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The Recreated Sinclair Spectrum

lostmyway

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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    LMY, I think you might be surprised by what you can do if you take things one step at a time and acknowledge ones limits on multi-tasking. It is common for parents/teachers/other people to think that we can't achieve because we have an appearance of disorder and haven't managed to settle and learn something before. A strength of people with autism is an ability to focus on the detail of something. If it is an activity with little value (or you keep doing something beyond reasonable limits) then this is called an obsession but if it is an activity that someone values then you call it persistence and determination.

    Back to the issue of prgramming etc, I started programming in the mid seventies when school obtained a teleprinter that was connected to the local town hall's ICL mainframe computer and we could start programming in BASIC. I moved on to a Sinclair QL and now work with databases and reporting systems. A lot has changed in 40 years of computing but Visual Basic is still a very recognisable derivative of that first BASIC dialect that I started with, the computer architectures are fundamentally the same with CPU, ALU, RAM, disk etc but we now have stuff that works on massive amounts of data at massive speed.

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    LMY, I think you might be surprised by what you can do if you take things one step at a time and acknowledge ones limits on multi-tasking. It is common for parents/teachers/other people to think that we can't achieve because we have an appearance of disorder and haven't managed to settle and learn something before. A strength of people with autism is an ability to focus on the detail of something. If it is an activity with little value (or you keep doing something beyond reasonable limits) then this is called an obsession but if it is an activity that someone values then you call it persistence and determination.

    Back to the issue of prgramming etc, I started programming in the mid seventies when school obtained a teleprinter that was connected to the local town hall's ICL mainframe computer and we could start programming in BASIC. I moved on to a Sinclair QL and now work with databases and reporting systems. A lot has changed in 40 years of computing but Visual Basic is still a very recognisable derivative of that first BASIC dialect that I started with, the computer architectures are fundamentally the same with CPU, ALU, RAM, disk etc but we now have stuff that works on massive amounts of data at massive speed.

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