Me in 1984: Playing Manic Miner while worrying about nuclear war. Me in 2024: Wow I sure am going to be happy playing Manic Miner without having to worry abo......oh.
ZX Spectrum+ (normal keyboard version) was my first computer. There is a limit of 2 colors per 8x8 field, but the colors are more vibrant than on C64, and 3.5MHz CPU was allowing any 3D game (flight sims etc.) to run much faster on Spectrum than on C64. BASIC with one key press instructions/commands was a great way for me to get into computer programing. I have a really good memories of this machine.
growing up in council estate poor finding a specky 48k in a skip and my brothers friend helped us fix it was amazing. other year my friends parents died he found the said spectrum in the loft and it still worked. 😪
Fantastic piece of kit - however, I know I would barely use it. The ZX Spectrum was my first "real" computer obsession. I remember playing Black Crystal for many hours with a school friend to the point where the unit overheated and failed. My poor Speccy had to go back to Sinclair for repairs and I lost my little buddy for 3 weeks. Halls of the Things, Jet Pac, Jet Set Willy, Dark Star, Chuckie Egg ... such sweet memories.
Clicked So fast... Still have my spectrum which kicked off my career in coding and tech. Also had a Vic 20, which was given away sadly years ago. Really want to get my speccy up and running again. Very awesome seeing a boxed spectrum.
"that sound is imprinted im my brain man" - Yep, as soon as I heard the tones of the colouring on the Atic Atac loading screen, I was exactly the same, and was all goosebumped up! My wife has pre-ordered for Xmas for me, I can't wait tbh and have already ordered the microdrive usb stick and plan on putting all the Ultimate games collection on it when arrives - Jet Pac and Sabre Wulf on rubber keys man! I just can't bloody wait!
Thank you so much for the review, I actually shed a tear when Atic Atac started to load!..I get mine tomorrow, I'm 49 but feel like 10 again, I cannot wait!..Airwolf for me😊
I love your genuine reactions, I also had a magical childhood thanks to a timex sinclair and later a c64, and nostalgia takes me back to times that just seemed to glow with wonder and I long for a feeling I can never fully recapture and miss the friends I shared that time with.
Thanks for the review! I grew up in Norway, and the ZX Spectrum were never very big here, unlike the C64 which me and several of my friends had as kids. In fact, I don’t think I have ever seen a ZX Spectrum in real life, which makes me that much excited for The Spectrum, which I have on preorder on Amazon. :)
I similarly had my roots in Commodore machines, namely the VIC20 as that's my 1st childhood computer. Sadly I never owned a C64 but I played on one often. When I started work when I was 16 I was offered a Spectrum 48k & a box of games for about £40. , later got given a 16k which I upgraded myself to 48k and slotted the board into a Spectrum + case I picked up, which is where my talents I suppose for repairing computers began. . I was later given a +3 which I still have but haven't fired up in years but I still want to mod it with composite video and improved audio. I now own "The VIC20" from RGL (so I can play C64 stuff also) and I've got "the Spectrum on preorder which I should get later this week. Both machines are going in my old bedroom on my original 80s computer desk as I recently inherited my parents house which I intend to move into soon. One of the main reasons I got the 2 RGL machines, so I can recreate my computer desk but with a modern twist.
No need for a composite video mod, get a cable from the Retro Computer Shack and you're good to go! (He sold 2568 so you can be sure it's a fine cable, still 10 in stock, be quick before he goes on holiday!)
Today's my birthday, Peri. Today! Couldn't you have released this a month ago... oh well, Christmas present! And £89.95 is amazingly reasonable actually, cheaper than a pi400.
I am So happy I found this Channel. Superb content that takes me back. I think that was 'Lost Angeles' playing in the background to. Fantastic song and video.
The Spectrum vs C64 issue was that for 2 to 3 years you would require a extra £150 to £200 to buy the C64 and only play a slightly better version of space invaders or inferior version of Elite
Everything about this episode was sick - the console, the games, the sounds...and Perifractic! And thanks to PCB Way too - or as we know it Peri's Curdling Bowels 😂
This looks great. Although rarely played on a Spectrum, I and a lot of school mates had Amstrad CPCs!! My wife had a spectrum, and has fond memories of the Horace games, particularly Horace and the Spiders.
