Sinclair ZX Spectrum Story & Review (Part 1) - Retrospective | Nostalgia Nerd
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- Sinclair ZX Spectrum Review. This is part 1 of a 3 part review. This segment looks mainly at the Spectrum's story from it's conception to it's rivalry with Acorn during the mid 1980's.
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The machine that launched a million careers in software engineering - including mine.
deusEXmachinaV42 mine too
@@ZXSpectrum128K I am. I have an Android app on the play store; it is an admin /rcon tool for a PC game. Time for a new project. How about yourself?
@@wondrinminstrel wanted to get full screen animations working on the Sam Coupé but only know basic so it took me ten years and even then it's cheating like fiddle cause the emulator has fast disk access so reading the data off a compact flash occurs instantaneously need z80 coder u seen sim coupé?
@@ZXSpectrum128K No idea what any of that is.
@@ZXSpectrum128K Thanks for the info. I shall look into it.
you could just go out, buy a mag, free tape (£1.99) and loads of info. I loved it, great memories. Thanks for this post mate.
I just found this channel today but I love it, so much nostalgia
Great video as always! Man all the dreams I had of owning the Spectrum 48 as a child here in Italy. But I had already bought a C64 and couldn't afford both. So it remained a dream I grew up with. Games from Ultimate Play the Game were my favorite reason for wanting to own this machine: I'm talking about Knight Lore (which revolutionized gaming at the time with its isometric view), Gunfright, Batman, etc. Owning on of these machine (C64/Spectrum) for a child at the time was nothing like it is today: it was the eve of home computers, and you had a whole new world of (gaming) possibilities and experiences to enjoy. Games and home computers were a total novelty then. Now the excitement is lost for the new generations: in that respect, we have been lucky.
Tonio Miklo You're right. Things like waiting for the games to load for ten minutes, just added to more excitement. Good times, good times indeed. Knight Lore was fantastic. I'm gonna cover Get Dexter for the Amstrad CPC, as that was a thing of pure beauty.
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Yes!
I was going to do a look-at Input magazine. So much fun to read through these nowadays!
Great stuff, I'm appreciating the speccy (being a commodore man, well boy back then) and what it achieved as well as even somewhat jealous of some really good spectrum-only releases!
Thanks for this!
+WatchReadPlayRetro Yeah man! Spectrum rules ok! :D
Thanks to your videos found a copy of Micro-Men, great TV film for sure.
ZX Specrum had a reset button and standard video signal output over expansion card connector. I had one modified joystick card, hommade inserted a video output, and reset button. both directly connected to expansion slot pins.
i was a proud owner of a ZX spectrum 48K, had a lot of fun with it,after that i had a Atari 1040ST, ideal for making music with midi, and after that i had a Compac 486 PC, a pentium 2 PC, and then HP's before i built my own with a AMD Ryzen 7 processor,ahh,the nostalgia lol
Brilliant!
Excellent !
***** Thanks Didier!
This was my first computer, mannnn, my favourite game was Spyhunter and brothers was Ikari Warriors, that was 25-30 years ago, thank you for this video
I liked 8-bit Guy's comparison to the Vic20: the ZX81 was like a Walmart electric cart, while the Vic20 was like a Nissan Versa or Chevy Spark. :)
great video, i kind of like the loading game noise. might just be a nostalgia thing though ha ha
Odd pod I do. I love it. Sometimes play it in my car
Nostalgia Nerd ha ha
The genius part of the basic where the streams ... you can create your own subroutine in assembler , wo gets the parameter via reg [A]. So i have dad writen an soft RS232 output via Speakeroutport ( yeah 300baud !! ) and connectet an PC via terminalprogramm and send all screencommands to print them at the PC.
I've still got my 1'st speccy from late 1982. though no tv modulator..(I think I took that out since it wasn't needed for the composite video monitor I had back then) also two zx micro drives with around 20 cartridges, which also works on the ICL-OPD(one per desk) that used QL tech, not to mention the disciple interface that allows two pc stiffy drives or even an older floppy drive....all in working condition! I've created some space in my studio displaying these relics proudly, after all that'what started my life in IT.....
I would love to have a zx spectrum.
