ZX SPECTRUM TUBULAR BELLS 128K

[mechamind90]

For the Spectrum, that's probably a good looking album cover.

[SPINNYFUCK]

@mechamind90 Must have taken a bit of work to get around the colour clash.

[Akhiloth]

Best loading screen ever.

[SPINNYFUCK]

@Akhiloth Yeah, it is nice.

[BlogBitch]

So what the fuck is speccy anyway??.... sounds like some cheap arse Stylophone bollox to me. You kids need to get off the crystal meth and on to some real shit.....

[Geisttanzer]

@BlogBitch Short for Spectrum, smartass.

[LisergicoRojo]

@BlogBitch LMAO u ignorant moron, posting dumb comments lol "cheap arse Stylophone" lmao, go code tubular bells on basic u dumb troll, next time try google before ranting bs

[BlogBitch]

@LisergicoRojo Fair enough.. but please understand, this is one of my all time favourite albums and has a very special place in my heart and history. So hearing this version really grates. I'm sure its very special to you Spectrum peeps but it does sound like crap. Also please note that I can write in proper grammatical English. Therefore I am not a moronic dumb arse. Just some one with an opinion. And really it does sound like a stylaphone wether you like the comment or not.

[markzilla6969]

10 beep 0,1

20 beep 0,4

30 beep 1,5 etc......

run, sweet beeping

[11ready22]

That's pretty impressive.

I've actually started writing games on the speccy again, in my spare time. It's a lot more fun than on my PC.

[badegg3210]

This is amazing - prog-rock meets chiptune! Must've taken so long to write :D

[Ekphrasys]

@badegg3210 I remember doing the same thing on an Olivetti M10 back in the 80's...It was Beethoven's Ode to Joy...It took months ...but it was one of the greatest fun of my life...

[jjovereats]

Spinny*i hate the bad words*, why do swear a lot in the YT comments? You know children will see that and think BLOCK U!

[trashcanalive]

Maybe it's just me but I like the original version better.

[Ficker0180]

3:30 best PART !:D

[Mobisek100]

Look at my site. Here you will see the windows at 4MHz Z80 processor (i8080 clone) and 160Kb of RAM - a computer compatible ZX Spectrum. Everything is on one disk. I really recommend it especially to see Mr. Gates and Balmer, o)

Greetings from the Czech Republic (Ostrava), Mobisek

[Mobisek100]

mkkkkkk

[azalearal]

Muy buena la interpretación. I like it. My congratulations...

[B1KKET]

mint



[hotelmario510]

Wow...this makes the song awesome!

[MegaCrowman]

mike Oldfield vs mario brothers lol

[ianwilson1978]

Very cool, love tubular bells. Great sound for the lil speccy! :)

[RobertC19850209]

i'd love to be able to rewrite this for the coleco adam, unfortunately i am still learning basic and i don't have a good ear for MIDI, i do however have the vinyl of this

[stuntrider88]

Odd isnt it, my son has a top bollocks gaming rig & yet when i get me old 8-bit baby's out of the wardrobe & fire em up all they wanna do is play old school, they're spellbound by em :D

[jasonj2008]

im old enough to remember the speccy.. unfortunately

[RisingDampChamp]

@SPINNYFUCK Wtf is your problem he didn't evem insult you, man?

[SPINNYFUCK]

@RisingDampChamp Keep your fucking nose out!

[rpaslux]

@SPINNYFUCK

Fuck me off too, I know.

But that guy did nothing that could, even if slightly, offend anyone.

Unless there's other motive for you to behave like you hate his guts. But, internet or no internet, your behavior could have been, I don't know ... a little more adequate.

[SPINNYFUCK]

@rpaslux You're right mate! I need to cool off sometimes. Time for a cold shower. I will look at my bad behaviour and try to remedy it. Cheers!

[caesiume]

@SPINNYFUCK Niggerfuck! NIggerfuck!

[fraldoca]

AWESOME

[jobvink]

You are a freaking genius! It looks you done a hell of a job programming this classic Oldfield-track! Very nice.

[dethmaul]

lmao! Such the cute sound. And 8 bitting the cover :)

I listened to this album when I was a youngling, my dad had it and I always came after him and listened to his CDs :)

[madmomentsgo]

great video, nice one from the spectrum, good album to.

5/5

[SPINNYFUCK]

Check out rdisky40 who wrote this for the speccy. He has several other programs uploaded like this.

[8824snipe]

From an old fart, i remember zx81 with 1k of memory and it went "beep beep".

The spectrum was ok, and if you programmed it to play Tubular Bells, Verry well done. I prefered the Amstrad for its sound quality.

