Wow! just closed my eyes and listened to that loading sound! Just got them tingles! Man, those were some good old days! Roland On The Ropes and Yi Ar Kung Fu FOREVER!!! Thanks for the upload!
Man this is so fascinating! I'd never heard of or seen these before -- I was born in 94 so it's not out of the question that I missed it entirely since I didn't have any family or friends that were really into "cool tech" stuff (I was the one paving that path later lmao), but I really genuinely love shit like this. People were so insanely clever and creative with all the different methods they explored for storing, executing, just making games in general. I love it, hope I can see one of these in action at some point 👌
Looking back 30yrs at this and I wouldn't be surprised that these loading screens we had to wait at weren't used by the CIA/MI5 etc as a tool of interrogation, because now if I had to watch and wait for these to load it'd be ACTUAL psychological torture.
Damn I miss those classic Amstrad themes! Though watching this as an adult, I can understand why my mum (who has epilepsy) could never watch the loading screens!
target renegade was a brilliant game. man this takes me back. i hated when the game was loaded and then it would freeze and it would have to be loaded again from the very start. it happened all of us.
Im only 19 but I still remember this. I was scared of my primary school computers when I was like 4, so my parents fot me an Amstrad CPC. Had a whole lot of games for it like Head over Heels, Sultan's Maze and loads more! Awesome :P
Lol...i remember sometimes the game would take ages to load, and then just as it was about to come on it would fail and u wud have to start again...i used to actually cry! Happy days!
this game first got me when i was 14 in spain i spent all my money playing it and i still love it today, did have it on arcade emu, but lost it....... other ones to look up on is robocop
Brilliant thanks. I love it the way the enemies have a go at you, then if they miss they just carry on running in the sam direction as if they couldn't give a shit. If they were my henchmen they'd be bloody sacked! :D
oh man i cant believe the games and hardrive of 25+ years ago. its amazing how time has flew by without realising technology has moved. my favourite amstrad game was who dares wins 2
Listened to this sound soo many times. OH they joy when I found a used 5.25" disc drive, and got in touch with a Dutch hacker group that could post me discs full of the latest games. No more load error after 10 minutes wait, crossing fingers.
lmao that brings back memories of hoping the game would actually load up after sitting there for 20 mins waiting for it i used to love who dares wins 2, rolling thunder, gryzor, barbarian, renegade, sorcery and some other classics!
See? We were the real hardcore gamers, having to wait some 20 minutes for a game to load - and even then, all we got half the time was "Error - please load again". As far as we were concerned, that loading screen was HD and the best things could ever get!! LOL
For some reason I remember thinking that you couldnt press the space bar when you were asked to press play and any key because it might make the computer chew the tape up. I have no idea why I thought that.
I remember choosing a 464 when I was ten just because it had coulours on the keyboard..declining my father's offer to get a 6128.....2 years later my Xmas present was a floppy disk reader ! lol
Tape loading errors Read Error a and Read Error b require you to rewind the cassette and press [PLAY] so the machine can try to read that part again. Read Errors c and d exist, but it is believed they can only be caused by deliberately programming them or by playing a tape which has its own special loader (e.g. fast loading commercial releases).
LMAO!!! Who could forget that ANNOYING loading sound! And yes, i can empathise with u on the time it took loading a game... I used to take my dog for a walk around the block & come back & the game wouldnt even finish loading!! LMFAO!! Anyways, thanx for the good memories of my childhood. P.S. Atleast u had the colour monitor... I had the lousy green screen monitor!!! Grrrr!
I remember working out a cheat for tape version of this game: At the end of a level you had to press Play to load the next level but if you forward the tape you could actually load any level you want !!
You are right in all your comments, this was do it on an pc emulator (Winape) that emulates different versions of amstrad, in this way the rom sure i forgot to put the original 64k for perfect emulation, the leitmotiv of this video was to listen the sound of charge, not all 6 or 7 minutes of loading, (for not boring the users that see it.) About your comment that i should or not should i do, feel free to upload the complete loading of the game, i will apreciatte it. thanks for your opinion.
In theory, yes. But not MP3 Format. You can use WAV since it's loseless and a program called voc2tzx. Once you have a working cassette, you can use a casette player, record it on your PC, save it a a 22khz rate and then convert it to the TZX file, using the said program. Then you can run it on an emulator. It's a good way of preserving your cassettes.
