Rave to the sound of... a ZX Spectrum loading

[PeteProdge]

The last five minutes of this rave mix has the unmistakable sound of lots of Speccy bytes being loaded in, with sampled drumbeats and other things all around the place. I'm 100% confident it's the Speccy, not a dial-up modem or a similar 8-bit computer cassette. Towards the end, they drop in some pilot tone/title sounds ("boooorrrrrr-kik!").



I'll give ten billion pounds and a gold-plated mansion to anyone who correctly identifies the game.
(Offer expires at 12:21 UK time on 23rd August 2022.)

[luny]

Oh that is easy, it's the loading screen for... Oh damn ran out of time.

[XTM]

Easy, it's the loading screen of Advanced Park Run Simulator by Code Basterds.

[Green Bert]

I can't identify the game but I can identify the song - Manic Minor by Jega from 1999. With that title it's got to be a Spectrum as opposed to anything else.

[R-Tape]

I can't identify the game but I can identify the song - Manic Minor by Jega from 1999. With that title it's got to be a Spectrum as opposed to anything else.

Ah new to me - great shout. I think we can put it even further beyond reasonable doubt, not that there was any, that Jega is a Specchum if you look at his 1998 album, Spectrum. Also has links to Radiohead and The Aphex Twin* who also give nods to the speccy. (and his biography says his first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

*or did I imagine this one?

[Nitrowing]

[Stu]

The tracklisting of his album 1995 is full of Spectrum references:

1 FZ Requiem 1:38
2 Knight Lore 3:35
3 Lake Windermere 3:58
4 Vermilion 5:12
5 Saint Bees 3:12
6 Mancunian Way 3:51
7 Momentum (SH101DRSSMIX) 3:04
8 NIMA 2:58
9 British Rail 2:18
10 Lunar Jetman 4:34
11 ZX82 4:21
12 Shockwave Rider 4:43
13 Starglider 1:38
14 Sabre Wulf 4:37
15 UNIVAC 6:33

[Lee P]

The last five minutes of this rave mix has the unmistakable sound of lots of Speccy bytes being loaded in, with sampled drumbeats and other things all around the place. I'm 100% confident it's the Speccy, not a dial-up modem or a similar 8-bit computer cassette. Towards the end, they drop in some pilot tone/title sounds ("boooorrrrrr-kik!").



I'll give ten billion pounds and a gold-plated mansion to anyone who correctly identifies the game.
(Offer expires at 12:21 UK time on 23rd August 2022.)

That's an excellent rave mix, I know the guy who made it* and he's incredibly talented and devilishly handsome.

I only found this thread because I had something to add to the "Spectrum loading noises sampled in music" discussion. Perhaps it was on the other forum and I'll have to start one myself.

*me

[TMD2003]

Well kickin'!

All I was doing was loading Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge.

Where's the tunes gone, man?

It finished loading.

[clebin]

What about this from popular beat combo The Snap Dankles? Sounds like a mashed up Speccy loading screen to me (almost a minute in)

[Lee P]

What about this from popular beat combo The Snap Dankles? Sounds like a mashed up Speccy loading screen to me (almost a minute in)

That's the Jet Pac loading screen attributes, that is!

[GreenCard]

The Aphex Twin* who also give nods to the speccy. (and his biography says his first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

*or did I imagine this one?

No, you didn't imagine it, it's "Peek 824545201"...



Here's a track from Stereo MCs with some more Speccy loading goodness (hidden track at 4:52)...

[clebin]

That's the Jet Pac loading screen attributes, that is!

Fabulous! How did you find that out? Did you just recognise it or was it talked about elsewhere?

[PeteProdge]

No, you didn't imagine it, it's "Peek 824545201"...

As I recall, PEEK 824545201 was a command you could only do on the 825MB ZX Spectrums.

[PeteProdge]

Danke by Idles

[Lee P]

Fabulous! How did you find that out? Did you just recognise it or was it talked about elsewhere?

I guessed it was an Ultimate game from the distinctive noise it made (Ultimate only used 22 of the 24 rows for a loading screen, so there was always a long "blaaaaarp" at the end), and after that it was a process of elimination.

[Stu]

Aphex Twin's Cornish Acid starts with some quiet loading noise and ends with a header (which I checked in an emulator and it identifies itself as STARSTRIKE)



It runs into Peek 824545201 on the album but the loading noise that opens that track isn't from any version of Starstrike 3D I've found.