391This happened more often than I would like to remember. Outrun's loading screen vs the actual game was one particular case where I felt ashamed and ripped off.
@@RalphZ80 I think the worst culprit was " espionage island ", a dramatic scene on the cassette case, but the "game" was just a list of questions. We could manage to get of the damn helicopter at the beginning Thrust ll was my favourite, I sometimes wonder how much computing power was used by those games compared with modern games on phones.
@@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391 Since we're already opening up to our.childhood traumas, here's my worst memory: having saved 6 months of allowance and spending Us$40 on a cartridge called Castle of Tharoggad, for the already game-starved Color Computer 3. This one really made me cry, it turned out to be a 16k dungeon crawler with impossibly bad graphics and gameplay. Please look it up and laugh for my sake, at least I can say I got one expensive smile out of it. 😄 Playing the game actually makes you a worse person. After paying that much to be humiliated, piracy becomes "payback" to whatever child/preteen that felt like an idiot for getting scammed. The Speccy game prices were at least reasonable, but it all went downhill on the 16-bits. It wasn't piracy that killed these systems, it was paying £30 for junk like Street Fighter II on the Amiga that did it.
i remember you would sit there for 10 mins watching the game load then it wouldnt work so you would try it another 6 times before you gave up then it was bedtime :)
@@robertshadbolt3056 In the meantime while it's loading, 'Frodo waits, Sam waits, Pippin waits, Merry waits...and now you're dead, slain by the black riders while the tape was loading.'
We used to wait (5 min loading!!) but it seemed like nothing, meanwhile the excitement was building up. I used to play this game in local co-op. Such great memories.
Besides the sounds of the loading screen and colour fill..... you can also hear all of the game sprites and colour maps loading as well. As a child of the Speccy, this is a wonderful sound.
@@RetroHawk Stuart Middleton is the man behind the first Elite Uni-Loader; the rainbow loading border stripes are courtesy of two memory pokes (237, 95) inserted between 79 and 230. The trick has since been adopted by other software houses and was more common on Spanish retail releases from Dro-Soft, Zafiro-Chip and Erbe.
We bought a 2nd hand 48k in 1987 and this was one of the 50 bundled games that came with it. I think it was one of the games I played most back that year along with Monty Mole. Simple graphics but highly addictive gameplay.
You're meant to stand next to wall and murder the guys as they run out the sliding door. Lack of direction toggle makes things hard. Ikari warriors had direction toggle 👍
Takes me back to the days where you'd insert your tape, go downstairs for dinner and hopefully by the time you finished the menu screen will have loaded 🤣🤣🤣
Still remember Christmas Day of 1986 I finally got my 128k+ that I'd been badgering my folks for the best part of 2 years (conveniently already all set up, tuned into the telly, Kempston joystick attached, and loaded up with Daley Thompson's SuperTest). My Dad revealed to me in my later years he got the last one in Dixons late October and played it pretty much every night when I went to bed- I was wondering why a couple of the keys and spacebar were hanging off come Xmas morning.
I got a 48K+ on Christmas Day 1985! This was a "Dixons Deal" for £99 you got a 48K+, 10 Pieces of Software/Cassette Tapes and a Single Tape Recorder with all required leads. My ol'man was a Builder and definitely computer illiterate (still is now if I'm honest!!) so this was all still boxed and unused. So Christmas Morning ran down stairs, unboxed everything, set it all up on the telly in the living room. Loaded the 1st game (Horace Goes Skiing) only to find the game wouldn't load; during the 1st "handshake" when the "program: horace" should appear, got a blank screen. Tried the next game (Chequered Flag) the same and the next one! Rather disappointed I took everything upstairs to the telly in the bedroom and just tapped out some BASIC for the rest of the day (there was a decent manual to read with a BASIC dictionary). A couple of days later when Dixons was open, I took the Tape Recorder back to find the play head was completely mis-aligned, a quick turn of the screw and all worked!! Bought a Kempston Interface that day too! After a couple of weeks of playing games and BASIC programming, everything came to shuddering halt as my brother (also computer illiterate) thought he'd have a go but when he plugged in the Kempston Interface whilst the Spectrum was still switched on! Blew the Z80A and the ALU chips......fortunately Dixons gave us a new 48k+, so was back up and running. Actually my brother did it again a year later, so the 48k+ ended up in the bin and replaced it with an "Alan Sugar" 128K+2 (also a Dixons Deal!)!!