I was only about 10 or 11 but I remember Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back and Robocop being the longest loading times. Memories though, memories indeed :) Green monochrome screen too :) Actually had a rethink....Turbo Esprit, Critical Mass and Saboteur were "long loaders" lol
@MorganOthelloLafay Memories haha I remember discovering I could use my mother's Amstrad Hi-Fi to record my games TAPE to TAPE.... god knows why i didn't start a bootlegging biz right there in primary skool :p
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Me recuerda a mi viejo CPC 464...y aquella epoca. Que tiempos...
@nekroneko they took substantionaly longer than this video, it has been edited.. we are missing out on about 20mins of eeeeeeek scrrrrrrratch hisssssssss. good times had by all :D
¡Un sonido mágico! Y era mejor cuando nos grabábamos las cintas en el radiocassette de doble pletina con el Hi-speed dubbing! Lo peor: cuando, después de esperar 7 minuntos a que se cargara, ¡no funcionaba! XD
That's not a a 464 model. It's a 6128 model. Basic 1.1 were only installed on 664 and 6128 modesl. And more, when the game is loaded, it's clearly visible an advice that says the machine has 128k. The video is good, but try to fix the title. Plz. It's not the same the 464 and 6128. :)
omg this is like so freaky , how computers have come along now, kids dont know there born now , including my own son , " why it takes so long to load daddy" this aint nothing compared to what daddy had to put up with , lol
Sultan's Maze - 28 minutes. Now THERE was a slow-loader. Especially as if you saved the game right back out to tape again it'd only take about 90 secs to load your new version.
I don't think so. Sound quality on YT is too bad for this. The recordings were very fragile, and it would display a bunch of read errors even if casette player head was a little off track.
Why did a lot of Amstrad games on tape (apart from the first block) sound like the ZX Spectrum loaders?? It seems like a lot of them use the default ROM loader from the Spectrum, which is slow. Also are there any torrents of all .CDT images?
Thanks for the reply Stefano, makes sense. I've looked at some loaders for Amstrad tapes on the emulator and some of them take forever! They seem to load the loading screen one line at a time on some of them. It had fascinated me how the loading sounds were the same as the Spectrum, so thanks for clearing that up.
when i get my CPC464 board up and running.. im gonna pipe in the audio from this vid and see if i can get it to load!... there shouldnt be a single issue!...
do u remmember setting the counter at 000 and if you was clever like me you knew when it would load up say 222 and lvl 2 is 333 , lol the good old days when u actualy had to wait for somthing kids dont know there born these days lol
amstrad cpc 464 huh? after loading "128 machine detected"?. and the command "ltape"? that is an amstrad 6128, not 464. and you should put a full loading video, not only the screen, and even that is not full...
was only like 5 when we had ours but that sound when loading a game will stay in my head for the rest of my life
It's awesome all the people sharing their Amstrad experiences here, was a beast of a machine
Lol
The sound of my childhood ^-^
An excellent machine. My 464 still working and tapes load perfectly!
Wow! just closed my eyes and listened to that loading sound! Just got them tingles!
Man, those were some good old days!
Roland On The Ropes and Yi Ar Kung Fu FOREVER!!!
Thanks for the upload!
Man this is so fascinating! I'd never heard of or seen these before -- I was born in 94 so it's not out of the question that I missed it entirely since I didn't have any family or friends that were really into "cool tech" stuff (I was the one paving that path later lmao), but I really genuinely love shit like this. People were so insanely clever and creative with all the different methods they explored for storing, executing, just making games in general. I love it, hope I can see one of these in action at some point 👌
The system had 64k of memory and read data from a tape at slow speed. Every thing back then was written line by line.
Looking back 30yrs at this and I wouldn't be surprised that these loading screens we had to wait at weren't used by the CIA/MI5 etc as a tool of interrogation, because now if I had to watch and wait for these to load it'd be ACTUAL psychological torture.
Damn I miss those classic Amstrad themes! Though watching this as an adult, I can understand why my mum (who has epilepsy) could never watch the loading screens!
target renegade was a brilliant game. man this takes me back. i hated when the game was loaded and then it would freeze and it would have to be loaded again from the very start. it happened all of us.
I love target renegade
Que maravilla... la banda sonora de mi infancia, muchas gracias!!
Im only 19 but I still remember this. I was scared of my primary school computers when I was like 4, so my parents fot me an Amstrad CPC. Had a whole lot of games for it like Head over Heels, Sultan's Maze and loads more! Awesome :P
omg that sound is wonderful
before the internet,there was AMSTRAD CPC 464 !
I'll never forget that sound!
Lol...i remember sometimes the game would take ages to load, and then just as it was about to come on it would fail and u wud have to start again...i used to actually cry! Happy days!
I loved that title screen.
