Hey folks
Grew up with this computer and assembled an amazing set of games (i would post but the list is way too long haha)
Anyways, funds are short at the moment and i feel its time to get rid of this classic machine and games, aswell as to make room...
Now ive looked around on websites and there has been a few people selling one along with roughly 30 games for around £70...
Based on that, and totalling up the amount of games i have (507 tapes/cassettes, some containing 2/4 games and 2 tapes/cassettes which are the same which have around 80 games on one.) i should be entitled to a small fortune no?!
Going to try and find a retro gaming store close to me and get it valued properly as there could be some games that are more rare than others etc so will keep you all updated.
Do any of you remember the Speccy and have fond memories of retro gaming?
I'm not "quite" old enough to have had a ZX Spectrum, but I did have a Commodore 64 in my early years, and always have a chuckle to myself if anyone ever complains about loading times.
If you haven't ever waited 15 minutes staring at a stripy loading screen just to play "centipede", you can't complain about anything!
Edit: If anyone ever goes to the Science museum in London, they have a computers through the ages section which features a Commodore 64 in its display. Honestly, I've never felt older!
Hahaha, the loading times were dire were'nt they! I know i had a moan about the loading times for checking the DLC for trials evo but i thought technology had advanced a little haha
Whoa! I have an Amstrad CPC464. Really wish I still had it. I still play Chuckie Egg online to this day. I wouldn't sell it if I were you. I don't think you'll get what you believe it's worth unless you can be bothered to find a specialist buyer. I wouldn't just EBAY it.
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Just recently bought one along with an Interface 1 and a couple of Micro Drives. Also bought an Amstrad CPC6128 so now I have something I can use my Rombo ROM Board on.
The spectrum was the first computer I had way back in 1983 and learnt programming and Z80 assembly on it. Then went to an Amstrad CPC464 which ended up with and extra 64k RAM and a 6128 ROM and a 3" disc drive and a couple of ROM boards. Those were the days burning the midnight oil getting a game transferred from tape to disc, because in those early days games on tape were a whole £5 (sometimes more) cheaper than the disc version.
I used to spend ages transferring to disk too! I remember also spending up 16.99 on compilations of games on cassette, then spending ages noting down the tape counter numbers for each game so I didn't have to load millions of games to play the last one!Originally Posted by UseLessUK![]()
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Ah! the memories... was also strange when you did buy a game on disc stick it in drive and CAT it to see there was 169k free... so you'd think the disc was empty when it wasn't. Don't remember which game it came from but one thing that helped with putting games on disc from tape was a direct disk reader/writer... you just specified which track/sector to start reading/writing and how much data to read/write and hey presto. Only thing was you had to be careful not to put anything else on it or you'd wipe out data.