Sir Clive Sinclair Passes Away

[sniffer66]

Wonder if a wobbly RAM pack on his life support machine did for him. If so then that's fair given the grief his RAM packs used to cause me! Classic British inventor, great ideas but undeniably ify "proof of concept" products.

Built a ZX81 kit with my dad on the kitchen table (it's 69.99 vs 99.99 son, 'how hard can it be' but even that was a week's wages for him) no soldering iron, just a braising iron on the gas stove. It worked , I used it for graphics on 2 TVs for a crappy band... And taught myself enough to get a job and ended up designing systems that transacted billions a day. Pivotal. Thanks Clive, thanks dad.

I've got an unmade ZX81 kit in the loft I bought in the late 90s, I might go look at it

Ha, the old 16k RAM pack, held on with an elastic band. I remember spending hours typing in a 1k chess prog in machine code, from a magazine. Only for a RAM pack wobble to wipe the lot.

Kids these days .....

Ever played Hobbit, 6 minutes to load off cassette. I think it used up every available byte of RAM, sometimes failed to read the last byte and you start all over again. Fond memories all the same.

I remember it well, used to play all the old adventure games. Loved all the logic puzzles. Now it seems to be all RPG based

[Realrocknrolla]

10 Print “RIP SIR CLIVE”
20 GOTO 10

Run

Or something like that…

My childhood coming back to me.

[LeTiss]

10 Print “RIP SIR CLIVE”
20 GOTO 10

Run

Or something like that…

My childhood coming back to me.

Those early computers were great. You could create many wondrous screens on a Commodore 64 with a decent knowledge of 'Basic'

[Realrocknrolla]

10 Print “RIP SIR CLIVE”
20 GOTO 10

Run

Or something like that…

My childhood coming back to me.

Those early computers were great. You could create many wondrous screens on a Commodore 64 with a decent knowledge of 'Basic'

Completely agree Tiss.

Hope your well bud!

[Euler]

Ha, the old 16k RAM pack, held on with an elastic band. I remember spending hours typing in a 1k chess prog in machine code, from a magazine. Only for a RAM pack wobble to wipe the lot.

Kids these days .....

I once had an all night coding session with a friend of mine and wiped the lot by dropping my coffee cup on the desk. Fortunately we did save a copy a few times. If only we could load it without an 'R: Tape loading error'

[LeTiss]

Completely agree Tiss.

Hope your well bud!

I'm well mate. I must start posting more....it became a pain though after I upgraded my McAfee subscription. Their extra layer of online security involves signing me out of a number of platforms it deems to be dangerous. This is one of them, so everytime I post I have to keep signing back in again. Nightmare

My trading is going well. 2021 looks like being my best year since 2017. I think the lockdown and seeing everyone panicking over jobs etc. made me realise how lucky I am. At 51, this is going to be my last job.....I just need to make sure I can retire when the Exchanges finally cave in

[Realrocknrolla]

Completely agree Tiss.

Hope your well bud!

I'm well mate. I must start posting more....it became a pain though after I upgraded my McAfee subscription. Their extra layer of online security involves signing me out of a number of platforms it deems to be dangerous. This is one of them, so everytime I post I have to keep signing back in again. Nightmare

My trading is going well. 2021 looks like being my best year since 2017. I think the lockdown and seeing everyone panicking over jobs etc. made me realise how lucky I am. At 51, this is going to be my last job.....I just need to make sure I can retire when the Exchanges finally cave in

Good to hear mate. I only ever use the basic windows defender now. Touch wood it has been all good to now. If the exchanges do cave in, i am sure you could dabble in FX. I don’t think they will be disappearing for a while.

[Derek27]

Completely agree Tiss.

Hope your well bud!

I'm well mate. I must start posting more....it became a pain though after I upgraded my McAfee subscription. Their extra layer of online security involves signing me out of a number of platforms it deems to be dangerous. This is one of them, so everytime I post I have to keep signing back in again. Nightmare

My trading is going well. 2021 looks like being my best year since 2017. I think the lockdown and seeing everyone panicking over jobs etc. made me realise how lucky I am. At 51, this is going to be my last job.....I just need to make sure I can retire when the Exchanges finally cave in

Doesn't it have a whitelist? I stopped using anti-virus for the same reason, flipping useless. Every script I write is deemed unsafe, as if I need protection from myself!

[Derek27]

For anyone who wants a trip down memory lane.

https://www.spectaculator.com/downloads/

https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/sof ... ick-list/1

[sniffer66]

For anyone who wants a trip down memory lane.

https://www.spectaculator.com/downloads/

https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/sof ... ick-list/1

I downloaded an emulator a good few years ago. Manic MIner, with sprites that coloured each other as they overlapped

[Realrocknrolla]

For anyone who wants a trip down memory lane.

https://www.spectaculator.com/downloads/

https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/sof ... ick-list/1

I downloaded an emulator a good few years ago. Manic MIner, with sprites that coloured each other as they overlapped

Loved Manic Miner

[Dallas]

For anyone who wants a trip down memory lane.

https://www.spectaculator.com/downloads/

https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/sof ... ick-list/1

I downloaded an emulator a good few years ago. Manic MIner, with sprites that coloured each other as they overlapped

Loved Manic Miner

I bought one of these last year and its pre loaded with 12'000+ retros games for Spectrum, C64, Amiga, Snes, Meme Arcade, Master System, Mega Drive, Gameboy, Gameboy Colour, Atari 2600 etc etc

Joystick.jpg

I think this weekends gaming will be limited to the Spectrum only

[Realrocknrolla]

I downloaded an emulator a good few years ago. Manic MIner, with sprites that coloured each other as they overlapped

Loved Manic Miner

I bought one of these last year and its pre loaded with 12'000+ retros games for Spectrum, C64, Amiga, Snes, Meme Arcade, Master System, Mega Drive, Gameboy, Gameboy Colour, Atari 2600 etc etc

Joystick.jpg



I think this weekends gaming will be limited to the Spectrum only

I want one!

[Derek27]

There was a piece of software that provided the framework to attach simulators as people write them, so you basically had a virtual machine of every popular home computer with all the games associated with them. Can't remember what it was called.

[Dallas]

There was a piece of software that provided the framework to attach simulators as people write them, so you basically had a virtual machine of every popular home computer with all the games associated with them. Can't remember what it was called.

Mine is run from raspberry pi, when I open the joypad all that in it is the Raspberry circuit board (which is no bigger than a smart phone) with some HDMI and USB connection ports