It was the best picture ever displayed on an Amstrad monitor.
this game first got me when i was 14 in spain i spent all my money playing it and i still love it today, did have it on arcade emu, but lost it....... other ones to look up on is robocop
I had that computer when young. I remember the loading time... but now I'm relooking it, we were masochist to play with that computer :D
The loading sounds just like the ZX Spectrum.
This takes me way back to my early childhood. I would have been about 5/6 at the time. We use to call it "Martian Music"
Brilliant thanks. I love it the way the enemies have a go at you, then if they miss they just carry on running in the sam direction as if they couldn't give a shit. If they were my henchmen they'd be bloody sacked! :D
oh man i cant believe the games and hardrive of 25+ years ago. its amazing how time has flew by without realising technology has moved. my favourite amstrad game was who dares wins 2
Listened to this sound soo many times. OH they joy when I found a used 5.25" disc drive, and got in touch with a Dutch hacker group that could post me discs full of the latest games. No more load error after 10 minutes wait, crossing fingers.
aaaaah, the sound of my childhood
lmao that brings back memories of hoping the game would actually load up after sitting there for 20 mins waiting for it
i used to love who dares wins 2, rolling thunder, gryzor, barbarian, renegade, sorcery and some other classics!
Thanks for this, I had a 464 but not the colour version.
Good days!!
The sounds are that of what the data sounds like if it's put through something that it wasn't supposed to go through.
See? We were the real hardcore gamers, having to wait some 20 minutes for a game to load - and even then, all we got half the time was "Error - please load again".
As far as we were concerned, that loading screen was HD and the best things could ever get!! LOL
Oh, I remember that! Tape loading error :-)
not only did i have to wait forever to play the games i had to play them on a green monitor...good times
For some reason I remember thinking that you couldnt press the space bar when you were asked to press play and any key because it might make the computer chew the tape up.
I have no idea why I thought that.
Holy epileptic seizures Batman!
That sound. Had my CPC464 for 20 years picked it up at a car boot sale with 20 games for £15. MFKN BARGAIN!
I remember choosing a 464 when I was ten just because it had coulours on the keyboard..declining my father's offer to get a 6128.....2 years later my Xmas present was a floppy disk reader ! lol
HA, used to hate it when sometimes you'd go through all that noise and long wait and then have it not load.
What lovely memories :)
Best games Indiana jones and saboteur :)
So if you still had one of these lying around and hooked it up to the audio output of your PC and played this youtube video, would it load?
Tape loading errors Read Error a and Read Error b require you to rewind the cassette and press [PLAY] so the machine can try to read that part again. Read Errors c and d exist, but it is believed they can only be caused by deliberately programming them or by playing a tape which has its own special loader (e.g. fast loading commercial releases).
sounds like music to my ears i had that system in the 80's
LMAO!!! Who could forget that ANNOYING loading sound! And yes, i can empathise with u on the time it took loading a game... I used to take my dog for a walk around the block & come back & the game wouldnt even finish loading!! LMFAO!!
Anyways, thanx for the good memories of my childhood.
P.S. Atleast u had the colour monitor... I had the lousy green screen monitor!!! Grrrr!
I remember working out a cheat for tape version of this game: At the end of a level you had to press Play to load the next level but if you forward the tape you could actually load any level you want !!
You are right in all your comments, this was do it on an pc emulator (Winape) that emulates different versions of amstrad, in this way the rom sure i forgot to put the original 64k for perfect emulation, the leitmotiv of this video was to listen the sound of charge, not all 6 or 7 minutes of loading, (for not boring the users that see it.) About your comment that i should or not should i do, feel free to upload the complete loading of the game, i will apreciatte it. thanks for your opinion.
Ooh the memories.
I had the modulator so I could play them on a colour TV. Was cool!
I had the 6128 with built in disk drive and had a cassette recorder too plus colour monitor!
epic. I remember sitting through all this, although I got a Tandy later on, lol
A nice souvenir :)
Wow. Nostalgia.
flashback to childhood.
so if you recorded this to mp3 you could copy the game right?
In theory, yes. But not MP3 Format. You can use WAV since it's loseless and a program called voc2tzx. Once you have a working cassette, you can use a casette player, record it on your PC, save it a a 22khz rate and then convert it to the TZX file, using the said program. Then you can run it on an emulator. It's a good way of preserving your cassettes.
I was only about 10 or 11 but I remember Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back and Robocop being the longest loading times. Memories though, memories indeed :)
Green monochrome screen too :)
Actually had a rethink....Turbo Esprit, Critical Mass and Saboteur were "long loaders" lol
Lol
Football manager lol
Lol aye that too :)
@MorganOthelloLafay Memories haha
I remember discovering I could use my mother's Amstrad Hi-Fi to record my games TAPE to TAPE.... god knows why i didn't start a bootlegging biz right there in primary skool :p
Me recuerda a mi viejo CPC 464...y aquella epoca. Que tiempos...