I'm touched that you were moved by the ZX-perience, it brings our ZX-tra special COMM-unITies together. I am Speccy through and through; no one at our school could afford a C64 (even our teacher had a Speccy, which he kindly brought round to our house to show our parents). My mum made a huge sacrifice during her divorce to afford a 48K rubber keyed Speccy. She bought it October '83 and asked if we wanted it now or to wait until Christmas. For some inexplicable reason we said we'd wait (!) but it did make '83 the best Christmas ever :) I've had some involvement in the retro community, proofreading Chris Wilkins books for a while and even making Sub-Editor on the new Crash for a bit. Not as hallowed as full on Editor though! Get Well Soon to you all, and Merry early Christmas to you (I'm sure it would have made for an extra special unwrapping on Christmas Day, but you've probably got other things to do with the family and I'm glad I didn't have to wait for your lovely video). I've rambled, you should probably edit me :)
That loading sound is why a generation of young technoheads went on to create, and consume, head splitting EDM without breaking sweat. We were steeped in the most avant-garde noise for hours a day waiting for our games to load. Normal "music" sounded pedestrian in comparison.
The Atari 400 mini was Retrogames best offering so far, IMO. The 800XL and 130XE are my favourite 8-bit computers. I think Retrogames will put out a full sized Atari 800XL at some point.
Commodore 64 owner back in the day, but I could have almost been a Speccy owner. Around Christmas '83 me and my Bro were begging our parents for a ZX Spectrum, but the local Dixons were sold out, so we opted for the C64. Much as I love the good old commie, the original ZX Spectrum was such a beautiful design and a great computer. So tempted to get this!
Ah that noise, reminds me of playing Atic Attack in a friends bedroom on his Spectrum. I had a TI994A and then a C64, then the A500, but there were so many different home computers back then. My posh friend had a BBC ! The landscape for them seemed to be changing so quickly. My earliest memory of computing was in 1980 when all our computer club chipped in and bought the ZX80 in parts and then building it up in a few of the dinner time's at school. We then did some fund raising and bought a PET, which seemed like something from the set of Space 1999 ! Happy days.
Yep, many of us Brits owned both at some point anyway (maybe me and my friends were spoilt lol). Those days of swapping tapes in the school yards - ah, the memories! I still think that the Speccy had better (playable and challenging) games (Ultimate games for instance), it was just let down by its colour clash and sound, meanwhile I remember spending a lot more time humming the loading tunes than playing the eventual loaded game on my C64, well until I got a 1541 disk drive lol.
I was commodore nut, c16 was the 1st, then had a c64 bought But if I’m brutally honest If the spectrum could do what the c64 could do colour wise and sound it would have blown it out the water
My friend had a ZX-spectrum up in the addict so yes.. this is nostalgia.. but we also had the cold war coming but the ignorance of bliss of not knowing too much about the surrounding world in our time bubble was pretty nice. :)
My first computer was a Vic-20 that my dad brought home around 1985. Very exciting that was. I loved the game Blitz. I got a ZX Spectrum +2 for Xmas 1988. I had a love/hate relationship with it. I had a QuickShot II joystick, and along with loads of tape loading error messages and that awful game loading screeching sound, plus a stripped screw head in the tape deck with me having to fine tune the games, I enjoyed Kikstart 2 and R-Type the most. Out Run, the car was the same colour as the road. "If this game loads" ha ha. Wish I had a commandore 64.
I started out with the ZX81 then moved up to the Spectrum. I'm very much looking forward to getting one of these. Great show and Review, as always. All the best
Thank you for bringing up the imagination aspect of enjoying these types of games back then. I remember Project Firestart on the C64 ... amazing game, and I remember how my imagination would run wild while playing this game and the two combined, made for such an amazing experience.
I remember playing Atic Atac at my friends house in the 80s on the Spectrum. I have not seen it since then, but I still remembered the loading screen when I saw it in your video! We also played The Hobbit often, but never got past the spiders... I soon after this got a Commodore 64. My absolute favorite game (on both machines) was Manic Miner.
Had this on pre order from Amazon! Just had it dispatched for our retro Christmas. Our 9yo can enjoy the Spectrum, battleships, subbuteo and the rpg book warlock of fire top mountain! Not looked forward to a Christmas this much in a long while!
Hold on it's not the weekend. Had two friends with spectrums and it was the best time ever as we always tried to out do each other over what was the best for games such great days. I was never reallty a big fan of the spectrum as i was always a commodore guy but i did enjoy a few games on it like Outrun. That being said this seem like a great bit of kit and i do like the menu music. Hope you guys are all felling better very soon and am looking forward to seeing what you bring us all next, so until then have a great rest of the week and take care 🙂
A cool fact. Booty was the first video game I have ever played. On ZXS. ZX was my first home computer, had it for about 6 months, then had to sell it. Just to get C64 later same year. And NEVER have I missed my ZX. C64 ftw))))
Thank you Retro Recipes, I knew this would happen. I already own a Spectrum Next and a ZX Touch, I have no need for this. But zero will power means I watched your review and placed my order!