Cauldren 2, renegade, green beret, blue max, manic minor, jet set willie, chase hq, ghost an goblins, full throttle, chequered flag, match of the day, yie ar kung fu, shoa lins road, way of the exploding fist. Some my childhood memories but atic atac an terminus were definatly up there in the favourites. 🎮🎰.😲👍
As soon as the color is filled in the artwork loading screen you knew if it loaded succesfully but it could still reset on the very last bytes ,then adjust the tapehead with a screwdriver and start all over
I finished that game all the way through together with a friend who was tossing hand grenades for me sitting next to me. There is no end parse, it just goes in circles all over again from the beginning.
My son was complaining about the load time on ps4. I was his age (10) when this game came out, so have just made him sit through this... He just looked at me and said "I understand so much about you now". Patience is most definitely learned! I'm still laughing :-D
My ten year old was complaining about the amount of time it took me to prepare Angel Delight. I sat him down and made him watch this, and then said "the best things come to those who wait". He replied with "this game looks shit. I ate all my peas, where's my pudding?" Kids these days...
I remember my first 48k rubber key, I broke it by pulling out the Joystick Interface for my Kempston Quickshot 2. I then saved hard and bought a 128k +2 with built in tape deck and interface, 300 tape games, cost me £100, I loved that thing. All those Chucky Egg games lol. I had this but my mum bought us an Intelivision console that took cartridges and had classic games like Q Bert lmao.
Me and a friend would spend whole weekends without sleep playing 'Desert Rats' So much coffee drunk and a little herbal inspiration... if you know what I mean. Best day's of my life...
Y'see, the joke here is that approximately 1/9th of the loading time is exclusively dedicated to loading the bytes for the fancy loading graphic it shows while loading.
Because I am a bit warped in the head! I decided to load up Spectaculator, set "Load from audio source", typed in the LOAD "" command and then hit play on this youtube video. It worked! The game loaded up. Next I will hook a real 48K machine up to the audio out of the pc soundcard and play this video again. Why? because its nuts and it works lol.
@@RetroHawk I surprised myself that I even tried to do this lol. It is a bit tetchy mind! sometimes loading will fail for no reason much like a real tape will fail if you so much as breathe on it. I suspect it is the rubbish soundcard I have on the machine I am using. I will try with a decent audiophile soundcard and see if it is 100% reliable. I also recall something I read a while back about games being broadcasted over radio so people could record them onto tape, so that idea suddenly popped into my head, the spectrum does not care where the sound is coming in from as long as it is clear and fairly loud.
Probably the most irritating noise I've heard in a long time 🤣 I have never heard this before but my mum told me to search this up cos she wanted some childhood memories. 100% regretted
2:15 sounds like what passes for music nowadays. All this clapTrap garbage that sounds like being stuck in the middle of a Transformers bukakke orgy. It seems about right that it resembles a bunch of random binary output from a 1980s home computer.
This takes me right back to unboxing my Spectrum as a boy at 4am on Christmas morning. And for years to come, I'd know that that beautiful rainbow screeching sound & light show signalled the promise of patient reward. As much as our modern instant connectivity is very convenient, I am still ever thankful to have been perhaps the last generation to feel the thrill of waiting ten minutes for my humble personal computer to deliver happiness. Fuse this waiting with prayers of hope that the 'Load Error' devil would not strike, and there you have real childhood magic...and joy with each successful advent of the game's welcome screen. It felt like mooring at a safe harbour after sailing stormy uncertain seas. It was the game before the game, and winning it brought just as much satisfaction as the game itself. I wish I could go back and see the excitement on the face of my younger self. Just once. Just for a moment. Memory is a wonderful gift in many ways.
