the_lyniezian
Banned
Instead of IBM compatibles running Windows?
(Just thought of the silliest thing I'm interested in...)
(Just thought of the silliest thing I'm interested in...)
N00BWI: ZX Spectrum dominates computer market in 2008
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the_lyniezian
Banned
For starters, perhaps the C5 becomes a commercial success and Sinclair doesn't go under...
Sniff, sniff, nostalgy......
Although we have the emulators. And this great site to worship Spectrum
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/
In any case could be if Sinclair manage to make a complete transition from cassete to diskette and after CD-ROM: ZX 128 RAM "Ultra" Spectrum Personal Computer at the late of 1990´s in fierce competence with Windows systems.
Although we have the emulators. And this great site to worship Spectrum
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/
In any case could be if Sinclair manage to make a complete transition from cassete to diskette and after CD-ROM: ZX 128 RAM "Ultra" Spectrum Personal Computer at the late of 1990´s in fierce competence with Windows systems.
the_lyniezian
Banned
OOC: Nostalgia? I've got one (bought from church fair for £3 in 2000)
For new progs (incluing other formats and even cassette copies!): http://www.cronos.toucansurf.com/
the_lyniezian
Banned
I guess if Sinclair had won the BBC Micro competition instead of Acorn, and got into schools, they'd still be here.
(OOC: no chance- look what happened to Acorn!)
(OOC: no chance- look what happened to Acorn!)
Assuming anything like OTL, the 2007 computer would resemble the Spectrum about as much as a Macbook Pro does an Apple II+.
The original Sinclair ZX/Spectrum had a 3.5 MHz Zilog Z80 and 16k RAM (expandable, in some versions, to as much as 128k), used a cassette tape for data storage, and was otherwise a rather low-end computer even by early 1980s standards. What's worse, early Spectrums used the same tiny booklet-size case as their ZX-81 progenitor - making the keyboard too small to really type with (One major reason Commodore, Apple, IBM, etc. managed to succeed where other companies failed was that they generally had decent-to-good keyboards, especially important in the pre-mouse, pre-GUI era. Note that the only IBM with a generally bad keyboard - the much-maligned PCjr - was a dramatic failure).
The later Spectrums shared a case with the failed but promising Sinclair QL, with a larger, rubbery keyboard instead of chiclets. It wasn't until 1986 when the Spectrum +2 came with a real keyboard.
The Sinclair QL would have, in my opinion, made a more promising machine. It used a Motorola 68008 processor- basically a cut-down version of the 68000, and was nearly comparable to a Macintosh in equipment, but had a much lower price. However, it was doomed by rushed development, leaving it with a whole lot of bugs. If Sinclair had made it a little slower, and released a more complete and bug-free system in, say, early 1985 instead of mid-late 1984, they could have had a reasonable, fairly low-cost competitor to the Atari ST, Amiga, and Acorn. Its unlikely to have replaced the IBM PC as "the standard", but Sinclair might have survived instead of being absorbed by Amstrad.
The original Sinclair ZX/Spectrum had a 3.5 MHz Zilog Z80 and 16k RAM (expandable, in some versions, to as much as 128k), used a cassette tape for data storage, and was otherwise a rather low-end computer even by early 1980s standards. What's worse, early Spectrums used the same tiny booklet-size case as their ZX-81 progenitor - making the keyboard too small to really type with (One major reason Commodore, Apple, IBM, etc. managed to succeed where other companies failed was that they generally had decent-to-good keyboards, especially important in the pre-mouse, pre-GUI era. Note that the only IBM with a generally bad keyboard - the much-maligned PCjr - was a dramatic failure).
The later Spectrums shared a case with the failed but promising Sinclair QL, with a larger, rubbery keyboard instead of chiclets. It wasn't until 1986 when the Spectrum +2 came with a real keyboard.
The Sinclair QL would have, in my opinion, made a more promising machine. It used a Motorola 68008 processor- basically a cut-down version of the 68000, and was nearly comparable to a Macintosh in equipment, but had a much lower price. However, it was doomed by rushed development, leaving it with a whole lot of bugs. If Sinclair had made it a little slower, and released a more complete and bug-free system in, say, early 1985 instead of mid-late 1984, they could have had a reasonable, fairly low-cost competitor to the Atari ST, Amiga, and Acorn. Its unlikely to have replaced the IBM PC as "the standard", but Sinclair might have survived instead of being absorbed by Amstrad.
the_lyniezian
Banned
OOC: All well and good, but I presume that the above belongs in another thread- this one was meant to be daft and bereft of such detail and accuracy....
