Spectrum Computing

Any specchums going to this? It's not far from me and I'm trying to decide if it's worth popping along for an afternoon. I was there about 6 years ago and had a good crack with the Bog Brothers. There was a decent central area that was mainly 8bits. It sounds like there's less of that now, but is it still a prominent feature?

There were still loads of 8-bits to go on at the Manchester Play Expo in May.

The Next team and about 10 Nexts wills be there.

I'm over there on both days, filming for Reheated Pixels.

Bit of a long trip. I think I usually get to Corfu in less time that it would take me to get to Blackpool!

I decided to give it a go. There weren't many old Sinclair computers - A ZX81 with a blank screen, a 48K with JetPac on it (unfortunately jammed when I tried it) and a +2 with Rambo-3 (some scoundrel before gave it WASD keys!). Plenty of well smart arcade cabinets though.

Had a bash on the Next in a Lo-Fi case. Not sure I made the most of it's expanded features though...



Didn't know many faces there—nice to meet Prodge, the man of many polls

Bruce Lee RX will be there. With some easter eggs

I was there. Quite fun, although I spend most of my time trying to get on arcades. Top 2 are currently:
Buggy Boy
Berzerk

namco wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:28 pm I was there. Quite fun, although I spend most of my time trying to get on arcades. Top 2 are currently:
Buggy Boy
Berzerk

Yeah same here. I was itching to try Rally-X but it was always bloody busy.

Not only did I meet [mention]R-Tape[/mention], he'll be in a Reheated Pixels video, hopefully out by the end of the week.

Also played on the Spectrum Next for the first time. Jim Bagley had me on Baggers In Space. I wasn't very good at it...

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:58 pm

Aawwww! Paris, the city of light... marvellous!

*gets coat*

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 6:05 am

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:58 pm

Aawwww! Paris, the city of light... marvellous!

*gets coat*

I went there, never did see their tower...

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 11:58 pm

The No brek h tel could do with a bit of TLC inside and out. The oldest computer on show was probably 20 years younger than the decor.

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 6:05 am Aawwww! Paris, the city of light... marvellous!

Paris ripped us off!

Distressing lack of seagulls. Where have they all gone?

Revive an old thread!!
Anyone going tomorrow?

scoppack wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 8:51 pm Revive an old thread!!
Anyone going tomorrow?

Not possible for me this time unfortunately. Ho hum.

Whoever is going, do share pics or reports of what's going on there please!

A couple of weeks ago I was planning to go to this. Any excuse to go to the brilliantly awful (yes, I said brilliantly awful) town of Blackpool, which I visit every year, not just for retrogaming purposes. But I've already been to Blackpool this summer and I've got to look after the pennies leading up to
Christmas, so, reluctantly, I had to give this weekend a miss.

I did pop by during a long walk into Bispham and am pleased the usually dreadful Norbreck Castle Hotel (run by the, er, rather questionable ) had the outside in the middle of a fairly decent paint job. Looked far better than [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEvMe5UJno]when I was last there, in 2019.




The inside is still crumbling, stained and generally awful. Typical Britannia Hotels behaviour, sadly.