Introduce yourself!
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My name's Andy.
I just thought I'd say hello, so... Hello!
I just thought I'd say hello, so... Hello!
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Andy! Great to see you here.
(Bellend).
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Hello!
I'm a new member who joined the forum because I recently got my hands on a Spectrum 128 with Knight Lore, Gunfright and Tetris for it. And I barely know how to use it so I decided to register on here to learn more about it.
Plus, if things go the way I want them to go, I may get my hands on a Soviet made copy of one of the Spectrum computers (don't remember this one) from my father-in-law, should he find it in the attic.
See you soon on the forums!
I'm a new member who joined the forum because I recently got my hands on a Spectrum 128 with Knight Lore, Gunfright and Tetris for it. And I barely know how to use it so I decided to register on here to learn more about it.
Plus, if things go the way I want them to go, I may get my hands on a Soviet made copy of one of the Spectrum computers (don't remember this one) from my father-in-law, should he find it in the attic.
See you soon on the forums!
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Welcome [mention]Foxbat_25[/mention]
Feel free to ask any questions if you get stuck. If you do manage to find that Russian clone, photos would be appreciated
Feel free to ask any questions if you get stuck. If you do manage to find that Russian clone, photos would be appreciated
- Ast A. Moore
- Rick Dangerous
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I hate you already.
Just kidding, of course. Welcome to Spectrum Computing!
Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
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Thanks for the fast welcome! I'll make sure to take pictures of that clone under every possible angle if I do see it someday!
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Hi, I'm Richard and my first computer was a 48K+. I love reading about and playing spectrum games, these days I only play on an emulator. Sometime I would like to buy a real spectrum, but living in the USA makes using a real one a little more tricky.
Big shout out to Fusion Retro Books/Magazines and The Spectrum Show. Great content!
Thanks
Rich
Big shout out to Fusion Retro Books/Magazines and The Spectrum Show. Great content!
Thanks
Rich
- Juan F. Ramirez
- Bugaboo
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- Location: Málaga, Spain
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Welcome, [mention]rdhcook[/mention] !
I'm sure thanks to this forum you'll find the way to get a real Spectrum.
I'm sure thanks to this forum you'll find the way to get a real Spectrum.
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Yep welcome [mention]rdhcook[/mention] !
If you're still looking for a real speccy I can sell you this beautiful 48k mod for, say, £1000
As they say on eBay: It's untested but it should work.
If you're still looking for a real speccy I can sell you this beautiful 48k mod for, say, £1000
As they say on eBay: It's untested but it should work.
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lol, nice but I'll pass on that one.
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Hi to the community from Portugal.
My name's Francisco, and I have recently acquired my first Speccies, an issue 2 M332 with plastic keyboard, assembled by Timex Portugal, and an issue 6B.
Both have gotten new keyboard membranes, but the 6B is behaving erratically. So I hope I can get some more knowledge.
Cheers!
My name's Francisco, and I have recently acquired my first Speccies, an issue 2 M332 with plastic keyboard, assembled by Timex Portugal, and an issue 6B.
Both have gotten new keyboard membranes, but the 6B is behaving erratically. So I hope I can get some more knowledge.
Cheers!
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Hi everyone,
I'm Andy and I live in Durham.
I've spent the last 32 years as a electronics engineer, 22 of those years were spent in the Royal Navy.
I've got back into retro computers after losing interest in my previous hobby of model railways.
I have about 25 computers in my collection now including the first two computers I ever owned as a lad. A ZX81 and ZX Spectrum +. Both of which still work 32 years after being put away for the last time. For some reason (which I forget) the ZX81, and its Memotec RAM and Keyboard expansion are missing ther cases. In my collection I have a working QL, 48K and 16K rubber keyboard Spectrum's, another ZX81 (in a case this time ) and a ZX80 which I got off Ebay for £45 in non working condition. Which at present is being restored.
Anyway looking forward to taking part in the discussions.
Kind regards
Andy
I'm Andy and I live in Durham.
I've spent the last 32 years as a electronics engineer, 22 of those years were spent in the Royal Navy.
I've got back into retro computers after losing interest in my previous hobby of model railways.
I have about 25 computers in my collection now including the first two computers I ever owned as a lad. A ZX81 and ZX Spectrum +. Both of which still work 32 years after being put away for the last time. For some reason (which I forget) the ZX81, and its Memotec RAM and Keyboard expansion are missing ther cases. In my collection I have a working QL, 48K and 16K rubber keyboard Spectrum's, another ZX81 (in a case this time ) and a ZX80 which I got off Ebay for £45 in non working condition. Which at present is being restored.
Anyway looking forward to taking part in the discussions.
Kind regards
Andy
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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.
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.
