Once upon a speccy...
Mindfield
workd of emulation through a little ZX81 emulator with a bunch of tiny
little games and programs. Further to that, I also discovered a
Sinclair Spectrum emulator, and though I'd never even heard of the
Spectrum, let alone owned one (they never made it to Canada) I was
nevertheless caught up in the fascinating prospect that I could run
another machine's games on the ST. Oh, I tried Derek Michoka's 8-bit
emulator, Xformer -- since the 8-bit Atari was my first baby -- but it
was crap. On the other hand, Speccy on the ST was spot-on perfect.
Slow, but hell... it was fun. Soon, I put up a web page -- hideously
minimalist, written in Pico on my provider's shell. no pics, just
ASCII with some snaps online. It soon grew to fairly epic
proportions, and I was somehow miraculously managing to keep just
slightly beneath my provider's 30 megs-per-week bandwidth limit. I
frequented this newsgroup and found lots of people to swap speccy
stuff with, and soon grew my collection of SNAs and SNXs to well over
3,000 images.
But alas, my ST's gone, and with it all those great (and many rare)
snaps. Now I have a PC, and lots of great emulators, lots of great
ROMs, disk images, tape images, etc. However, even though my Speccy
collection remains woefully incomplete at only in the mid thousands,
even though I've raided NVG, my first stop for Spectrum stuff.
So ... now the question remains, where might I complete my collection
-- or at least restore it to something of its former glory?
Javier Perez
Javier
Philip Kendall
<diespamdie!!!mind...@home.com> wrote
>
>So ... now the question remains, where might I complete my collection
>-- or at least restore it to something of its former glory?
FAQ | Question 4
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MooseBlaster
How cold.
MooseBlaster
Mindfield
<rul...@zx-spectrum.co.uk> drooled an embarassing wet spot in his lap
as he typed:
>> FAQ | Question 4
>
>How cold.
>
>MooseBlaster
>
Actually, that was tremendously helpful... cheers, Phil!
MooseBlaster
What I meant was the way he put it, rather than the direction he pointed
you.
MooseBlaster
The Starglider
spectrum.co.uk> writes
>> Actually, that was tremendously helpful... cheers, Phil!
>
>What I meant was the way he put it, rather than the direction he pointed
>you.
>
would be blunt too.
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Andrew Owen
> In article <840q3l$rkp$1...@gxsn.com>, MooseBlaster <rulezok@zx-
> spectrum.co.uk> writes
>>> Actually, that was tremendously helpful... cheers, Phil!
>>
>>What I meant was the way he put it, rather than the direction he pointed
>>you.
>>
> You imagine being asked the same questions several times a week. You
> would be blunt too.
That's not blunt. "FAQ?" would have been blunt. Phil's a nice guy, who I
regularly disagree with, so don't give him a hard time!
-Andrew
The Starglider
<ao...@brandnewco.org> writes
message taking out my quote!
>:-)
Andrew Owen
> In article <852mn3$far$1...@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk>, Andrew Owen
> <ao...@brandnewco.org> writes
>>In article <VDi26CAm...@thespian.demon.co.uk>, The Starglider
>><starg...@thespian.d.c.u> wrote:
>>> In article <840q3l$rkp$1...@gxsn.com>, MooseBlaster <rulezok@zx-
>>> spectrum.co.uk> writes
>>>>> Actually, that was tremendously helpful... cheers, Phil!
>>>>
>>>>What I meant was the way he put it, rather than the direction he pointed
>>>>you.
>>>>
>>> You imagine being asked the same questions several times a week. You
>>> would be blunt too.
>>
>>That's not blunt. "FAQ?" would have been blunt. Phil's a nice guy, who I
>>regularly disagree with, so don't give him a hard time!
>>
> I wasn't disagreeing with him though. So I order you to repost the
> message taking out my quote!
I take orders from no-one, and then only if I feel like it! :)
I know you weren't disagreeing with him, I just mentioned that I do
occasionally - for instance on certain copyright issues that I am not going
to drag up again just yet - and just trying to give a bit of moral support
to Phil, in a (magic) roundabout way, becuase of the sterling (ŁŁŁ$$$???)
job he does in maintaining the FAQ, although I notice
http://members.xoom.com/brandnew is no longer listed since I made it a
public site which is a shame because if no-one knows about it no-one will
use it. Of course I it might just have moved in which case I apologise in
advance!
-Andrew
Philip Kendall
> although I notice http://members.xoom.com/brandnew is no longer
> listed since I made it a public site which is a shame because if
> no-one knows about it no-one will use it. Of course I it might just
> have moved in which case I apologise in advance!
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