C64 vs ZX speccy

Hi All,

I was going through some old laptop hard drives that I never threw away.
I found some stuff I forgot I had or thought Id lost.
Pictures music and vids.

Ive gone nostalgic or going through the male andropause.

As some of us remember the the early 80s, we remember the rival between the ZX spectrum and Commodore 64.
My first taste of computers (apart from an early 80s casio calculater watch)
was the sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k.

The loading noise was like music and watching the graphics slowly appear from the top to the bottom line after line scrolling through.

Then then I got a Commodore 64.
WOW.
This was something else to a kid.
This played real music whilst waiting for the game to load.
Heres some of my favourite C64 loading tunes.

Ocean Loaders.


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This music is brill.
100 games in ten minutes.
How many do you remember?

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a reply to: alwaysbeenhere2

Started with a speccy 48k then moved up to the monster that was the speccy 128k , my 3 main memories are the dodgy kempston joystick port that would break if you even looked at it funny , Dizzy the platforming egg and Fairlight , the game that started my love of adventure games , it was a 3D isometric wonder but hard as nails.


They were the days.

I was team spectrum!
I remember fairlight,also loved drogontorc,the hobbit,cookie,jetpac,manic miner,jetset willy.
Those tape deck loading screens with the crazy noise of the data transfers..Awesome,
Great times.
Real fun before technology was infested with surveillance and politics.


BTW-
They just released a new style spectrum with pre loads and an hdmi port for modern TVs
www.amazon.co.uk...

a reply to: onestonemonkey

Those tape deck loading screens with the crazy noise of the data transfers..Awesome,
Great times

And waiting 5 or 10 minutes for a game to load only to have it crash.
Happy times , kids don't know they're born these days.

a reply to: alwaysbeenhere2

I got a Commodore 64c when I was about 10. Learned a bit of basic from a book.

Not a single adult in my life knew anything about computers. I got bootleg games from a guy at a place my mother worked part-time. Occasionally, I could convince somebody to buy one off the shelf for me.

Anybody that was active in that era and hasn't watched Halt and Catch Fire will probably enjoy it. One of my favorite shows of all time. It is -to the rise of the computerized world- what The Big Short is to the fall of modern economic policy, if only as fiction. A lot of borrowing loosely from reality. Lee Pace is brilliant as a John McAfee analog.

Jimmy Buffett was born 200 years too late, but only about 20 years too early. I've been hoisting the Jolly Roger since before my balls dropped. Thanks for reminding me.

a reply to: gortex
LOOOL
I remember being ten and Blowing the tape for dust.
Great days

a reply to: ksihkahe

I learnt a tiny bit of BASIC on the spectrum.

I typed in the code from a magazine and the game was called Hang Man.
It worked.

For me it was a ZX Spectrum, and it still works, although the image is not that good.

With it I learned BASIC, Pascal and the Z80 assembly language. Programming with only 48K was a challenge, one of the programs I made changed its code on the fly to be able to be more compact. Another had an in-memory (the only way) database with a simple compression method.

Great days indeed.

originally posted by: alwaysbeenhere2
a reply to: ksihkahe

I learnt a tiny bit of BASIC on the spectrum.

What a strange turn of events, eh?

People playing 1980's PC games and learning BASIC four decades later are also mostly doing it on the spectrum.

An entirely different spectrum, but a spectrum all the same.

a reply to: ksihkahe

Straight to the C=64 for me.
Ahhhh the excitement of waiting for games to be released with no idea of what to expect other than magazine articles.
Then came the cracked games and intros.
Recently found Fairlight TV on YouTube and the interviews with legends from back in the day are awesome.
Only discovered Halt and Catch Fire by accident and binged it over a few weekends.

Fairlight TV YouTube Channel

As I said above, my ZX Spectrum still works, after 40 years!

This was taken a few minutes ago.



Now I have to find a tape player to try my old games. If everything works I will try to change some capacitors to get a better image.

PS: I should probably get a new keyboard, as the one it has now was made by me with a couple of sheets of paper, some copper wire and adhesive tape.