[SPINNYFUCK]

With 128k it was easier and more professional, if limited. Even some 48k games could get some good tunes out at a stretch.

[8824snipe]

Still not easy to programme though, catweazle also brought back a lot of memories, Thanks.

[SPINNYFUCK]

You know the classic stuff. Cheers dude!

[8824snipe]

No prob's. Must be about the same age. Amstrad 464 was where i learnt to programme, look through code for cheats and break protection systems to copy games, not for money but just to see if it could be done. Good luck dude.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Yeah, it was supposed to be a kids times back then but we were a bit older but probably no wiser. It was great just learning bit by bit. Too much time spent playing games and not enough time programming. All the best man!

[8824snipe]

We are wiser, hopefully. Now its the playstation generation now . Take care.

[harleykman]

Spectrum is okay for its time, but the best 8-bit machine ever made would have to be:

Commodore 64 (great music and graphics)

-or Apple IIgs (Mac-like intrface)

[wubble78]

Granted, but the speccyis important for being affordable to council house scrotes like what i was.

[BVletto]

hey this was published on MicroHobby magazine right?

[SPINNYFUCK]

I don't know about that. You would have to ask rdisky40.

[rdisky40]

No, it wasn't. But if I could have sent it to them, probably it would have been.

Thanks for your interest. ;)

[squidfanny]

superb work, man...

[KaitainCPS]

The Spectrum always had horrible sound. This is a fantastic demo of its non-abilities in that department.

Great fun machine, though.

[SonsOfVultan]

The Speccy was awsome. Hearing this makes me wish it was 1986 again. This really beats fuck out of MP3s and shit. Who needs mint quality when so many people love blips and beeps.  Party On Sir Clive.

[7602011]

I can hear a dubstep remix in there

[jaisondsmad]

imagine this song as a exorcist game

[thebigbadlawman]

this sounds like mario ft mike oakenfold lol

[0osamboo0]

omg lol sounds like ye olde video game

[starlored]

Funny as smeg. I loved the speccy all I could do was the death march

[SPINNYFUCK]

Maybe you can upload it. After all it's one tune that everyone can relate to, lol!

[starlored]

Not sure i I can remember how to do it now. Not even sure where my old spectrum is, mind you I have a spectrum emulator on my pc so if I can work it out I could try it on that?

[SPINNYFUCK]

Now that sounds like a ratings winner. I hope you do manage to do it! ;)

[daleblake81]

Brilliant!!!

[SPINNYFUCK]

Ah, a man of good judgement and reason!

[johnnecron]

I believe the Amiga was the greatest personal pc of the 80s because it was actually capable of doing things right out of the box

remember digi paint?

[SPINNYFUCK]

Never had an Amiga so Digi Paint doesn't mean nothing to me. I'm a lifelong Spectrum man. I don't play anything else.

[harleykman]

I agree Amiga was the best PC of the 80s (1985 to be precisde). It wasn't until 1995 that the Windows and Macs finally caught-up to the Amiga's multimedia and multitasking abilities..... ten years later.

[widowworks]

I have an Amiga 500. I used to work on a Video Toaster for Sportview Technologies. Amiga dropped the ball by upgrading the CPUs but NEVER making them backward compatible. Nothing from the 4000 would work on a 1000 or 500. I could be sitting at an Amiga but here I sit in front of a PC.

[TheTurnipKing]

Actually, I'd say what really killed the Amiga market was, ironically, it's success. Upgrades were too expensive and most software tended to wind up aimed at the "base" specs, which is to say, OCS, ECS and AGA, and the 68k and 020 processors.

It's a real shame there was never really a cheap, Amiga ATX-style motherboard to take advantage of PC standard parts.

[stastaboo]

like OMG i cud listen to this shit all day NOT wtf surely like 5 seconds was enough or maybe nothing at all!!!!

[SPINNYFUCK]

I can't stand people who say OMG, so take a hike dude! Go watch Big Brother, you sad bastard!

[stastaboo]

LMFAO whats big brother got to do with it ya weirdo. u need to calm down ur gonna blow, but its funny

[SPINNYFUCK]

You probably hum the theme tune to Big Brother and bitch about the contestants while you get rammed up the ass. Get outta here you queer!

Now that's FUNNY!

[stastaboo]

im female u slack cunt hahahaha u really have too much time on ur hands to chat shit n call people names, ur youtube thing was shit get over it, theres a comment thing for a reason, learn to take shit along with the good, what r u fuckin 12 or some shit grow up

[SPINNYFUCK]

Man you sound rough. Get outta here!

