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!
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
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 👌
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!
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.
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.
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
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
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
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!
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!
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.
@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
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).
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 !!
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
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.
@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
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.
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
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
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.
¡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. :)
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!
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!...
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.
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
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.
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
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!
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
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
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.
Que maravilla... la banda sonora de mi infancia, muchas gracias!!
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!
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.
omg that sound is wonderful
before the internet,there was AMSTRAD CPC 464 !
I loved that title screen.
It was the best picture ever displayed on an Amstrad monitor.
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
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"
I'll never forget that sound!
Thanks for this, I had a 464 but not the colour version.
Good days!!
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.
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
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
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
aaaaah, the sound of my childhood
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!
Oh, I remember that! Tape loading error :-)
The loading sounds just like the ZX Spectrum.
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!
What lovely memories :)
Best games Indiana jones and saboteur :)
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.
The sounds are that of what the data sounds like if it's put through something that it wasn't supposed to go through.
@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
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
epic. I remember sitting through all this, although I got a Tandy later on, lol
not only did i have to wait forever to play the games i had to play them on a green monitor...good times
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 !!
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
A nice souvenir :)
Me recuerda a mi viejo CPC 464...y aquella epoca. Que tiempos...
Ooh the memories.
Holy epileptic seizures Batman!
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.
flashback to childhood.
classic!! the golden age of home computers!
HA, used to hate it when sometimes you'd go through all that noise and long wait and then have it not load.
god this brings back memories :D *sigh*
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!
Wow. Nostalgia.
Amazing vid...ahhh, the nostalgia!!! :)
@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
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.
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
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 :)
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.
¡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 sound. Had my CPC464 for 20 years picked it up at a car boot sale with 20 games for £15. MFKN BARGAIN!
Loading...... 28 mins 2 left....... ERROR!
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
Find out more about Amstrad CPC at the site 80scomputergamecom!
Diosss!!!! Que recuerdos!
the sounds are the binary combinations of the program! this computer use Basic lenguage to work.
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?
nostalgico. ACOJONANTE!!!!!!
I'm pretty sure that has been sped up also,
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
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!
It"s possible at 6500 bauds on real 464?
Wow and i thought todays load times where bad.
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!
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!...
Press Play then any key!!!!!
0:02 Amstrad CPC Startup
On my old CPC464+ Cassette, I could just press [CONTROL] + [ENTER] instead of typing the command
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
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.
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
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.
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
why is there Bruce Lee on the screen? :D
0:17 Sound Error
syntax error a or b lol
Wtf
Earrape in a nutshell
Is someone trying to get online via AOL?! NO THEY ARE LOADING DRAGON NINJA ON THE AMSTRAD!!!
this movie is not complete , I remember that there was a Read Error B somewhere in the middle
Just joking :)
everyone watching this is old
Imagine spectrum running gta5 with max settings!
Alexandros Sotiropoulos 1 frame per year at 256x192 lolz
*seizure*
read error b
0:31 VIRUS
same as the speccy, c64 was miles better
You can still hear this if you call a fax number by mistake.
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!
0:30 - 2:06 Ear rape
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...
Wtf LOL
Reminds me of a modem. This been sped up, I remember games taking longer to load