The ZX Spectrum Turns Thirty Today
I wonder if Andrew Owen has heard?
British newspaper The Guardian has always had a quite excellent Computing section, and today they are running a number of articles about the Spectrum and some of the computers that it inspired. Do be sure to check out their image gallery of classic 80s computers (including the ZX80), their look at some of the more notable fans of the platform, and their list of the five best games released for the Spectrum line.
That last is a list that will, of course, need an update once Pax Britannia gets released. They also failed to mention Origin’s Times of Lore. Pix, however, pulled the game out of storage and loaded it up in an emulator to mark this occasion, and has posted a video on YouTube:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nlJj-dCLF0&w=480&h=360]
Old gaming glory.
Wow, coverage of Spectrum 30th anniversary and nothing about C64 in January… unless I missed it back on the old site. Not a single Ultima release on Spectrum, Ultima 1-6 on C64.
Strange choices really …
Oversight, maybe. I honestly don’t recall posting about the C64, but that is typical for me: my memory is crap.
January was fairly busy for me; I may have simply missed the occasion. Or maybe something did get posted…I’ll check Old Aiera.
I will say this: but for Andrew Owen’s project, I’d have given this news a pass. The focus on fan projects is, evidently, still wired into my brain, even if the site content has diversified somewhat over the last few years.
We poured our memories out about the Commodore 64 in the Jack Tramiel thread 🙁
http://aiera.ultimacodex.com/2012/04/jack-tramiel-who-gave-us-the-commodore-64-and-atari-st-passed-away/