ZX Spectrum 25 years on
A great ‘homage’ to the ZX Spectrum at the BBC website.
Whilst all my friends were playing games on this amazing piece of hardware, I decided to program it instead. However I couldn’t resist the occasional game of Manic Miner, JetPac and Sabre Wulf now and again.
May 8th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
ZX Spectrum, pahh, you want to try building a BBC Micro!
One box, a rubbish manual, a million random parts and two months later I could play Frogger.
October 21st, 2007 at 1:34 pm
I started off an a Dragon 32. Crap graphics, very few games and it couldn’t render text in lower case. Brilliant. The company folded in June 1984. I did write my first program on it:
10 PRINT “BEN IS COOL ”
20 GOTO 10
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I later learned that I am in fact not cool.