[OT] Spectrum

As I remember, a great concept, some good hardware, and they were expensive new. Sold half a dozen...

...one to my primary school class. :)

My list...

ZX81 Spectrum 16k Oric 1 Laser 3000 - 64k Apple IIc compatible thing Atari ST 520

then in 1992 I bought a 486 DX2/66

Since then, I haven't really bought a PC. Just blagged old faulty ones from work and brought them back to life. HP NC6400 Centrino Duo is what I blagged last..

Mike P

We borrowed an Acorn Electron off some friends ages back (had either 8 or

Peter

Paradroid Delta Sanxion Uridium (better than Speccy version) Defender of the Crown

etc...

Wales connection...

Fantastic.

Decent.

Weak in my opinion, but there you go.

Renegade. More responsive on the Spectrum, looked better on the C+64.

Great fun on either, especially when you picked up a baseball bat...

Bah, I thought it was a decent shooter

Ok I'll give you Renegade.

How about Pirates? Spectrum had Tai Pan I suppose.

That said there were some great games on the Speccy which didn't make the grade (or even make it to) on the C-64. Most of the Ultimate cataloge for example...

Ok here's mine:

• Grandstand TV game (various Png versons, with added lightgun!)
• ZX Spectrum 48k
• Spectrum +2 (the built in datacoder broke, and I swapped it with a gullible computer shop owner for...)
• Commodore 64 (bought 1541)
• SEGA Master System (dunno why I bought this, I gave it to my cousin in the end)
• Amiga 500 (with two external floppy drives for some reason)
• SNES
• Amiga 1200 (with additional FPU, 4MB RAM upgrade and 60MB HD, sold to a mate)
• Sony Playstation (which I swapped with someone at work for...)
• P133 in a full sized tower. Upgraded to 128MB RAM, 6 GB 'Bigfoot' HD. Upgraded to...
• Celeron 300, overclocked to 450MHz which made it as fast as the fastest P3 available at the time. Had to run it with the side of the case off and a desk fan blowing into the side though. Upgraded to...
• Celeron 600, overclocked to 750MHz, GeForce 2 GTS graphis card. By this time the only original bit was the case... Upgraded to...
• Athlon 64 3000+, N-Force Board, Radeon 9600 Pro, loads of HD, 2GB RAM. The mainboard was destroyed by dropping, so I cobbled together this machine I'm working on now, from a board and CPU my sister thought was broken but wasn't...
• Sempron 2400, 1GB RAM. 1/2TB storage including the LAN Drive I've got. Good job I'm not into gaming now...

I've got a 1.6GHz Pentium M Laptop with 1/2GB RAM too, which I use as a media PC attached to my TV.

That would be right - DOS 3.2 in my case.

I also had an Epson 9 pin dot matrix printer too.

Oh indeed, and way of the exploding fist.

Must all remember Twin Kingdom Valley. Nothing better than a 7 minute loading wait between game sections.

That's why it was always important to have one Speccy-owning mate when you were at school!

Only until a hard crust formed.

Fraser