Spectrum Computing

PROSM wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2017 11:35 pm6 - Matthew Smith.

Yes it is!

Because many of us will just be home from the pub and because I've liked the other quizzes... I thought I'd try one of my own. So, forget hair of the dog -- whose heads of hair are these? Every barnet is in some way related to the wonderful world of the ZX Spectrum. https://s2.postimg.org/6t1vj8cxh/...

Well that's annoying -- I didn't get a single one. But I would've got Sam Stoat Safebreaker if I'd have logged in here a little earlier. Oh well.

You'll just have to set up another quiz -- go!

Okay... it's been long enough. I don't want the answers. But I do want another clue! I can't sleep...

Even though I hate you I'd personally appreciate another night of staring at 30-year-old pixels to see if anything will fire in my considerably older synapses...

For 5 I'd wager some people are thinking of the similar-shaped object in Eugene's Lair:



...but no!

I hate this quiz.

I still don't know what 10 is (yet) but as an aside I find it interesting that it seemed obviously 'modern' to me -- I wonder why? I mean, there's no wider context but it looks to me as though it uses two adjacent attribute blocks to create the illusion of more colour flexibility. I'm not saying tha...

Gah - this quiz is fiendish. 10 is quite modern, right?!

7. looks very similar to the diamonds in Rainbow Islands... but it's not, is it?

Gah, and I thought 9. might be Gunfright, but no...

12. Roller Coaster? It looks so close to Roller Coaster but perhaps not quite...

In the last year or two I heard Jon Ritman interviewed on some podcast (possibly The Retro Hour), and I'm pretty sure he said he got something like £50,000 for Head Over Heels. Perhaps I completely imagined that figure, mind. But I also think he said it sold something like 300,000 units. So, with th...

Okay, I'm sure this has been done before somewhere but my decrepit middle-aged mind would like a redux... How much would a talented/star ZX Spectrum programmer expect to earn in the 1980s, both then and/or adjusted for inflation (although to be fair I could do that second bit myself)? So, your Joffa...

Died-in-the-wool Crash man here. Well, boy back then. Pretty much everything you say sounds about right to me. I occasionally flirted with YS and, to a lesser extent, SU -- but with the Kamikaze Bear years I lost all interest in SU. It just seemed so childish. I guess by then I was 17, so probably n...

Yep, I think that's fair and, to be honest, I regretted posting this almost as soon as I clicked Submit. So, consider it closed and me out. Someone feel free to delete. Sorry all.

I guess I could ask this at the WoS forums but, frankly, I no longer trust them as a source of unbiased information. So... whatever happened to WoS? I remember 15-20 years ago when I first stumbled upon it, when it was run by Martijn: it was *the* place to go for all things Spectrum. As a lurker the...

Hello... I'm Scott -- just a middle-aged chap, like many others here I'd guess. I've been a ZX Spectrum fan since its very earliest days, and have never lost interest in the platform. I'm hoping this forum might shape up to be something better than has been seen elsewhere of late. At least, I'm sure...