Tag: Spectrum

  • Horace goes IP Trolling

    Horace goes IP Trolling

    Octav1us, game reviewer and lover of 1980’s games has been attacked by a copyright troll – Paul Andrews of Subvert. (I do name and shame even if she’s understandably too scared and worried to do it – so bite me. She used Horace from the ZX Spectrum games, but the guy who was one of…

  • New AFX video

    New AFX video

    First AFX video in 17 years and it’s directed and edited by a 12 year old Ryan Wyer and starring him and his family. A reminder that children are stranger and more creative than many ‘pros’ that try to emulate it, fits really well with the track off the new Cheetah EP (I’m hoping Cheetah…

  • 10 PRINT “Happy 50th Birthday Basic!” 20 GOTO 10

    10 PRINT “Happy 50th Birthday Basic!” 20 GOTO 10

    Yes as of today BASIC is 50. PRINT “CONGRATULATIONS”, BEEP! I was probably unusual for my age when I started to learn BASIC and mess around on computers since my parents were IT professionals, and bought a Computer Graveyard’s worth of long-forgotten technology, dusty long forgotten machines. So the machine I learn BASIC on to…

  • RC 248: 8-Bit Music Machine

    RC 248: 8-Bit Music Machine

    In the 1980′ and 90’s I like most of my friends spent many hours programming, creating rudimentary digital pictures (I had a mouse for my Spectrum!), playing games and trying to get something vaguely musical from said microcomputers. So in honour of my 8-bit and 16-bit music days, here is a 8-bit/16-bit music special of…

  • Elite Dangerous

    Elite Dangerous

    Loving what I’m hearing about Elite Dangerous, the new multiplayer version of Elite which exceeded it’s Kickstarter goals, and thus means there will also be a Mac version (yay!). I’ve signed up for the beta program by donating, so I’ll definitely be out there in space in 2014. Elite was a game I loved back…

  • ZX Vader

    ZX Vader

    INKEY$ = “I WANT RESULTS NOT EXCUSES” POKE MOON OF ENDOR; PEEK 14564, PRINCESS. GOTO ALDERAN.

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