[Turrebo]

...from the time computers were fun. Makes you wish the 80's had never ended. Even the border changing colors to me looks much more exciting than some of the latest 3D games. Do you believe I actually shed a tear just now? So many good memories... [sigh] Those were the days, my friends. Thank you very much for making this, for getting a difficult job done well.

[SPINNYFUCK]

The 80's still live on, but sadly 20 years later! The ZX Spectrum lives on in anyone who grew up during that time and even some people who are just getting to know about it today!. It is something that influenced people and is fondly remembered. Cheers mate!

[SMCNI1968]

This is just getting ridiculous... does 'Elf & Safety know about the risk of computer dweebs falling off their chairs giggling at these clips?

[SPINNYFUCK]

20 years ago this was some achievement! Nobody, or music fan, that has any understanding of programming would appreciate this!

[cumesoftware]

WOW! Amazing!

[pppais]

I´ve just send this to all my music loving friends!

Dude this is amazing!

Great work and really original.

[mickmog]

Work of geeeeniussss!

[eugenespeed]

This is possibly one of the coolest things I have ever seen.

Long live retro machines!

[SPINNYFUCK]

Thanks for the nice comment! Cheers dude!

[rdisky40]

BTW, if anyone is interested on the complete music it will be good enough to have a visit to World Of Spectrum page and download the program from there. The best of all, it's free. ;)

[rdisky40]

I have to thank Spinnyfuck for the release of this clip, and many thanks to all comments to my homemade work.

[SPINNYFUCK]

All that work has finally paid off. I bet you never would have guessed that twenty years later this would be on youtube. Well done mate on an excellent and industrious achievement!

[everyonelovesbutters]

wow.. fantastic

[djkumfort]

If u programed this on a zx spectrum than u are god.. u give the sid chip a run for its money pitty you were not around in the 80s

well done

[CCCPGhostCCCP]

Sinclair ZX Spectrum + Mike Oldfield = THE BEST

All the best from Italy

[pants189]

is this on an origional spectrum?

[SPINNYFUCK]

This is played on Spectaculator Emulator. Not a commercial release but a fan program. Homemade!

[pants189]

ahh explains why its recorded seamlessly

[fanboy112]

Who did this? Very talented.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Ignacio Prini Garcia programmed this in 1988. He is also known as youtube user rdisky40.

[jazzyjonty]

an album spoilt by its association with william peter blatty's The Excorcist' Film

[Nekoki]

Wow cool

Oh made jet set willys legs!

[Nekoki]

My dad made jet set willys legs*

[SPINNYFUCK]

Your dad obviously had talent then!

[fafnerfoo]

This is the best stuff I've heard in seriously ages! I want this played at my funeral!

[SPINNYFUCK]

That can be arranged...lol!

[gths2006]

Incredible.

[Fachibr]

terrific

[wisteela]

Fantastic.

[Destructopodx]

I had a speccy in my youth...

This must have taken ages...

[rdisky40]

Exactly, as I can tell it, I spent four months to programme it and develop the main screen with that OCP Art Studio graphic tool. No scanner used... :D

I'm very glad to see all messages, many (well quite almost everything) of them very positive to me.

I feel spectacularly surprised. :D

[SoWatchaWant1987]

Just stumbled on this, and I'm glad I did. Consider the word spread.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Hey! Your stumblin' is much appreciated. Glad you enjoyed dude! ;)

[lakemchalicer]

truly brilliant.

nice 1.

[mmartinsf]

Very, very impressive

[SPINNYFUCK]

I'm sure rdisky40 will be flattered!

[wascillywabbit]

Hmmm I do not know what to make of this. Clearly this is a work of interest.

Interesting and Bizarre.

4*

[SPINNYFUCK]

A challenging project to take on. It has to be admired. You can imagine all the difficulties, frustrations and the painstaking work that went into it!

[FMMAROTO]

Mike O + Spectrum ZX, two things really close to my heart

[SPINNYFUCK]

You are a man of taste!

[BezzSoz]

I wish the loading screens for the ZX spectrum were like this instead of that terrible screching noise you got from the tapes.

[scraeder]

terrible screching noise ??? It was a lovely music, I loved it !

[EendjeKwak]

Very cool video, SF. :) I wonder how they scanned the album cover of Tubular Bells, because I am not sure if there ever were ZX Spectrum scanners. It could be a drawing but the clouds are very simular.

[SPINNYFUCK]

I must ask the author how he did the screen. Cheers mate!

[rdisky40]

As I told before to other user, it was screened with the OCP Art Studio, a work for one month copying from the original cover with my own hands...!!!

[richandnik]

Clever stuff

[em0andl33t]

Nice techno version SPINNYFUCK!