I was a spoiled brat as a kid. When I was bought an Atari STE at 8 years old I was SOOO happy about floppy discs loading so quickly.
Not feeling a game today? Pop it out and put a different one in.
Nobody in my school had anything like it, I suddenly became really popular.
Must of been my natural charm and likeability.....
A work colleague said the same about CB, it was a faff, having a massive twig in his back garden ( fun during a thunder storm ), something to do with squelch ration, getting the burner modded etc. - but the faff gave picking up a distant voice from the US ( in England - so he claims.. ) true magic.
@@ryanisstuckin93 I've never met an actual Atari ST user in person, but I have the feeling they were mostly nice to get along. I've had Amigas for around 6 years and It's sad to say the majority were smug a**holes. Even as a fellow user, I could have punched half of them in the face for being obnoxious and feeling like they were gifted geniuses. Some of them are now vintage collectors and users 30 years later, and are still unbearable. 🙄
Great on you, well written. Me too
beautiful words
Watching the tape loading process is pure 80's geek childhood. We'd happily sit through the whole thing and gather around the screen in eager anticipation of some good gaming. And Commando on the Spectrum certainly delivered.
Dan Wilkes I had this game
Did you ever load checkered flag, see the image that came up during loading, and being some what disappointed at the actual graphics of the game...
@@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391This happened more often than I would like to remember. Outrun's loading screen vs the actual game was one particular case where I felt ashamed and ripped off.
@@RalphZ80 I think the worst culprit was " espionage island ", a dramatic scene on the cassette case, but the "game" was just a list of questions. We could manage to get of the damn helicopter at the beginning
Thrust ll was my favourite, I sometimes wonder how much computing power was used by those games compared with modern games on phones.
@@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391 Since we're already opening up to our.childhood traumas, here's my worst memory: having saved 6 months of allowance and spending Us$40 on a cartridge called Castle of Tharoggad, for the already game-starved Color Computer 3. This one really made me cry, it turned out to be a 16k dungeon crawler with impossibly bad graphics and gameplay. Please look it up and laugh for my sake, at least I can say I got one expensive smile out of it. 😄
Playing the game actually makes you a worse person. After paying that much to be humiliated, piracy becomes "payback" to whatever child/preteen that felt like an idiot for getting scammed.
The Speccy game prices were at least reasonable, but it all went downhill on the 16-bits. It wasn't piracy that killed these systems, it was paying £30 for junk like Street Fighter II on the Amiga that did it.
Speccy games👌u can’t beat the sound of loading👌
i remember you would sit there for 10 mins watching the game load then it wouldnt work so you would try it another 6 times before you gave up then it was bedtime :)
Lol pretty much sums it up :)
Anyone remember the loading times of the Hobbit or Lord of the rings, I think you even had to pause the tape and turn it over
@@robertshadbolt3056 In the meantime while it's loading, 'Frodo waits, Sam waits, Pippin waits, Merry waits...and now you're dead, slain by the black riders while the tape was loading.'
@@mrdouglasincanada and if it was the Hobbit, "Thorin sat on a rock singing about gold"
'Press any key'
End up crying looking for an 'any' key. 6 year old me losing my shit.
We used to wait (5 min loading!!) but it seemed like nothing, meanwhile the excitement was building up. I used to play this game in local co-op. Such great memories.
Besides the sounds of the loading screen and colour fill..... you can also hear all of the game sprites and colour maps loading as well. As a child of the Speccy, this is a wonderful sound.
