That Spectrum (48k) loading sound

[Petrolhead_Rich]

ajprice said:

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

EFA

[y2blade]

ajprice said:

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

I do!!!!

I want it as a message tone

[james_tigerwoods]

ajprice said:

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

Message tone - I currently have the Star trek TNG door chime as a message tone...

[Silverbullet767]

james_tigerwoods said:

ajprice said:

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

Message tone - I currently have the Star trek TNG door chime as a message tone...

COME....

Mine is the xbox notification bleep.

[Arese]

Silverbullet767 said:

james_tigerwoods said:

ajprice said:

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

Message tone - I currently have the Star trek TNG door chime as a message tone...

COME....

Mine is the xbox notification bleep.

Mine is still the alert noise from Metal Gear Solid Four.

When I was playing the game a lot, and then receiving a text the next day, I used to st myself and wonder who'd spotted me. At work.

[Gorvid]

Arese said:

When I was playing the game a lot, and then receiving a text the next day, I used to st myself and wonder who'd spotted me. At work.

[rhinochopig]

Rob13 said:

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?

Combat Lynx?

[thinfourth2]

Alex said:

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?

At vast expense to get them to talk to the mechanical bits and reduced reiablity as the bloaty code sticks its head up its arse

[y2blade]

rhinochopig said:

Rob13 said:

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?

Combat Lynx?

I had that too

[Arese]

Gorvid said:

Arese said:

When I was playing the game a lot, and then receiving a text the next day, I used to st myself and wonder who'd spotted me. At work.

Oh how we laughed when my colleague muttered "It's just a box"

[Tycho]

y2blade said:

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

syntax error: line 10

balls... fixes line 10

syntax error: line 20

AAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHH


I had a Dragon 32 and spent all day typing in code from a magazine. Couldn't get it to work for the life of me so I took a soldering iron to the thing and about 1/2 hour later had a bag of resistors, chips and capacitors in one hand and an empty motherboard in the other!

[Morningside]

Hold on I have a Boots C12 cassette here somewhere Find a picture later.



Typing from magazines. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

Anyone use the Machine Code loaders and typing in pages and pages of Hex? And then after execution the screen used to flicker a couple of times and then crash

[RobCrezz]

Tycho said:

y2blade said:

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

syntax error: line 10

balls... fixes line 10

syntax error: line 20

AAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHH


I had a Dragon 32 and spent all day typing in code from a magazine. Couldn't get it to work for the life of me so I took a soldering iron to the thing and about 1/2 hour later had a bag of resistors, chips and capacitors in one hand and an empty motherboard in the other!

Dragon 32 was awesome. When hooked up to the walkman, if you didnt get the volume just right... arghhhh!!!!!

[poprock]

I found a sample of Jetpac loading on a Speccy. You’ll need to sign up to Kompoz to download it, but that’s free. (Kompoz is a website where music folk share sound samples etc.)

Link here

I also found a lot of YouTube recordings showing Spectrum loading screens. You could always use a free recording utility to capture the sound from one of these. PH appropriate example

[mel]

Alex said:

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?

How many PC's do you know of that have run for 20 years and never crashed? If it ain't bust why fix it? and besides in this particular application the speed of the processor ain't going to make the machine any quicker, that speed is constrained by the mechanical process.

I forgot to add that we had to go over to a direct interface to get programs into the machines as few years ago as they used to use Double Density Floppy Discs which were getting like hens teeth, we have an inline buffer that has to slow down the baud rate to Z80 acceptable speeds which are horrendous by modern standards.

Edited by mel on Wednesday 8th September 15:43

[TheEnd]

Yea, i remember the days when you had to wait 5 mins for a game to load, whilst being nudged towards epileptic fits by the loader screen.

Some of the music was awesome though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFYzjU-C3mA&fea...

c64 synthetic electric guitar...

[cottonfoo]

Do you still need something? I can provide - almost any loader you like Not got any 1 pound notes though.