Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
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#OnThisDay in 1982, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum was released! Here's our earliest Spectrum, with light grey keys instead of the blue-grey used in later models.
Have you got any photos of you with your first Speccy?
Learn more: https://t.co/HCnmwPM7zU #MuseumFromHome #ZXSpectrum https://t.co/4yZXiQEnUi
#OnThisDay in 1982, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum was released! Here's our earliest Spectrum, with light grey keys instead of the blue-grey used in later models.
Have you got any photos of you with your first Speccy?
Learn more: https://t.co/HCnmwPM7zU #MuseumFromHome #ZXSpectrum https://t.co/4yZXiQEnUi
- Ast A. Moore
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Re: Happy Birthday!
Hip hip hooray!
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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The 'boy' is 38 today and he's still at home!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
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It was nice that Google did this on the 35th Birthday:
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Yep happy birthday! I'm afraid I don't have my first speccy, but I'd love to know what became of it.
Indeed! And to mark the occasion, I've put a brew on. I wonder if I'll be able to keep it until the 40th anniversary...
Indeed! And to mark the occasion, I've put a brew on. I wonder if I'll be able to keep it until the 40th anniversary...
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I think it joined a traveling circus and fell in love with a midget bearded woman who broke its heart. It then hit the bottle and has been in and out of rehab ever since.
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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I think my dad took it to the tip.Ast A. Moore wrote: ↑Thu Apr 23, 2020 10:25 pm I think it joined a traveling circus and fell in love with a midget bearded woman who broke its heart. It then hit the bottle and has been in and out of rehab ever since.
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Happy Birthday to this magical machine!!
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Damn! Happy Birthday to my cute little ZX Spectrum!
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I see your Old Clive's Chuntey, and I raise you...
I have around four gallons of the latest batch of Mad Professor Jim's Four Star Cider ready for bottling right around... now. And this lot is the all-new Redex-boosted version, which contains extra rhubarb from a darkened shed in Yorkshire.
I was a bit busy yesterday (writing Spectrum programs!) to crack open one of the last bottles of the previous batch, but I'll do so over the weekend.
Spectribution: Dr. Jim's Sinclair computing pages.
Features my own programs, modified type-ins, RZXs, character sets & UDGs, and QL type-ins... so far!
Features my own programs, modified type-ins, RZXs, character sets & UDGs, and QL type-ins... so far!
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I'm impressed! You should do a ZX themed label. That's a damned strong cider.TMD2003 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 4:50 pm I have around four gallons of the latest batch of Mad Professor Jim's Four Star Cider ready for bottling right around... now. And this lot is the all-new Redex-boosted version, which contains extra rhubarb from a darkened shed in Yorkshire.
I was a bit busy yesterday (writing Spectrum programs!) to crack open one of the last bottles of the previous batch, but I'll do so over the weekend.
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An article on the Spectrum in "Interesting Engineering" *. I don't think you'll learn anything new from it but I like seeing the Sir Clive interview linked there
https://interestingengineering.com/a-hi ... nniversary
* Funny how that title somehow implies the magazine will be anything but interesting
https://interestingengineering.com/a-hi ... nniversary
* Funny how that title somehow implies the magazine will be anything but interesting
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It's what you get if you take Lidl's pressed apple juice and ferment it out completely. It's slightly diluted with some strong tea, to provide some extra tannins, that are absent from eating apples. This takes it down to around 6% (it'd be 6.5% otherwise but at the expense of flavour) - but I'd rater have it this way. And, as you point out, a few of these and you're well on your way.
I have a hydrometer but I don't use it for cider - I worked out the ABV via the amount of sugars per 100 ml printed in the nutrition information. A bit of chemistry here, a bit of number crunching there, allow for the tea, ABV 6.1%. Note that I forgot to account for the tea first time round, which is what's shown in the picture, though the apple juice was a little more sugary so it would have been 6.4-6.5%, rather than the 6.8% it says.
Right, better check I have enough bottles... and if not, I know what to do!
Spectribution: Dr. Jim's Sinclair computing pages.
Features my own programs, modified type-ins, RZXs, character sets & UDGs, and QL type-ins... so far!
Features my own programs, modified type-ins, RZXs, character sets & UDGs, and QL type-ins... so far!
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Happy Birthday, ZX Spectrum!
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Dance like you're 41!
(image stolen from @druellan's post)
The Speccy is still going strong (unlike most of my keyboard membranes).
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41 isn't really anything to shout about - ask my brother who barely noticed earlier this month - but Happy Birthday to the Spectrum anyway.
Next year is a big one, for those who know...
Next year is a big one, for those who know...
Spoiler
The QL is 40! Why, what did you think I meant?
Spectribution: Dr. Jim's Sinclair computing pages.
Features my own programs, modified type-ins, RZXs, character sets & UDGs, and QL type-ins... so far!
Features my own programs, modified type-ins, RZXs, character sets & UDGs, and QL type-ins... so far!
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Very big Happy birthday to the Speccy, I still have my PS Vita with only a retroarch setup just to relive the good old days.
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The Speccy is a big boy now! I, for one, am glad I’ve been with it for all these years.
(It’s unfortunate that Uncle Clive is no longer with us.)
Happy Birthday to the best eight-bit micro!
(It’s unfortunate that Uncle Clive is no longer with us.)
Happy Birthday to the best eight-bit micro!
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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I must reckon I forgot this day... the Spectrum is becoming another wife!
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i thought it had just turned 40... where did the last year go???
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41 is an easier one to forget. Next year is a biggy for the Hitchhiker's Guide reference, and seven years' time will be massive because it's the answer to life, the universe and everything.
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Happy Birthday Speccy, 41 years is a long time and honestly, you look better then ever to me.
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Also, very appropriately, I've spent an entire day in the company of the Son Of Spectrum.
Well, CSpect, really, but getting back to the swing of things with LAYERs and PALETTEs and TILEs and... all I'm going to do is waste it on more junk to throw at @Jbizzel and his N-Go. That's still more than a lot of people who shelled out for the Issue 1 Next are doing with theirs, though...
Well, CSpect, really, but getting back to the swing of things with LAYERs and PALETTEs and TILEs and... all I'm going to do is waste it on more junk to throw at @Jbizzel and his N-Go. That's still more than a lot of people who shelled out for the Issue 1 Next are doing with theirs, though...
Spectribution: Dr. Jim's Sinclair computing pages.
Features my own programs, modified type-ins, RZXs, character sets & UDGs, and QL type-ins... so far!
Features my own programs, modified type-ins, RZXs, character sets & UDGs, and QL type-ins... so far!