I had to capture the loading experience or the game wouldnt have been complete :)
@@RetroHawk Stuart Middleton is the man behind the first Elite Uni-Loader; the rainbow loading border stripes are courtesy of two memory pokes (237, 95) inserted between 79 and 230. The trick has since been adopted by other software houses and was more common on Spanish retail releases from Dro-Soft, Zafiro-Chip and Erbe.
Takes me back 1986 around that time christmas in speccy + & daily Thompson & gauntlet 2 player at the same time on screen 👍🏼❤️
"warning. if you have a history with epileptic seizures, consult a doctor before pla--"
"oh, im too late"
Божественное звуки! У меня дуэт до сих пор есть.
I cant get enough of this. Love the spectrum!
We bought a 2nd hand 48k in 1987 and this was one of the 50 bundled games that came with it. I think it was one of the games I played most back that year along with Monty Mole. Simple graphics but highly addictive gameplay.
Those loading bars reminds me of when I wrote my own loading routines & messed about with it, had some cool effects.
Priceless. This brings memories, thank you.
"R tape loading error".. The real BSOD.
Spinlayer I remember it well to well I think!!!!?🎃👻
NOOOOOOOooOOooooooOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! *Starts again*
or on hyperloads a reset to boot screen and iffing trying 5 times again for the f##kr to load
You're meant to stand next to wall and murder the guys as they run out the sliding door. Lack of direction toggle makes things hard. Ikari warriors had direction toggle 👍
Takes me back to the days where you'd insert your tape, go downstairs for dinner and hopefully by the time you finished the menu screen will have loaded 🤣🤣🤣
I’m here because of Aphex Twin.
The loading noise was better than the in game music lmfao
Still remember Christmas Day of 1986 I finally got my 128k+ that I'd been badgering my folks for the best part of 2 years (conveniently already all set up, tuned into the telly, Kempston joystick attached, and loaded up with Daley Thompson's SuperTest). My Dad revealed to me in my later years he got the last one in Dixons late October and played it pretty much every night when I went to bed- I was wondering why a couple of the keys and spacebar were hanging off come Xmas morning.
lol Thanks for sharing its always nice hearing Christmas stories of old computers and systems :)
I got a 48K+ on Christmas Day 1985! This was a "Dixons Deal" for £99 you got a 48K+, 10 Pieces of Software/Cassette Tapes and a Single Tape Recorder with all required leads. My ol'man was a Builder and definitely computer illiterate (still is now if I'm honest!!) so this was all still boxed and unused. So Christmas Morning ran down stairs, unboxed everything, set it all up on the telly in the living room. Loaded the 1st game (Horace Goes Skiing) only to find the game wouldn't load; during the 1st "handshake" when the "program: horace" should appear, got a blank screen. Tried the next game (Chequered Flag) the same and the next one! Rather disappointed I took everything upstairs to the telly in the bedroom and just tapped out some BASIC for the rest of the day (there was a decent manual to read with a BASIC dictionary). A couple of days later when Dixons was open, I took the Tape Recorder back to find the play head was completely mis-aligned, a quick turn of the screw and all worked!! Bought a Kempston Interface that day too! After a couple of weeks of playing games and BASIC programming, everything came to shuddering halt as my brother (also computer illiterate) thought he'd have a go but when he plugged in the Kempston Interface whilst the Spectrum was still switched on! Blew the Z80A and the ALU chips......fortunately Dixons gave us a new 48k+, so was back up and running. Actually my brother did it again a year later, so the 48k+ ended up in the bin and replaced it with an "Alan Sugar" 128K+2 (also a Dixons Deal!)!!
how bizarre, unusual emotion felt.
One of my very favorite games growing up
Why is this still so satisfying? 😂
Beautiful, beautiful nostalgic music to my ears : )
Into the top ten of Spectrum games.
Mates being Green Beret, Ghosts and Goblins, Camelot Warriors, Saboteur...
Sounds metal, love it.
The first and lovely game for me 33 years ago.
I just watched this with my kid and I heard myself say “wait, here comes the best part.”
