Find me on Twitter, @JAMOGRAD! WhatHoSnorkers logo and music thanks to ZombiWorkshop! Jim Newall's 48K Sound System! spectrumcomput... Your Sinclair 72. 1991!
Thank you! This emerged a couple of hours ago from Tinpot. I've had the tune downloaded, recorded, and on my MP3 player for a year or two though. Hooray for Jim!
Amazing. Seriously, this sounds truly fantastic. I'll always be more impressed at what extremely limited hardware can manage to pull off rather than what can be done with today's nearly unlimited processing power.
It really does. And this is for a system with one speaker and you can just open and close it rhythmically. And the sound effects are neat too, for explosions, lasers, gunfire...
I had even more available if I needed them... but it really does sound fantastic. Mind blowing. I quite like the BEEP command, but Jim's not wrong about how it sounds!
Yeah! To be fair, it can't do anything else at the time, so you can play the banging tune but you couldn't have a character moving around. But in terms of using your 48K Spectrum to compose and play music, this would have been a gamechanger. I use 128K PLAY a lot as I had a +2, but if you had a 48K? It's not that much typing and you get a lot of awesomeness.
I had some spare characters from Caudillo. I've done a surprising amount of monks over the years... I had to make sure they weren't doing any "bad salutes" though! And as the video for Axel F had "man in a trenchcoat", I had my 36 spies to use!
A ring ding ding ding! A ring ding ding ding! A scoobily dooboly dah! Good old Crazy Frog. Where's his career gone? My mate Avery unironically rates Crazy Frog Racing... :)
Yeah, I've been aware of this one for a while but not done a "full" video on it. And Tinpot's Question was like "Can I do a video in 3 hours?" and the answer was yes!
You are absolutely right. You can't do nowt while it's playing, as there's no sound chip, It's just controlling the speaker. It's lovely sound. The little sound effects would be great though, short and sweet!
@@WhatHoSnorkers You know someone should make an updated Spectrum, just stick a sound chip in it and maybe one up the C64 by making the memory 128k, I'm sure that'll help wonders. Maybe they could even build in a joystick port.
I like your thinking.... maybe even TWO joystick ports.... and a reset button. Go for sleek 80s styling by making it grey as well. I'll get on to Alan Sugar! I do find the lack of documentation of the sound chip in the manual frustrating. It tells you how to make it make a noise, but not what the notes are, apart from some baffling statements...
That was way better than I expected! The 48K certainly has some musical magic in it! 😁
Yeah, I've heard people do quite good door creaking noises just in BASIC, but this is just *chef's kiss*
This is absolutely Spectacular, thank you! Detroit’s finest would be proud. And it’s great to see Mrs Snorkers make an appearance.
Thanks Tinpot! Mr Newall did a fantastic job, and all in just 900 bytes of machine code!
Excellent work as usual James 👍🏻❤
Thank you! This emerged a couple of hours ago from Tinpot. I've had the tune downloaded, recorded, and on my MP3 player for a year or two though.
Hooray for Jim!
Amazing. Seriously, this sounds truly fantastic. I'll always be more impressed at what extremely limited hardware can manage to pull off rather than what can be done with today's nearly unlimited processing power.
It really does. And this is for a system with one speaker and you can just open and close it rhythmically. And the sound effects are neat too, for explosions, lasers, gunfire...
Superb! That song never sounded so good! And a bevvy of Snorkers characters as a bonus!
Including some brand new ones, and some old favourites! Take THAT, Crazy Frog!
Amazing! Who would have thought that from a Speccy ( and it sounds far better than a ....shudder...stylophone!) So many Snorkers, too many to count!
I had even more available if I needed them... but it really does sound fantastic. Mind blowing. I quite like the BEEP command, but Jim's not wrong about how it sounds!
Excellent! It amazes me how a machine running at 4MHz can pull off this.
Yeah! To be fair, it can't do anything else at the time, so you can play the banging tune but you couldn't have a character moving around. But in terms of using your 48K Spectrum to compose and play music, this would have been a gamechanger.
I use 128K PLAY a lot as I had a +2, but if you had a 48K? It's not that much typing and you get a lot of awesomeness.
This is why i love speccy ..brill
A wonderful machine!
That's... *Surprisingly* good! Where's the Crazy Frog when you need him?
Yeah. First time I heard it it genuinely surprised me. Jim put a lot of magic into his 900 bytes. Harold Faltermeyer would be proud!
Oh boy! Snorkers new vid drop!
It's been a while. I've got more filming to do tomorrow morning!
For some reason your fandom reminds me of rat boy genius... Another truly inspirational creator.
Thank you snorkers
You are welcome!
Excellent, Snorkers! 😀👍
Thank you! It's been on my radar for a while now :)
@@WhatHoSnorkersAh you're welcome, thanks- glad you got the chance to make it! 🙂
AWESOME!!! and it comes with a great game too!!: "TRY TO COUNT HOW MANY DIFFERENT SNORKERS THEY ARE"!!!
I had some spare characters from Caudillo. I've done a surprising amount of monks over the years... I had to make sure they weren't doing any "bad salutes" though!
And as the video for Axel F had "man in a trenchcoat", I had my 36 spies to use!
You are a modern marvel!
Ruddy marvellous! Loved this 😁😁
Thanks Colin! He did a cracking job didn't he!
Phwoar. That blond with the daffodils is a bit of alright!
All the women in my films are... I only pick the best. She was Agent Alpha from "Mike Singleton's Treachery!" :)
I love this comment.
Finally, Crazy Frog in 1991.
A ring ding ding ding!
A ring ding ding ding!
A scoobily dooboly dah!
Good old Crazy Frog. Where's his career gone? My mate Avery unironically rates Crazy Frog Racing... :)
I'd be making little mix tapes with these.
Yeah! I recorded the output as a WAV and then made it an MP3 for my walks around town!
That's good, a neat idea.
Yeah, I've been aware of this one for a while but not done a "full" video on it. And Tinpot's Question was like "Can I do a video in 3 hours?" and the answer was yes!
At 24 hours in a day... That's like... 8 vids an hour! Plz?
I used to be a weekly channel!
@@WhatHoSnorkers that message appeared on my Lock Screen as
I used to be a wee…
A wee what? A wee Snorkers? A wee girl?
A Wee Willy Winkie? I've got the hat for that after all... @@merman1974
well that sounded better than I expected. A darn sight better than your acting too. Wot Ho. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's really quite astonishing what he managed to pull off... as it were.
Wow that's impressive sound for a 48k! guessing you can't do bugger all else while that's playing though :D
You are absolutely right. You can't do nowt while it's playing, as there's no sound chip, It's just controlling the speaker.
It's lovely sound. The little sound effects would be great though, short and sweet!
@@WhatHoSnorkers You know someone should make an updated Spectrum, just stick a sound chip in it and maybe one up the C64 by making the memory 128k, I'm sure that'll help wonders. Maybe they could even build in a joystick port.
I like your thinking.... maybe even TWO joystick ports.... and a reset button. Go for sleek 80s styling by making it grey as well.
I'll get on to Alan Sugar!
I do find the lack of documentation of the sound chip in the manual frustrating. It tells you how to make it make a noise, but not what the notes are, apart from some baffling statements...
what have i just seen ... i feel bad ... really
Welcome to my world!
Sounds great good sir Snorkers, well done you master of disguise.🕹🎵🥸🙌🍀
Thank you! It's a quality tune, and at least I had most of the characters just waiting to be reused!