Spectrum Computing

stupidget wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:01 pm And first across the line is @5MinuteRetro. We have ourselves a winner

Eek. That’s two in a row for me, so I’ll get to the back of the grid and let someone take pole position for the next lap.

WEC Le Mans?

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:48 pm It's pupposed to be the TV aerial every alien mothership has!

Perhaps it’s a Phestivus pole.

stupidget wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:12 pmPheenix?

Winner, winner, alien dinner!

bluespikey wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:52 am Tau Ceti - 1983 version?

Nope. Let’s zoom out some more. Any further could give it away, I reckon. I’d call this an early classic.

Van_Dammesque wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:34 am Crosswize?

Nope. Zooming out…

Hurray! That colour scheme is just so familiar. Next!

Blue Thunder?

Could you send us all a Lenslok to view this image?

AndyC wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:10 pm

Terrible photography, but familiar nonetheless

Reminds me of this icon on the Firefly intro screen but I’m sure plenty of Spectrum games had similar icons here and there.

Is this really still going? She is real. That’s just what a conspirator would say! (But joking aside, I’m a rational person. I don’t actually care much if at all about whether or not Hannah Smith was real. The weight of evidence sure points to the likelihood that she was real. But I don’t think any...

Morkin wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:47 pm I've yet to find it successfully generate an accurate image of a Speccy. Probably just not using the right words.

Ikr. It’s a mystery to me why they’re able to generate some convincing images of almost anything imaginable, but not something that actually exists.

I was just a bit bored, so I asked Copilot to "generate a mosaic-style photo of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer made of photos of other retro computers from the era". The result, to my eye at least, is rather attractive -- but it looks nothing like a real ZX Spectrum. But man, how great ...

I stumbled on this a while back. No idea who runs it or how up to date it is but you can use the Filters tab on the right to locate physical shops. It has a couple of shops in my local area that I know to be relatively recent and still trading, so I'd hope it's pretty accurate: https://retro.directo...

So I stumbled upon this video tonight, of some chap managing to complete Dynamite Dan (DD) without cheating (well, other than using an initial save state, so he knew the layout of the otherwise-randomised items). I'm not sure who he is... he might even be a member here. Anyway, it's an incredible ef...

I went for a cheap, low-strength mass-market IPA, because that somehow felt appropriate.

Drink’s nice enough but the pub’s a bit soulless.

Off to the Baron. What do we think Clive would’ve drunk? A best British bitter?

Internet tells me it was 6 King’s Parade. I was unknowingly sat right opposite!

TMD2003 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:44 pm At least gawp at what used to be Sinclair Research's front door opposite King's College.

Heh. As it happens I’m sat right outside King’s at this very moment, just resting with a coffee! I’ll see if I can find where you mean…

So I have a few hours to kill in Cambridge tomorrow, before going to see a show. I'm probably going to stop by the Centre for Computing History for perhaps the third or fourth time, because why not? And I'm going to have a pint and a polite brawl in the Baron of Beef, because I've not done that befo...

The only thing I can think of is that as part of the Vanilla Circus SEO link juice strategy and there are pages hidden away with SEO text linking back to their clients sites and Google just thinks that Amstrad.co.uk is an official Government website and therefore boosts the ranking of the site and ...

Renewing your old domain out of pure sadness is not squatting. Well, that's my take -- there's no malicious intent behind me sitting on these old domains, and I'm definitely a bit sad. ;) Also, in the very unlikely event someone really wanted one of my dormant domains, I'd probably consider selling...

The more layers of bureaucratic bullsh*t, the easier to ACCIDENTALLY NOT DO IT. Do you remember when Microsoft lost microsoft.com? Someone bought it and transferred it to them for a laugh. (because we know the alternative would be painful legal struggles) Yeah, I guess. I'm just surprised that amst...

Oh, and FWIW, www.amstrad.com *does* resolve to the Sky homepage. So, yeah, someone's been paying the renewal fees for *that* variant!

it's known as not-giving-a-fuck-ism The expensive part is buying the TLS certificate. Well, yeah. As hinted earlier, I'm not sure this domain was every directly controlled by 'Amtrad', the company, so much as Cliff Lawson, an erstwhile Amtrad employee who seemingly ran it as a hobby/passion project...