Cauldren 2, renegade, green beret, blue max, manic minor, jet set willie, chase hq, ghost an goblins, full throttle, chequered flag, match of the day, yie ar kung fu, shoa lins road, way of the exploding fist. Some my childhood memories but atic atac an terminus were definatly up there in the favourites. 🎮🎰.😲👍
Some amazing titles you have named there :)
@@RetroHawk yeah, thanks bro, cheers retro hawk u have a great channel bruv.😀👏👊👍
@@jaysaw2321 Your welcome and thanks buddy :)
As soon as the color is filled in the artwork loading screen you knew if it loaded succesfully but it could still reset on the very last bytes ,then adjust the tapehead with a screwdriver and start all over
I finished that game all the way through together with a friend who was tossing hand grenades for me sitting next to me. There is no end parse, it just goes in circles all over again from the beginning.
You can actually load any executable or data file from modern game into audio-editor program as raw data and her how it would sound on audiocassette!
The loading was all part of it!! God I loved those days ghouls n ghosts was my favourite
My son was complaining about the load time on ps4.
I was his age (10) when this game came out, so have just made him sit through this...
He just looked at me and said "I understand so much about you now".
Patience is most definitely learned!
I'm still laughing :-D
That didn't happen.
My ten year old was complaining about the amount of time it took me to prepare Angel Delight. I sat him down and made him watch this, and then said "the best things come to those who wait". He replied with "this game looks shit. I ate all my peas, where's my pudding?" Kids these days...
My ten year old complains about the length of time it takes to see the heat death of the universe. So I sat her down in front of this..
Ahhh the fingernails down the blackboard that is, loading screen sound.
Oh how I miss those days
It sounds like thrashmetal band from 1985.
Sounds more like an autotuned rapper getting all his teeth pulled
Its like a melody in my mind
I loved commando on the zx,the zx was some machine it had the better graphics to other computers all it was lagging was the color👍👍👍
Very true.
Better graphics? Compare the graphics from "the last ninja" on both computers and honestly tell me the spectrum version was better
Listening to this with headphones on does this mean I'll be a game now lol when i go to sleep tonight.
If you have a data casette, and a zx spectrum, use it to record this video's loading noise. You're welcome
Target renegade , arkanoid , double dragon ahhh nostalgia bomberjack
"ooh, good bit coming up here' aphex twin
My god. This takes me back to my early childhood.
the good old days....
Those were the days, simplicity at its best. Wait five to ten mins to load a game, then grab your joystick.
I remember my first 48k rubber key, I broke it by pulling out the Joystick Interface for my Kempston Quickshot 2. I then saved hard and bought a 128k +2 with built in tape deck and interface, 300 tape games, cost me £100, I loved that thing. All those Chucky Egg games lol. I had this but my mum bought us an Intelivision console that took cartridges and had classic games like Q Bert lmao.
That sound is like I’m going back in time. Great memories of the 80s.
I used to hate this , now it puts me to sleep …
I love all these games :)
Back in the days when a game could be made by a couple of spotty teenagers, now they rival films in their budgets.
Every now and then I get the urge for a spectrum fix and log in 👍…!! Oh no it’s crashed again 😂
We must have had so much patience growing up
Me and a friend would spend whole weekends without sleep playing 'Desert Rats'
So much coffee drunk and a little herbal inspiration... if you know what I mean.
Best day's of my life...
None of that happened.
this is what my tinnitus sounds like its hell
Did anyone ever play Ikari Warriors? It was similar to commando.
another great game :)
Yesss! Ikari warriors was better because two players could play at the same time, i spent lot of sundays in the '80s playing that game with my cousin!
Yes it was a real team player game, I also enjoyed driving the tank with one player on foot and the other driving the tank. Happy days!
Classic game on the speccy here, I'm interested anything to do with this speccy, great video here mate, just liked and subbed 👍🏻
My Kempston joysick got broken but the best ZX games were Horrace goes skining!
