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# Some of the first games I ever played
were ZX81 games painstakingly typed into the Spectrum on its rubber keyboard from Popular Computing Weekly. I think my dad's still got all those PCW magazines sitting in the loft. I might recover them and scan them in for posterity.

And JetPac. Some people only got into Rare when they released GoldenEye. But not I. Oh no. I was there from the beginning. JetPac, Psst, Trans-Am, Atic Attack, Sabre Wulf and others that I never owned.

I'm getting all nostalgiac now. I also have to go to a seminar. FUN.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 12:11, archived)
# Atic Attack - YAY!
(I helped save b3ta! Geoff the Clownfish You know Myra, some people might think you're cute, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 12:30, archived)
# One of the most impressive games of all time
especially when you consider what they had to work with.

Actually I'm going to doss off this afternoon and play it. Yes.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 13:11, archived)
# I'd be grateful if you could let me know how I could play it too
Ta
(I helped save b3ta! Geoff the Clownfish You know Myra, some people might think you're cute, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 13:20, archived)
# If you're using Windows
download ZXSpin. Mine appears to be called ZXSpin666 but I've not actually run Windows for a couple of years so I don't know if there's something better out there. ZXSpin worked beautifully for me, anyway.

If you're on Mac or Linux download FUSE.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 13:43, archived)
# Cheers!
(I helped save b3ta! Geoff the Clownfish You know Myra, some people might think you're cute, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 14:44, archived)
# Then go to 'World of Spectrum'
for your legit game downloads.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 14:52, archived)
# Loved Jetpac on the spectrum
Had the cartridge version *smugs*
(I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 14:08, archived)
# Yeah? YEAH?
Well, I... err.


Fuck you. ;)
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 14:31, archived)
# I think I must have spent
much of my early teens programming the speccy from mags oh and then there was Elite - Which pretty much dominated 1983 for me
(asciifaceofbob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 14:24, archived)
# That's impressive since Elite was released in 1984
;)

I spent *ages* once typing in a machine code Frogger game from a book about teaching yourself machine code on the Speccy.

It didn't work.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 14:31, archived)
# Then it must have been 84
how frustrating, still - I bet it helped you to bug testing properly in the longer term...

I'm still surprised there are so many folks on here who are obviously over 40!
(asciifaceofbob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 14:50, archived)
# Actually I was really young at the time
so it taught me to steer clear of machine code. That's stood me in very bad stead ever since because I stuck to Basic and now am fighting to dig myself out of being stuck to Fortran which is kind of like Basic for scientists.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 15:05, archived)
# Frogger clone
YES! Me, too! It was a Melbourne House book called something like "Learning Z80 Assembler", which I mostly sort-of followed... read it cover to cover during a wet two-week Easter family holiday in Suffolk, as I recall. *sigh* happy days...
(imipak, Thu 9 Jun 2011, 19:30, archived)