My zx spectrum+ was bought at Boots (yes, they did actually sell computers) with a boots datacorder and some boots data cassettes that were 8 minutes long. My spectrum +2a was bought at Dixons.
Ours was Dixons (or Currys?) too - October '83 for Christmas. It was replaced twice (once probably because I foolishly plugged the joystick interface in after switching the Speccy on, as I couldn't be arsed waiting the
@@ennahh76 I got my Spectrum +2 (grey) from Laskys. It worked out of the box, although I was disappointed with the performance of the built in "Datacorder". I assumed it meant no more wrestling with tone controls to hit the load "" sweet spot. How wrong I was. Adjustment now required a tiny screwdriver to be inserted through a tiny hole to adjust an unknown something or other that sometimes worked, when the stars were aligned (or was it the heads?)... I've been waiting to get that complaint off my chest for 38 years. Thanks for listening.
Mine was shipped yesterday and I thought I was getting it a day early, but no, amazon have it sat in the delivery warehouse until tomorrow. If I was to nitpic, a criticism would be even though the loading sounds are there, it looks like the flashing loading colours aren't. Maybe something they could rectify in a future update, then in my eyes, it would be perfect. My first ever computer aged 9, zx spectrum + with hard keys. With all the retro computers being released, all I ever wanted again was a spectrum, and now it's real. Tomorrow, after 39 years, I will be 9 again. 😊
Love all tech. Grew up with a C64 used the Spectrum over at a friend’s place a lot. Similar story of fond memories of using the machine over at a friend.
I had a C64 back as a kid. Didn't really know of any other home computers back then (apart from the Swedish ABC 80). Once we visited a friend of my father, and his son had a ZX Spectrum (he was a few years older than me). He proudly showed off his ZX Spectrum to me, and I was very underwhelmed by it, but as he was much older than me I didn't dare to say anything about it. As I recall we played a game that was also available on the C64, I think it could have been Zaxxon. And also Jet Set Willie.
Wonderful review! While we had a 48K+ model, it'll be nice to finally experience the rubber key original. Lords of Midnight is the jewel in the crown, but Target: Renegade was incredibly popular back in the day. Can't wait to try out Nightbreed!
I ordered the Spectrum - I used to run a web site when I was at Uni - Noticed your super cool BBC micro in the background. I use to buy Zapp 64, Crash, your Sinclair and Sinclair user. I have my USB Ready to go with over 100 games. So glad it has the 128k mode for games like Glider Rider and Enduro Racer - for the music titles and other titles that great music on the title screen. .
@@MarcKloos The outer packaging seems to be plain brown cardboard, like the original mail order shipping boxes. I guess the glossy / retail box is within. The original box and the computer itself were works of art, thanks to the late Rick Dickinson.
Great video as always!, the speccy 48k was my first computer, and then I moved on to C64 in time.But with speccy it had a certain charm, and had some great games in the day.And how cool is 'The Spectrum' for the modern time👍.
Mine arrived today. Usb stick ready but as it arrived early I hadn't got around to sorting it into a more manageable file structure so it will be a mess around with the pre installed games for now and maybe make use of that rewind function to complete my all time favourite game starquake.
Excellent Retro Machine. I hope it has different clock speeds for those Freescape Games to run better. So you are going to attach your VDrive MNicrodrive to a +2 Spectrum? That could be a challenge as the Amstrad +2 Spectrum ditched compatibility with the Interface One which allowed the Microdrives to be attached. The ZX Spectrum 128 was the last spectrum to support interface one directly. As for the Retro Games recreation, if it supports the Fuller Master Unit through emulation, the Currah Microspeach and the Specdrum interfaces as well it could be a must-buy.
I like it but if I bought one, it would be like my C64 and Amiga Mini where I used it for 30 minutes and now stuck in a cupboard. Nostalgia is sometimes best kept in the past.
I still have my original 48k lovingly stored in the original box. This brought so many wonderful memories flooding back for me. Very tempted to grab one of these. But...does it have Daley Thompson if so beware the famous dying rubber keys! ;)
The speccy received alot of stick for its rubber keys where other computers had typewriter style keyboards. Times have changed and all new laptops have terrible calculator keys too.