Total classic. Yes.
это ожидание и мысль- загрузиться, не загрузиться?
Y'see, the joke here is that approximately 1/9th of the loading time is exclusively dedicated to loading the bytes for the fancy loading graphic it shows while loading.
RIP Sinclair
Who else from memory knew that this was almost finished loading?
Because I am a bit warped in the head! I decided to load up Spectaculator, set "Load from audio source", typed in the LOAD "" command and then hit play on this youtube video. It worked! The game loaded up. Next I will hook a real 48K machine up to the audio out of the pc soundcard and play this video again. Why? because its nuts and it works lol.
Wow i didnt think that would actually work..I think i have quite a few speccy games with the full loading procedure wonder if the others work to
@@RetroHawk I surprised myself that I even tried to do this lol. It is a bit tetchy mind! sometimes loading will fail for no reason much like a real tape will fail if you so much as breathe on it. I suspect it is the rubbish soundcard I have on the machine I am using. I will try with a decent audiophile soundcard and see if it is 100% reliable. I also recall something I read a while back about games being broadcasted over radio so people could record them onto tape, so that idea suddenly popped into my head, the spectrum does not care where the sound is coming in from as long as it is clear and fairly loud.
I have decided I am going to make a youtube video about doing all this :)
I am actually going to try connect the audio of this clip from my phone to a speccy and attempt to load it up 😂
How’d it go?
@@albertnortononymous9020 To be honest, I'd forgotten about this and haven't tried it yet, I will though at some point 👍
Probably the most irritating noise I've heard in a long time 🤣
I have never heard this before but my mum told me to search this up cos she wanted some childhood memories. 100% regretted
It’s weird therapy hearing a spectrum loading.
This is more realistic and entertaining than the schwarzenegger film of the same name that’s on telly at present
My first video game. Where's the poke?
i was able to load the game on my spectrum from this
Waiting ten minutes with fingers crossed, hoping not to witness the terror of the R:/tape loading error
Did anyone have a fuller or cursor joystick 🕹
Sounds like an outdated microwave malfunction
The sound of loading make afraid
КРАСНЫЕ ВОРОТА НЕ ПРОШЕЛ....
this was one if my fav games as a kid 😎👍
ΤΟ ΠΡΟΤΟ ΜΟΥ ΚΟΜΠΙΟΥΤΕΡ!!!!
there is a similar game in 2020. now I only play it
there's an ay tuned version...
Il need to find that.Im looking forward to revisiting some more spectrum games when i recieve my next.
@@RetroHawk u got a neoGS?
@@RetroHawk th-cam.com/video/hNEb5Erkr6c/w-d-xo.html
Snazzy loader - the rainbow sides.
Wooooh
This was a valiant attempt at the Arcade game as well
Elite were pretty great.
Aphex Twin
2:15 sounds like what passes for music nowadays. All this clapTrap garbage that sounds like being stuck in the middle of a Transformers bukakke orgy. It seems about right that it resembles a bunch of random binary output from a 1980s home computer.
I cracked speedlock with one poke,just changed a number so it came back as 201,return
Takes a lot of will
Oohhh 🤯😆.... Here c64 Version...
th-cam.com/video/qrQuR1LHAVI/w-d-xo.html
I listen it with pleasure, but my children don't.
Epilepsy?
R: Tape Loading ERROR!
Seriously? Jailbar pattern in the emulator?
408.200 my record
❤
Gta Online really takes longer to load than spectrum
Неужели я в это играл?
Game was hard
Looks very similar to rambo
R tape loading error 😂
io c'ero...
Not epileptic safe. :(
These games were so crap that I couldn't bring myself to playing them, so I learnt to programme.
can't beat Commando on the ZX.
Why do u play this in my ears!!!? 🎃👻💩
every sound this makes is awful
Wasn’t this titled “Who Dares Wins” on he Amstrad CPC 464?