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The Recreated Sinclair Spectrum

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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.

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  • Hi Amstrad. Well, the thing about the Recreated Spectrum is that it is not designed as a conventional computer but is really just a control unit which looks identical to the original Spectrum but does not contain the internal architecture of the old version. This means (as far as I know) there is no operating system present because all the software is produced by apps. which are written to be used via a PC or tablet. So what they have done is to enable the operating systems of modern devices to be used instead of the very limiting operating system of the old Spectrum. The Recreated Spectrum is simply controlling the app. rather than its own internal software/hardware thereby enabling the developers to update and improve the software.

    I haven't seen a great deal to get excited about so far, most of the apps. produced being rather primitive and silly arcade games, but I live in hope that something more beneficial will be forthcoming at some time in the future. It would be interesting to actually use an original Spectrum but I'm not sure it would be worth buying one because there might well be some problem with it after all these years.

    I too, owned an Amiga at the time, but the reason I bought one was because it was promoted as a cutting edge home computer and I had hoped there would be great software released, however, the software that was available did not come anywhere near the huge amount that was wrtten for the Spectrum.

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  • Hi Amstrad. Well, the thing about the Recreated Spectrum is that it is not designed as a conventional computer but is really just a control unit which looks identical to the original Spectrum but does not contain the internal architecture of the old version. This means (as far as I know) there is no operating system present because all the software is produced by apps. which are written to be used via a PC or tablet. So what they have done is to enable the operating systems of modern devices to be used instead of the very limiting operating system of the old Spectrum. The Recreated Spectrum is simply controlling the app. rather than its own internal software/hardware thereby enabling the developers to update and improve the software.

    I haven't seen a great deal to get excited about so far, most of the apps. produced being rather primitive and silly arcade games, but I live in hope that something more beneficial will be forthcoming at some time in the future. It would be interesting to actually use an original Spectrum but I'm not sure it would be worth buying one because there might well be some problem with it after all these years.

    I too, owned an Amiga at the time, but the reason I bought one was because it was promoted as a cutting edge home computer and I had hoped there would be great software released, however, the software that was available did not come anywhere near the huge amount that was wrtten for the Spectrum.

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