Retro! Do you remember?

[mancombseepgood]

Found this - some may find it fascinating that there are people in this internet age who owned these. I learned to program basic and a little Z80 on it... but of course anyone who had one will remember the stages we went through with Psion, Ultimate, etc. etc. Even if you didn't have one - take a peek - you can play some of the games in the browser.

http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/search.php?q=spectrum&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Search

There is lotsa other retro stuff to make you feel old (if you remember it of course)... you can look back at the no 1 hit when you were born (or 13 years old for that matter). etc!

Lotsa fun

 

[EchoZA]

I still have one, and a ZX81 and a ZX Spectrum 48K+ with ROM pack both still work

 

[kronoSX]

I have an amiga 500 still works

 

[mancombseepgood]

Awesome!

I still have one, and a ZX81 and a ZX Spectrum 48K+ with ROM pack both still work

Nice 1 - I had one until recently - I even modded a regular keyboard to work via db15 plug on it cos the membrane went for the 3rd time

 

[mancombseepgood]

Whoooaaa!

I have an amiga 500 still works

Now that was some machine... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500
I only dreamed of owning one... the grapics on that baby were quite something.

Have you fiddled with an emulator?
http://www.rom-world.com/dl.php?name=Amiga&letter=A

 

[Gunny]

I have a ZX Spectrum in a box in the roof somewhere and the anoying tape drive.

 

[nihilist]

Do you guys remember those oldschool Nintendo games? The handheld LCD ones, Donkey Kong etc; ?

I see they sell quite well on ebay if they're in mint condition.

 

[frenchi6625]

i have a pentium III mmx and IT still works...

 

[frootloop]

Nice 1 - I had one until recently - I even modded a regular keyboard to work via db15 plug on it cos the membrane went for the 3rd time

hi there, you dont happen to have the desogn for that keyboard mod do you? I've been googling to find one that was fairly simple, but no luck yet

 

[frootloop]

BTW, does anyone have an Amiga / C64 / BBC / Amstrad / 129k SPectrum or original softs for these machines they want to sell? I've had no luck finding any now that I want them, I used to see them in Cash Crusaders all the time!

 

[waynegohl]

i was looking for that orangey coloured double screen donkey kong game years ago but just forgot about it until now. what memories.

 

[waynegohl]

just remembered i inherited that old game where you use the tape recorder, was it that zx spectrum mentioned above, i cannot even rember how it work except that it had a tape drive.

 

[BiteMe]

i think you guys are talking about these
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_&_Watch

the "game and watch" series, which included the dual screen donkey kong version, the silly firefighters, the parachutes, etc etc

you get good money for these nowdays. very collectible

 

[waynegohl]

THATS IT!!!!!!!!! i remember i had the octopus one. not sure if i owned the donkey kong one but i know i played with that one.

 

[mancombseepgood]

THATS IT!!!!!!!!! i remember i had the octopus one. not sure if i owned the donkey kong one but i know i played with that one.

Yeah, I think everyone played with their donkey kong at some point in childhood

 

[mancombseepgood]

hi there, you dont happen to have the desogn for that keyboard mod do you? I've been googling to find one that was fairly simple, but no luck yet

Unfortunately not, but it was fairly simple - the problem was that I used an old IBM "click" keyboard with no membrane - I then totally ripped the circut apart and isolated all the keys, then soldered wires to each to match the ZX spectrum membrane... you can't unfortuntely do that with a modern keyboard...

 

[mancombseepgood]

BTW, does anyone have an Amiga / C64 / BBC / Amstrad / 129k SPectrum or original softs for these machines they want to sell? I've had no luck finding any now that I want them, I used to see them in Cash Crusaders all the time!

You can get them on Ebay AFAIK. You can also get the game and watch combos:
http://search.ebay.com/search/searc...&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1&fsoo=1&fgtp=
http://search.ebay.com/search/searc...&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1&fsoo=1&fgtp=

But I prefer to load the emulator on my PC:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/emulators.html
You'll even find an emulator for some phones on that site...
then search for the .tzx files (tape files) to play in the emulator... fun...

 

[frootloop]

Unfortunately not, but it was fairly simple - the problem was that I used an old IBM "click" keyboard with no membrane - I then totally ripped the circut apart and isolated all the keys, then soldered wires to each to match the ZX spectrum membrane... you can't unfortuntely do that with a modern keyboard...

Thanks! I had the same idea, found out the hard way that on modern 'non clickety' keyboards it was impractical...going to see if anyone has those old XT keyboards lying about...managed to fins a replacement membrane in the mean time - http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/. A bit expensive, but at least I can resurerct my 'speccy

 

[frootloop]

You can get them on Ebay AFAIK. You can also get the game and watch combos:
http://search.ebay.com/search/searc...&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1&fsoo=1&fgtp=
http://search.ebay.com/search/searc...&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1&fsoo=1&fgtp=

But I prefer to load the emulator on my PC:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/emulators.html
You'll even find an emulator for some phones on that site...
then search for the .tzx files (tape files) to play in the emulator... fun...

Thanks again - they are fairly common on ebay, but shipping to SA costs a fortune! I'll keep looking around, there must be a few locally

 

[lord_spaceman]

Just wrote a 'retro' article today on my blog about Battletoads for the NES.