Hi guys,
Bought a few items off e-Bay the other day. You might think I bought stuff related to the Commodore 64/128 or the Amiga, but you are wrong.. I actually bought a nice bundle of Spectrum titles! 😀 I’ve got a sweet little ZX Spectrum as well, but unfortunately no tape or disk drive for it yet, but that will come. 😉 Here are two pictures of the lot!
Have a good weekend and thanks for reading! 🙂
Old School Game Blog 
Reblogged this on OGR.
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Fantastic, some great covers there. Just noticed you have Daley Thompsons Supertest and Decathalon….I bet your joystick is nervous 🙂
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Thanks mate. 🙂 And you are absolutely right.. may joystick is trying to look invisible due to the upcoming onslaught! These kinds of games really wears out sticks like there is no tomorrow.
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Time for some color clash action 😛
Just bought a Spectrum+ myself too. not tried it yet though, since it lacks a psu.
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Heisann!
Congratulations! Hope you’ll find a PSU soon. 🙂
Are you enjoying your new monitor btw? 😀
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Seems like an awesome haul. I have to admit I have never heard of the ZX Spectrum.
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Hi my friend,
It was more popular in Europe I think. Not as common in the US. 🙂 Very happy with the haul!
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Many thanks for reblogging my post. 🙂
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You’re welcome.
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Classic games! 🙂
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Sure is! 🙂 I’ve got some others as well.. will be fun to try them out. Also tempted to test out a few demos on the real thing. It is amazing what people can cram out of those Spectrums!
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old school
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It doesn’t get (almost) more old-school than this. 🙂 I don’t know about you, but I love the box-art on these old games.
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Nice to see these great classic titles have been given a good home; can I have Technician Ted for Christmas – cheers best mate ;-o
Tip: FF/REW the tapes for a good even tension, always rewind tape when not in use so the data (brown portion) not visible, protecting from potential damage. 25+ years old – precious O_O
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Hi there,
Thanks for the info. That was helpful! 🙂 I’ll be sure to FF/REW the tapes and rewind after use. That will probably give them a few more years. How long is the expected lifetime of a cassette btw?
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Lifespan, I guess that largely depends on many factors such as storage, environment conditions, amount of usage, loss of magnetism, deterioration/physical change (stretch/shrinkage) of the medium – blah blah – supposedly 10 years but I’ve been happily using my Spectrum cassettes for the last 30 years no problems. Thanks god for the World of Spectrum repository though.
I’ve been testing the Fuse Sinclair Spectrum Emulator on the Raspberry PI – Brilliant!
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