I was wondering if anyone was interested in the Recreated Sinclair Spectrum computer which was launced last year and is a updated incarnation of the popular Sinclair Spectrum of the 1980's. I know it is hopelessly outclassed by today's modern computers and its BASIC laguage is no match for today's powerful computer languages such as Java, but I still find it interesting from a hobbyists' point of view. There are many online PDF books available for free download that were written for the Spectrum during its height of popularity during the 80's and I am currently working my way through a good one written by a female teacher of computer programming at that time. The thing about the Recreated Spectrum is that it is no more or less than a control unit which is really driven by apps., meaning it has no internal ROM or RAM, just the keyboard, liberating the software to develop independently.
The old fashion 8 bit games they have released for the Recreated Spectrum are of little interest to me because they look pretty primitive against today's stunning games. No, I am more into re-learning programming, something I didn't really pursue enough at the time and BASIC is, after all, a computer language written for beginners so I am enjoying discovering stuff I was too lazy to learn way back then. I have begun studying the Java programming language but that seems to me to require a lot of work and commitment - something you might normally expect a professional programmer to deal with.
