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Are you jonesing for some 80′s inspired computer fun on the cheap? Look no further than Paul Dunn’s ingenious SpecBAS project, which just rolled out full support for the Raspberry Pi — your pocket mini-marvel just became a ZX Spectrum, well, minus the tapes, of course.
SpecBAS should provide us nostalgic nerds with everything we remember from the ZX’s Sinclair BASIC. Plus it’s got a few new-fangled bells and whistles, including loads more maths functions, sound-using samples, as well as jettisoning the 48k memory limit.
Those interested in ‘coding like its ’82′ can head on over here to grab the SpecBAS 0.755 source code for free. [SpecBAS via The Register]
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only if I can play Manic Miner and Chucky Egg
Only if I can have teh rubber kees.
As a side note, I sometimes worry that the word “awesome” is losing it’s potency as an adjective. Its pairing here with “ZX Spectrum”, for example….
We need a new word to replace awesome, in line with what it used to mean. Might I suggest fantazmagroical.
Can we also replace “hilarious” while we’re at it?
That works.
Or maybe;…. phenomeballs!
How about using different adjectives depending on the grade of awsumness something is?
I dunno, something like language maybe?
Nah, language doesn’t work at all, it doesn’t even mean the same thing…
I think we keep awesome for things that genuinely inspire awe. For everything else, there’s PHENOMEBALLS!!
(sigh)
Alright then.
Even in its heyday nobody ever referred to a ZX Spectrum as awesome, it was the piece of shit you got if you couldn’t afford a real computer. Cheap tat.
Don’t remember that being the case at all, what did you have?
Sounds a bit miffed…
I take it Christmas was a disappointment… Was it a green screen Amstrad then?
Atari 400 and 800, I can’t believe you thought the zx was good, you had Atari, apple, and commodore on the table before this rubbish – and so much more. Please tell me how the zx stands up next to them. I think Atari wins just for having the coolest logo in the history of the whole world
Atari, haha fuck me I thought you were going to say you owned Deep Blue.
Dude you had a ZX spectrum? And you are taking the piss out of an Atari 800? Telling me it is hardly Deep Blue? WTF?
Ahh, a Commodore man!
ZX for the games (JSW, Manic Miners, Batman, Matchday) At least until that idiot Sugar bought it and destroyed it with the +2… How he ever made money, I’ll never know.
Amstrad for the kids who parents knew nothing about computers (but wanted them to do their homework). At least they had “Roland in the Cave”…
BBCs, Archimedes and Apples were the domain for schools. I didn’t know anyone who had one out of school. Apart for some bearded weirdo who now is rich and married to a woman half his age.
And the rich kids got Ataris and Amigas – Although their parents would never let them go on them because they were to expensive. But they still went on about them. Probably same people 30 years on who send out messages with the last line ‘Sent by iPhone’…