... for those who had a ZX Spectrum, some games you may remember are on here:

Ant Attack, Elite, The Hobbit and more ....

Each to their own... Never did like the Spec games due to the graphics (but then I had an Acorn Electron!!)...
Personally, I prefer the NESten emulator with a SuperMario ROM.... Still as addictive as ever (unfortunately)...
Win32 ChuckieEgg is as frustrating as the original as well....
All good fun from back in the day....

Ben

Never did the ZX Spectrum. Had the proper VIC 20.

Phil

I had self assembled ZX81 originaly, but then upgraded to a Dragon 32. Quite a good system really, apart from lack of software compared to Spectrum and Commodore systems.

I'm not sure wether it's a good thing that I have absolutely no idea what you lot are on about!

I 'upgraded' my ZX81 to an Oric Atmos!
Figured I'd be different to the Speccy owning masses (read geeky). BIG mistake!

WOT NO SOFTWARE!

I had an Acorn Electron, i remember spending a who summer holiday playing Elite

it was just amazing when a freind got cartridges for the c64, no more bloody cassettes!!

the atari was quite good in that respect but the spectrum was great, jetpac and the good old kempton joystick never got into those amiga 500,600,1200 thingies, had a bbc b but always wanted a master. Repton rocked!

Ned.

ps visiting friends in edinburgh last weekend I got back into tetris on an original gameboy, gotta dig mine out of my parents when I get the chance. I got 180 lines and scored 176,000 and completed game b onthe highest level, saw the space shuttle and everything. got me searching online, remember the nintendo play and watch games, split screen mario, donkey kong and minesweeper? bloody marvellous

[Edited on 23/11/06 by ned]

I had a BBC B+

Hmm happy days of green screen and tape loading games! Whoo hooo just checked the spec, 2 MHz processer and 32k of ram.




My old man used to have an Apple Plus. 30 staff and only 1 computer!



Mike

Ha ha ha! I remember those old games! I've still got a BBC in the garage that I dust off occasionally. Anyone remember Revs? I loved that game!

I bought one on ebay last month with tetris and a screen magnifier for £4 +p&p, brilliant stuff. I have a ZX81, Vic-20 and a 48k Memotech upstairs. Also a Philips videopac system with cartridge games, amazing graphics the stick men's arms and legs actually move. It has a great original Invaders cartridge though as does my Vic -20, you can't beat those classics.

Blimey someone else daft enough to buy a memotech

Missed my old spectrum (16k ordered at release and upgraded to 48k within weeks) as you could actually buy decent software for it.

i win i had a c16

i loved the spectrum, my pa had a zx81 (in fact a few in pieces!), and we later got a +2 bought for us. I remember programming it to draw circles when i was 5

Jet set willy, thrust and penentrator were my favourites, shame they all have such peverse sounding names!

Oh, last time i downloaded an emulator, i played quackshot and got as far as i think you can (still bugged around level q or somesuch!)

Best game ever though, is quazatron, but i never did work out why my robot kept running out of power

Vic 20 then C64!

I couldn't believe the computing power of the C64!

It was an admag bargain . There was a Spectrum emulator available for it and it actually worked, plus it was the first computer I had that I could actually type and program on. I still wish I'd kept my ZX80, they fetch a small fortune now.

what about Pets and pdp11s

I had a Texas TI994A ! Also a number of Ataris. Worked on PDP11's as an operator.

God I'm getting old, Even used disk packs and puch tape and cards. 8" floppy disks too.

Those were the days.