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Beebs Back in Education AgainBletchley Park Museum of Computing is running classes for A-Level students in computing using old BBC-Bs: [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-…
... BBC BASIC emulator on the BBC itself, in BASIC, which would ... us both a bollocking and my elder brother was drafted in by the ... br />
There was a Spectrum in the maths department, and a VIC ... map educational thing from the VIC to the maths department's ... -
Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!
... ;472405]The right price, the right performance, the right time. If the Spectrum hadn't ... full on price war in the US - until that point. The Atari 800 was ... really the key to the more imaginative and original game on the Spectrum. The Acorn ... -
Elite's iPhone/iPad Spectrum Emulator updated... with Manic Miner, Monty and more!This was updated earlier today: [URL="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/zx-spectrum-elite-collection/id391336343?mt=8"]link[/URL]. Now includes Manic M…
... , I just wanted to let the developers know that I am ... making this app available in the US. I got into the Spectrum years ago through ... became my favorite computer of the era. Being able to play ... Miner and Monty Mole on the go is a dream come ... -
Elite's iPhone/iPad Spectrum Emulator updated... with Manic Miner, Monty and more!This was updated earlier today: [URL="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/zx-spectrum-elite-collection/id391336343?mt=8"]link[/URL]. Now includes Manic M…
... making this app available in the US. I got into the Spectrum years ago through ...
Exactly ! I have all the games , could use them on ... plus i want to support the publisher for doing this. ( ... Plus they havent denied the games here so thats another ... -
Looking for a ZX Spectrum 48k.With original box, all included accessories (cables, power supply, etc.), manuals, and starter cassette. Thank you.
... missing. Looking for it now. The Spectrum didn't work last time ... it out. Maybe one of the simple fix problems?
Any interest in buying it from me? What is the going rate ... get $50-$75 on Ebay in the US...for a working one though ... -
Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... =http://matt.west.co.tt/spectrum/speccy2010/]The promised blog post[/url ... ]So, as I am in the land of the yank, I will have ... for running PAL-standard things in the US. It's not [i]unusably ... Miner and Wolf2004 are running in at the end of my unboxing ... -
Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... ="http://matt.west.co.tt/spectrum/speccy2010/"]The promised blog post[/URL ... for running PAL-standard things in the US. It's not [I]unusably ... [/I] fast, mind... the 60Hz mode is what Manic ... Miner and Wolf2004 are running in at the end of my unboxing ... -
Mr Beep / ipod gameCongrats to Mr Beep who did the music for a new ipod game... Air Supply The game looks very old skool with simple 80's style graphics, plus with th…
... an extra Mister Beep song in it (yay!) and an extra ... 't get an extra level in after that :D
The music never gets old!"
in the US. He probably has no idea at all what a ZX Spectrum ... -
Fuse: what do you want to see?An open brainstorm. If you had a team of programmers working on [url=http://fuse-emulator.sf.net/]Fuse[/url], what would you tell them to work on? …
... 't know. In the US the system was sold under the name of Zebra ... /> Timex FDD3000 is sold in the US as Zebra FDD3000 by just ... so all Timex support ended in the US but Timex of Portugal ... " to end the compatibility problem TS2068 had with Spectrum software.
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Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…
... retailers fell by the wayside too, before us, after us, great names, local ... /> Back to us...Muras, Baker and Jones were the appointed liquidators, and ... word, spectrum in the front, and C64 the back, which in the early days took the majority ... -
Choosing Games for Re-ReleaseFor a while, I pondered on what caused Hit Squad, Kixx and Encore to choose their re-releases.. Hit Squad re-released Driller and Castle Master - wh…
... a while. it's the same as licensing songs for ... put out in the US by activision.
same with spectrum labels ... and spain.
the one I found ... . microprose assumed they had the rights for rainbow islands.. ... -
What was the best Designed Speccy???So what does the World Of Spectrum think the best Designed Spectrum was? [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/845/thespectrums.jpg/][IMG]http:…
... model released in the US in [I]1983[/I].
[U]Spectrum 48k[/U ... dropping every year so the 48k in the original Spectrum cost far less to ... buy in by this stage, yet ... -
What spectrum?I am going to have a gent send me some Spectrum hardware in the future. Me being a american and knowing nothing of the sort, what would be the best o…
... a gent send me some Spectrum hardware in the future. Me being a ... aware of running a speccy in the US and how you decide to ... easily use a US 9v wall wart instead of the sinclair power ... supply by adding the appropriate cable and power the spectrum from that so ... -
Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…
... plays MUCH better on ZX Spectrum then on C64. Period. (as ... /> poles apart.. grafgold *ALWAYS* got the best out of any machine ... handled some of their games in the US) , also far more 64 coders ... have something to do with the owner ripping off people (normally ... -
Real 60Hz NTSC 48K ZX SpectrumNot a 3rd party mod. The joystick mod was added by the user, but the board and the computer is exactly what was sold in Chile, South America. We migh…
... be looking at the NTSC model that was sold in the U.S ... enlighten us and explain if the U.S. NTSC 48K ZX Spectrum was ... /> [/QUOTE]
If the Speccy was sold in the USA via mail order ... anything that was even shown in the US in the late 70s or early 80s ... -
Real 60Hz NTSC 48K ZX SpectrumNot a 3rd party mod. The joystick mod was added by the user, but the board and the computer is exactly what was sold in Chile, South America. We migh…
... =JamesD;594015]If the Speccy was sold in the USA via mail ... anything that was even shown in the US in the late 70s or early ... home computers in 1983. Timex couldn't get its Spectrum to ... (the ts2068 ) early rather than redo the circuit board of its spectrum. -
Real 60Hz NTSC 48K ZX SpectrumNot a 3rd party mod. The joystick mod was added by the user, but the board and the computer is exactly what was sold in Chile, South America. We migh…
... home computers in 1983. Timex couldn't get its Spectrum to ... rather than redo the circuit board of its spectrum.[/QUOTE]
... .
