...grew up in the UK and wasted your childhood sat 2 feet in front of your family TV with a black box hanging out of it...
Then follow this link :
http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/
It says more about my childhood that I would really care to admit.
[Sir Clive Sinclair, if you are reading, I will forever be indebted to you...it DID make a generation who can code (as the song points out)]
-Russ
R: Tape loading error
This is all a bit self indulgent, I apologise, but for those who are interested (someone?)..
http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/sinclair/clive_dt170998.htm
This would kind of explain what that silly song is all about.
"The Spectrum has long since died but its legacy lives on. Thousands exposed in their youth who didn't make it as games millionaires, are now propping up the technology industry, running Web sites, or are buried deep in some other technology-driven pastime."
Well, they got that bit right. 🙂
-Russ
Originally posted by eyeqpcForget the Segway, even George Bush couldn't crash a C5, surely!?
Ahhh........the memories, it feels like only yesterday when i was playing Elite, hang on it was.
As Russ says, thanks Clive for everything (except the c5).
You can't beat the thrill of getting through Jetpac!!!!
Shame about being crushed by lorries, a small design flaw...
[I must admit, I have never driven/ridden/pushed a C5. My life feels incomplete. Time to head over to ebay...😉]
-Russ
Originally posted by RussHey Russ,
Forget the Segway, even George Bush couldn't crash a C5, surely!?
Shame about being crushed by lorries, a small design flaw...
[I must admit, I have never driven/ridden/pushed a C5. My life feels incomplete. Time to head over to ebay...😉]
-Russ
Nostalgia aint what it used to be!
1 edit
Originally posted by dfm65Of course I remember those! Well, at least by name; I thought the TRS-80 had room for a cartridge? I mean, the cartridge would blend in with the box, leaving a black area exposed in the left hand corner of the box when it was removed. But according to this site (http://www.homecomputer.de/pages/f_commodore.html), the TRS-80 had no such thing. What am I mixing it up with?
I cut my teeth on a TRS-80...anybody remember them?
Although my First True Love was an Acorn Atom. 12k of RAM (of which 6k dedicated to 'hi res' graphics --hi res being 192 * 256.. 🙂) and 12 k ROM. Those were the days... Even wrote a program for it that looked vaguely like the Apple MacDraw program. Called it Macorn...
3 edits
Originally posted by eyeqpcI remember being summoned to the headmaster's office in infants school when I was about 8 or 9.
Ahhh........the memories, it feels like only yesterday when i was playing Elite, hang on it was.
As Russ says, thanks Clive for everything (except the c5).
You can't beat the thrill of getting through Jetpac!!!!
He wanted me to key in a golf game from a magazine into his ZX81.
I also remember being embarrased during a school class when we were talking about foreign languages and it being confidently mentioned that "Chris will be able to tell us a word used in computer programs that sounds foreign to us", and after much panic (it was harder than you think), finally saying "Gosub!".
Originally posted by ChrismoI remember my first experience at coding was on a ZX81, it introduced me to BASIC and Hexadecimal machine code, it was a nightmare trying to type a program in with those touch sensitve keys.
I remember being summoned to the headmaster's office in infants school when I was about 8 or 9.
He wanted me to key in a golf game from a magazine into his ZX81.
I also remember being embarrased during a school class when we were talking about foreign languages and it being confidently mentioned that "Chris will be able to tell us a word used in comp ...[text shortened]... reign to us", and after much panic (it was harder than you think), finally saying "Gosub!".
Oh, and that wobbley ram pack was brill
- Joined
- 20 Feb 02
- Moves
- 58336
Originally posted by eyeqpcI found that site at work a few years ago, its very good. It had me hunting around the loft for my old copies of Crash magazine to find the map that told you where everything was. Building a huge army and marching up the board only to be killed by a pack of wolves 🙂
And if anyone remembers Lords of Midnight try this website.
www.icemark.com
It has an excellent ported version for th PC on here, plus an all new version with a new engine and interface, with more upto date graphics,
Andrew
1 edit
Originally posted by latex bishopAhhhh......its bringing it all back. Those were great times.
I found that site at work a few years ago, its very good. It had me hunting around the loft for my old copies of Crash magazine to find the map that told you where everything was. Building a huge army and marching up the board only to be killed by a pack of wolves 🙂
Andrew
Anyway icemark.com has all the maps and stuff on there plus the PC game has a built in map which is cool.
Originally posted by latex bishopI worked on a game once that just narrowly missed a 'Crash Smash'. Can you blame me for still being angry at the world?
I found that site at work a few years ago, its very good. It had me hunting around the loft for my old copies of Crash magazine to find the map that told you where everything was. Building a huge army and marching up the board only to be killed by a pack of wolves 🙂
Andrew
[But Crash (or Your Sinclair, I forget) did have a full colour map of it - which was pretty cool]
-Russ