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Loading Screens
By: milinks Date: November 16, 2016, 8:25 am
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For every Spectrum fan, back in the day (and now) placing a
cassette into your tape recorder and pressing play, was where it
all began. To watch your screen begin to load, and to see the
blue & red border stripes change to the blue and yellow, telling
you the tape was loading was great. If you'd happened to (ahem)
borrow a friends copy of a game, the frustration sometimes of it
not loading properly, the constant blue and red stripes, not
changing to yellow gave hours of frustration sometimes. Or
having gone away to make a drink and come back to see R Tape
Loading Error used to make me wince. I wonder how many people
used to have a tiny screwdriver handy so you could change the
azimuth screw, or wedged pieces of paper in your tape player.
To see the loading screen appear for the first time on a new
game, line by line, was almost a ritual to many hours of
homwework ignored, or chores forgot.
So... this thread is for All of your Best (and worst) Loading
screens, that you either think were technically brilliant, OR
bring back memories.
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Re: Loading Screens
By: crusherc1 Date: November 16, 2016, 10:41 am
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HTML http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/load/w/gif/Wizball.gif
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Re: Loading Screens
By: crusherc1 Date: November 16, 2016, 10:44 am
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HTML http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/load/r/gif/RobinOfTheWood.gif
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Re: Loading Screens
By: tm Date: November 16, 2016, 11:35 am
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Spellbound
HTML http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/load/s/gif/Spellbound(Mastertronic).gif
Jetpac
HTML http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/load/j/gif/Jetpac.gif
Cybernoid
HTML http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/load/c/gif/Cybernoid.gif
Cybernoid 2
HTML http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/load/c/gif/CybernoidII-TheRevenge.gif
Bubble bobble
HTML http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/load/b/gif/BubbleBobble.gif
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Re: Loading Screens
By: Peeto Date: November 16, 2016, 12:32 pm
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Sherwood
HTML http://www.imagehosting.cz/images/sherwood.gif
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Re: Loading Screens
By: Peeto Date: November 16, 2016, 12:35 pm
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Phantom F4 - II
HTML http://www.imagehosting.cz/images/phantogfg.gif
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Re: Loading Screens
By: Peeto Date: November 16, 2016, 12:36 pm
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Prva akcia
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Re: Loading Screens
By: Jools Date: November 17, 2016, 8:57 am
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The loading screen became one of my greatest life changing
moments. Not because of the artwork or the sound, even though we
meditated to it willing it not to blip and lose that little bit
of volume which indicated the tape loading error. But for me it
was a whole other reason.
Not sure how many noticed this, found it or leveraged it, but if
you pressed stop on the tape player, often the loaded code would
be dumped to the screen. How many trawled through that code and
learned from it. I took it to the point of learning the sound of
the closing signals and practicing to press stop to achieve the
goal of all or all but the last line or two of code to be
dumped, then adding those last lines and saving back to another
tape. Once perfected you could then edit the code to create
iterations of games. This is how I learnt to write games. By
hacking exisiting ones.
Take Skool Daze edit the code to write messages on the
blackboard, switch the game with your firend tape, they load it
and wait for the moment they spot it.
I did progress and start writing my own and taking computer
studies at school, now as I write this (35+yrs on from the ZX81
and Input magazine) on one of my other screens is a text editor
with pages of code, the latest lines in this legacy that started
with watching tape counters and loading screens.
Thank you Sir Clive.
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Re: Loading Screens
By: Peeto Date: December 29, 2016, 3:46 pm
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some of my "works" for zx spectrum...
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