The spectrum was a great little computer. Although my experiences with it were marred by the fact Sinclair lied about the time it took to deliver. They took orders for it when none were in stock! But I enjoyed my time with the Specky! It gave me an introduction to computers but I soon went on to be the proud owner of a BBC B puter! I still have my Specky and Beeb to this day! (amongst other 8-but home puters of the early 80's!) Don't agree with you about the Beeb not having a market for games - it did and there were 1000's.
Nuarda Nuarda Sure the Beeb did have a market for games, but no where near what Sinclair had. Acorn tried to break fully into the market with the Electron, but sadly that fell on it's arse... ironically a supply issue, same as Sinclair faced on the Speccy launch. But fortunately the Spectrum had the good fortune of being early to market... The Electron did not.
Thanks for the micro men info :D
+FhargaZ Such an awesome film. I estimate I've seen it about 500 times (no lie, I have an addiction)
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum is what got me a C64.
My dad bought one and it was DOA out of the box so he took it back and got a refund and he picked up a C64 instead.
That was an extremely lucky day!
My dad introduced me to gaming through the ZX Spectrum 128 when I was like 4 years old. I'm happy to have been born in the 80s!
I'd love to get an acorn or bbc micro.
5:29 - OMFG Someone else who coloured-in their lid.
Hi can any one help? Is there a way to edit spectrum game and how?
What is Clive saying on 5:28 ? I'm not native English speaker and can't make out what he is saying at that moment .
+Evgon1 He is asked "Are you very bitter about that?" and he simply responds "Yes" :D
Nostalgia Nerd Thanks
what is the music in the background ????
+nuketowncity sounds like Nas Hero
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be!! I started with the "Speccy" and then graduated to the "Amiga"!! I only later acquired a "Brother" printer! - but the wonder of colour, creation of beautiful fractals, using my birthday date & those of friends to produce magic islands with mountains, forests & lakes opened a fascinating world of wonders for me!! Now I have a laptop, tablet & the Internet, but I'll never forget those early days of wonder & excitement!!To create wonderful images of mysterious Islands, using nothing more than a few numbers even at random- WOW!!! It was mind-blowingly unbelievable and SO exciting!!
i have a zx spectrum but no tape deck :/
Odd pod Ahhh man, that's a sorry state of affairs. You couldn't even save games you'd written yourself! XD
Odd pod I have a ZX Spectrum with 2 tape decks, but no CRT television set :/
Nostalgia Nerd I just applied for a TV set on FreeCycle, hopefully they get back to me. FreeCycle is an amazing community, it's actually where I got both my ZX Spectrum and VideoSport MK2 (Pong), so if you haven't heard of it I recommend checking it out!
XD I'm sure they will. I tend to use Freegle at lot. I've got quite a few thing from there, including a couple of ZX81s!
10 PRINT "Hallo, World!"
i have never hear anyone unable top pronounce the word "albeit " before
48k is still the best.
15 colors, obviously.
jasio kupa Technically 15 shades. 7 colours, 2 shades per colour. If you count black, 8 colours.
Nostalgia Nerd ohhh roasted.
Great video btw
How fast could you really type on that Chiclet keyboard?
How many people do you think were touch-typing at that time?
@@Raison_d-etre Anyone who wanted to learn to seriously use a computer. Also, anyone who was familiar with a typewriter. When I was in elementary school, they taught us touch typing by putting stickers on the keys to hide the letters.
@@therealhardrock You misunderstood my point.
@@Raison_d-etre If your point was that hardly anyone was touch-typing back then, it's not true, sorry.
@@therealhardrock You mean they were touch-typing on chiclet keyboards? I call a liar.
just bought ZX+ Spectrum for £48 with the cassette tape and 38 games originals.
:)
1300 baud chase hq is 128kb it loads in 5 mins do the maths...
128kb x 1024 = 131072 x 8 = bits =1048576 /300 seconds= 3495.25333 baud 3 times what u said we could've doubled that with a stereo ear( which is in fact the mic socket) like a modified micro command interface...
B B C, not beb beb c!
Incorrect facts yet again.
I'd get a Spectrum but I'd need to convert everything to American "standards."
But being Canadian I'll only be able to get the commodore and Atari 8 bit computers that you Brits got oh yeah also the apple 2 but who cares
Don't forget the Tandy CoCo line. I'm also Canadian and the CoCo 2 was both my first computer and first gaming system. Wasn't as good for games as the C64, but it still had a few decent ones.
+221b I love everything Tandy I had a Tandy 1000 sl as my first computer. I started late though I was 15 when I got my first computer.