mart360

30 years old today

wow !

never had a speccy, played with the ZX81 then progressed to a 464

but still a legendary computer


Mart

craigo

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jees im getting old.. fond memories

TonyBurns

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Remember getting my speccy, loved that little computer some great games on it, use to take an age to load up if you had a "cough" copied "cough" game or your tape machine chewed up the tape
it was a fight for who got the main colour tv ended up getting a b&w portable when I saved enough from my newspaper round.
Still occasionally play LOM and Doomdarks Revenge (pc versions), fond memories

Tony

scouser321

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I've got one in my shed

Fav games, match of the day, chase HQ, Outrun, enduro racer to name a few!

TonyBurns

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Jet Set ***** (actually most of the Ocean games, Knight Mare etc), and I use to like Ant Attack too, or Cyclone, damned good for the day

Tony

scooby red

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Mmm rubber keys . Commando too

pimmo2000

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts96J7HhO28

nik52wrx

Great back in the day I've got manic miner on my iPad

Carlh

Glider Rider, Sentinel, Skool Daze, Zynaps, Saboteur, Green Beret, Commando, (pretty much all the Elite stuff was great arcade conversion, 1942 -

Remember holding down the play button on the cassette player at a certain position to get it to play at twice the speed to load the games faster.... pmsl

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/

DonNedly

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attic attak,
brian mcclough's football manager,
how to be a complete b*stard,
daley thompsons decathlete,

so many good games and good memories. Such a british invention too, quite apt its on St. Georges day.

New_scooby_04

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Bloody hell....... 30!!! Well, it's official I'm getting old!

As above, fond memories though!

Carlh

btw, sir Clive will be a young 72 !!! in July

Coffin Dodger

Was my first "proper" computer. Remember that I was made to catch up on a backlog of homework before I was allowed it The kid next door but one used to rent the games through some sort of postal thing and would then make you a copy for a quid + you supplied a tape. Very enterprising

Had an Atari VCS prior to that.

Carlh

lol, the old school yard copy swops. go in with 3 or 4 games, coming home with 30 or 40.

15,000 titles were available for the spectrum. Thats just mental (more than most of the consoles PUT together. Truly a legend in affordable gaming.

Used to love reading Crash magazine too.

The amount of quicksilver (or was it quickfire) joysticks knackered was hilarious.

Pity Horace goes ******* never got released lol horace does everything else though!

craigo

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ZX SPECTRUM JETSET *****

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zYv2c5SyCg

ALi-B

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ld a, 30
ld b, a

rrca
rrca
rrca
xor 0x1f

add a, b
sbc a, 255

ld , a
ret

Can't remember the hex for that (who needs compilers? )

RobsyUK

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Whats a ZX spectrum lol.

New_scooby_04

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Really?? You don't know?!?!
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You get them free with a Happy Meal from McDonalds these days!!

mart360

You missed a peek and a poke in that lot


mart

billyray911

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Christ,this makes me feel ancient.Horace goes skiing.jet pack *****,atic attac,manic miner,chuckie egg and ant attack were all favourites.
I also remember going into Laskies in Brum,which always had the latest computers on display and getting them all to show line after line of naughty words.I think it was something like
10 "**** bubble"
20 Goto 10
30 End
Oh,how we laughed!

urban

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I used to write games for the old consoles.
Only a little bit on the Spectrum, a lot on the C64 - mostly for Ocean and US Gold

Hanley

RobsyUk

You'd have loved the ZX Spectrum, lots of PEEKING and POKING

Ste RB5138

The Spectrum +3 was my first computer, with the disc drive!

I was always loved that you could go to a newsagent and buy a new budget game for £2.99 on cassette.

dean_gti

LOL Gosh those were the days, First two memories are, cheating on operation wolf by simply fastforwarding the tape, and been a lad of very little means so was a regular at buying games, taping them, and taking them back to swap...


Oh and tucking ya kipper in on the old school tie

Terminator X

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I remember the pain of loading up a game only for it to crash right at the end, aarrgghh!

TX.

Kieran_Burns

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Two main memories of the speccy:

1. Dead man's fingers
2. Realising you can't use a c-90 to store your games 'cos they never bleeding loaded, you had to use a c-30 maximum to be sure

Oh, God now I'm thinking about all the different tapes, and which ones were best!

dpb

Had sail design programme (for work) using spectrum - whether it loaded from the cassette (or not , mainly) seemed completly arbitary

Mates still got a couple in his store i reckon lol

boxst

That makes me feel old. I had a ZX80 and then an Atari 400. Progressed through the Atari's (800, 130XE, ST) and then an Amiga. Happy days.

Off for my afternoon nap in preperation for the old peoples home.

DJ Dunk

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I used to have some on a C-120 Never used to load.

I remember Gauntlet being a real pain, since you had to load every few levels.

Head Over Heels, Daley Thompsons Decathlon, Rambo, Target Renegade, Treasure Island Dizzy, Monty Mole

Used to spend a small fortune on £1.99 Mastertronic and Codemasters games as well as all the free tape you used to get on the magazines Still have a massive carrier bag full of games, including Alien, Young Ones and even Barbarian with the Maria Whittaker poster intact

bigsinky

I had that for the BBC Micro Model B amongst a ****e load of other games. Acornsoft made the best stuff. ahhhh Elite, i remember that game with fondness. Frak, Chuckkie Egg........OMG I am old after that an Atari ST1024 with a load of WAS NOT WAS compilation discs. after that i bought my first ever PC a 386 DX33 with 1MB and a 120MB HDD.