I come to pick brains!

[Juz571]

Hello, and thanks for having me.

The 48k xx spectrum with “keys you can squeeze” was my first experience with the computer in this journey we call life! While I always dreamed of learning to programme and become a fantastic hacker, like in the movies, I’m afraid I got no further than playing games and making the odd series of beeps, or a flashing colours.
Roll forward into my 40’s and I’m rekindling my love with old computers and games consoles, partly through nostalgia, partly through, I would imagine, a midlife crisis, and partly through the fact that I realised the gaming industry has turned into a micro transaction hell hole, where you now pay to play and get better experiences from the games, and quite often buy unfinished products that you have to pay more to get finished. Meanwhile there are literally thousands of untapped gems from the past. Far too many for me to enjoy in my lifetime.
Anyway, I digress. Back to the ZX Spectrum!
I have a lovely grey Plus 2 which is working great, and a 48k issue 2, while not being my own childhood one, is the first computer my parents scraped together to get me as a child. And it’s a fixer-upper, which brings me here!

Thanks again for having me and I hope I didn’t send you to sleep!

[Lardo Boffin]

Welcome and good luck with the fixer-upper!

I know what you mean about micro transactions! And with many games now being tied to active servers you lose access (and your money) when they switch off the servers. I’m taking about you Ubisoft! Doubtless the first of many.
With the rapidly approaching digital only sales model I don’t know how kids of today will be able to play the games of their youth in 40 years.

[mrtinb]

Since everything is recorded to Twitch today, they will be able to at least see it on video.

[mrtinb]

And maybe some AI in the future can reproduce the game from all the video recordings.

[1024MAK]

Hello and welcome to our forum Juz571!



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