[SPINNYFUCK]

Techno is one thing you will never hear or see on this channel. Old classic music and games is what it's all about for old Spinny!

[em0andl33t]

FUCK. SPINNY. FUCK.

[SPINNYFUCK]

I hope you're as quick with your fists as you are with your comments!

[em0andl33t]

I wasnt insultin you you said Spinny. I said Fuck.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Okay dude. It's just the way the comment looks. Just forget my last comment. ;)

[jakamneziak]

GET OUT........what posessed you t o this, how, when,w here, what and is uppose the more importnt question really is why? Im not doubitng your skill because this is actually very good but i know of NO-ONE who would attempt this sort of stuff or anythign even close!

[rdisky40]

Thanks Spinnyfuck for this video, anyway! ;)

Really was a hazardous work for me (three months to do it on that time). Don't be afraid if I tell you how long it took me with "Ommadawn" version for Spectrum...

[SPINNYFUCK]

Cheers mate! Must check out Ommadawn.

[rdisky40]

Com' on C64 and Amstrad CPC users, dare to make up a better TB version!!!

[SPINNYFUCK]

Don't start that lot off...lol!

[ratsouffle]

imo, C64 really had it. The Speccy was good, although it was built like a toy. I only like it because it represents Britain. :P

[rdisky40]

On the other hand, never expect something marvellous with one tiny ZX Spectrum! ;D

[rdisky40]

For all folks who sought this video, I'm the author of the program I personally made twenty years ago. Consider the work of programming the whole record into an insignificant 128k ZX Spectrum you haven't seen before in all your lives, I suppose. Yes it's annoying about the sound, but the effort is really worthy. Did you expect something like real music with 8-bit technology? As mortuus47 said, it's impressive about the hardware used. But remember, it was made in 1988 by myself.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Your effort paid off then. Twenty years later and it's not forgotten.

[gnamp]

I didn't think this could be any more irritating. I was wrong.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Not even half as irritating as David Cameron!

[gnamp]

Well, that goes without saying. Or Family Guy for that matter...

[SPINNYFUCK]

There are only another 5 parts to this. But I'll spare you, and myself, that!

[gnamp]

You've got to admire it- it is impressive in a perverse sort of way. But still quite annoying.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Anyone who had the patience to program this has got to be admired. A huge job. Remember this was twenty years ago. Quite an achievement at the time. I take you won't be wanting this CD for Christmas?

[gnamp]

I imagine those long winter months would just fly by. I don't know if you know of the YouTube 'Chocolate Rain' phenomenon but this was made in it's honour (?)...

/watch?v=caIBKOztlAo

and this one reminds me of it.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Cheeses! That song is seriously bad. I'd never heard it before. My next video will be a megamix called Chocolate Bells.

[mortuus47]

I really love the "orchestra stabs" on this version.

*boop*

[SPINNYFUCK]

Sarcasm will get you everywhere, except round me, you cheeky bugger!

[mortuus47]

Seriously, I do love them. 'cause it's funny. :D

*boop*

[SPINNYFUCK]

Just joking mate! It's got it's moments and it's funny moments.

[mortuus47]

Of course. Pretty impressive stuff given the hardware. Pretty sure it could have handled some simple animated graphics or a little game in there, make it worthwhile. As it is I can't see why anyone in their right mind would have bought it at the time (although it's become a neat little historical curiosity I guess and can be called one of the earlier "multimedia" music releases since the colour of the background changes).

Yes.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Some poor guy sat and programmed it in his bedroom for a couple of years and then got sued for breach of copyright. That's the thanks you get. Still he'll be out of jail in 2010 and only £43000 to pay towards the debt.

[nunodematos]

great

[Fawltykog]

LOL guess it was ahead of it's time a kinda proto multi media package but it's obviously a case of trying to squeeze a six pack into a party seven.

[SPINNYFUCK]

Good attempt back then. No wonder Mike Oldfield had problems trying to get record companies interested in it. Imagine him sitting in front of Richard Branson with the 128k saying "this is my latest composition".

[EvildeadCellar]

This is one of my fave pieces of music. Came out in the early eighties. Was the classic EXORCIST theme. Mike Oldfield has made more money out of this then we could collectively earn in our lives.

"You'll die up there" Regan 1979

[SPINNYFUCK]

Classic film and the music taken from this album really suits the atmosphere of the movie. A spectrum theme in a horror film. What next? The Bangles will be singing Manic Miner!

[EvildeadCellar]

Or Gary Glitter will make the music for Skool Daze...

I'll get my coat...

[SPINNYFUCK]

Next you'll be telling me he was the headmistress in Bak 2 Skool - The Musical!