Introduce yourself!
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Hi all,
I'm Paul Monaghan, not to be mixed up with the 'other' Paul Monaghan that does podcasts. Been involved in Speccy's since I was a wee nipper like most I guess and now burying myself in Speccy stuff and doing a pretty good job of it.
Cya!
I'm Paul Monaghan, not to be mixed up with the 'other' Paul Monaghan that does podcasts. Been involved in Speccy's since I was a wee nipper like most I guess and now burying myself in Speccy stuff and doing a pretty good job of it.
Cya!
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- Drutt
- Posts: 7
- Joined: Mon Nov 13, 2017 5:23 pm
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Hello
Just a quick post to say Hello and congrats on setting up a new Spectrum site.
Long time Speccy owner back in the day before I sold it all. Slowly rebuilding a collection.
The Speccy community needs something fresh away from certain people so good luck
Just a quick post to say Hello and congrats on setting up a new Spectrum site.
Long time Speccy owner back in the day before I sold it all. Slowly rebuilding a collection.
The Speccy community needs something fresh away from certain people so good luck
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Hi,
I'm Rich and the odd one or two of you may know me from that other site.
I don't post all that often but hope I'm bordering on being rational when I do
I'm Rich and the odd one or two of you may know me from that other site.
I don't post all that often but hope I'm bordering on being rational when I do
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Hello, my name is Morkin and it took me over 30 years to get Bugaboo out of his cave.
I thought I'd better join before someone else snaffled up ''Morkin" for a nickname...
Nice to see the addition of a forum to this site, the more Speccy sites the better as far as I'm concerned!
I thought I'd better join before someone else snaffled up ''Morkin" for a nickname...
Nice to see the addition of a forum to this site, the more Speccy sites the better as far as I'm concerned!
My Speccy site: thirdharmoniser.com
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- Manic Miner
- Posts: 390
- Joined: Sun Nov 12, 2017 3:54 pm
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Hello, I'm Craig Stevenson also known in various places as redballoon or @hot_piping on Twitter.
I'm a ZX Spectrum graphic artist and freelance illustrator. I've produced artwork for Edge magazine (most notably, the ZX Spectrum GTA Vice City cover for their 20th Anniversay), Bitmap Books (new pixel artwork their Visual Compendium series of books including the ZX Spectrum one), ROM Publishing (articles for Elite and their Britsoft book) amongst various others.
I've produced graphics/loading screens for a few recent Spectrum games but can no longer give my time to do this due to paid freelance work and life, and when I do, it has to be during spare time in between jobs and only be a small amount of work. I'll still produce new original ZX Spectrum artwork, though.
I'm a ZX Spectrum graphic artist and freelance illustrator. I've produced artwork for Edge magazine (most notably, the ZX Spectrum GTA Vice City cover for their 20th Anniversay), Bitmap Books (new pixel artwork their Visual Compendium series of books including the ZX Spectrum one), ROM Publishing (articles for Elite and their Britsoft book) amongst various others.
I've produced graphics/loading screens for a few recent Spectrum games but can no longer give my time to do this due to paid freelance work and life, and when I do, it has to be during spare time in between jobs and only be a small amount of work. I'll still produce new original ZX Spectrum artwork, though.
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Hi, I'm Derek Fountain, just one more professional software developer whose 30 year career started the day he brought a Spectrum home in 1983 (just after the 48K model came down in price). Like most of us I was a keen gamer back then, but I lost interest in games fairly quickly when I discovered programming. I was the first in my school to find the infinite lives poke for Jet Set Willy.
I'd love to be able to spend more time with the Spectrum scene, but alas real life gets in the way a bit too often. Here's hoping though.
I'd love to be able to spend more time with the Spectrum scene, but alas real life gets in the way a bit too often. Here's hoping though.
Derek Fountain, author of the ZX Spectrum C Programmer's Getting Started Guide and various open source games, hardware and other projects, including an IF1 and ZX Microdrive emulator.
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- Drutt
- Posts: 26
- Joined: Mon Nov 13, 2017 6:26 pm
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Hello, I'm another guy who likes ZX Spectrum, I had my first (second-hand) zx spectrum in 1989; since then it's been my hobby and I thank for it because it sparked my career as a programmer.
