"Ahh.. the tape loading era!" by Ate Bit

ZX Spectrum 128 demo, released at Sundown 2009 where it came 1st place in the Oldskool competition. Code by Evilpaul. Quite possibly the first "proper" tape streaming demo on the spectrum. From the info file: "I think this is the first time anyone has actually streamed multiple effects from tape in one continuous load. If you know differently then let me know!" Download the real tape file from www.atebit.org along with our previous productions.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• spectrum
• atebit
• demoscene

[alexsutton85]

BRILLIANT! Need some demos with some more music :) Is it possible to have 128K music stream whilst loading? Does anybody know of any other demos with musical loaders?

[pezholio]

I always remember that you could play Space Invaders while Ghostbusters on the C64 loaded. Was that a similar technique?

[FishGuy876]

Sweet :) I wish I could do that kind of thing on the spectrum. Absolutely amazing :)

[paulbrown06]

LOAD"" 

[kojiki1976]

This is utterly awesome.

[mfurniss]

Properly good. :D

[interghost]

It would had been cool if they did this back in the day. The loading process could had been so much better... cheers ;o)

[cosine303]

technician ted?

[horstherbert35]

sup dawg, i herd you liek nostalgia, so we put some nostalgia in your nostalgia, so you can...

[misticjoeCZ]

I remember one game (but not name :-) ) with similar streaming loader in which little mans walking around screen and it plays music made of bells.