IS
You might be too young, if you were in your 30's that noise would be very familar! 
It's a computer program, that sort of noise was what we heard when loading a game or suchlike from cassette into our Amstrads, Spectrum, Commodore etc computers. Presumably C4 were experimenting in sending out programs over the air, i think some radio stations did too.
Ceefax used to send computer programmes over the air in the 80's - http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/gallery/ceefax/telesoftware/
According to that page, the C4 data was for Sinclair Spectrums
It's a computer program, that sort of noise was what we heard when loading a game or suchlike from cassette into our Amstrads, Spectrum, Commodore etc computers. Presumably C4 were experimenting in sending out programs over the air, i think some radio stations did too.
Ceefax used to send computer programmes over the air in the 80's - http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/gallery/ceefax/telesoftware/
According to that page, the C4 data was for Sinclair Spectrums
GS
You're not wrong! The hours I would spend loading up Elite on the Electron or Daley Thompson's Decathlon for the Spectrum.
Kids today have no idea they're born!
[/old man]
Gavin Scott
Founding member
Inspector Sands posted:
You might be too young, if you were in your 30's that noise would be very familar!
You're not wrong! The hours I would spend loading up Elite on the Electron or Daley Thompson's Decathlon for the Spectrum.
Kids today have no idea they're born!
[/old man]
PC
Waiting for something like the Amstrad to load a game was half the fun.
Watching it slowly build a piece of full-screen computer artwork, line by line, that corresponded to the load progress - and when the whole picture was revealed, the game was ready.
Funny how you get folks these days complaining about loading times between videogame menus and such, when I'm sure those times are dwarfed by something like the Amstrad, where the load was probably an ideal moment to make drinks or get some biscuits, more than anything else!
Watching it slowly build a piece of full-screen computer artwork, line by line, that corresponded to the load progress - and when the whole picture was revealed, the game was ready.
Funny how you get folks these days complaining about loading times between videogame menus and such, when I'm sure those times are dwarfed by something like the Amstrad, where the load was probably an ideal moment to make drinks or get some biscuits, more than anything else!
PT
I remember I had the 128k Spectrum back in the day..until it blew up. Think it was one of the last to be released.
MH
Was the Atari a brainchild of Amstrad. That was my first pootah. Used to play North and South on that for hours on end.
PT
Not sure. I had the games Turbulence, Ghostbusters, some Pigeon shooting game and the others I forget. It hardly ever used to load properly though.
Anyway, we digress.. testcards..yes..err..
Anyway, we digress.. testcards..yes..err..
GS
My surgeon would have your guts for garters.
Or whatever he can fashion out of guts. Perhaps a clutch purse.
Gavin Scott
Founding member
Connews posted:
The urge to call you all Wrinklies is all too much to bear. 
My surgeon would have your guts for garters.
Or whatever he can fashion out of guts. Perhaps a clutch purse.
CO
My surgeon would have your guts for garters.
Or whatever he can fashion out of guts. Perhaps a clutch purse.
Careful there. One of the benefits of youth is a massive clad of yobs on demand that will fulfilll your every whim.
Gavin Scott posted:
Connews posted:
The urge to call you all Wrinklies is all too much to bear.
My surgeon would have your guts for garters.
Or whatever he can fashion out of guts. Perhaps a clutch purse.
Careful there. One of the benefits of youth is a massive clad of yobs on demand that will fulfilll your every whim.