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 :-)
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  • edited November 2011
    PM sent

    It's a picture of a 48k ZX Spectrum in mint condition.
  • edited November 2011
    Ricket wrote: »
    PM sent

    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!
  • edited November 2011
    XTM of TMG wrote: »
    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 :-)

    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
  • edited November 2011
    You can legally use any images from Wikimedia Commons as all media on that site is published under one of several free licenses (e.g. Creative Commons, GFDL or just Public Domain).

    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.
  • edited November 2011
    Thanks for the replies, by the way. Not that you think I didn't read them. Got what I needed.
  • edited November 2011
    XTM of TMG wrote: »
    Got what I needed.

    you're welcome
  • edited November 2011
  • edited November 2011
    Pfui! Igitt! Scham! :razz:
    The truth depends on what newspaper you read... I quote from wellknown 'Die User Zeitung' (122 pages!) Computer Kontakt 12/86-1/87, message from the editor, (translated):
    "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...
  • edited November 2011
    Computer Kontakt (=CK) was somewhat of a niche magazine catering for some of the less popular machines. Not sure why they even had the C64 in there as there were plenty of publications dedicated to the C64, so I doubt many C64 users bought CK when they could just pick up something else instead. Therefore it is not surprising they eventually dropped the breadbin.

    And no, I didn't miss this. In fact I own the particular issue you mentioned as I used to buy CK around 1987.
  • edited November 2011
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    Well, go on then, share it also with the rest of us, please!

    Feast your eyes... :-)

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  • edited November 2011
    XTM of TMG wrote: »
    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.

    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!!! ;)
  • edited November 2011
    Early games of mine? Which would those be?

    I won't pay, so you can publish them, just the way you published the "Final Strike" demos back in the day. They rocked.
  • edited January 2012
    Bump - the article is finished. Probably not too interesting as it is in German, however bastardized English (via Google Translate) might be a good read to some, so I've taken the liberty to provide the corresponding link: here you go, soft lad :razz:

    Edit: I'm reading through the translated article ... the result is quite hilarious in some places.
  • edited January 2012
    XTM of TMG wrote: »
    Bump - the article is finished. Probably not too interesting as it is in German, however bastardized English (via Google Translate) might be a good read to some, so I've taken the liberty to provide the corresponding link: here you go, soft lad :razz:

    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
  • edited January 2012
    Nee lass mal, ich habe einfach kein Interesse mehr, noch irgendwas auf dem Speccy zu programmieren. Die Nostalgie reicht mir v?llig, wie z.B. die Erinnerung an einen Abend im "Hotel am Schinderbuckel", wo ich mit so zwei komischen Freaks Pizza gegessen habe ;)

    ?brigens hast du zur letzten Seite des Artikels verlinkt, aber was soll's.
  • edited January 2012
    Or something more complex.

    Spectrum16K_32K_RamPack_AY_interface_divIDE.JPG

    ZX Spectrum 16K with 32Kb RamPack and AY-interface with divIDE on the end. :)
    ZX81/ZX Spectrum/Amiga/Atari music: http://yerzmyey.i-demo.pl/
  • edited January 2012
    Was f?r einen interessanten und tollen Lesestoff - meine Gratulationen :)

    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.
  • edited January 2012
    Ricket wrote: »
    Feast your eyes... :-)

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    Images dont work
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