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del from hertipol on 2001-12-17 22:28 [#00061954] | |||||||||
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Did anyone outside of the UK ever get their mitts on one of these? Even better anyone still possess the 16k model - only the por kids I'll bet. If not, you may not remember the humble beginnings of computer driven sound and music. Simple beeps emmitting from a puny speaker (you could amp up the line out via connector to the tape deck you'd be using to load software). If you did have one of these "Dead Flesh" marvels which game(s) would you say had the best music - would it be the old staccato beep fest that was "JSW" or the croaky blue danube of "Manic Miner". I recall weeing my kegs when the first 2 channel music came out "Fairlight" and "Gyroscope". I recall the spectrum manual(for the 48k version, not the 16k version) had the "tab" for a mahler symphony and a cool hangman program in Basic. My favourite saturday afternoon passtime was to type RANDOMIZE USR 1303 into the display speccys at Dixons and laugh at the queues of sad speckless waifs wait interminable hours for a game to load. Bwaha. Thems was the days like. What then? 1-Fairlight 2-Cosmic Wartoad 3-Gyroscope 4-Avalon's pause music 5-a game whose name eludes me but was like a big 3d effect shooter in the stylke of "Tron" that seemed like it had three or more channels/voices on it. |
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jand from Chelmsford, UK on 2001-12-18 06:40 [#00062052] | |||||||||
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del...you are my Twin, mate!!... I used to do that RAND USR thing as well, I didn't think too many people knew about that little speccy feature; coupled with a "Kong is Loading" bit of text...(I've seen kids wait for over an hour the game to load...)... I remember learning to program out of a book and using the computers in Debanhams & Dixons to type programs in to try em out... And the Xmas I finally got a 48K Spectrum was the best Xmas ever... |
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Growth 1303341 from internet on 2001-12-18 09:59 [#00062080] | |||||||||
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I never had a ZX Spectrum but when i was ,like, ten or something, i taught myself to program c-64 textbased rpgs, and cheesy electronic tunes aswell. Lots of fun there. |
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