Did anyone famous own a Spectrum?
Wasn't it mentioned on this forum a while back that the director of Scot Pilgrim versus the World had a Spectrum when he was a kid? Did anyone else in the public eye ever have a Speccy?
I'm sure I read somewhere that Prince Charles used to have a CPC (bet the CPC users tried to keep that a secret!), and Alan Sugar's son had a Spectrum (as Sugar admitted in an interview), but who else. I mean, no doubt many of today's celebrities (i.e. the few who are famous for having real talent, and the many more who are famous for reasons I can't fathom) grew up with computers and/or consoles, though they rarely mention them as it's still somewhat 'uncool' for famous people to talk openly about video games.
I'm sure I read somewhere that Prince Charles used to have a CPC (bet the CPC users tried to keep that a secret!), and Alan Sugar's son had a Spectrum (as Sugar admitted in an interview), but who else. I mean, no doubt many of today's celebrities (i.e. the few who are famous for having real talent, and the many more who are famous for reasons I can't fathom) grew up with computers and/or consoles, though they rarely mention them as it's still somewhat 'uncool' for famous people to talk openly about video games.
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It is generally safer not to talk to everybody about your love for computer games, unless you deal with games professionally ;)
A lot of people will instantly have some bad stereotype triggered - nerd, adult kid, nolife, wannabe spree killer and so on...
I'm sure at many jobs you won't score with love for computer games in your cv too :)
they used apple speech , I know that much
Charles Manson
Timothy McVeigh
Adolf Hitler
Osama Bin Laden
Fog
Attila the Hun
Arsene Wenger
Fred West
Davina McCall
Poor Fog. It's a bit unfair putting him in a list with Davina McCall
but alas the feeling wouldn't be mutual , still at least I couldn't be accused of stealing her shampoo :lol:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30383&highlight=shaky
Was he famous outside the UK?
Stephen Fry recently included a ZX Spectrum in his top 100 gadgets so I am sure he had one.
Perhaps he should've called his quiz show QL!
As far as I'm aware, the only source for any kind of Radiohead / Spectrum connection is a fan website that said something like "The sounds at the end of Let Down are generated on a ZX Spectrum, which all members of Radiohead owned back in the 1970s", so I wouldn't put too much weight on that.
I strongly suspect that Alexander Armstrong was a Speccy owner, judging from comments he made on Twitter during the production of Micro Men - something like "I've been offered the part of Clive Sinclair in a drama about the home computer revolution. That'll be a yes then" - and he was suitably tickled when I pointed him at Hey Hey 16K :-)
Also, Aphex Twin. (Loads of Spectrum references in his albums; a story that gets repeated in interviews that as a child he discovered the technique of getting sound out of a ZX81 by putting a radio next to it; and some evidence that he worked as sound designer on those US cop dramas where the Sabre Wulf loading noise keeps turning up as the "futuristic computerised machinery" sound effect.)
maybe he was just happy to have the work (99% of the time, actors are unemployed. apparently)
2:35 onwards.
From Wikipedia
According to Duckworth, his stage name comes from a ZX Spectrum magazine. One of the sections of the solution to the Batman computer game contained the header "Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly".
He also noticed that with the volume turned way up on the telly, doing things like typing made different static noises.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP