Comments on: ZX Spectrum 25 years on http://www.remoteisland.co.uk/2007/04/23/zx-spectrum-25-years-on/ Ramblings of a Caulkhead Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:59:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ben H http://www.remoteisland.co.uk/2007/04/23/zx-spectrum-25-years-on/#comment-213 Ben H Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:34:06 +0000 http://www.remoteisland.co.uk/2007/04/23/zx-spectrum-25-years-on/#comment-213 I started off an a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_32" rel="nofollow">Dragon 32</a>. 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 BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL I later learned that I am in fact not cool. 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

BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL BEN IS COOL

I later learned that I am in fact not cool.

]]> By: Ben http://www.remoteisland.co.uk/2007/04/23/zx-spectrum-25-years-on/#comment-193 Ben Tue, 08 May 2007 13:00:58 +0000 http://www.remoteisland.co.uk/2007/04/23/zx-spectrum-25-years-on/#comment-193 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. 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.

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