WOW
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006604
The question is what the Hell does all this mean ?! If I download all this will it work on an XP PC ? I've been wanting to play these old games again for years, LOL !
Best Regards
Grey Wolf
Building on my ignorance
http://www.icemark.com/downloads/index.html#LordsOfMidnight
My brain is all confuddled...
Best Regards
Grey Wolf
http://www.icemark.com/downloads/index.html#LordsOfMidnight
My brain is all confuddled...
Best Regards
Grey Wolf
Hello Grey Wolf. Nice to meet another spectrumaniac, in the www.worldofspectrum.org there is a section about emulators, you choose one and install it in the PC, I think the most part of emulators works well in XP, I have one emulator, I don´t remember if is Multimachine or other and works very good in Windows XP, after this you can download directly the games from world of spectrum (tap or TZX format) and play it with the emulator.
Best regards
Iñaki
Ah thank you very much - I will try that
Was just reading through a list of characters of Doomdarks Revenge and didn't half bring the memories back ! Good ole Carorthand !
Best Regards
Grey Wolf
back to History of ZX Spectrum
after the sucesses Sinclair Research start new version of ZX
ZX Spectrum+ with better keyboard
ZX Spectrum 128 with 128 kbyte Ram(used by bank switching)
ZX Spectrum +2 with Cassete recorder
ZX Spectrum +3 With 3-inch floppy disk drive and the only Spectrum capable of running the CP/M !
Sinclair QL the "frist" Motorola 68008 16-Bit CPU Personal Computer
Sinclair LOKI project with 2xZ80H CPU (had to be a Amiga killer)
but Sir Clive Sinclair came in problems
the delay of QL and that stupid Idea for battery electric vehicle called C5
In 1986 the company sold its entire computer product range and the "Sinclair" brand name to Amstrad.
you got a Amstrad CPC 464 or 6128 ? (in Germany sell by Schneider)
that was a modifide ZX Spectrum +2 or ZX Spectrum +3 Model
the USSR and Eastern Bloc nations build unofficial Sinclare ZX clones from 1984 until 1990s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:ZX_Spectrum_clones
one way is to ceep USSR alive and in 2008 there still ZX Spectrum
another way
some one stop Clive Sinclair to beginn his C5 vehicle adventure.
and IBM not take Microsoft DOS, but use Digital Research CP/M for IBM PC
so the ZX Spectrum +3 has a market as cheap Business PC like IBM PC (under CP/M)
with a 3.5" microfloppy disk...
after the sucesses Sinclair Research start new version of ZX
ZX Spectrum+ with better keyboard
ZX Spectrum 128 with 128 kbyte Ram(used by bank switching)
ZX Spectrum +2 with Cassete recorder
ZX Spectrum +3 With 3-inch floppy disk drive and the only Spectrum capable of running the CP/M !
Sinclair QL the "frist" Motorola 68008 16-Bit CPU Personal Computer
Sinclair LOKI project with 2xZ80H CPU (had to be a Amiga killer)
but Sir Clive Sinclair came in problems
the delay of QL and that stupid Idea for battery electric vehicle called C5
In 1986 the company sold its entire computer product range and the "Sinclair" brand name to Amstrad.
you got a Amstrad CPC 464 or 6128 ? (in Germany sell by Schneider)
that was a modifide ZX Spectrum +2 or ZX Spectrum +3 Model
the USSR and Eastern Bloc nations build unofficial Sinclare ZX clones from 1984 until 1990s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:ZX_Spectrum_clones
one way is to ceep USSR alive and in 2008 there still ZX Spectrum
another way
some one stop Clive Sinclair to beginn his C5 vehicle adventure.
and IBM not take Microsoft DOS, but use Digital Research CP/M for IBM PC
so the ZX Spectrum +3 has a market as cheap Business PC like IBM PC (under CP/M)
with a 3.5" microfloppy disk...
the_lyniezian
Banned
OOC: That's why it's a N00BWI...
I created a thread for this somewhere...
I guess someone could come up with a GUI for it, and still retain backwards compatibility, same as RISCOS retained BBC BASIC and some archaic star commands (system commands in Acorn OS's were preceded by a star, or for the non-BASIC comand line, a star prompt.)