Retro - Spectrum 48k
Day 4,473, 14:48
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by Winston Hope Smith
Does anyone remember these bad boys?
When I was a teenager my brother got one... You kids might not know but to have a PC in the early eighties was a big deal, and expensive, and this little box of tricks was an affordable solution for those of us suffering the recession that Thatcher's Britain inflicted on the world.
You had to write your programmes in Basic and yes you needed a line number.
You uploaded/saved programmes via a tape deck and video output was via an RF port to your TV.
Hours and hours I spent typing programmes in from magazines only to fine I made an error in some character or other.
So I decided to try pick up one and reminisce (ask my brother if he still has his) and I'll let you all know what happens.
Here is a vid on another person's journey.
www.youtube.com/embed/RKiOEmQCKww
When I was a teenager my brother got one... You kids might not know but to have a PC in the early eighties was a big deal, and expensive, and this little box of tricks was an affordable solution for those of us suffering the recession that Thatcher's Britain inflicted on the world.
You had to write your programmes in Basic and yes you needed a line number.
You uploaded/saved programmes via a tape deck and video output was via an RF port to your TV.
Hours and hours I spent typing programmes in from magazines only to fine I made an error in some character or other.
So I decided to try pick up one and reminisce (ask my brother if he still has his) and I'll let you all know what happens.
Here is a vid on another person's journey.
www.youtube.com/embed/RKiOEmQCKww
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A wondeful PC 🙂 Exolon was good, but Elite was something unbelievable!
Ha ha ... I loved the Mad Martha maze type game 😛
All of this takes me back to those wretched text-based adventure games, displayed on a small green/black monitor screen. hmm, no wonder I was such a reader....
Thanks for reminding us how far things have come.
i had hand held games. donkey kong nintendo , a helicopter game some kind of egg catcher. cant remember what happened to them .i can remember also like you said my one friend stopped coding because of that issue. which is weird because nowadays your programs can be infinitely more complicated with almost no errors.
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Nope. I have never seen one.