Loading from tape again

A couple of days ago we decided to repeat the experience of loading games from tape, but this time with my ZX Spectrum+. It is evidently a different system. Which is a funny thing to say because when I had my ZX Spectrum +2A almost 40 years ago I didn’t really know there were different systems, I just had a “computer”. In this case, the biggest change is that the ZX Spectrum+ doesn’t come with a built-in tape drive, so I had to find one I bought a few years ago and I had misplaced somewhere. Technically speaking you don’t need a tape drive, because you can plug the audio output from your phone, for example, into the input of the speccy and just play the audio version of a digital tape (tap or tzx, format used by emulators). But I wanted to have an experience as close as possible to the real thing. Vanity shot again: loading The Return of Traxtor We started again with The Return of Traxtor, as per my son’s house rules. And it didn’t load first time, we had to adjust the cassette player…