by Alfie
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I make things on the web, mobile and in the actual world.
I've done lots of bits and bobs over the years, and right now I'm mostly working on this.
I enjoy speaking about things I like, most recently this. You can email me if you'd like, and I'm on twitter.
,#sinclair,#sinclair zx spectrum,#sinclair zx spectrum 128k,#sinclair zx spectrum+2,#spectrum
MaggieD says:
The original slab of chocolate! .... our first computer .... best game.. the original Rocky Horror Show ..... still love the animated graphic of the time warp .... Specky '64K ! .... the love of my (computer life) .....
MaggieD says:
We still have the original 16K version ..... how sad are we! .....
Alfie says:
Ah, it was like £3 hotdog, but I have enough old tat really. Maggie, do you still ever pick it up and play with it?
MaggieD says:
Have a spectrum emulator .... so can still play the original games .... I just love the original animation ... so simple but so effective .... but no, the original speccie collects dust just like so many other computers up in the loft .....
JokerXL says:
cool!
Many a late night spent trying to re-write a program to make the screen change colour and let it go "beep".
God, we were cutting-edge.
;-)
kyoob says:
wow - i had one of those, i spend a good chunk of my childhood programming thousand line 'games' which were crap.
then the aerial lead broke and i was heartbroken.
kel says:
I have/had one exactly like that!
Mine came with a light gun and James Bond games which all involved shooting at things.
Sprocket says:
I had a 48k rubber keyboard model. Oh, those were the days.
JetPac - the only game I ever mastered.
hachi.roku says:
Thats a +2 model, my grandad had the standard 128k version and the +2 was desirable! I always felt superior with my C64, then my Amiga afterwards.
I have my Amiga still, and it works, just I lost all my games when I moved house....
rikaitch says:
The +2 was quite widespread, sold by Currys and Comet. The one to watch out for is the black (not grey) cased one, called the +2A. Worth a bit of dosh nowadays.
I got my first spectrum the first month it came out, November 1982. I (or rather my father) paid £199 for the 48k model, and an additional £5 for "Space Raiders" by Psion, the software side of Sinclair. Does anyone else remember "thro' the wall?"
I remember such things as "PRINT USR 1278" which made it look like it was loading, right down to the bleeeeeeeep blip loading sounds.
yes I do remember thro' the wall!