Shame, if they'd said yes then you could of hung around with all the developers that Jobs managed to insult by telling them that they could develop software for the iphone, just so long as their software is a webpage. I expected people to boo when he said that, but clearly I have a lot to learn about the culture of apple worship.
Ive never had another computer that I stuck with as long as the Speccy. I remember when someone wrote a program that let you sample sound from the tape deck into the 128k ram (cant remember if it worked on the 48k too), I got such a thrill from playing stuff back at the wrong speed. Got a mouse and a 3.5" disk drive and even a video digitiser for the speccy too, printing out greyscale screengrabs from red dwarf with the bogroll printer (the alphacom32 not the sinclair one).
Had a lightpen for it that only worked once Id cut some of the plastic away.
Managed to hold the attention of nongeeks in an English class 'public speaking' exercise at school by turning my talk onthe spectrum into something slightly more interesting by ripping the top off the 48k and waving the rubber keys around.
My dad took our first two speccy's back to the shop because he thought they were faulty. When the speccy said Scroll? and he pressed the n key, it said 'break'. This was logical because Scroll? was a question, and he was replying no, but he didnt understand that, thought it was a fault.
I remember some early examples of copy protection stupidity from those days. Jet Set Willy had a colour-coded set of printed keys, to try to stop people simply photocopying them, but this was easy to manually woraround if you were prepared to spend the time. More annoying was 'what is the word on page 54, start of paragraph 2 of the manual'? Then there were methods of somehow protecting the tape contents from being copied, which had the side effect of legitimate versions failing to load on certain tapedecks. Then there was some game where they had a plastic lens you had to put on the TV to descramble a code, but it was a nightmare and they made the optics wrong. Maybe some of the current DRM stupidity wouldnt have happened if theyd studied the wisdom learnt in the spectrum years!
There's something about the black macbook that reminds me of the speccy,mostly the keyboard I guess.
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Shame, if they'd said yes then you could of hung around with all the developers that Jobs managed to insult by telling them that they could develop software for the iphone, just so long as their software is a webpage. I expected people to boo when he said that, but clearly I have a lot to learn about the culture of apple worship.
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Ive never had another computer that I stuck with as long as the Speccy. I remember when someone wrote a program that let you sample sound from the tape deck into the 128k ram (cant remember if it worked on the 48k too), I got such a thrill from playing stuff back at the wrong speed. Got a mouse and a 3.5" disk drive and even a video digitiser for the speccy too, printing out greyscale screengrabs from red dwarf with the bogroll printer (the alphacom32 not the sinclair one).
Had a lightpen for it that only worked once Id cut some of the plastic away.
Managed to hold the attention of nongeeks in an English class 'public speaking' exercise at school by turning my talk onthe spectrum into something slightly more interesting by ripping the top off the 48k and waving the rubber keys around.
My dad took our first two speccy's back to the shop because he thought they were faulty. When the speccy said Scroll? and he pressed the n key, it said 'break'. This was logical because Scroll? was a question, and he was replying no, but he didnt understand that, thought it was a fault.
I remember some early examples of copy protection stupidity from those days. Jet Set Willy had a colour-coded set of printed keys, to try to stop people simply photocopying them, but this was easy to manually woraround if you were prepared to spend the time. More annoying was 'what is the word on page 54, start of paragraph 2 of the manual'? Then there were methods of somehow protecting the tape contents from being copied, which had the side effect of legitimate versions failing to load on certain tapedecks. Then there was some game where they had a plastic lens you had to put on the TV to descramble a code, but it was a nightmare and they made the optics wrong. Maybe some of the current DRM stupidity wouldnt have happened if theyd studied the wisdom learnt in the spectrum years!
There's something about the black macbook that reminds me of the speccy,mostly the keyboard I guess.