The 1st computer I ever saw was a 1st issue zx spectrum 48k......on top of a cabinet along side 2 shelves about 6feet in length packed with copied cassettes. That was around 1983 .I was 8 playing deathchase on a Kempston joystick at a freinds over the field
I couldn’t wait for this reviewed and so I could leave my comment. Wouldn’t it be something if it took a poisoned carrot to cure people of color blindness. If that could help overturn my total lack of maculas in both of my eyes, please get me one. To begin with, I think those tinted carrots have been recalled here in the US from a few locations. Secondly, my aforementioned ocular reflection has been lifelong.
I have the recreated zx spectrum bluetooth connected to a mister fpga. You can use it on a hdmi screen or CRT. It does everything this does and alot more.
Wait. TheA500 controller is bundled? Why can’t I find it on AMZ/Bay then?! I assumed it was discontinued. I was just looking for one a couple weeks ago because I found an NTSC Commodore Amiga CD32 at West Georgia Flea Market and wanted to mod one of those into a 2P controller (I have the original). I couldn’t find it anywhere.
I believe you showed a controller legend for The Spectrum featuring this pad, which must mean they intend to make more, right? After all, the original Speccy didn’t have a standard joystick, or even a joystick port, so it makes as much sense to use the CD32 controller as it did for The A500. Niche products like this can use the Economies of Scale from shared accessories, right? ;)
Yeah. I see the legend at 19:17 so it seems they expect we might do exactly as you did… only it seems they stopped selling The [CD32-style] Gamepad. :(
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Getting mine tomorrow hopefully. I'm now 60 and this will transport me back to my youth. Had the ZX 81 before that. Stay well and healthy.
Me in 1984: Playing Manic Miner while worrying about nuclear war.
Me in 2024: Wow I sure am going to be happy playing Manic Miner without having to worry abo......oh.
Anyone up for a game of Raid over Moscow!
ZX Spectrum+ (normal keyboard version) was my first computer. There is a limit of 2 colors per 8x8 field, but the colors are more vibrant than on C64, and 3.5MHz CPU was allowing any 3D game (flight sims etc.) to run much faster on Spectrum than on C64. BASIC with one key press instructions/commands was a great way for me to get into computer programing. I have a really good memories of this machine.
The music is terrible, the graphics are terrible, no matter what great features the Spectrum has, the C=64 is better.
growing up in council estate poor finding a specky 48k in a skip and my brothers friend helped us fix it was amazing. other year my friends parents died he found the said spectrum in the loft and it still worked. 😪
I, too, am loyal to the Commodore 64. But any 8-bit computer is still a computer worth having. That absolutely includes newer models.
@@HisVirusness yeah c64 was my sh** back in the day hands down
@@johnDingoFoxVelocity Me too!
@HisVirusness I played donkey kong on the c64 until the cart stopped reading I loved that game growing up and burger time
Fantastic piece of kit - however, I know I would barely use it. The ZX Spectrum was my first "real" computer obsession.
I remember playing Black Crystal for many hours with a school friend to the point where the unit overheated and failed.
My poor Speccy had to go back to Sinclair for repairs and I lost my little buddy for 3 weeks.
Halls of the Things, Jet Pac, Jet Set Willy, Dark Star, Chuckie Egg ... such sweet memories.
Clicked So fast... Still have my spectrum which kicked off my career in coding and tech. Also had a Vic 20, which was given away sadly years ago. Really want to get my speccy up and running again. Very awesome seeing a boxed spectrum.
"that sound is imprinted im my brain man" - Yep, as soon as I heard the tones of the colouring on the Atic Atac loading screen, I was exactly the same, and was all goosebumped up!
My wife has pre-ordered for Xmas for me, I can't wait tbh and have already ordered the microdrive usb stick and plan on putting all the Ultimate games collection on it when arrives - Jet Pac and Sabre Wulf on rubber keys man! I just can't bloody wait!
Thank you so much for the review, I actually shed a tear when Atic Atac started to load!..I get mine tomorrow, I'm 49 but feel like 10 again, I cannot wait!..Airwolf for me😊
I love your genuine reactions, I also had a magical childhood thanks to a timex sinclair and later a c64, and nostalgia takes me back to times that just seemed to glow with wonder and I long for a feeling I can never fully recapture and miss the friends I shared that time with.
Thanks for the review! I grew up in Norway, and the ZX Spectrum were never very big here, unlike the C64 which me and several of my friends had as kids. In fact, I don’t think I have ever seen a ZX Spectrum in real life, which makes me that much excited for The Spectrum, which I have on preorder on Amazon. :)
I similarly had my roots in Commodore machines, namely the VIC20 as that's my 1st childhood computer. Sadly I never owned a C64 but I played on one often. When I started work when I was 16 I was offered a Spectrum 48k & a box of games for about £40. , later got given a 16k which I upgraded myself to 48k and slotted the board into a Spectrum + case I picked up, which is where my talents I suppose for repairing computers began. . I was later given a +3 which I still have but haven't fired up in years but I still want to mod it with composite video and improved audio.
