Page 1 of Nostalgic reads for the 8-bit era

21 Things We Miss About Old Computers:
http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/games/retro-computers/48484/21-things-we-miss-about-old-computers

Although some of them we really don't, but most of them we do!

BBC Micro - The computer that helped build an industry:
https://www.gamestm.co.uk/features/bbc-micro-the-computer-that-helped-build-an-industry/

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The BBC Micro was arguably the most important computer ever to be launched in the UK. Released on 1 December 1981, it was bought by schools up and down the country and it helped to kickstart a revolution. Scores of future games programmers honed their craft on the computer, from David Braben and Ian Bell who debuted Elite on the BBC Micro to Philip and Andrew Oliver who produced Repton for Superior Software. It led to numerous gaming exclusives including the side-scroller Strykers Run, Magic Mushrooms, Beyond Infinity – Cute To Kill, Galaforce and the Asteroids clone Camouflage.


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well done, I meant to post that first one but forgot, I think I saw it in a CodeProject email. tapes, brilliant weren't they, using the household ghetto blaster to make "backups", compilation tapes making marks on the paper, to fastforward to if you wanted the 2nd or 3rd game on that side :)

didn't appreciate the digs at Amstrad owners though :(

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The BBC article is a good read, thanks for that, I never had one, but "played" with them at middle school, and secondary school, amazing how it was in service for so long. At middle school I think we used to use it for an hour or so every month, maybe less frequently, there were only a few on trolleys!

Secondary school there was a lab, I forget how many computers but we never had lessons in there, but could use it lunch times I think if you joined the "computer club". I don't remember doing anything constructive in there :)

10 Print "Alan is skill"
20 goto 10

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Happy Birthday (for yesterday) to the ZX Spectrum.

Ah, Sir Clive, the man that brought us the brilliant black and white ZX81 which I bought, and then the ZX Spectrum which I bought, including the silver paper 'burning' printer (no ink required, fantastic), then the digital pocket calculator which I bought and assembled and actually got it working , and also the digital LED black watch, which I again bought, but went through batteries quick due to heavy power use. (says on video some exploded, What! took my life in my hands).

Then it went really down hill, where Clive thought we would all love to be in a transportable plastic bath on wheels with a small electrical motor, the crazy and really unsafe looking Sinclair C5. Funny thing was that he had a top of the range luxury car at the time, and actually thought the Sinclair C5 would be what the common man actually wanted, What a joke!

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"actually thought the Sinclair C5 would be what the common man actually wanted"
I wanted one. Oh god did I want one.

but then I was only 11 at the time, so didn't know any better


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I wanted one too, but I think if I'd have got one I'd have been very dissappointed.

Having seen what they are now, it's amazing how little there was to them.

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Pete MK QUOTE....I wanted one. Oh god did I want one.Its because you liked the back up pedals, if it ran out of juice  
I only ever saw one on the road, as a juggernaut lorry was passing it, and it nearly got sucked in, total death traps 

And the last time I saw them, was some multicoloured ones for hire on Blackpools Pleasure beach.

But the funny thing is that most motor museums do have one on display.

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"And the last time I saw them, was some multicoloured ones for hire on Blackpools Pleasure beach"
Stayed at Haven holiday camps over many years and they always had several knocking around with the motors removed. Only then did I notice how flimsy that front faring was


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Some back story about the NES emulation scene:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-story-of-nesticle-the-ambitious-emulator-that-redefined-retro-gaming

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