Maintaining an office in the US would only cost a few ... Computers like the VTech VZ200 did get sold in the US and I even ... -
8-Bit Generation documentary seriesHas anyone seen this [url]http://www.8bitgeneration.info[/url] already? To be released on DVD and Blu-Ray in February 2012: “More than 55 inte…
... over here. When the US videogames market was in crisis the British one was ... the Spectrum, the rise and fall of Imagine, Ocean Software, Infogrammes, Spanish games in the ... talking about everyone going bust in the US at the same time as Imagine ... -
Newbie QuestionsI have just purchased my first Speccy! It should be shipped to me (in the U.S.A.) very soon. I'm a ZX newbie & I have some questions :-D First of al…
... I see that you're in the US. Just curious as to what ... where going to to use the speccy with. a multi system ... am in the US as well and I recently picked up a spectrum as ... -
Newbie QuestionsI have just purchased my first Speccy! It should be shipped to me (in the U.S.A.) very soon. I'm a ZX newbie & I have some questions :-D First of al…
... see that you're in the US. Just curious as to ... in the US as well and I recently picked up a spectrum ... [/URL]. Hoping this will do the trick :smile:
the best source of technical ... info on the Speccy? WOS is great ... -
Essential peripherals?Hello hello! Some of you may remember me from some time ago. I'm the one who's doing her masters in design history specifically on old (now purely sp…
... ;621148]I read about the DivIDE interface, but am still ... /> Here in the US, I use a DivIDE on both my Spectrum +2 and ... in my case). Then you just press the button toward the rear of the ... old data tape recorder? The noise from the recorder whilst reading data ... -
Face-Off: ZX Spectrum vs. Commodore 64 articleA very nice write up.... [URL="http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-face-off-zx-spectrum-vs-commodore-64"]Face-Off: ZX Spectrum vs. Comm…
The C64 was the budget machine in the US. In the UK that was the Spectrum. -
Real 60Hz NTSC 48K ZX SpectrumNot a 3rd party mod. The joystick mod was added by the user, but the board and the computer is exactly what was sold in Chile, South America. We migh…
... its NTSC machines in the US without an FCC cert in kit form. Probably ... it had passed, the Spectrum would not be competitive in the US market and it ... was necessary to re-engineer the machine ... -
For Sale - Nice ZX CollectionI am selling my ZX collection of hardware (including a rare disc drive unit), manuals and software (including a few nice big box ultimate titles and …
... enough to sale a working spectrum.
here are only ... nobody i ask a working spectrum and get nothing :mad:
World of spectrum ****:mad::mad::evil::evil::evil ... a c128 PAL here, while in the US no problems.
there ... -
If The Spectrum Never Existed...Out of curiosity... Just say the Spectrum was never made, what computer would you have opted for as an alternative back in the early-mid 80s? BBC M…
[QUOTE=weesam;633380]The spectrum was not only the right thing at the right time ... in this year's flame war, in the US the C64 was the cheap colour model. In the ... UK it was the Speccy ... -
If The Spectrum Never Existed...Out of curiosity... Just say the Spectrum was never made, what computer would you have opted for as an alternative back in the early-mid 80s? BBC M…
... year's flame war, in the US the C64 was the cheap colour model.[/quote ... had nowhere near the popularity in the US, as the Spectrum had in the UK (taking into account ... the size of the UK) the C64 was still more popular in the UK than the US ... -
TC2068 adhesive front panel and keysHello, decided to to get my Timex Computer 2068 into shape, and as such am looking for a new black front panel, the adhesive kind that goes around th…
... me research the problem a little further. The keycaps are the same on ... just like the TS1000. You need a twisterboard to get Spectrum peripherals ... never was a black version in the US, but there was in Poland (the UK2086). -
Tim & Chris Stamper games..Hello all! I was wondering does anyone know why PSSST, Atic Atac and Pentagram are missing from Tim's and Chris' game list on WoS? WoS oversight o…
... or credit in the game that let us see that they participated in the game ... their achievements on the Spectrum.
In the mid-80s, the Stampers experienced their ... giant US Gold. [B]The last Spectrum game to be programmed by the Stampers ... -
Happy 30th Birthday Commode.Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Bread Bin, All your colours look like poo. Though your sound chip is woah, Your re…
The C64 wen into manufacturing in April '82 and was launched some time the following August in the US, but there doesn't seem to be a specific date. It is the cheese to the ZX Spectrum's chalk. -
80x24 mode (Timex required)Hopefully Martijn will be adding this to the archive soon, but until then grab it here: [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15659782/BASIC80.zip[/url] Th…
... , even with an upgrade to the Spectrum SE prototype specification. Now a ... Amstrad simply dropped Spectrum, it would have the same fate as Timex ... was part of the original team in the US that created the TS2068. Unfortunately we ...
