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The Sinclair Spectrum Appreciation thread Hey every1, did any of U have a Spectrum computer. U know where U put in a cassette tape 2 play a game and it sounded like a dial-up modem!?!
Did any1 have that game called Jet Set Willy where the guy ran and stuck his head in the toilet?! Thoughts and ideas please!...  | |
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No I never had any of those things.  | |
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>Shall we play a game?
>Let's play Global Thermonuclear War. >Start The Tape | |
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Paisley said: No I never had any of those things.
They were the thing of the 80s in the UK. The US never had them then?  | |
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>10 Print "Haystack is Ace"
>20 goto 10 >run | |
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Haystack said: >10 Print "Haystack is Ace"
>20 goto 10 >run  | |
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>Out of Memor | |
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And as for Gauntlet on the Spectrum 48k...
Oh, the joy when we reached Level 42 and started singing those bland, eighties hits from Mark King and Co. | |
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Two words...
JET PAC!!! and then there's the free... HORACE GOES SKIING!!! Fuck those where the best machines in the world. And I used to be jealous of my mate 'cause he could afford a double cassette tape player!!! He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. - Albert Einstein | |
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Haystack said: And as for Gauntlet on the Spectrum 48k...
Oh, the joy when we reached Level 42 and started singing those bland, eighties hits from Mark King and Co.
on the border there's disorder now they've gone too far wait for the coup d'etat  | |
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Get lost, Speccy Nerds!
Atari rules all!! 
Although the Speccy did have some great games on it. They just looked better on the Atari and Commodore machines  | |
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ian said: Get lost, Speccy Nerds!
Atari rules all!!
Although the Speccy did have some great games on it. They just looked better on the Atari and Commodore machines ehehe, well I agree with U. But they had disks didnt they, where as the Speccy had tapes?! | |
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Of course I was a hardcore 8-bit coder d00d back in those days but I never got a Speccy. The keyboard was just too stupid. Best Speccy game? Maybe... Ant Attack.. | |
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My home computer evolution was:
ZX81 > Spectrum 48K > ATARI 500 STE!!! Yeah the Atari kicks serious ass. What was the game where you ride on the back of a friggin' dragon shooting stuff? That was so good. He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. - Albert Einstein | |
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MaggotBrain said: My home computer evolution was:
ZX81 > Spectrum 48K > ATARI 500 STE!!! Yeah the Atari kicks serious ass. What was the game where you ride on the back of a friggin' dragon shooting stuff? That was so good. Im not sure but I must say I did enjoy 'World Cup 90' and 'Return of the Jedi'! | |
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My christmas present this year, definitely! He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. - Albert Einstein | |
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I was more of an Amstrad CPC 464 man, myself. | |
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MaggotBrain said: My christmas present this year, definitely!
Ah don't bother. Get yourself a copy of MAME and some ROMs and experience the games properly | |
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Number23 said: I was more of an Amstrad CPC 464 man, myself.
Amstrad boy eh? You must have been popular at school 
- Hey 23, wanna swap some games with me? - I can't, I've just got this stupid Amstrad... | |
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Good old Atari 2600 here - fave games,Dark Cavern by Intelevision, & Defender by Atari
Most popular comment while playing Atari in about '84,"Excellent Fucking Graphics Man" I was sooo lame  **************************************************
SINGING IS THE LOWEST FORM OF COMMUNICATION - HOMER J. SIMPSON
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After that first Pong game with a console of its own and two controls where you would turn the knobs, this is what I had:
Atari 800 Commodore 128D Amiga 500 PC I can´t believe I remember the numbers of those old things! | |
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I was a Spectrum owner. I still have about 5 years worth of Crash magazine in my attic. Do you remember that mag?
Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, All the Ultimate (now Rare) games, Psst! Cookie, Jet-Pac, Atic Atac, Sabre Wulf, Alien 8, The Hobbit, Arcadia, oh man this is taking me back... Just somewhere in the middle,
Not too good and not too bad. | |
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KeithyT said: I was a Spectrum owner. I still have about 5 years worth of Crash magazine in my attic. Do you remember that mag?
Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy, All the Ultimate (now Rare) games, Psst! Cookie, Jet-Pac, Atic Atac, Sabre Wulf, Alien 8, The Hobbit, Arcadia, oh man this is taking me back... Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy! Man, those words hadn't entered my halls of forefront thought in over a decade. I'd sell my ears to play them again. | |
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The Spectrum was sold (by Timex) as the TS1500 or TS2048 in the US.
For those who are interested there are various Spectrum emulators available, with plenty of the original games, so you can play all your old 80's favourites on your PC! http://www.spectrum.lovely.net http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ http://www.spectaculator.com/ spectrum.lovely have all the following games : Ant Attack, Avalon 3D, Back 2 Skool (Sequel to Skool Daze), Batty, Centipede, Chaos, Chequered Flag, Chuckie Egg, Combat Lynx, Dark Star, Death Chase, Defender, Driller, Elite, Fairlight, Way Of The Exploding Fist, Galaxians, Hobbit, Hypersport, Invaders, Jetset Willy (Follow up to Manic Miner), Lords Of Midnight, Manic Miner, Match Point, Monty Mole, Rommel's Revenge, Scuba Dive, Skool Daze, Out of the Shadows, Tomahawk, and Zynaps. but their emulator (Jasper) is not as good as the Spectaculator. If anyone finds Horace and the Spiders! let me know. Lemmy, Bowie, Prince, Leonard. RIP. |
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AsylumUtopia said: If anyone finds Horace and the Spiders! let me know. I can help you. Orgnote me. | |
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ian said: AsylumUtopia said: If anyone finds Horace and the Spiders! let me know. I can help you. Orgnote me. Don't s'pose you could help me getting my joypad to work for my MAME emulator? Larry Graham ate my joypad edit [This message was edited Wed Nov 5 8:17:19 PST 2003 by Number23] | |
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Did anyone else have the problem of leaving it on too long and the rubber keys would start to melt?? Commodore 64 was the king back then though! My favourite speccy game on the 48k was Valhalla  Put yourself on the worldwide org map! www.frappr.com/princeorg | |
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JimmyNothing said: Did anyone else have the problem of leaving it on too long and the rubber keys would start to melt??
I had a bubbly 'P'. | |
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