I come to pick brains!
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:12 am
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!
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!