I now own "The VIC20" from RGL (so I can play C64 stuff also) and I've got "the Spectrum on preorder which I should get later this week. Both machines are going in my old bedroom on my original 80s computer desk as I recently inherited my parents house which I intend to move into soon. One of the main reasons I got the 2 RGL machines, so I can recreate my computer desk but with a modern twist.
No need for a composite video mod, get a cable from the Retro Computer Shack and you're good to go!
(He sold 2568 so you can be sure it's a fine cable, still 10 in stock, be quick before he goes on holiday!)
Today's my birthday, Peri. Today! Couldn't you have released this a month ago... oh well, Christmas present! And £89.95 is amazingly reasonable actually, cheaper than a pi400.
Happy birthday!
I am So happy I found this Channel. Superb content that takes me back. I think that was 'Lost Angeles' playing in the background to. Fantastic song and video.
Good ear! Thanks for watching (and listening)
The Spectrum vs C64 issue was that for 2 to 3 years you would require a extra £150 to £200 to buy the C64 and only play a slightly better version of space invaders or inferior version of Elite
Everything about this episode was sick - the console, the games, the sounds...and Perifractic! And thanks to PCB Way too - or as we know it Peri's Curdling Bowels 😂
This looks great. Although rarely played on a Spectrum, I and a lot of school mates had Amstrad CPCs!! My wife had a spectrum, and has fond memories of the Horace games, particularly Horace and the Spiders.
Horace goes skiing for me.😅
I'm touched that you were moved by the ZX-perience, it brings our ZX-tra special COMM-unITies together. I am Speccy through and through; no one at our school could afford a C64 (even our teacher had a Speccy, which he kindly brought round to our house to show our parents). My mum made a huge sacrifice during her divorce to afford a 48K rubber keyed Speccy. She bought it October '83 and asked if we wanted it now or to wait until Christmas. For some inexplicable reason we said we'd wait (!) but it did make '83 the best Christmas ever :)
I've had some involvement in the retro community, proofreading Chris Wilkins books for a while and even making Sub-Editor on the new Crash for a bit. Not as hallowed as full on Editor though!
Get Well Soon to you all, and Merry early Christmas to you (I'm sure it would have made for an extra special unwrapping on Christmas Day, but you've probably got other things to do with the family and I'm glad I didn't have to wait for your lovely video). I've rambled, you should probably edit me :)
That loading sound is why a generation of young technoheads went on to create, and consume, head splitting EDM without breaking sweat. We were steeped in the most avant-garde noise for hours a day waiting for our games to load. Normal "music" sounded pedestrian in comparison.
The Atari 400 mini was Retrogames best offering so far, IMO. The 800XL and 130XE are my favourite 8-bit computers. I think Retrogames will put out a full sized Atari 800XL at some point.
Commodore 64 owner back in the day, but I could have almost been a Speccy owner. Around Christmas '83 me and my Bro were begging our parents for a ZX Spectrum, but the local Dixons were sold out, so we opted for the C64. Much as I love the good old commie, the original ZX Spectrum was such a beautiful design and a great computer. So tempted to get this!
Ah that noise, reminds me of playing Atic Attack in a friends bedroom on his Spectrum. I had a TI994A and then a C64, then the A500, but there were so many different home computers back then. My posh friend had a BBC ! The landscape for them seemed to be changing so quickly.
My earliest memory of computing was in 1980 when all our computer club chipped in and bought the ZX80 in parts and then building it up in a few of the dinner time's at school. We then did some fund raising and bought a PET, which seemed like something from the set of Space 1999 !
Happy days.
C64 and Spectrum fans can get along just fine now, right? RIGHT??
@@bobbus_74 Always have. There's no point to disagree that the C64 is the best.
Yep, many of us Brits owned both at some point anyway (maybe me and my friends were spoilt lol). Those days of swapping tapes in the school yards - ah, the memories! I still think that the Speccy had better (playable and challenging) games (Ultimate games for instance), it was just let down by its colour clash and sound, meanwhile I remember spending a lot more time humming the loading tunes than playing the eventual loaded game on my C64, well until I got a 1541 disk drive lol.
@@adamskyj69 they did indeed have their own strengths. As an owner of both, like yourself, I can also attest to loving both machines.
