Request: photo of 16k/+2 Speccy
I'm currently writing an article for a german retro-themed website called the equivalent of "videogame stories" (link here). Since the C64 ruled supreme, with CPCs and other machines being the runner-ups, almost no one has had much experience with the Speccy so there isn't much material out there.
The site owner has asked me to do a sort of rundown of my Speccy "life", where I describe in detail how life as a Speccy owner was in 80s/early 90s Germany. I already made a lot of screenshots from old games, but what I am missing are photos of a 16k (the 48k one looks the same, so that would work, correct?) and a grey +2 machine. I don't own a Speccy anymore, so I wonder if there's someone who would be so kind to to just grab one of their machines and take a quick snap for me, preferably no less than 1024 pixels horizontal resolution? Uploading the result to imageshack (or similar) then PM'ing me the URL will do.
Reason is, I'd rather not just take any random google search result lifted from the web. If you want to be credited just tell me whatever name/nickname info you wish to be displayed next to picture.
Oh, and if by any chance someone also has an Atari 600 XL ... because I got one in an ill-fated exchange for my 16k Speccy, so a photo to illustrate this short foray into Atari territory would be useful.
Thanks a lot in advance :-)
The site owner has asked me to do a sort of rundown of my Speccy "life", where I describe in detail how life as a Speccy owner was in 80s/early 90s Germany. I already made a lot of screenshots from old games, but what I am missing are photos of a 16k (the 48k one looks the same, so that would work, correct?) and a grey +2 machine. I don't own a Speccy anymore, so I wonder if there's someone who would be so kind to to just grab one of their machines and take a quick snap for me, preferably no less than 1024 pixels horizontal resolution? Uploading the result to imageshack (or similar) then PM'ing me the URL will do.
Reason is, I'd rather not just take any random google search result lifted from the web. If you want to be credited just tell me whatever name/nickname info you wish to be displayed next to picture.
Oh, and if by any chance someone also has an Atari 600 XL ... because I got one in an ill-fated exchange for my 16k Speccy, so a photo to illustrate this short foray into Atari territory would be useful.
Thanks a lot in advance :-)
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It's a picture of a 48k ZX Spectrum in mint condition.
Well, go on then, share it also with the rest of us, please!
You welcome to use any of the images from my website (all my own computers) www.tomdalby.com/retro. Unfortunately don't have an Atari 600XL only an 800XL but the others are there.
TomD
For example, you could freely use any of these images for any purpose with no problems:-
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atari_XL_computers
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sinclair_ZX_Spectrum
Typically attribution of the author and source is required, but that's all. Permission to use the images is already explicitly granted without having to ask.
you're welcome
"We have to drop the Commodore section, because we get stronger in Sinclair and Atari all the time."
XTM must have missed this, in his better days. I must admit that I missed it too but as it happened I read the mag yesterday...
And no, I didn't miss this. In fact I own the particular issue you mentioned as I used to buy CK around 1987.
Feast your eyes... :-)
Ah, why you didn?t ask me? Have you lost my e-mail? BTW: Just found some of your very early games... if you don?t pay we publish it!!! ;)
I won't pay, so you can publish them, just the way you published the "Final Strike" demos back in the day. They rocked.
Edit: I'm reading through the translated article ... the result is quite hilarious in some places.
Super geschrieben, nur das Ende ruft nach einer Wiedergeburt oder zumindest einen Part f?r eine Demo zum 30. Geburtstag...gerne auf dem Emulator.
Hier der Link zum deutschen Artikel: http://www.videospielgeschichten.de/speccy_3.html
?brigens hast du zur letzten Seite des Artikels verlinkt, aber was soll's.
ZX Spectrum 16K with 32Kb RamPack and AY-interface with divIDE on the end. :)
Als Deuschland, Italien war meistens ein Commodore-Kolonie, deshalb waren wir eine wehrhafte Minderheit. Gleicherma?en war hier der Spectrum die Maschine f?r Leute, die um Programmierung, Grafik oder Elektronik sowie Spielen sich k?mmern w?nschte, im Gegensatz zu C64-Anwender, die fast alle den "T?rstopper" nur als eine Spielkonsole verwandten.
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