Hi! My name is Pedro Pimenta, but I am known on forums as Jumperror and also in my music.
So, I'm 27 years old, so I never had any contact with a Spectrum when I was young. I've always liked older machines, so as the Spectrum was very popular in Portugal in the 80's I started to hear some older people talk about it and one day by chance I found a +2 at a fleamarket and bought it.
This was 5 years ago (I think), since then I've gotten to know a lot of people and really got in the Spectrum community.
I've heard then about a blog called Planeta Sinclair that only existed for a year, I think, when I saw it for the first time.
I've joined the team and helped design the logo, then two other friends from the community joined. I started writing about games, did some historical articles and also we started to do some preservation of M.I.A. software, also books and magazines. With this project I found more friends and we ended up creating Espectro Magazine (a ZX Spectrum magazine in portuguese that comes out in Portugal and Brasil) and I joined the Jogos80 team (brazilian retrogaming magazine).
Last year I was challenged by a friend to start making music for the Spectrum, as I had been doing music for some years, so it was a way to join two of the things I love more. Since then, I've worked on about 15 games. Now I'm part of Espectro Team, Team Moritz and have worked also with Ariel Endaraues, Jaime Grilo and lately Lee Stevenson.
I really love to be a part of these teams and help build great games, I never would have imagined a few years ago I'd be doing music for games, much less for a retro platform like the Spectrum!
Started working with the 48k Beeper, then with the 128k and it's AY Chip and more recently I've done some music for a ZX81 (with AY Interface) game - Em Busca dos Tesouros - a brazilian game from 1986, soon to be re-released by Bitnamic.
If you're curious, here is a small sample of what I've been doing (in chronological order):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd2cZk4UFKw
If anyone's curious, I have a 48K in box (needs new memories), a +2, another 48k with some improvements (new case and keyboard with microswitches) and a Harlequin 128k. These last two were donated to me by my great friend Sebastian Braunert, for whom I've made music for loads of games, including Moritz on the Moon, Moritz Strikes Back, Mike the Guitar Shooter, Moritz on the Autobahn, Cheesy Chase and many many others soon to be released.
It's great to get to know all of you, I hope to meet new people while I'm here, help update the database and maybe even join a new project as I've seen this forum is quite active.