Endlich mal jemand, der verständliches Englisch spricht. Mit Vokalen *und* Konsonanten. Warum können Amis das nicht?

I bought my psion3a to keep a diary of jobs and eventually write an invoice and print it off. It worked superbly and the one advantage that psion had over the compaq and others was the print preview screen. Sure it was so minute that you couldn’t see the sentences but the layout was visible including paragraph spaces and top/bottom gaps. Eventually bought the 5 as my p 3a was stolen.

This is not a fare comparison, msx has 64KB ram, while you chose the 48k version of the spectrum, the spectrum 128k version of out run has music too.

Only wished they had included proper 1 pixel hw scrolling...

BEST VIDEO EVER! Regarding Firmware version 3.11a for the Ultimate-II+L, it enables wireless connectivity. Could you please confirm which wireless standard it supports? Specifically, does it support 802.11ac? I want to ensure it's not using Wireless N, as I am concerned about potential vulnerabilities on my network.

I think it's not enough to value the resolution and number of colors, but what's about hardware sprites and softscrolling abilities?

Clive Sinclair was so full of crap... He knew nothing of the product, or the market. Despite the Spectrum being quite rubbish compared to everything else on the market, it was a success, a huge accidental success. Instead of taking that, and building something awesome, he did everything wrong, and led the company to Amstrad's hands. As for the MSX, I really wished I had one back in the day, but my parents were not into any technology apart from a TV and a VCR, but using them today, they feel really solid and interesting. And the fact you had so many different companies making them kept everyone on their toes, and the devices were well made.

Thanks for this helped me a lot better than booting 3.1 from a crusty cf card and 8 mb card ram

Never knew this existed thanks. The line back-lit oled screen made me chuckle tho lol😊

If only they gave you an automap... not to sound like a casual, but the game is a confusing maze with not much visual variety to help you navigate it... basically forcing you to use pen and paper, which still wasn't a complete solution to the problem.

I bought my son’s one of these in ‘88? When ‘Comet warehouse’ was offering a plus music keyboard in their deal. My son’s were just into the general games but l was into writing simple programs, playing the synthesiser/keyboard and also in their bundle was a 3d graphics intro prog. which was great. I later was amazed at Yamaha’s CMX5 music computer at 30k which l bought s/h and what that could do musically. Great inventive times.

I had to smile on the "copyright laws" from a 1982 computer. When I got mine, the first thing I did was remove the weights. It's way to heavy for me and the weights are totally unnecessary. I mainly use mine, though as a shelf ornament, as I play my Speccy games (of which I have about 9gb worth of stuff for (over 130,000 files, but a lot of repeats,) at the moment,) on my PC using Spectaculator. I really love this emulator as I can load games in and hear the fantastic loading music from the games. Hearing this is much better than the actual games in some cases. I-Ball 1 and 2 are one of my favourites. I have them as an MP3 tune on my phone.

Still waiting for part 2!

I had one, bought circa 1995, got rid around 1997 for a measly £75. Bought it off a guy who included about 20 games. Liked it. Back To The Future 3 was a good title.

My favurites where Eye Of The Beholder 1 and 2. I know that Dungeon Master was released a few years earlier but in my opinion the first zwi EOB-games by Westwood perfectionized the Genre. When it comes to Legend of Grimrock I have tested it but I'd rather go back to Eye Of The Beholder which I have finished many times since it had been released. To me it just has the best atmospehre of all of them.

Gotta love that quality engineering where you can kill the goat AND get it to follow you afterwards.

thanks. I did a search and was trying to remember the name of this game. I didn't have Atari but my friend did and I remember he was really excited about this. I guess we played this after school for maybe 2 months and he got tired of it. It was a really hard game.

Software only emulation? What a shame, pass.

Has anyone finished this game? I have the cog and the temporal core, but I have no idea how to find (or build) the crystal. This is fantastic, and it made for a nice diversion over the holidays.

Did he say he was gonna make a cup of hot coffee so strong he would almost shat himself?

I almost gave this a thumbs down - just because the video ended too soon 🙂 Looking forward to part 2!

Oh wow, so that's the "professional keyboard"

I only really played text adventures, first on the ZX Spectrum 48k, then Commodore 64, then Amiga. Still play modern ones today. OG adventures I remember include Urban Upstart, Eureka (we completed all parts on the Spectrum, but turned out it was bugged, so a C64 player won that £25,000 prize), and Ground Zero. Crikey, now my memories of adventures are flooding back - Lord of Time, Level 9. HHGTTG C64 I think, disk based of course. In fact, all the Level 9 before they became CYOA type games. Infocom. Loads of them! Mordon's Quest - Mebourne House, another one I really enjoyed, esp. the 80 column presentation.