I am not sure 8bit users of any platform can ever go along "just fine" with C64 fanboys...lol.
I was commodore nut, c16 was the 1st, then had a c64 bought
But if I’m brutally honest
If the spectrum could do what the c64 could do colour wise and sound it would have blown it out the water
Love that tape loading, really takes me back.
My friend had a ZX-spectrum up in the addict so yes.. this is nostalgia.. but we also had the cold war coming but the ignorance of bliss of not knowing too much about the surrounding world in our time bubble was pretty nice. :)
40 years ago this xmas my brother and I got our speccy, bough one of these for my niece and nephew
Sorry to hear that you and the family been sick. My wife and I have also been sick the last few weeks. It just won't go away! 🤧
I don't know what it was exactly, but the industrial design of the Speccy beats everything of the era and I still love interacting with it.
My first computer was a Vic-20 that my dad brought home around 1985. Very exciting that was. I loved the game Blitz. I got a ZX Spectrum +2 for Xmas 1988. I had a love/hate relationship with it. I had a QuickShot II joystick, and along with loads of tape loading error messages and that awful game loading screeching sound, plus a stripped screw head in the tape deck with me having to fine tune the games, I enjoyed Kikstart 2 and R-Type the most. Out Run, the car was the same colour as the road. "If this game loads" ha ha. Wish I had a commandore 64.
A PROPER unboxing video. Many thanks.
I started out with the ZX81 then moved up to the Spectrum. I'm very much looking forward to getting one of these. Great show and Review, as always. All the best
Thank you for bringing up the imagination aspect of enjoying these types of games back then. I remember Project Firestart on the C64 ... amazing game, and I remember how my imagination would run wild while playing this game and the two combined, made for such an amazing experience.
Amazing, the loading sound of the game. The memories just flooded back.
I remember playing Atic Atac at my friends house in the 80s on the Spectrum. I have not seen it since then, but I still remembered the loading screen when I saw it in your video! We also played The Hobbit often, but never got past the spiders... I soon after this got a Commodore 64. My absolute favorite game (on both machines) was Manic Miner.
Had this on pre order from Amazon! Just had it dispatched for our retro Christmas. Our 9yo can enjoy the Spectrum, battleships, subbuteo and the rpg book warlock of fire top mountain! Not looked forward to a Christmas this much in a long while!
So looking forward to tomorrow. This was the computer of my childhood (well the ZX Spectrum+) Your review was great :-)
Hold on it's not the weekend. Had two friends with spectrums and it was the best time ever as we always tried to out do each other over what was the best for games such great days. I was never reallty a big fan of the spectrum as i was always a commodore guy but i did enjoy a few games on it like Outrun. That being said this seem like a great bit of kit and i do like the menu music. Hope you guys are all felling better very soon and am looking forward to seeing what you bring us all next, so until then have a great rest of the week and take care 🙂
Technically this is Saturday's video 😅 Thanks for your kind words!
A cool fact. Booty was the first video game I have ever played. On ZXS.
ZX was my first home computer, had it for about 6 months, then had to sell it. Just to get C64 later same year. And NEVER have I missed my ZX.
C64 ftw))))
been waiting for this one! nice with a look back at how your studio looked.
You appear to have now fixed your Retro gaming room, with a splash of 80's black and rainbow. 🙂
Thank you Retro Recipes, I knew this would happen. I already own a Spectrum Next and a ZX Touch, I have no need for this. But zero will power means I watched your review and placed my order!
I need to walk into Dixon's and buy this... then return it because it doesn't work... twice, to get the original, full, 1983 vibe.
My zx spectrum+ was bought at Boots (yes, they did actually sell computers) with a boots datacorder and some boots data cassettes that were 8 minutes long. My spectrum +2a was bought at Dixons.
Ours was Dixons (or Currys?) too - October '83 for Christmas. It was replaced twice (once probably because I foolishly plugged the joystick interface in after switching the Speccy on, as I couldn't be arsed waiting the
@@ennahh76 I got my Spectrum +2 (grey) from Laskys. It worked out of the box, although I was disappointed with the performance of the built in "Datacorder". I assumed it meant no more wrestling with tone controls to hit the load "" sweet spot. How wrong I was. Adjustment now required a tiny screwdriver to be inserted through a tiny hole to adjust an unknown something or other that sometimes worked, when the stars were aligned (or was it the heads?)... I've been waiting to get that complaint off my chest for 38 years. Thanks for listening.