I'm more active in the Portuguese scene and on facebook groups, but I'll try to participate more in this forum (I'm a bit shy )
I'm more active in the Portuguese scene and on facebook groups, but I'll try to participate more in this forum (I'm a bit shy )
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- Drutt
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Mon Nov 13, 2017 7:33 pm
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Hi I'm Jay from Atherstone, Warks
I'm a spectrum fan but because I'm hanging around those who love sinclair products, my interests are be coming more diverse in the sinclair range.
I'm also known in a lot of groups on Facebook and is building up a repair service from scratch after leaving the repair scene for a number of years due to a motorcycle accident that left me with a long recovery time physically and mentally
Electronics is my hobby as well as Retro Computing.
Am I mental? ...yes
I'm a spectrum fan but because I'm hanging around those who love sinclair products, my interests are be coming more diverse in the sinclair range.
I'm also known in a lot of groups on Facebook and is building up a repair service from scratch after leaving the repair scene for a number of years due to a motorcycle accident that left me with a long recovery time physically and mentally
Electronics is my hobby as well as Retro Computing.
Am I mental? ...yes
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- Drutt
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Mon Nov 13, 2017 7:52 pm
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Hello all
I'm big Spectrum fan, I've owned every model and have played most of the games. Now I'm a host of the Retro Asylum podcast.
Great to see this site appear. Cheers, Paul
I'm big Spectrum fan, I've owned every model and have played most of the games. Now I'm a host of the Retro Asylum podcast.
Great to see this site appear. Cheers, Paul
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I'm Collieuk and I mostly talk irrelevant bollocks about the ZX Spectrum on YouTube and Twitter, and occasionally to people in my day to day life too if I can stop them running away first. I still harbour a grudge to those who owned C64's as a child, even after all these years.
Another wonderfully irrelevant and inept post no doubt.
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Hullo. I got my Spectrum in late 2013, 'tis never too late to join the party, right?.
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It depends if you went through the running naked through the street with a rubber keyboard Spectrum strapped to your back ritual all latecomers from 2010 had to go through. We can't talk unless you did.
Another wonderfully irrelevant and inept post no doubt.
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Of course, it was mandatory. I believe there might be some pictures of the event as well.
ZX Soft - ALIEN(BUGFIX) - GB Soft - Demoscene
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Hello, I'm another guy who likes ZX Spectrum & related.. also known as Thomas in Einar's ZXDB update posts
My first computer was a ZX81 with 32K Memotech Ram, blah bla bla.. ZX Spectrum 48K rubber.. more blah blah upgraded to ZX Spectrum+ yet more blah blah.. ZX Spectrum +3... contributed to a Unix/X emulator named xzx back in 90' - then long period of silence.
I'm also the author of one of the other ZXDB frontends - and at the same time collaborating with PeterJ and Einar.
Current collection of H/W:
ZX81 recapped, ULA heatsink & Traco replacement with ZX-CBB and ZXPand+
ZX81 unmodified, 16K + 32K Memotech Ram
ZX Spectrum 48K Rubber - recapped, composite mod & Traco replacement
ZX Spectrum 48K Rubber - unmodified
ZX Spectrum 128K toastrack - unmodified.
-cheers
My first computer was a ZX81 with 32K Memotech Ram, blah bla bla.. ZX Spectrum 48K rubber.. more blah blah upgraded to ZX Spectrum+ yet more blah blah.. ZX Spectrum +3... contributed to a Unix/X emulator named xzx back in 90' - then long period of silence.
I'm also the author of one of the other ZXDB frontends - and at the same time collaborating with PeterJ and Einar.
Current collection of H/W:
ZX81 recapped, ULA heatsink & Traco replacement with ZX-CBB and ZXPand+
ZX81 unmodified, 16K + 32K Memotech Ram
ZX Spectrum 48K Rubber - recapped, composite mod & Traco replacement
ZX Spectrum 48K Rubber - unmodified
ZX Spectrum 128K toastrack - unmodified.
-cheers
https://api.zxinfo.dk/v3/ - ZXDB API for developers
zxinfo-file-browser - Cross platform app to manage your files
https://zxinfo.dk - another ZXDB frontend
zxinfo-file-browser - Cross platform app to manage your files
https://zxinfo.dk - another ZXDB frontend
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Hello James...
