Hey #ZXSpectrum Yolk Folks who were into #Codemasters budget games especially the #Dizzy series.
Does anyone remember Treasure Island Dizzy (128k) saying one of two different things when it loaded?
The well known one is "Welcome to Treasure Island Dizzy".
I am sure it sometimes said "Okay, its loaded".
I have 2 guesses of how this was achieved
1) both samples loaded with the game chose which one to play
or
2) my preferred more sneaky guess a different version on each side of the tape.
Yes make sense, the only downside is it would complicate the cassette duplication process.
@hedders
Nice point.
In the later days some budget games put the same game for different machines of the same cassette but on different sides.
I am sure I had a couple of games that had the Speccy version one side and Amstrad on the other.
@hedders
The thing that clouds my memory about this specific thing is that although I had the cassette of TI Dizzy. I later got a +D 3.5" drive and snapshotted it to disk.
So I loaded the game on cassette many times at first and then used the snapshot after getting the drive.
I had a habit of turning the TV volume down while loading and only turning it back up when loaded.
So I do remember one day not turning the volume down during loading and when it finished it said "Okay, its loaded".
@raymierussell I think I've found the answer!
If you look at this video:
... you'll see it actually says both things - "OK, it's loaded" followed by "Welcome to Treasure Island Dizzy".
I wonder if your habit of turning the volume down while the game was loading meant you typically missed the first bit when loading from tape?
Cheers, that solves one of the mysteries where I thought memory might be playing tricks.
Raymond Russell
Hedders