That Spectrum (48k) loading sound

[james_tigerwoods]

I've looked around for this for a while and I've decided that I need (!) a certain sound file - it's the "old skool" ZX Spectrum 48k loading file - I'm sure someone remembers it - it's the noise you got when you has the multi coloured screen on the side when you loaded a game from tape....

Has anyone got it or know where I can get it at all?

Yes, I know - I'm sad (and old) for wanting this....

Thanks

JTW

[Tycho]

What about THIS?

then paste the url into www.media-convert.com and you can save it as an mp3.

[james_tigerwoods]

Crude - but I'll give it a go - thanks

[ukwill]

48k? Flash git.

[Gorvid]

Have look at this too

www.zxspectrum.net

[james_tigerwoods]

ukwill said:

48k? Flash git.

I had a ZX81 before that - with a thermal printer

[y2blade]

I want that too

had a 48k then a 128k and then a 128k+2 with the built in cassette player

[Alex]

y2blade said:

...with the built in cassette player

You mean "DATACORDER".

[mel]

I'm looking out the window into the factory at two, 20 year old quarter of a million pound machines both of which have Z80 processors at their hearts, these things are still producing 12 hours a day, very rarely do they miss a beat and when they do it is normally a mechanical problem that causes the breakdown.

[bigandclever]

mel said:

I'm looking out the window into the factory at two, 20 year old quarter of a million pound machines both of which have Z80 processors at their hearts, these things are still producing 12 hours a day, very rarely do they miss a beat and when they do it is normally a mechanical problem that causes the breakdown.

Have they got a couple of 2p pieces sellotaped to one corner?

[mel]

No but one of them does appear to have a felt Sponge Bob stuck on the top of it

[rhinochopig]

Ah the joys of fiddling with the head alignment on my expensive DATACORDER to get some games to work.

[HalfMoon]

Don't forget the joys of spending hours carefully typing in assembly code copied from a magazine, only for it to immediately crash and lose all said code upon hitting "run".

[ShadownINja]

Would getting an old tape and playing it back to record the sound be useful? I suppose that would require (1) a game on tape (2) a tape recorder, which is much like asking if anyone has a £1 note you could borrow.

[ajprice]

HalfMoon said:

Don't forget the joys of spending hours carefully typing in assembly code copied from a magazine, only for it to immediately crash and lose all said code upon hitting "run".

Or typing the whole program in from the magazine, then its not working because of one typo... somewhere.

[ajprice]

james_tigerwoods, you want the sound to put on your phone as a ringtone don't you?

[james_tigerwoods]

Found something here

ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/music/

However, someone's set it to music - it's beyond tragic...

[Alex]

mel said:

I'm looking out the window into the factory at two, 20 year old quarter of a million pound machines both of which have Z80 processors at their hearts, these things are still producing 12 hours a day, very rarely do they miss a beat and when they do it is normally a mechanical problem that causes the breakdown.

Why? Surely they could be replaced by a PC?

[Rob13]

I downloaded an old Speccy emulator on my HTC Desire and have had some great nostalgic moments playing games which actually load!

Remember buying some helipcopter gunship game from WHSmith which was in a box and came with 2 cassettes. I think it was about £10 which when you're 8 or 9, is a lot of cash in the 80s! I took it back a couple of days later after not being able to get cassette 2 to load.

Also remember going over my nan's to copy games as she had a double tape deck!

Werent the 80's st?

[y2blade]

ajprice said:

HalfMoon said:

Don't forget the joys of spending hours carefully typing in assembly code copied from a magazine, only for it to immediately crash and lose all said code upon hitting "run".

Or typing the whole program in from the magazine, then its not working because of one typo... somewhere.

yep