Fantastic stuff! Type In improvment should definitely be a regular feature (although I can appreciate it takes quite a bit of time to do)!

I'd drop the salt at Amstrad ;)

Always makes my weekend when this drops. Thanks a million!

It's hard to imagine just how astonishing it was, hearing a computer speak back then, however how bad, back in the '80s. I found it fascinating. Nowadays, we are so used to hearing very natural speech coming out of our phones, and even AI responses to our spoken queries.

The Currah one worked well.

I just looked up the equivalent cost of the peripheral in 2024. Apparently, the speech module was £132 in today's money! It would be handy if you'd put up the current equivalent cost in your videos, to get an idea of the outlay.

After all these years I never knew about the hidden messages in loading screens. Fantastic!

Thank you Paul. Loved the hidden screen messages. I seem to remember something from years ago on Dark Star I think, but never know it was so prevalent. Thank you for the effort you put in to these.

Love the Type-in Progs, esp when I see how you adjust/improve them.

@20:51 Not sure if it was a Loading Bug, but when i loaded Pole Position back in the day, the screen had a Gnome with a BackPack. This is probably the Real thing.

Thanks for another great video guys!!

I love the type in + improvements feature, you really make these games pop

3:22 What a missed opportunity for Berzerk

20:46 "Alberto folla Sonia" google translate it from spanish 😏

Great to see you improving a type-in.

I miss type ins

Aways a Bonus when you see a new ''The Spectrum Show'' episode has been released. Always a pleasure to sit back and enjoy eveything Sinclair. Well done top notch show and production. 🙂

Loved the 're-creation of the ad photo' - it captures the essence of the vintage computing scene!

16:37 This part of the game was the inspiration for Run DMC's "It's tricky to drop a tyre, to drop a tyre that's right on time, it's tricky!"

Rescue is commercial quality for 1982!

The same clown always gives a thumbs down🤡

I play chess on the Speccy. Would be great to have that speech facility.

Great video🎉

Fuller shit

Amazing as always, Thank you !

The fuller master unit was not well supported in software and really was a hobbyist unit for programmers. The most used features for me were the beep amplifier and the enhanced cassette interface with no need to disconnect any of the leads when saving to tape. The instructions did not really tell you how to get musical notes out of the sound chip and I only really had fun programming the orator speech chip. Bosconian was the only game I had which supported the sound chip in my unit.

Superb as always! I loved those screens, I never knew about the hidden messages and wow, well done with that type in! Great job indeed!

I will say that the Fuller Orator says a better game of chess than the software alone.

Love the coding tips. For me I loved the speccy as much for writing games and utilities as much for playing them. Thanks for including this section

Had no idea that there was hidden comments in game loading screens what where they thinking?.

That mermaid game had some impressive visuals... is she in the nodder on land?

would you like to play a game?

I love what you did with the type in. I did this all the time. It's so much fun, and a good way to learn new tricks with programing.

I did'nt know about the hiddn messages in screens. I typed in the web address thingy at the bottom of the screen, but I just keep getting page not found errors. Have you got a link please ?

Mermaid Madness looks like a terrible game. LOL.

Another great video. Thanks! I liked the hidden messages feature. A few years ago I coded an app for the multifaceted 3 to show them. When you pressed the button it searched the screen for any attributes squares where ink and paper match, and changed those to flashing bright magenta to highlight the messaged. A simple little app but I quite liked it. I did wonder if there were any messages in games themselves rather than just the loading screen. I didn't find any (but gave up looking quite quickly tbh)

Great 🥇

Great as always Paul. I remember the fuller box. Horrible. Are you going to Blackpool next week?

I still have a Currah Microspeech, I remember it was really useful because you could type code without having to take your eyes off the keys. Especially useful with the old rubber keyboard with those complex modifier keys. FYI - it sounds totally different to the unit on the movie "War Games" where it was featured. I believe the movie's sampled computer speech was actually a human voice actor pretending to speak like a computer. lol

Question to Speccy lovers, Why is there so many joystick models Kempston Sinclair 1+2 Fuller Protec????

Its odd, havent touched zxbasic in like 30 years, and that type in was still as clear as reading in my native tounge! Guud shoow!

Thanks guys, video made me smile today

Thanks Paul, great to watch.

Another spectastic episode lads - nice one.

phenome is the new phoneme, concurrent is the new adjacent

Two grown men laughing at the words Poo, Fart and Bum. Excellent!

Cool

A broadcast quality show

You just improved my Saturday