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Hah. One of the links on the bottom of that story takes you to the Your Sinclair archives. My old review for Your Sinclair is on there.
FantasyMeister wrote:
> I had the ZX81 then added the 16k RAM pack (with a bit of
> Blue-Tac to stop it wobbling off the back and crashing
> programs).
Geez, could you not have told me Blue-Tac worked 25 years ago? :) I stopped using the memory pack in the end. About all I can remember now is writing some little game and running out of memory.
> I think that the greatest advance in gaming is the way games are
> delivered. 25 years ago you had to spend hours typing in 9999
> lines of BASIC from the back of a magazine only to discover it
> didn't work anyway, or weeks waiting for Royal Mail to deliver
> your brown jiffy bag replete with tape-cassette, only to
> discover it didn't work anyway.
Strangely enough, I can still remember sitting there typing in a Dr. Who game which I think was from an issue of CVG.
> I had the ZX81 then added the 16k RAM pack (with a bit of
> Blue-Tac to stop it wobbling off the back and crashing
> programs).
Geez, could you not have told me Blue-Tac worked 25 years ago? :) I stopped using the memory pack in the end. About all I can remember now is writing some little game and running out of memory.
> I think that the greatest advance in gaming is the way games are
> delivered. 25 years ago you had to spend hours typing in 9999
> lines of BASIC from the back of a magazine only to discover it
> didn't work anyway, or weeks waiting for Royal Mail to deliver
> your brown jiffy bag replete with tape-cassette, only to
> discover it didn't work anyway.
Strangely enough, I can still remember sitting there typing in a Dr. Who game which I think was from an issue of CVG.
I had the ZX81 then added the 16k RAM pack (with a bit of Blue-Tac to stop it wobbling off the back and crashing programs).
Then I progressed to the ZX Spectrum 48k, which lasted me until the SEGA Megadrive, at which point I was sucked into the black hole time-sink that was, is and continues to be, videogaming, but with less high-pitched whining and screeching as the game loads up (with the exception perhaps of a few comms-enabled online games like Halo 2 etc.)
I think that the greatest advance in gaming is the way games are delivered. 25 years ago you had to spend hours typing in 9999 lines of BASIC from the back of a magazine only to discover it didn't work anyway, or weeks waiting for Royal Mail to deliver your brown jiffy bag replete with tape-cassette, only to discover it didn't work anyway.
Today you just download it off the marketplace and within a few minutes you're up and running.
People who moan about glitchy AI, jaggies, 50Hz mode, framerate issues and lag haven't really lived.
Then I progressed to the ZX Spectrum 48k, which lasted me until the SEGA Megadrive, at which point I was sucked into the black hole time-sink that was, is and continues to be, videogaming, but with less high-pitched whining and screeching as the game loads up (with the exception perhaps of a few comms-enabled online games like Halo 2 etc.)
I think that the greatest advance in gaming is the way games are delivered. 25 years ago you had to spend hours typing in 9999 lines of BASIC from the back of a magazine only to discover it didn't work anyway, or weeks waiting for Royal Mail to deliver your brown jiffy bag replete with tape-cassette, only to discover it didn't work anyway.
Today you just download it off the marketplace and within a few minutes you're up and running.
People who moan about glitchy AI, jaggies, 50Hz mode, framerate issues and lag haven't really lived.
The ZX Spectrum 48K was the first computer I had as far back as I can remember. The power pack fried itself so we got a 128K +2 I think it's called with the tape deck built in. It still works today although the tapes are in less than stellar condition.