07 Mar 2019, 8:31 pm
ZED ECKS. Not ZEE EX.
And a fellow Yorkshire person, I see, so I guess I had better say; "Ey up, fella, wha's tha know, owt or nowt." (Shhh; we have to keep up the pretence for the Southerners - they seem to like that kind of "exotic" stuff.
)I've been known to have the occasional game of Manic Miner still (I'm hopeless at it as an adult!) - only on a PC emulator, though, it's a long, long time since I had a real Speccy. I started out with a little play on a friend's Zed Ecks 81, but the Speccy was my first ever computer, and what I first started learning to coding on. It's hard to believe it's well over 30 years ago, now!
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08 Mar 2019, 1:33 am
ZED ECKS. Not ZEE EX.
Used to love my rubber keyed 48k. I was the king of Chuckie Egg in my house!
08 Mar 2019, 9:30 am
This was the awesome cake my mum made me for my birthday , I'm not sure how long ago it was but the cake has 13 candles so almost definitely 34 years ago 
08 Mar 2019, 10:01 am
Love that!!
08 Mar 2019, 1:24 pm
That cake is awesome!
I didn't originally get the ZX Spectrum that I asked for, because when my mum and my gran went into Dixons the staff convinced them to get me an Oric 1 as it was "even better and had better keys". Suffice to day I was not very happy on Christmas morning - but I knew someone who knew someone and I managed to swap my Oric for a Speccy 16K after a new months of horror.
To make up for that trauma, now I'm an adult I have about half a dozen Speccies of various models.
Good to see another Yorkshire lad here, tha sees, too.
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08 Mar 2019, 2:07 pm
I calculate it as 35 years ago, twelve candles for your new age, and one for luck.
09 Mar 2019, 4:46 am
I didn't originally get the ZX Spectrum that I asked for, because when my mum and my gran went into Dixons the staff convinced them to get me an Oric 1 as it was "even better and had better keys". Suffice to day I was not very happy on Christmas morning - but I knew someone who knew someone and I managed to swap my Oric for a Speccy 16K after a new months of horror.
To make up for that trauma, now I'm an adult I have about half a dozen Speccies of various models.
Good to see another Yorkshire lad here, tha sees, too.
What was actually the bad thing about the Oric? Was it a bad machine, or bad library?
I'm also a Yorkshireman by the way!
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09 Mar 2019, 10:52 am
What was actually the bad thing about the Oric? Was it a bad machine, or bad library?
I'm also a Yorkshireman by the way!
It had practically no software for it and all the people I knew at school were swapping tapes full of games and I was once again on the outside looking in.
These days I've kind of over-compensated and I have so many consoles and computers and video games that it's a bit silly to be honest.
My Steam library on the PC is at over 1,700 games and I've played only a handfull.
I went Atari 2600 > ZX81 > Oric
> ZX Spectrum > Atari ST > Amiga > SNES > PC and probably a few more brief ones inbeween.
09 Mar 2019, 10:57 am
Been thinking of getting something up to date recently
My evolution was Spectrum 48k > Spectrum+ > Spectrum 128k > Spectrum +2 > Spectrum +3 > Drugs & Alcohol > PS1 > PS2 > Xbox > Xbox 360 > PS3 > PC Gaming.
I would like to get a next gen console ( for the console only games ) but can't afford it.
Keep an eye on hotukdeals, xbox one is pretty affordable, especially with the right deal
