Uncle Clive's Back

[vetran]

But why would you want that? If you lived in poverty, then maybe. But like most people here I'm sure, I have a couple of old laptops and desktops lying around as well as the ones I actually use, plus three old Android phones I could do things with if I was determined (which I'm not). And why on earth would a cheap cigarette packet sized computer be better for "learning to code" than a laptop?

Look at XBMC or Kodi as it is now known.

Squeezeslave (squeezebox equivalent for £30-40)

 

[xoggoth]

If the ZX81/Spectrum/QL ever get to be valuable collectors' items I shall be most annoyed that I gave them away.

 

[Paddy]

Snow Watch ™

Snow Watch ™

Snow is back on the menu


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[minestrone]

I have a spectrum 2 128. I have always wanted to download a game, put it on tape and load it up.

**** knows why.

 

[NickFitz]

You can get a Pi and run a Speccy emulator on it. Best of both worlds - or rather more, as you can also emulate any other machine from that era, as well as every arcade game and console

 

[xoggoth]

Can't say I've tried recently but you could even get ZX81 simulators for the PC but emulated screen was about the size of a postage stamp on a modern monitor.

 

[minestrone]

I suppose you all seen this a few months ago...

BBC News - Manic modder: Inside Ben Heck's world of bonsai computing

 

[minestrone]

That reminds me, when I was finishing at UNI in 1997 the computer science lecturer admitted they were still using a spectrum at the start of the term to allocate rooms to classes.

 

[VectraMan]

Can't say I've tried recently but you could even get ZX81 simulators for the PC but emulated screen was about the size of a postage stamp on a modern monitor.

If only there was a way for computers to scale images.