ZX Spectrum - The Hobbit Loading Screen (White)

[neildKoR]

Hah, this and two other game title screens were included on the "B" side of the Melbourne Draw program tape... I wonder if that's the program they used to create them?

[TopTellyFan]

OMG! This really brings back the memories!!

[theseus27]

@TopTellyFan I totally agree mate!! It took me many hours of frustration to complete this complex adventure.When I got back to the Hobbit's house with the treasure I could only get a score of 78% if I remember correctly.

I still got this game in my collection,and watching this certainly brought back fond memories!! :D

[8824snipe]

What a sweet sound, still love Amstrad load sound better though. And speedlock was amstrad on speed.

[grandmothersapplepie]

Its now 22 years since I got hypnotised by that border light show. I swear, I'm low on brain memory. The zapping must have stored up those games into my head . when science is ready, maybe I can start playing those games in my sleep. I seem to remember being able to speed up the picture load. Experimentation with audio speed allowed a few specific octave levels resulting in higher pitch / faster load.

The errors were greater because of the limitations of tape drives.

[AlexRawlings]

@grandmothersapplepie lol, I remember playing the tapes through a stereo at as high a volume as possible because that would often guarantee it would load. Nothing worse than ten minutes of loading and then the game crashing

[walter0bz]

the old LP-ROM drives were much better than casettes

[ollybgm]

wow to much 80s king of pcs

[madderscientist23]

just beautiful!

[mikkifly]

i`m still traumatised by that sound to this day,i once spent over 3 hrs trying to load a game great days

[zerokury]

sigh! how to forget those days. I also finished that game. it was a conversational rpg. I remember i made myself a map.