am on the lookout for zx spectrums

[InTheSand]

CannonFodder wrote:
I would imagine it's because the games look (and sound)  like crap in comparison to C64 and Megadrive joysticks etc.

"Crap"??! Spectrum sound and graphics?!  :-o  :-o  :-o

That's just sacrilege!!!  :-)

Everyone knows the Speccy had the best graphics and sound of all the 8-bitters!  :-D

/me runs and hides from the imminent roasting! :madashell:

 - Ali

[CannonFodder]

:roflmao:

[therail]

they have done atari 2600/vcs joystick game things too. surely speccy is better than that!?

[CannonFodder]

therail wrote:
they have done atari 2600/vcs joystick game things too. surely speccy is better than that!?

Atari is a well known brand the world over.  Spectrum is well known in the UK the most, maybe Russia.

Marketing sorts would shudder at such a limited market I guess.

[NoFastMem]

I'd bloody love to play Midnight Resistance or Hero again though.

I was a Speccy kid for a time, mostly had +2As. I think they're unfairly maligned. So the Amstrads weren't as pretty as the Sinclair models, but the built-in tape was handy, and at least they had proper keyboards!

Must admit I loved the look of the original 128, though. I had one for a while, but I'd managed to blow it up the first night I had it and it was never resurrected.  :-(

[InTheSand]

The (UK-only) enhanced phones made by Amstrad have in-built Spectrum emulation, shame this wasn't taken further into a stand-alone product.

Though the C64's sound was miles better, and its graphics were better for probably 85%+ of games, quite a lot of us old ex-Speccy users were (at the time) ardent haters of Commodore!!!!! So even given the size of the market, I'm sure a fair profit could still be made if such a device was sold for around the same price as the C64DTV... A couple of million would probably be sold in the UK alone!

 - Ali

[Vincent]

NoFastMem wrote:
I was a Speccy kid for a time, mostly had +2As. I think they're unfairly maligned. So the Amstrads weren't as pretty as the Sinclair models, but the built-in tape was handy, and at least they had proper keyboards!

Yeah, but the amount of times the Azimuth Head Alignment had to be fixed on the +2s was unbelievable, especially on the Amstrad versions.

The keyboard was tops though :-D

[InTheSand]

Vincent wrote:
The keyboard was tops though :-D

Nooo! Rubber keys rule!!!  :crazy:

 - Ali

[Vincent]

Got a fetish? :-P

[Van_M]

None of this Amstrad rubbish!!! :-)

Watch your words on Amstrad!!!

Alan Sugar is God!

[PMC]

Well, my +2 needed opening up and having the noise output adjusted because of the incessant buzz of static drowning out the sound and it wasn't by any means the only +2 which required such fine tuning.  

As for the tape heads, mine needed a little adjustment but were fine for ever after once tuned correctly.  And with a very few exceptions, it managed to load almost every program I attempted to run.

Full marks to Amstrad on that score, however the garishness of the 8 colour display and the fact that on a TV screen the colours used to bleed into one another (not to mention the awful colour clash) meant that I'd have swapped the bleepy AY for a less migraine inducing display.

[A4000_Mad]

I had every Spectrum ever made once, but when we moved the Mrs said I had to bin them or some of my Amigas !! No contest... so into the bin went all the Speccy's :boohoo:


Well all except a boxed, fully working +3 with floppy drive that I managed to sneek up into the loft   :lol:

Any idea of its value now?

P.S. Heathrow Radar on the Spectrum is still the best Air Traffic Control simulator that I have seen on any platform  including the PC  8-)

A4000 Mad

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Aw, yet another victim of the 'Mrs. terrorism'

[Speelgoedmannetje]

A4000_Mad wrote:
I had every Spectrum ever made once, but when we moved the Mrs said I had to bin them or some of my Amigas !! No contest... so into the bin went all the Speccy's :boohoo:


Well all except a boxed, fully working +3 with floppy drive that I managed to sneek up into the loft   :lol:

Any idea of its value now?

P.S. Heathrow Radar on the Spectrum is still the best Air Traffic Control simulator that I have seen on any platform  including the PC  8-)

A4000 Mad

is that a 3.5" diskdrive? Or didn't the Spectrum have a 3" "microdrive" (or what was it?).

Anyway, I got myself a ZX81 from a friend :banana:

[Vincent]

A microdrive was completely different, it was basically a very miniature tape system.

The +3 had a 3" disk drive.  The same disks that Amstrad used in their PCW systems.

I've still got my 2 48k's and 3 +2's in a box under my bed along with 2 more boxes of just Speccy games :-D

[Karlos]

Off Topic:

@Vincent:

Who ate all the pies?

Your avatar?