Think we had some chit-chat back about 10 years ago, when I did the native OS/2 version of x128 (NOT the recompiled X/Window version for OS/2)
You probably don't know - but the OS/2 version actually ended up on a danish magazine cover cd
/Thomas
https://api.zxinfo.dk/v3/ - ZXDB API for developers
zxinfo-file-browser - Cross platform app to manage your files
https://zxinfo.dk - another ZXDB frontend
zxinfo-file-browser - Cross platform app to manage your files
https://zxinfo.dk - another ZXDB frontend
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Great to see so many familiar faces on here already
Fixing ZX Spectrums in the 21st Century
https://github.com/brendanalford/zx-diagnostics
https://github.com/brendanalford/zx-diagnostics
- MatGubbins
- Dynamite Dan
- Posts: 1239
- Joined: Mon Nov 13, 2017 11:45 am
- Location: Kent, UK
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From Kent, UK.
Been using the Spectrum since 1984, played lots of games, wrote lots of basic and graphic stuff.
Moved to the Amiga and PC but always came back to the Spectrum and emulation for real games.
Made a few map editors for Laser Squad, Rebelstar, Martianoids, Nightshade and Gunfright.
Managed to learn machine code, it was a huge step, wrote lots of screen moving routines, started a few simple games that never saw the light of day. Finally got Bomb Munchies on the go, and it is still going, learning new ways of coding things and improving old code. I always kid myself that the latest version will be the last... but I will always find some extra bytes and add something new.
Responsible for a handful of crap games too.
One day I will get back to restarting project Amy..... just maybe next year or the year after.
Been using the Spectrum since 1984, played lots of games, wrote lots of basic and graphic stuff.
Moved to the Amiga and PC but always came back to the Spectrum and emulation for real games.
Made a few map editors for Laser Squad, Rebelstar, Martianoids, Nightshade and Gunfright.
Managed to learn machine code, it was a huge step, wrote lots of screen moving routines, started a few simple games that never saw the light of day. Finally got Bomb Munchies on the go, and it is still going, learning new ways of coding things and improving old code. I always kid myself that the latest version will be the last... but I will always find some extra bytes and add something new.
Responsible for a handful of crap games too.
One day I will get back to restarting project Amy..... just maybe next year or the year after.
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Hi, Thomas.
Ah, you trigger vague memories in my brain.
Yes, that was some time ago. It's nice that it ended up somewhere! Magazines would ask me permission to put the DOS version on their coverdisk and I would say "yes" and provide a list of conditions (correct version, correct email addresses, etc.) Then I would buy the magazine and find that they'd put something like V0.3 on the CD, featuring my old email address from the university I'd left years ago!
Just like before, it's yesterday once more.
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Hi all,
Ex preservation team member from a different era on a different site. Used to run the preservation team shop.
I can be found on farcebook under the moniker of "Ruskin Roader" which I use for my music and photography interests.
Present retro hobby is OCRing all my magazines into searchable database.
Other hobbies include breeding and growing chillies, home brewing and being a live in slave to my cat.
ADJB
Ex preservation team member from a different era on a different site. Used to run the preservation team shop.
I can be found on farcebook under the moniker of "Ruskin Roader" which I use for my music and photography interests.
Present retro hobby is OCRing all my magazines into searchable database.
Other hobbies include breeding and growing chillies, home brewing and being a live in slave to my cat.
ADJB
- Juan F. Ramirez
- Bugaboo
- Posts: 5137
- Joined: Tue Nov 14, 2017 6:55 am
- Location: Málaga, Spain
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Hi!
I'm Juan, from Málaga, Spain. I'm a proud Spectrum owner since 1985.
I've been posting on WoS forums from more than 10 years and now also here. Seems another cool place to talk about our beloved little computer.
I love posting about Spectrum games and I think we'll have a great time here!
Sabre Wulf & Knight Lore are my fave Speccy games (Fred my fave spanish one, hence my avatar!)
I'm Juan, from Málaga, Spain. I'm a proud Spectrum owner since 1985.
I've been posting on WoS forums from more than 10 years and now also here. Seems another cool place to talk about our beloved little computer.
I love posting about Spectrum games and I think we'll have a great time here!
Sabre Wulf & Knight Lore are my fave Speccy games (Fred my fave spanish one, hence my avatar!)
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Breeding is your hobby?ADJB wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 7:13 am Hi all,
Ex preservation team member from a different era on a different site. Used to run the preservation team shop.
I can be found on farcebook under the moniker of "Ruskin Roader" which I use for my music and photography interests.
Present retro hobby is OCRing all my magazines into searchable database.
Other hobbies include breeding and growing chillies, home brewing and being a live in slave to my cat.