Diosss!!!! Que recuerdos!
Amazing vid...ahhh, the nostalgia!!! :)
nostalgico. ACOJONANTE!!!!!!
I'm sure that the first 2 mins of the load time was just to render the loading pic XD
lol awesome ☺ ☻ ☺ ☻
I miss that sound
@nekroneko they took substantionaly longer than this video, it has been edited.. we are missing out on about 20mins of eeeeeeek scrrrrrrratch hisssssssss. good times had by all :D
god this brings back memories :D *sigh*
classic!! the golden age of home computers!
¡Un sonido mágico! Y era mejor cuando nos grabábamos las cintas en el radiocassette de doble pletina con el Hi-speed dubbing! Lo peor: cuando, después de esperar 7 minuntos a que se cargara, ¡no funcionaba! XD
i had a green screen with my CPC464.
i used to choose a game, set it off loading and and go away for 5 or 10 mins until it had loaded. then play!
Loading...... 28 mins 2 left....... ERROR!
That's not a a 464 model. It's a 6128 model. Basic 1.1 were only installed on 664 and 6128 modesl. And more, when the game is loaded, it's clearly visible an advice that says the machine has 128k. The video is good, but try to fix the title. Plz. It's not the same the 464 and 6128. :)
yes i wanted a 6128 but i almost had a zx81 lol so was not so bad
It"s possible at 6500 bauds on real 464?
omg this is like so freaky , how computers have come along now, kids dont know there born now , including my own son , " why it takes so long to load daddy" this aint nothing compared to what daddy had to put up with , lol
Sultan's Maze - 28 minutes. Now THERE was a slow-loader. Especially as if you saved the game right back out to tape again it'd only take about 90 secs to load your new version.
I don't think so. Sound quality on YT is too bad for this. The recordings were very fragile, and it would display a bunch of read errors even if casette player head was a little off track.
Wow and i thought todays load times where bad.
the sounds are the binary combinations of the program! this computer use Basic lenguage to work.
Why did a lot of Amstrad games on tape (apart from the first block) sound like the ZX Spectrum loaders?? It seems like a lot of them use the default ROM loader from the Spectrum, which is slow.
Also are there any torrents of all .CDT images?
Thanks for the reply Stefano, makes sense. I've looked at some loaders for Amstrad tapes on the emulator and some of them take forever! They seem to load the loading screen one line at a time on some of them. It had fascinated me how the loading sounds were the same as the Spectrum, so thanks for clearing that up.
Press Play then any key!!!!!
I'm pretty sure that has been sped up also,
0:02 Amstrad CPC Startup
Find out more about Amstrad CPC at the site 80scomputergamecom!
when i get my CPC464 board up and running.. im gonna pipe in the audio from this vid and see if i can get it to load!... there shouldnt be a single issue!...
Earrape in a nutshell
Waiting for the cassette to load, get almost to the end, and it crashes and have to rewind to the beginning and try again. grrr vintage
do u remmember setting the counter at 000 and if you was clever like me you knew when it would load up say 222 and lvl 2 is 333 , lol the good old days when u actualy had to wait for somthing kids dont know there born these days lol
Is someone trying to get online via AOL?! NO THEY ARE LOADING DRAGON NINJA ON THE AMSTRAD!!!
On my old CPC464+ Cassette, I could just press [CONTROL] + [ENTER] instead of typing the command
why is there Bruce Lee on the screen? :D
this movie is not complete , I remember that there was a Read Error B somewhere in the middle
Just joking :)
Wtf
syntax error a or b lol
everyone watching this is old
*seizure*
0:17 Sound Error
Imagine spectrum running gta5 with max settings!
Alexandros Sotiropoulos 1 frame per year at 256x192 lolz
same as the speccy, c64 was miles better
0:31 VIRUS
Wtf LOL
Imagine gta5 on tapes. It will need animaginable time to load
The new Windows 9 will be on cassetes XD
and how can they do that?
ela re patrida, plaka kanoume...
yes . Imagine gta 5 runs smooth on tapes
It will need at least one year for a single tape to load! If it ever loads!
read error b
amstrad cpc 464 huh? after loading "128 machine detected"?. and the command "ltape"?
that is an amstrad 6128, not 464. and you should put a full loading video, not only the screen, and even that is not full...
You can still hear this if you call a fax number by mistake.
0:30 - 2:06 Ear rape
Reminds me of a modem. This been sped up, I remember games taking longer to load