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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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  • Personally, I dont think much of the recreated sinclair spectrum, just seems like an overpriced controller. Serveral years ago I got in to retro computers while building an interest in electonics. The real backbone to the recreated sinclair spectrum is the emulation. That has been strong and generally free to access. For the sinclair specturm, there is an excellent emulator called spectaculator, very slick. Even emulates the way the tape loading used to mash up the screen. 

    I haven't really done anything with this interest for a long while, I moved on from emulators to hardware. Have a few noteable sinclair items, including an issue 1 spectrum with the "cockroach" memory bug fix. A spectrum which was personally handed over to a software development company by Clive Sinclair to start development on the machine. I have got most of the expaasion bits, including a micro drive setup.

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  • Personally, I dont think much of the recreated sinclair spectrum, just seems like an overpriced controller. Serveral years ago I got in to retro computers while building an interest in electonics. The real backbone to the recreated sinclair spectrum is the emulation. That has been strong and generally free to access. For the sinclair specturm, there is an excellent emulator called spectaculator, very slick. Even emulates the way the tape loading used to mash up the screen. 

    I haven't really done anything with this interest for a long while, I moved on from emulators to hardware. Have a few noteable sinclair items, including an issue 1 spectrum with the "cockroach" memory bug fix. A spectrum which was personally handed over to a software development company by Clive Sinclair to start development on the machine. I have got most of the expaasion bits, including a micro drive setup.

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