'Ahh... The Tape Loading Era!'
September 22, 2009 8:00 AM | Eric Caoili
In this wicked ZX Spectrum 128 demo released at Sundown 2009 two weekends ago (where it took first place in the Oldskool competition), Evilpaul demonstrates what could possibly be "the first 'proper' tape streaming demo on the Spectrum."
The coder explains, "We use tiny delays in the loading routines to stream the new code, run the current effect, and play the music." And if that sounds too technical for you, Evilpaul also channeled Pimp My Ride host Xzibit for this summary: "Yo dawg, I heard you like demos so I put a demo in your demos so you can watch a demo while you load your demos." Brilliant.
You can download the Spectrum demo from Ate Bit Productions, though you should keep in mind that the program will likely not work properly in most a few emulators without some fiddling.
[Via TCTD]
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It does actually run fine on at least a couple of different emulators, you'll just need to disable any accelerated loading options. Check the txt file in the zip for instructions on how to do that
evilpaul | September 22, 2009 8:28 AM