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- by DouglasReynholm
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:32 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Goodbye,Z80
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1815
jpnz wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:25 am
Shared the sad news with the younger staff at work
Don't think any of them have noticed
No OLED screen, nor haptic feedback.
Don't know they're born.
- by DouglasReynholm
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 4:35 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Happy New Year!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1062
Happy New Year everyone! I'm not making any resolutions, other than to do absolutely everything better next year. I think @Ralf's artwork from 2019 deserves another mention. https://stonechatproductions.co.uk/zxgames/gameimages/RalfHNYSCRLoading.gif Haven't been there in a while, but last thing I k...
- by DouglasReynholm
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 1:31 pm
- Forum: ZX Spectrum Next
- Topic: NEXT FAQ’s
- Replies: 65
- Views: 3744
I too would appreciate a brief summary and any links to what can be done with ZX Next wi-fi , if anyone could help please?
- by DouglasReynholm
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:35 pm
- Forum: ZX Spectrum Next
- Topic: UK units dispatched!!!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1548
For those who received their NETX's today did you get an email with Tracking details? I've not received anything yet and nothing in my spam folder either. Saying that, the Kickstarter post said that ALL UK backers should get an email by tomorrow evening so maybe I'm just further down the list or he...
- by DouglasReynholm
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 8:17 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Which year did you get your first Spectrum?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1253
Xmas day 1983, so coming up on 40 years next month. I have reason to believe all these years later that it might have been one of the ones that went 'missing' that year. My dad was in flooring sales at the time and happened to mention at the time one of his customers had one 'under the counter' that...
- by DouglasReynholm
- Fri Nov 25, 2022 1:52 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Spectrum namedrops...
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9932
Think I mentioned it in a another thread a while back, but my boss at Arrow electronics (component distributor) 20 years ago was part of the team at TI in the early 80's that brokered the 'binned parts' RAM deal on the original machine that ultimately helped keep its price down. RAM that was suppose...
- by DouglasReynholm
- Fri Nov 25, 2022 1:43 am
- Forum: ZX Spectrum Next
- Topic: Castle Escape
- Replies: 11
- Views: 776
Agree with Nitrowing . The Next should have been limited to the same colour palette as the original machines, but with attribute limitations removed so that everything could be coloured on a pixel by pixel basis. A lot of the Next titles look generically like A500/Atari ST titles, and it's not great...
- by DouglasReynholm
- Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:03 pm
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: What does your alias mean?
- Replies: 73
- Views: 2550
If it's not already obvious to a lot of people, mines a reference to the UK comedy show "The I.T. Crowd". I fell in love with it when Moss was laughing at a PCB, and Jen asked what he was laughing about. His response was something along the lines of "Some joker has only routed the dat...
- by DouglasReynholm
- Fri Mar 11, 2022 11:45 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Rod Bowkett and Steve Crow
- Replies: 11
- Views: 854
Just to chip in quickly with the little I know - Rod Bowkett did the two Dynamite Dan games as an aside to his work as a (math teacher|| musician) - I don't recall which exactly, then left gaming - a waste in my opinion, clear talent from the off - but as long as he is happy.. Last thing I knew Stev...
- by DouglasReynholm
- Mon Oct 11, 2021 1:31 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Worst music
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2324
This thread is leading me to the dawning realisation that my ability to just filter out any and all annoying background noise is due primarily to growing up playing games on the Speccy.
- by DouglasReynholm
- Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:57 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: RIP Sir Clive
- Replies: 102
- Views: 5359
RIP Uncle Clive. ...But it's one hell of a legacy you've left us all. I was thinking after the last year or so, if anyone wanted to do a Speccy 40 celebration it'd be more than welcome for me. :) (Even if it just meant a few people going to the Baron of Beef in Cambridge, raising a glass or two and...
- by DouglasReynholm
- Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:50 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: RIP Sir Clive
- Replies: 102
- Views: 5359
As with everyone else here, we wouldn't be on this forum if not for Sir Clive. He set many of us on our paths in tech careers and I think was a bit of a visionary, even though his commercial success was a bit lacking sometimes. I remember as a 10 year old in '84 with my Speccy, my Grandad banging on...
- by DouglasReynholm
- Mon Apr 26, 2021 12:29 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Do you remember the first time?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2214
My Xmas 1983 ZX Spectrum didn't get played until I got home from our Xmas trip to Bournemouth (yeah we were posh, it went downhill from there I think) that year, and was via a trip to High Barnet WH Smith. I chose Paul Owens KONG by Ocean Software as my first title, and with time it's aged poorly of...