Mine was shipped yesterday and I thought I was getting it a day early, but no, amazon have it sat in the delivery warehouse until tomorrow. If I was to nitpic, a criticism would be even though the loading sounds are there, it looks like the flashing loading colours aren't. Maybe something they could rectify in a future update, then in my eyes, it would be perfect. My first ever computer aged 9, zx spectrum + with hard keys. With all the retro computers being released, all I ever wanted again was a spectrum, and now it's real. Tomorrow, after 39 years, I will be 9 again. 😊
It is there: 19:36
You just have to increase the border size! (And you can also speed up the tape loading 😉)
Love all tech. Grew up with a C64 used the Spectrum over at a friend’s place a lot. Similar story of fond memories of using the machine over at a friend.
I had a C64 back as a kid. Didn't really know of any other home computers back then (apart from the Swedish ABC 80). Once we visited a friend of my father, and his son had a ZX Spectrum (he was a few years older than me). He proudly showed off his ZX Spectrum to me, and I was very underwhelmed by it, but as he was much older than me I didn't dare to say anything about it. As I recall we played a game that was also available on the C64, I think it could have been Zaxxon. And also Jet Set Willie.
I used mine back in the day equally for coding and gaming. Can’t wait to be 13 again tomorrow when mine arrives
I'll probably buy one of these, but they're sold out at the moment - good to see there's a demand!
Wonderful review! While we had a 48K+ model, it'll be nice to finally experience the rubber key original. Lords of Midnight is the jewel in the crown, but Target: Renegade was incredibly popular back in the day. Can't wait to try out Nightbreed!
Best times Peri, the sounds bring me right back. 🙂
I ordered the Spectrum - I used to run a web site when I was at Uni - Noticed your super cool BBC micro in the background. I use to buy Zapp 64, Crash, your Sinclair and Sinclair user. I have my USB Ready to go with over 100 games. So glad it has the 128k mode for games like Glider Rider and Enduro Racer - for the music titles and other titles that great music on the title screen. .
The box certainly looks like something the Spectrum would come in.
Naah, Clive wouldn't approve! Just plain coloured cardboard, no glossy bits!
@@MarcKloos The outer packaging seems to be plain brown cardboard, like the original mail order shipping boxes. I guess the glossy / retail box is within. The original box and the computer itself were works of art, thanks to the late Rick Dickinson.
I'm an Amstrad CPC6128 kid, but loved all other home micros. Great to have this even though I already own a +3
I think if you use one of the basic borders near the start of the options you will also get the flashing loading colours as well!
Many who were loyal ZX Spectrum users also became loyal Commodore Amiga users.
Nah, Commies upgraded to an Amiga, Spec chums got an ST!
@MarcKloos The history of Commodore, Amiga and the Atari ST can be confusing.
Great video as always!, the speccy 48k was my first computer, and then I moved on to C64 in time.But with speccy it had a certain charm, and had some great games in the day.And how cool is 'The Spectrum' for the modern time👍.
That loading sound is a computer to me. my first computer was a rubber keyed 48k Spectrum.
A friend's mum said the loading sound (or lines?) gave her a migraine. I think they ended up with a VIC 20? Naturally we never spoke to them again. ;)
Wow, 4 years ago you looked 14 years younger! 😜
Amazing what a beard can do. Thanks!
The ZX SPECTRUM 48K was my first Micro computer
Mine arrived today. Usb stick ready but as it arrived early I hadn't got around to sorting it into a more manageable file structure so it will be a mess around with the pre installed games for now and maybe make use of that rewind function to complete my all time favourite game starquake.
Excellent Retro Machine. I hope it has different clock speeds for those Freescape Games to run better.
So you are going to attach your VDrive MNicrodrive to a +2 Spectrum? That could be a challenge as the Amstrad +2 Spectrum ditched compatibility with the Interface One which allowed the Microdrives to be attached. The ZX Spectrum 128 was the last spectrum to support interface one directly.
As for the Retro Games recreation, if it supports the Fuller Master Unit through emulation, the Currah Microspeach and the Specdrum interfaces as well it could be a must-buy.
Yeah I have the adapter thingy
I like it but if I bought one, it would be like my C64 and Amiga Mini where I used it for 30 minutes and now stuck in a cupboard. Nostalgia is sometimes best kept in the past.
I still have my original 48k lovingly stored in the original box. This brought so many wonderful memories flooding back for me. Very tempted to grab one of these. But...does it have Daley Thompson if so beware the famous dying rubber keys! ;)
rivalry but the best kind, we're all friends now right :)
Excellent, all round look at rhe machine. Delighted to see CRASH back. 😃
Yeah the layout design in that issue is amazing!