- Ast A. Moore
- Rick Dangerous
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Hi [mention]jumperror[/mention],
Welcome to SC!
Welcome to SC!
Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
- WhatHoSnorkers
- Manic Miner
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Hello! I had a ZX81 and then a +2 back in the day, and got back on the BASIC horse this year.
I typed in the Usborne "Write Your Own Fantasy Adventures For Your Microcomputer" programs. I wanted to add them to the World of Spectrum website but I didn't realise it was... not updated. Would it be useful here?
I have a silly YouTube channel but the games I've typed in I'd be happy to supply here if I knew how! I did all the games from Virgin Games "Adventures for your ZX Spectrum" and some others that might be missing.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmKA-M ... rhPBsWzJg/
I just like typing in games!
I typed in the Usborne "Write Your Own Fantasy Adventures For Your Microcomputer" programs. I wanted to add them to the World of Spectrum website but I didn't realise it was... not updated. Would it be useful here?
I have a silly YouTube channel but the games I've typed in I'd be happy to supply here if I knew how! I did all the games from Virgin Games "Adventures for your ZX Spectrum" and some others that might be missing.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmKA-M ... rhPBsWzJg/
I just like typing in games!
I have a little YouTube channel of nonsense
https://www.youtube.com/c/JamesOGradyWhatHoSnorkers
https://www.youtube.com/c/JamesOGradyWhatHoSnorkers
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- Lethargeek
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hi, long time on wos & zx-pk, but right now this forum seems more lively
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Hi, decided a few days ago to finally try to teach myself BASIC on a 48k speccy. I refuse to use the 128k and plus versions, it has to be 48k for those sentimental vibes!
Been trying a few emulators and making a few bleeps and whatnot. Considered buying a speccy but instead just ordered some zx key stickers to stick on my pc keyboard, hopefully that works.
So yeah that's that!, happy new year!
Been trying a few emulators and making a few bleeps and whatnot. Considered buying a speccy but instead just ordered some zx key stickers to stick on my pc keyboard, hopefully that works.
So yeah that's that!, happy new year!
- Ast A. Moore
- Rick Dangerous
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Welcome to SC, [mention]barry[/mention]!
Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
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Welcome Barry! The plus version is fine by me, but I agree about 48K BASIC - codewords all the way. You might want to consider entering this year's crap games comp. It's a great fun and a way to hone your skills.barry wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 2:07 pm Hi, decided a few days ago to finally try to teach myself BASIC on a 48k speccy. I refuse to use the 128k and plus versions, it has to be 48k for those sentimental vibes!
Been trying a few emulators and making a few bleeps and whatnot. Considered buying a speccy but instead just ordered some zx key stickers to stick on my pc keyboard, hopefully that works.
So yeah that's that!, happy new year!
- WhatHoSnorkers
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I do find it strange. Even back in the day when I had a +2 I rarely used 128K mode to type things in. Looking at it now, I think having the cursor in amongst all the lines just feels weird. The actual typing of PEEK and POKE isn't too bad... it's the "where is the cursor what am I doing" stuff that makes me prefer finding the keywords.
That and you don't get more memory without being clever, I think.
That and you don't get more memory without being clever, I think.
I have a little YouTube channel of nonsense
https://www.youtube.com/c/JamesOGradyWhatHoSnorkers
https://www.youtube.com/c/JamesOGradyWhatHoSnorkers
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- Drutt
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Greetings from Liverpool
I got a Speccy when I was 10 and it changed my life! I started playing games and then got more and more into programming - I still played games most of the time of course! I dreamed that one day I would become a games programmer.
I've now been a professional games programmer for 23 years! I'm one of the founders and the technical director of Lucid Games.
Unfortunately we don't do much Z80 programming in the games industry anymore but I like to dabble in my spare time to help keep my aging mind sharp.
I'm particularly interested in reverse engineering old games and seeing how the programmers back in the day did stuff.
All the best,
Mark.
I got a Speccy when I was 10 and it changed my life! I started playing games and then got more and more into programming - I still played games most of the time of course! I dreamed that one day I would become a games programmer.
I've now been a professional games programmer for 23 years! I'm one of the founders and the technical director of Lucid Games.
Unfortunately we don't do much Z80 programming in the games industry anymore but I like to dabble in my spare time to help keep my aging mind sharp.
I'm particularly interested in reverse engineering old games and seeing how the programmers back in the day did stuff.
All the best,
Mark.
- Ast A. Moore
- Rick Dangerous
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Awesome, [mention]TheGoodDoktor[/mention]! Great to have you on board, Mark.TheGoodDoktor wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 5:45 pm I'm particularly interested in reverse engineering old games and seeing how the programmers back in the day did stuff.
Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.