I had an Atari 130XE with 1050 Drive and XM301 modem, a Sears monitor, 1027 printer and an Atari Dot Mattrix printer made for the XE systems (and all 8bit Atari).. plus had a good collection of software including public domain, cartridges and Atari Writer Plus with Spellcheck disc, and Flight Simulator II by Sublogic

No-one in their right mind would ever dare to say the spectrum is better then the MSX. That's simply delusional. Just look at the games. And preferrably the MSX exclusives and not these shitty MSX ports lol.edit: ok we get those later i see.

Awesome video, I liked it. Can someone offer me some advice? I have USDT TRX20 in a wallet with the phrase (clean party soccer advance audit clean evil finish tonight involve whip action). Could you explain how to move it to EXMO?

Nice cheese knife

It's scary how far ahead of its time Dungeon Master was. Top notch graphics, dynamic lighting system, nutrition system, rune bound spell system - including potion breweing , great riddles, dynamic class system with learning by doing, multiple attack modes per weapon, magic weapons, clear and well thought inventory (hello Wizardry 6 and 7) and all that with real time battles. Crazy.

I actually played it this month for the first time. It's amazing how rich in content and mechanics it was for its time. It was very frustrating at times, but I am very happy I finished it.

I had the soundtrack on CD. A decent soundtrack and representation of things/places in the game.

Am I wrong in saying that the MSX didn't have hardware scrolling, that was the MSX 2!

Great to see the game contains an A4 paper and not some weird letter format paper ;)

I have a new text game just released on floppy on my Macintosh SE/30. Wasn’t cheap but nice people are still making them for these old machines

Great video. The removed Z80 you show has a '92 date code on it, so has clearly been replaced previously.

I see RTIC wasn't big on punctuation.

Late to this but I would say as a 56 year old gamer this was probably the most significant gaming moment of my life. The first time I threw a loaf of bread at a mummy and ran away “holy crap” and then walked around the corner and the bread was sitting there in the corner and the mummy was busy eating the bread. Fi😢rst game ever where the world persisted. Changed everything.

I see it as the beginning of the end for RPG D&D gaming. Just like when I first played Wizardry on my buddy's Apple IIE and thought WTH is this? And went back to jiving on Ultima and Wizard's Crown; this (To me) just led to more 3d eye candy that just ramped up the genre on a hybrid Arcade / Fantasy Dungeon 3-D exploration adventure course. I Preferred The stand-outs that have come along over the years include games like Pool of Radiance, Might & Magic, Elder Scrolls, etc

I literally had a sheet of A4, a 4 colour Bic, and a C64 cartridge on my desk as I was watching this! 😆

If you send me the listing I can port to Windows - would be a giggle to have written a game and have it ported. Just for shits and giggles 😂

i didnt have the money for games they were something like £5.99 and that was way to much over a weeks wages and i had chip sticks and rola cola to buy with that so what i did was go the the local library , find the spectrum magazines and flick through to find a game to type in , pay 5p and get a copy of that page sometimes it would cost 15p for three pages of code go home , tap it all in playing yet another game of finger twister on the spectrum keyboard and after a couple of days have a game ..that was generally very very poor but occasionally one would be nearly good and that could be copied and sold in the playground , a bit later the library would stock cassettes that you could lend like a book and then the REAL business started !!! two binatone cassette radios linked up with the speccie cassette lead and a copy factory was made a tne pack of C30 from woolies and we were off !!

Atari made a big value step forward by adding a MIDI port, but then missed stepped entirely by having an interface for a drive that was so poorly supported it cost just as much to do so as a system had no interface. I worked with a number of ST systems in music studios and I believe (it may have been a couple of years ago! yep sarcasm at my expense) I never saw anything but a real SCSI drive in use so basically requiring an interface to switch ACSI to SCSI making it zero help. You can argue that ACSI is like SCSI but if it's not SCSI it's not SCSI.

This is a really fun thing! What causes items in the game to be able to be picked up? I was unable to pick up the notebook and the cartridge for a very long time. It kept saying that it didn't understand, until both were visible in the room description together.

Merry Christmas 🎄

Snowball, definitely Snowball but Valkary 17 is a close second. Most frustrating were the marvel ones! Never got any where with them 😢

I was never any good at these games. I have on cassette "Tur na nog" which i must have loaded twice and gave up on.

I'm sure i remember a text adventure creator program for the Amstrad CPC. Which would allow you to make your own text ad enture games. By Rainbow Arts maybe? Blue box.

So... What is the code? 😁

I remember playing Mad Martha and never being able to get out of the house.

I bet you entered all the naughty words and phrases. Just to test the parser, of course. We did. 😋👍

My favourite out of adventure a etc was adventure d - Espionage island. But my favourite adventure on the spectrum was Brian Howarths Circus