ZX Spectrum RE-Launched

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suityou01 replied

18 July 2015, 19:05
Originally posted by minestrone View Post

You can buy a real ZX spectrum on ebay for 30 quid, there is no mass market for the thing.

I'll take a look. Cheers.
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minestrone replied

18 July 2015, 18:40
You can buy a real ZX spectrum on ebay for 30 quid, there is no mass market for the thing.
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suityou01 replied

18 July 2015, 18:38
Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

KUATB

Sorry.
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suityou01 replied

18 July 2015, 18:31
Originally posted by unixman View Post

Isn't this "Spectrum" nothing of the kind, and just a games console to play spectrum games ?

I've seen that one, that looks like the original one but with a fraction of the keys.

I hope I've not got my hopes up about the same thing.

Edit : yep same one sadly. Just a games console with none of the programming. For that reason, I'm out.

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unixman replied

18 July 2015, 10:12
Isn't this "Spectrum" nothing of the kind, and just a games console to play spectrum games ?
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unixman replied

18 July 2015, 10:09
Originally posted by suityou01 View Post

After the recent launch of the Micro Beeb,

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 17/07/2015, ZX Spectrum relaunch 'aimed at mass market'

With rubber keys.

The Pi never cut it for me as a teaching tool. The spectrum had an inate "limitedness"'which made it successful.

I wonder if they will re-release Input magazine.

I agree about the Pi. It is a great idea and wonderful product, but its biggest fans are all middle aged unix guys like me. 80's home computers were perfect learning machines because they booted straight into a programming shell. Switch on and be into your second line of program within 5 seconds. The Pi is capable of too many distracting things, and to program it requires an existing level of system knowledge which 12 year olds generally don't have, and which is quite boring next the the exciting programming stuff.
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NickFitz replied

18 July 2015, 09:57
Originally posted by suityou01 View Post

I wonder if they will re-release Input magazine.

As always, the Internet Archive is your friend: Input Magazine
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NickFitz replied

18 July 2015, 09:53
KUATB
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suityou01 started a topic ZX Spectrum RE-Launched

17 July 2015, 21:31
ZX Spectrum RE-Launched

After the recent launch of the Micro Beeb,

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 17/07/2015, ZX Spectrum relaunch 'aimed at mass market'

With rubber keys.

The Pi never cut it for me as a teaching tool. The spectrum had an inate "limitedness"'which made it successful.

I wonder if they will re-release Input magazine.
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