| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 11:30 - Apr 27 with 3342 views | StokieBlue |
I loved my Spectrum, was a magnificent machine. Had a 48k originally then later on one of the grey 128k ones with a tape player built in.
Spent all my time writing basic and causing havoc with peek and pokes. Great fun. Also great to break Football Manager and change the best player to yourself before you watched the stickman version of yourself blast it in from a totally impossible angle.
Not sure of my favourite game but would have to be one of Manic Miner, Monty In Prison, Head over Heals, The Untouchables or Rainbow Island (quite different eras there). I've probably forgotten loads and loads as well.
Good times.
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| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:11 - Apr 27 with 3319 views | Steve_M |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 11:30 - Apr 27 by StokieBlue |
I loved my Spectrum, was a magnificent machine. Had a 48k originally then later on one of the grey 128k ones with a tape player built in.
Spent all my time writing basic and causing havoc with peek and pokes. Great fun. Also great to break Football Manager and change the best player to yourself before you watched the stickman version of yourself blast it in from a totally impossible angle.
Not sure of my favourite game but would have to be one of Manic Miner, Monty In Prison, Head over Heals, The Untouchables or Rainbow Island (quite different eras there). I've probably forgotten loads and loads as well.
Good times.
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Yes, my brother had I had the same progression if not quite as much into the programming as you. The games I remember most are The Hobbit and the Dizzy series but there were loads of others.
I'm quite nostalgic for the 48k Spectrum with rubber keys, and a fraction of the processing power of my phone. |  |
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| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:12 - Apr 27 with 3317 views | Bad_Boy_Mark |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 11:30 - Apr 27 by StokieBlue |
I loved my Spectrum, was a magnificent machine. Had a 48k originally then later on one of the grey 128k ones with a tape player built in.
Spent all my time writing basic and causing havoc with peek and pokes. Great fun. Also great to break Football Manager and change the best player to yourself before you watched the stickman version of yourself blast it in from a totally impossible angle.
Not sure of my favourite game but would have to be one of Manic Miner, Monty In Prison, Head over Heals, The Untouchables or Rainbow Island (quite different eras there). I've probably forgotten loads and loads as well.
Good times.
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Don't forget some of my faves:
Elite
Bomb Jack
Bubble Bobble
Daley Thompson's Decathlon
Hyper Sports
Dan Dare
Jet Set Willy
Way Of The Exploding Fist
Chuckie Egg
Arkaniod
Gauntlet
Jetpac
RIP Mr Dickinson - your design will forever have a place in our hearts |  | | |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:13 - Apr 27 with 3313 views | homer_123 |
C64 was were it was at. |  |
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| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:14 - Apr 27 with 3311 views | wkj |
He really was a visionary of computings 3rd generation. |  |
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| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:21 - Apr 27 with 3307 views | Bad_Boy_Mark |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:13 - Apr 27 by homer_123 |
C64 was were it was at. |
Leaderboard (the golf game) was superior on the C64 | | | |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:23 - Apr 27 with 3298 views | StokieBlue |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:12 - Apr 27 by Bad_Boy_Mark |
Don't forget some of my faves:
Elite
Bomb Jack
Bubble Bobble
Daley Thompson's Decathlon
Hyper Sports
Dan Dare
Jet Set Willy
Way Of The Exploding Fist
Chuckie Egg
Arkaniod
Gauntlet
Jetpac
RIP Mr Dickinson - your design will forever have a place in our hearts |
Those were all excellent, there were just too many to remember!
Way of the exploding fist!
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| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:24 - Apr 27 with 3297 views | Illinoisblue |
Great stuff. I still marvel at what could be done with the ZX81 and its whole 1k of memory. Then upgrading to the spectrum was entering a whole new world. TWTD |  |
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| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:25 - Apr 27 with 3294 views | StokieBlue |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:11 - Apr 27 by Steve_M |
Yes, my brother had I had the same progression if not quite as much into the programming as you. The games I remember most are The Hobbit and the Dizzy series but there were loads of others.
I'm quite nostalgic for the 48k Spectrum with rubber keys, and a fraction of the processing power of my phone. |
The Hobbit was magnificent, in fact nearly all of those text based adventure games where you had to draw your own map on a piece of paper were superb.
It's Friday so you can thank me for the productivity hit later:
http://play2.textadventures.co.uk/Play.aspx?id=p-bmq3zuake8zuem2cu1oa
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| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:35 - Apr 27 with 3284 views | Bad_Boy_Mark |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:23 - Apr 27 by StokieBlue |
Those were all excellent, there were just too many to remember!