ADJB
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Nice to see you Juan! Don't forget - September the 2nd is International Fred appreciation day. I think there's a calendar I can put this event in here somewhere.Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2017 7:17 am Hi!
I'm Juan, from Málaga, Spain. I'm a proud Spectrum owner since 1985.
I've been posting on WoS forums from more than 10 years and now also here. Seems another cool place to talk about our beloved little computer.
I love posting about Spectrum games and I think we'll have a great time here!
Sabre Wulf & Knight Lore are my fave Speccy games (Fred my fave spanish one, hence my avatar!)
- florinthedwarf
- Drutt
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Mon Nov 13, 2017 6:59 pm
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Hi all.
I'm Paul Davies, often confused with the host of the Retro Asylum podcast! (Sorry, Paul!) But I'm the @florinthedwarf one you may find on Twitter and other sites
Been a Spectrum fan since I first played on one, so since about three years old Owned other machines, Atari 65XE, Amiga, and a few consoles but Speccy is the one I hold dearest
Started writing reviews of my favourite Speccy games a few years ago for Retroyak.com and then more recently indieretronews.com. Have also had a few features published on Retrovideogramer.co.uk. I try to do at least one review each month for Indieretronews and would like to do a lot more, but work and kids make this very tricky and spare time is at a premium most of the time! Would love to write full time....we can all dream, right?
Working on putting a book together of my reviews, though taking longer than expected (see above, RE: kids etc.) Will get there one day though!
Glad to be here. Looks like the place to be for everyone's Speccy needs
I'm Paul Davies, often confused with the host of the Retro Asylum podcast! (Sorry, Paul!) But I'm the @florinthedwarf one you may find on Twitter and other sites
Been a Spectrum fan since I first played on one, so since about three years old Owned other machines, Atari 65XE, Amiga, and a few consoles but Speccy is the one I hold dearest
Started writing reviews of my favourite Speccy games a few years ago for Retroyak.com and then more recently indieretronews.com. Have also had a few features published on Retrovideogramer.co.uk. I try to do at least one review each month for Indieretronews and would like to do a lot more, but work and kids make this very tricky and spare time is at a premium most of the time! Would love to write full time....we can all dream, right?
Working on putting a book together of my reviews, though taking longer than expected (see above, RE: kids etc.) Will get there one day though!
Glad to be here. Looks like the place to be for everyone's Speccy needs
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I don't think I need much introduction as I see mostly familiar names all around
But here goes anyway: I'm Søren and I'm from Denmark. I'm 50 and got my first Spectrum in spring '83. I drink way too many beers (brew them too) & watch too much TV but somehow still manage to make games. The latest Spectrum one was Vallation & I have a remake of Sqij coming up soon.
Forum-wise I've been pro-Wos for a long time, but these days I'm "tired pro-WoS". I honestly wish there was only one forum (and no Facebook groups) and everyone would get along in the same place, instead of having such a fragmented community ... but sadly things "over there" aren't as friendly anymore (for various reasons - and Facebook is just useless in general), so that's why I've signed up here. I won't be posting much (I don't at Wos either) but there's a chance I'll cross-post when I do. One thing is for sure - I'm coming in with a positive attitude and I wish this forum the best. I also promise to not call anyone a ... Wally. Unless it's their username
But here goes anyway: I'm Søren and I'm from Denmark. I'm 50 and got my first Spectrum in spring '83. I drink way too many beers (brew them too) & watch too much TV but somehow still manage to make games. The latest Spectrum one was Vallation & I have a remake of Sqij coming up soon.
Forum-wise I've been pro-Wos for a long time, but these days I'm "tired pro-WoS". I honestly wish there was only one forum (and no Facebook groups) and everyone would get along in the same place, instead of having such a fragmented community ... but sadly things "over there" aren't as friendly anymore (for various reasons - and Facebook is just useless in general), so that's why I've signed up here. I won't be posting much (I don't at Wos either) but there's a chance I'll cross-post when I do. One thing is for sure - I'm coming in with a positive attitude and I wish this forum the best. I also promise to not call anyone a ... Wally. Unless it's their username
Website: Tardis Remakes / Mostly remakes of Arcade and ZX Spectrum games.
My games for the Spectrum: Dingo, The Speccies, The Speccies 2, Vallation & Sqij.
Twitter: Sokurah
My games for the Spectrum: Dingo, The Speccies, The Speccies 2, Vallation & Sqij.
Twitter: Sokurah