RIP Sir Clive Sinclair
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The ZX Spectrum helped to create an entire generation of British programmers and game developers. What a legend!
Plus the humble Speccy was my first home computer. Not that we really used it for anything other than playing games, lol.
Plus the humble Speccy was my first home computer. Not that we really used it for anything other than playing games, lol.
Me included - o7 Sir Clive
(16 colors vs 4 on a weird palette for that CGA)
Still got mine and it still works
I literally owe my career to Sir Clive Sinclair. I learned programming on that silly rubber keyboard.
I also traded slaves and narcotics in a Cobra among the old Elite worlds on that keyboard.
If my commander was in the bubble right now (he's in Colonia), he'd buy a Cobra, fit a chaff launcher and light up space around the Sinclair Colony coriolis starport in the San Qin Gu system in Sir Clive's honour.
I'd love to see a video of the Elite community doing that...
O7 Sir Clive Sinclair
I also traded slaves and narcotics in a Cobra among the old Elite worlds on that keyboard.
If my commander was in the bubble right now (he's in Colonia), he'd buy a Cobra, fit a chaff launcher and light up space around the Sinclair Colony coriolis starport in the San Qin Gu system in Sir Clive's honour.
I'd love to see a video of the Elite community doing that...
O7 Sir Clive Sinclair
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My ZX Spectrum was still working fine the last time I fired it up. An innovator and visionary, creating an electric vehicle long before Elan made his moves. The C5 had many faults, but it pointed the way.
RIP Clive
RIP Clive
I learnt programming from going into WHSmiths - taking a learning basic book off the shelf, learning a bit, coding in the ZX81, going home testing out some ideas coming back. Heady days indeed - I still have a Spectrum, used to code Z80 games and ARM on the archimedes.
RIP Clive
RIP Clive
Begged my unlce to lend it to me and he did. Typed in programs from magazines and had a first glimpse at fractals. Took ages to compute. I found it more intuitive than the long rows of peeks and pokes of C64. Which I later used for playing. Got a Casio programmable calculator for the Basic shenanigans and made a golf game and a submarine game. On just 2K.
o7 Herr Sinclair.
o7 Herr Sinclair.
Who else taught themselves basic programming on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum using these?
What I loved most about Sir Clive was the usual perception of him was a geek, nerd or mad inventor but he was a proper party animal who would frequent London's night clubs like Stringfellows always surrounded by Dolly birds and living life to the full even in his twilight years!
Proper Legend.
Proper Legend.
WHSmiths was the place to be in the 80's, In Southampton High Str branch up stairs in the Tech Department they would have a 48k one working and we would go in there Saturdays and do a little bit of coding to have the loading screen border flashing colours and then your name scrolling up the screen, and coming back half an hour later to see if the shop assistant had pulled the plug or someone else had added their name instead of yours!
What a cool place that use to be, even got my first couple of Synths from WHS, Casio CZ101 and then the CZ230s later after being shoed out from there again for playing OMD Enola Gay on a working Synth!
Brings back good memories.