#SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM ATARISOFT SOFTWARE#
#SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM ATARISOFT PC#

And playing a game off a tape is, of course, wizardry. I still think that Speccy colour palette bypasses rational parts of the brain to jack directly into the imagination. Computers like the Speccy and its rivals also sparked a huge culture of 'bedroom coders', a phenonenom echoed by the mainstream resurgence of 'indie games' in the noughties.Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚С›lec also wrote about playing the first Alien game on Speccy, if you want more memories. This was before gaming became more of a monoculture, which is why Americans don't understand when old English men feign ignorance of Mario to instead gush about an egg. 'A first memory of a computer game, of an introduction to what computer games were.' A tape plays, a screen flickers into life, a memory is born,' Old Man Alec Meer (RPS in peace) said in recalling The Hobbit on Speccy. Sinclair Research's growning glory was the ZX Spectrum in 1982, one of the systems which defined the early years of gaming in the UK. He started out selling radio kits, later getting into stylish pocket calculators, mini TVs, and wrist wratches with Sinclair Radionics before moving into computers. The BBC report that Clive Sinclair died on Thursday of cancer, aged 81.

#SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM ATARISOFT PC#

I'm too young to have seen its glory days but I think the first PC game I played was a Speccy shoot 'em up, a magical experience I didn't believe would actually work when I first saw my pal plug a tape deck into a keyboard.

#SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM ATARISOFT SOFTWARE#

The first encounter with PC gaming for many of a certain age in the UK wasn't through any beige box MS-DOS or Windows, it was on that futuristic wee black keyboard with rubbery keys and a colourful stripe, which loaded software from cassette tapes. Clive Sinclair, the founder of the company which brought us the ZX Spectrum computer, has died.

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