@@RetroRecipesWell, who am I to argue with that. 😉
I was a Speecy owner, but started on a VIc20. Always wanted a C64 as well though :)
oh nice a new spectrum, I had a spectrum+. manic miner is my favourite game and great memories playing all the games again.
I had no idea Jim Carrey was into C64 and ZX Spectrum
Albytey then!
@RetroRecipes: Is it possible to buy the printed Zzap! Magazine somewhere in Germany?
Absolutely - order internationally at link in description
I always take the weights out of my "mini" computers, and the joysticks. Just my personal preference. Get well soon!
It wold seem Amazon is no longer selling for delivery in the UK, shame as I was really tempted by this.
Sold out but it'll be back!
I get the nostalgia for the old modem/tape loading sounds but for someone with tinnitus it’s not cool anymore hahahaha.
It does not look or sound like it, but this machine inspired me to improve home computers. I loved Ant attack.
Mine is being delivered tomorrow. ❤
oh dear ! get well soon all of you. Great video !
Ive a few of the mini's and og systems, never had a specky but have this on order, look at it, it's gorgeous
indeed its the best retro system released by Retro Games, but that says more about sir Clive's original low cost design!
As far as the Minis go I think Spectrum beats the other platforms with a working keyboard🎹
The music in 12:56 kinda reminds me a bit of Dizzy game on Amiga, i don't remember which one but it was by Codemasters and Oliver Twins.
The speccy received alot of stick for its rubber keys where other computers had typewriter style keyboards. Times have changed and all new laptops have terrible calculator keys too.
Seriously, i'm loading every game the way Clive intended.
I wasn't going to get one of these as I have a Speccy Next KS2. But this looks like a much easier return to Speccy games on big TVs.
Mines arriving tomorrow 💓💓
Ok. Thanks for sharing - have to admit. My Pi based spectrum with original spectrum case, as you’ve seen many photos off is more authentic
Comedy moment of the month, the grimace at the beginning of having to review or even mention a "ZX Spectrum" 😂😂😂
E Coli onions in Quarter Pounders, carrots, and previously various lettuces. More reasons to not eat raw veggies.
I have no where to put it, I would rarely use it, but it's very, very tempting. I say this far too often...🤔
Nice first review. Is there any way to find out if this machine can play .rzx files (this is, recorded games with walkthroughs etc)?
The 1st computer I ever saw was a 1st issue zx spectrum 48k......on top of a cabinet along side 2 shelves about 6feet in length packed with copied cassettes. That was around 1983 .I was 8 playing deathchase on a Kempston joystick at a freinds over the field
What an awesome product! I just ordered one :)
I couldn’t wait for this reviewed and so I could leave my comment. Wouldn’t it be something if it took a poisoned carrot to cure people of color blindness. If that could help overturn my total lack of maculas in both of my eyes, please get me one. To begin with, I think those tinted carrots have been recalled here in the US from a few locations. Secondly, my aforementioned ocular reflection has been lifelong.
Speech on a Speccy.. Clearly has not heard Ripley in SWIV :D
Thank you for the great review! Can the original border with animated lines during a load be set up?
I have the recreated zx spectrum bluetooth connected to a mister fpga. You can use it on a hdmi screen or CRT. It does everything this does and alot more.
What's everyone hoping is the next release?
Amstrad? BBC?
The Amiga Maxi?
Atari ST?
A full sized Atari 800XL or an Atari 130XE.
Christian, I hope you are all on the mend. That tzx load I can't do with, try .z80 mate. Cheers
Wait. TheA500 controller is bundled? Why can’t I find it on AMZ/Bay then?!
I assumed it was discontinued. I was just looking for one a couple weeks ago because I found an NTSC Commodore Amiga CD32 at West Georgia Flea Market and wanted to mod one of those into a 2P controller (I have the original). I couldn’t find it anywhere.
Sorry for any confusion, it isn't bundled - I just happened to have one
I believe you showed a controller legend for The Spectrum featuring this pad, which must mean they intend to make more, right? After all, the original Speccy didn’t have a standard joystick, or even a joystick port, so it makes as much sense to use the CD32 controller as it did for The A500. Niche products like this can use the Economies of Scale from shared accessories, right? ;)
Yeah. I see the legend at 19:17 so it seems they expect we might do exactly as you did… only it seems they stopped selling The [CD32-style] Gamepad. :(
Is that manual cover legit too? I'm sure I remember something similar....
Do i really need this? I have an original ZX Spectrum Rubber keyboard, 128k Toast rack, +2 and +3 and also a Zx Spectrum Next KS1 + KS2?
Supposedly not to be offered for sale in the US.