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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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  • I think you are right, rbs, because I have found that if I settle down and just focus on each step at a time, it is much easier to engage myself as I am cutting off other stuff that can be too much to deal with. It does make feel a bit thick though because I feel I may be a bit too simple to take in too much info at once. However, I now realize that people on the autism spectrum have problems with sensory overload so I'll settle for that explanation (even if it isn't true). But I do like to pay attention to detail and if there's some small bit of info I have overlooked or not really grasped, it winds me up terribly and I get obsessed about it. In fact, it is this kind of thing that has put me off pursuing studying things in the past because I get so easily upset when I can't understand something. I think other people probably accept they can't grasp everything straight away, which is the sensible position to take, but it irritates me so much I can't seem to control it.

    I have looked at some text books about Visual Basic but to be honest with you, there are so many kinds of computer languages about nowadays that it's hard to know what to study. This could be why (partly at least) why I have returned to the simple environment of Sinclair BASIC - it seems less intimidating!

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  • I think you are right, rbs, because I have found that if I settle down and just focus on each step at a time, it is much easier to engage myself as I am cutting off other stuff that can be too much to deal with. It does make feel a bit thick though because I feel I may be a bit too simple to take in too much info at once. However, I now realize that people on the autism spectrum have problems with sensory overload so I'll settle for that explanation (even if it isn't true). But I do like to pay attention to detail and if there's some small bit of info I have overlooked or not really grasped, it winds me up terribly and I get obsessed about it. In fact, it is this kind of thing that has put me off pursuing studying things in the past because I get so easily upset when I can't understand something. I think other people probably accept they can't grasp everything straight away, which is the sensible position to take, but it irritates me so much I can't seem to control it.

    I have looked at some text books about Visual Basic but to be honest with you, there are so many kinds of computer languages about nowadays that it's hard to know what to study. This could be why (partly at least) why I have returned to the simple environment of Sinclair BASIC - it seems less intimidating!

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