Way of the exploding fist!
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What a game that was! I still own my machine and most of those games are up in my loft.
I must power it up one day for the nostalgia! | | | |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:37 - Apr 27 with 3280 views | Illinoisblue |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:12 - Apr 27 by Bad_Boy_Mark |
Don't forget some of my faves:
Elite
Bomb Jack
Bubble Bobble
Daley Thompson's Decathlon
Hyper Sports
Dan Dare
Jet Set Willy
Way Of The Exploding Fist
Chuckie Egg
Arkaniod
Gauntlet
Jetpac
RIP Mr Dickinson - your design will forever have a place in our hearts |
There was a BMX game by CodeMasters that i was addicted to for a while. But nothing can top 3D Monster Maze for sheer wow factor | |
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| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:42 - Apr 27 with 3272 views | Bad_Boy_Mark |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:24 - Apr 27 by Illinoisblue |
Great stuff. I still marvel at what could be done with the ZX81 and its whole 1k of memory. Then upgrading to the spectrum was entering a whole new world. TWTD |
48k! Something like Elite pushed that machine to the very edge of its limits! | | | |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 13:12 - Apr 27 with 3246 views | BullardsMagicMullet |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:42 - Apr 27 by Bad_Boy_Mark |
48k! Something like Elite pushed that machine to the very edge of its limits! |
Those really were the days, when you could pick a decent game up for 99p and never spend over £9.99.
This is a website that full of old ZX Spectrum games http://torinak.com/qaop/games
Has anybody been watching the Indiegogo ZX Vega+ mess? |  |
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| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 14:41 - Apr 27 with 3193 views | Bad_Boy_Mark |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 13:12 - Apr 27 by BullardsMagicMullet |
Those really were the days, when you could pick a decent game up for 99p and never spend over £9.99.
This is a website that full of old ZX Spectrum games http://torinak.com/qaop/games
Has anybody been watching the Indiegogo ZX Vega+ mess? |
So true, good times!
I've only had a quick peek but that looks like a great site! Thanks for the link  | | | |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 14:45 - Apr 27 with 3188 views | StokieBlue |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 13:12 - Apr 27 by BullardsMagicMullet |
Those really were the days, when you could pick a decent game up for 99p and never spend over £9.99.
This is a website that full of old ZX Spectrum games http://torinak.com/qaop/games
Has anybody been watching the Indiegogo ZX Vega+ mess? |
Just had a pop on Football Manager.
Kevin Keegan, skill 1. Russel Osman, skill 5.
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| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 15:20 - Apr 27 with 3176 views | Steve_M |
I wouldn't have taken the afternoon off work had I seen that earlier! | |
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| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 18:59 - Apr 27 with 3136 views | vapour_trail |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 12:12 - Apr 27 by Bad_Boy_Mark |
Don't forget some of my faves:
Elite
Bomb Jack
Bubble Bobble
Daley Thompson's Decathlon
Hyper Sports
Dan Dare
Jet Set Willy
Way Of The Exploding Fist
Chuckie Egg
Arkaniod
Gauntlet
Jetpac
RIP Mr Dickinson - your design will forever have a place in our hearts |
Loved Daley Thompson’s decathlon. Battering away at a couple of the keys with rhythmic space bar thrown in for the 110m hurdles.
I had some winter sports version as well but it used to crash a lot on the slalom. |  |
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| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 09:26 - Apr 30 with 3042 views | BullardsMagicMullet |
| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 18:59 - Apr 27 by vapour_trail |
Loved Daley Thompson’s decathlon. Battering away at a couple of the keys with rhythmic space bar thrown in for the 110m hurdles.
I had some winter sports version as well but it used to crash a lot on the slalom. |
Kids today complain if an App takes 5 seconds to open, they should try loading a game for 20 minutes only for it to crash and having to do it all again.
Used to love the original Dizzy, Batman the movie, Robocop 1, Gauntlet 2, Lunar Jetman, Harrier attack and manic miner. | |
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| Farewell Rick Dickinson, designer of the ZX Spectrum on 10:11 - Apr 30 with 3032 views | gerard1947 |
I met him several times, Clive Sinclair too. The company I worked for was involved with their distribution and returns. If I remember rightly the Spectrum was assembled at Timex in Dundee. Bizarrely repairs were undertaken in Cambridge in a disused windmill.
By the time they upgraded to the QL they had a large manufacturing facility in Milton, this failed because Acorn was nominated for schools. |  | | |
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