Any ZX Spectrum fans?

Badger

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• Aug 22, 2017

• #21

SeeGoals said:

The will it won't it saga of the Vega+ looks like it might just happen!!!!

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I hope they've designed it so you have to buy games on cassette tapes, plug a Walkman in, and wait at least 15 minutes for them to load. You'd feel cheated if you didn't have to work for it.

 

Gazwag

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• Aug 22, 2017

• #22

Dick Swiveller said:

Probably one that hadn't been archived digitally. I stumbled across a couple of C64 disks a few weeks ago that were the same. Probably rarer to get big money for them unless they are really rare - mail order ones normally.

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It was almost certainly a mail order one, it certainly wasn't a mainstream software company

 

Dick Swiveller

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• Aug 22, 2017

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Badger said:

I hope they've designed it so you have to buy games on cassette tapes, plug a Walkman in, and wait at least 15 minutes for them to load. You'd feel cheated if you didn't have to work for it.

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Nope. But the Spectrum Next guys have!

https://www.specnext.com/about/

I also bought a small device recently that has a small Arduino in that plays wav files of the cassettes to load into original machines

 

SeagullinExile

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• Aug 22, 2017

• #24

Awww...I really wanna play Hungry Horace or Horace goes Skiing now.

 

Easy 10

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• Aug 22, 2017

• #25

I just remember the thriving black market going on every day in the playground, as we traded copies of all the games. I had C90 cassettes FULL of them, although I used to buy plenty of originals as well (and make copies).

"Ooh, you got Knight Lore ? Do us a copy at lunchtime mate..."

 

TWOCHOICEStom

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• Aug 22, 2017

• #26

PWA said:

Instant load with a decent emulator of which there are lots in the Play Store.

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I was joking, it’s brilliant!

 

nicko31

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• Aug 22, 2017

• #27

Still a lot more powerful than the VIC20 with 3.5k of RAM, 1 millionth of the power in the average laptop today

 

Official Old Man

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Aug 27, 2011

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Brighton

• Aug 22, 2017

• #28

To think that it had 48k of memory or was there an upgraded 128k?
I was an avid fan and would programme away all night on it. Had this great idea to have a data base of all football teams with players, games, results etc. I did one for The Albion (probably in a box somewhere). Years ahead of my time.

 

Dick Swiveller

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• Sep 9, 2017

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Just game across this - a free PC game based on Spectrum games. Might interest a few.

http://www.langfordproductions.com/projectzx.html