Comments on: Forensic criminology, the ZX Spectrum way

By: Zoe Blade

Zoe Blade — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:12:10 +0000

In case anyone’s interested, http://repertoire.bmi.com/writer.asp?fromrow=26&torow=50&keyname=JAMES%20RICHARD%20DAVID&querytype=WriterID&keyid=533933&page=2&blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&affiliation=PRS&cae=176937227 credits “JAMES RICHARD DAVID” (Richard D. James, alias Aphex Twin) with composing “CSI MIAMI-BG CUES”. That’ll be him, then.

By: matt

matt — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:33:59 +0000

Ah, I take it you were a Spectrum 128 kid then? :-) On the 48K the tape input was hard-wired to the built-in speaker, so there was no way to turn it off, besides trying to muffle it with a cushion…

By: Isambard Khroustaliov

Isambard Khroustaliov — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:49:06 +0000

I love the fact that the ZX Spectrum unintentionally introduced a whole generation of us to the glory of this new ‘music’… just think what would have happened if Clive Sinclair had got his way in other walks of life… One point that barely get mentioned about all these sounds is that in most cases you DIDN’T actually have to listen to it to load the game (you could just turn the sound off), but it seems like the majority of us chose to anyway. I for one vividly remember sitting in front of the TV for ages waiting for the games to load, or increasingly NOT as the tapes began to get older…

By: Stuart McKeown

Stuart McKeown — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:36:07 +0000

I think it's a given that Aphex would be more likely to come across this any anyone else :P However it could be on a Spectrum Sample CD or even an Emulation of the game..... Electronic Music Forum | Electronic Music Blog

By: zarathustra

zarathustra — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:20:42 +0000

That’s deffo a speccy loading sound! Love the dialogue: “This thing’s gotta be two hundred & fifty grand.” LMFAO =]

By: stefano

stefano — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:25:42 +0000

bazman.. you wrote “the key” ?
Can I ask if the spanish and italian translated versions were authorized releases ? Is so, why have you thought to sell nationalized versions ?

By: fiasco » Extreme Spectrum-related Geekiness

fiasco » Extreme Spectrum-related Geekiness — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 22:24:44 +0000

[...] Listen to a ZX spectrum load up a game in the background to some pretty poor dialogue courtesy of CSI:Miami. [...]

By: Tanner

Tanner — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:52:14 +0000

wow. i’m not even a CSI fan and this fascinates me. The Sinclair was before my time, but i still get misty eyed thinking about the old Amiga days. Commodore could have ruled the world, but they lost the throne to Microsoft and Apple. But somewhere the Guru still rules…

By: Robert Carnegie rja.carnegie@excite.com

Robert Carnegie rja.carnegie@excite.com — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:17:21 +0000

Is the sound clean enough actually to try loading it… right enough, it’s been a while but I seem to remember it was hard enough to load genuine tapes. Regular Spectrum files were easier than copy protection and acceleration systems, and a Key copy was usually more reliable than the original.

This is X-ray fluorescence, right… in America it would have been Timex Sinclair something, but yes, why is it controlling forensic equipment, and making that noise?

Just aired in the UK is the [Star Trek Enterprise] episode where the evil Enterprise crew from another dimension find a 23rd century abandoned starship, which faithfully makes all the familiar noises from the original series, as reproduced in [Futurama]…

By: bazman

bazman — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:04:59 +0000

Of course Keysoft’s The Key duplication utility was intended for making backup copies only, and said ‘Keysoft advise users not to infringe the copyright act’ on it. I should know, I wrote the thing :)