RUN" Press play then any key: Do you remember the longest loadings from Amstrad cassette games??? Here you got how Bad dudes vs Dragon ninja loads from Amstrad cpc tape... Only for retro nostalgic people, hope you like it.
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 👌
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
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.
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
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
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!
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).
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!
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 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 !!
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.
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!
@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
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
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.
¡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
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.
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. :)
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.
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.
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...
