PeterJ wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2018 9:37 am
@PeteProdge The link to the list I posted yesterday should now be accurate (It includes the year so you can tell if it's 'classic' or not. Please let me know if not. I'm keen to iron out issues before I start on the full A-Z.
Ah, it rightly ignores prefixes such as A/An/El/The/L'/Le/La/Los.
When I say 'classic', I'm referring to the period from 1982 to about 1993. I believe 1993 was the last year of the ZX Spectrum games market being commercially active (and this also includes magazines). You could still go into shops in high streets and shopping centres to buy games for your Speccy. It was pretty hard of course, and most of the stuff by this point were budget re-releases of full price games.
What isn't 'classic', is the homebrew stuff and other things made now the ZX Spectrum is a specialist interest. (Not that I'm putting it down, I'm a huge fan of
Buzzsaw+.)
There is a bit of a grey area. Zenobi Software were selling new games (albeit via mail order) until 1997. I'm not sure how to class them. Then there's
what was going in eastern Europe with all the Speccy clones and an apparently thriving games market..