The Spectrum review: A ZX Spectrum Lover’s Dream or Disaster?

[@RetroRecipes]

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[@gibbo9089]

Getting mine tomorrow hopefully. I'm now 60 and this will transport me back to my youth. Had the ZX 81 before that. Stay well and healthy.

[@CraigMcIntosh]

i am 55 years old and like you I am awaiting delivery of mine, and like you I had the ZX80 and ZX81 lol, beam me up Scotty. can't wait to fill the usb stick with my favourite games.

[@rayerdinc2441]

@@gibbo9089 68, waiting for mine. ZX80 my first ever computer, got me into computers from that day! Saw it in a ‘computer’ shop window, in 1980, went in saw a group round this device, they asked my name, then this device put on the screen “Hello Ray’! That was it, I was hooked line and sinker!

[@sheppertonstudios8253]

Me in 1984: Playing Manic Miner while worrying about nuclear war. Me in 2024: Wow I sure am going to be happy playing Manic Miner without having to worry abo......oh.

[@ihgday6103]

Anyone up for a game of Raid over Moscow!

[@richardclark2346]

🤣

[@arthurjordison5392]

@@ihgday6103 More like Theatre Europe...

[@themadmoderator8465]

growing up in council estate poor finding a specky 48k in a skip and my brothers friend helped us fix it was amazing. other year my friends parents died he found the said spectrum in the loft and it still worked. 😪

[@mmkrk4071]

ZX Spectrum+ (normal keyboard version) was my first computer. There is a limit of 2 colors per 8x8 field, but the colors are more vibrant than on C64, and 3.5MHz CPU was allowing any 3D game (flight sims etc.) to run much faster on Spectrum than on C64. BASIC with one key press instructions/commands was a great way for me to get into computer programing. I have a really good memories of this machine.

[@Alchemy-Computing.since.1987]

The music is terrible, the graphics are terrible, no matter what great features the Spectrum has, the C=64 is better.

[@ZxSpectrumplus]

@@Alchemy-Computing.since.1987 Not really. The C64 is mostly stuck in lowres 160x200 resolution for multicolor sprites, while speccy only has 1 mode...256 x192. The details are a lot better in most of the games despite the monochromatic and color clash. I always wondered as a kid why the C64 graphics looks elongated. I didn't have one back then. Btw, i have restored and repaired a C64 i got for free 2 years back. Quite proud of myself for someone who has little electronic background. Now i have a C64, The C64 and 2 Spectrum NGOs(next clone). Waiting for TheAmiga and my collection would be complete.

[@HisVirusness]

I, too, am loyal to the Commodore 64. But any 8-bit computer is still a computer worth having. That absolutely includes newer models.

[@johnDingoFoxVelocity]

@@HisVirusness yeah c64 was my sh** back in the day hands down

[@igitwams]

@@johnDingoFoxVelocity Me too!

[@johnDingoFoxVelocity]

@HisVirusness I played donkey kong on the c64 until the cart stopped reading I loved that game growing up and burger time

[@JB.zero.zero.1]

Fantastic piece of kit - however, I know I would barely use it. The ZX Spectrum was my first "real" computer obsession. I remember playing Black Crystal for many hours with a school friend to the point where the unit overheated and failed. My poor Speccy had to go back to Sinclair for repairs and I lost my little buddy for 3 weeks. Halls of the Things, Jet Pac, Jet Set Willy, Dark Star, Chuckie Egg ... such sweet memories.

[@steven1000000000]

Clicked So fast... Still have my spectrum which kicked off my career in coding and tech. Also had a Vic 20, which was given away sadly years ago. Really want to get my speccy up and running again. Very awesome seeing a boxed spectrum.

[@adamskyj69]

"that sound is imprinted im my brain man" - Yep, as soon as I heard the tones of the colouring on the Atic Atac loading screen, I was exactly the same, and was all goosebumped up! My wife has pre-ordered for Xmas for me, I can't wait tbh and have already ordered the microdrive usb stick and plan on putting all the Ultimate games collection on it when arrives - Jet Pac and Sabre Wulf on rubber keys man! I just can't bloody wait!

[@realmchat6665]

I love your genuine reactions, I also had a magical childhood thanks to a timex sinclair and later a c64, and nostalgia takes me back to times that just seemed to glow with wonder and I long for a feeling I can never fully recapture and miss the friends I shared that time with.

[@Dunbar0740]

That loading sound is why a generation of young technoheads went on to create, and consume, head splitting EDM without breaking sweat. We were steeped in the most avant-garde noise for hours a day waiting for our games to load. Normal "music" sounded pedestrian in comparison.

[@idj20]

I agree with you when you said about how life seemed more simpler back then (I was in my mid-teenage years in mid-1980s) but sadly the second hand Spectrum mum bought for me never really gelled on me. After playing with it for a couple of hours on a portable black & white telly, it ended up under the bed gathering dust. I did try to revive it by upgrading to a portable colour TV and even bought a Curran speech/music adaptor for it with my own money but it just never clicked on me. I fell more in love with my Commodore Amiga A1200 10 years later where I spent much more time on it creating my own weather maps using Deluxe Paint 4. Hope you and your family are all feeling much better by the time you read this post and as always keep up the good work with your content.

[@nickellion3657]

I am So happy I found this Channel. Superb content that takes me back. I think that was 'Lost Angeles' playing in the background to. Fantastic song and video.

[@RetroRecipes]

Good ear! Thanks for watching (and listening)

[@jakegallows2032]

Thank you so much for the review, I actually shed a tear when Atic Atac started to load!..I get mine tomorrow, I'm 49 but feel like 10 again, I cannot wait!..Airwolf for me😊

[@IanMaddock]

I similarly had my roots in Commodore machines, namely the VIC20 as that's my 1st childhood computer. Sadly I never owned a C64 but I played on one often. When I started work when I was 16 I was offered a Spectrum 48k & a box of games for about £40. , later got given a 16k which I upgraded myself to 48k and slotted the board into a Spectrum + case I picked up, which is where my talents I suppose for repairing computers began. . I was later given a +3 which I still have but haven't fired up in years but I still want to mod it with composite video and improved audio. I now own "The VIC20" from RGL (so I can play C64 stuff also) and I've got "the Spectrum on preorder which I should get later this week. Both machines are going in my old bedroom on my original 80s computer desk as I recently inherited my parents house which I intend to move into soon. One of the main reasons I got the 2 RGL machines, so I can recreate my computer desk but with a modern twist.

[@MarcKloos]

No need for a composite video mod, get a cable from the Retro Computer Shack and you're good to go! (He sold 2568 so you can be sure it's a fine cable, still 10 in stock, be quick before he goes on holiday!)

[@craig50]

Great video,hope you’re all feeling better soon,much love from the UK.

[@gperch]

I'm touched that you were moved by the ZX-perience, it brings our ZX-tra special COMM-unITies together. I am Speccy through and through; no one at our school could afford a C64 (even our teacher had a Speccy, which he kindly brought round to our house to show our parents). My mum made a huge sacrifice during her divorce to afford a 48K rubber keyed Speccy. She bought it October '83 and asked if we wanted it now or to wait until Christmas. For some inexplicable reason we said we'd wait (!) but it did make '83 the best Christmas ever :) I've had some involvement in the retro community, proofreading Chris Wilkins books for a while and even making Sub-Editor on the new Crash for a bit. Not as hallowed as full on Editor though! Get Well Soon to you all, and Merry early Christmas to you (I'm sure it would have made for an extra special unwrapping on Christmas Day, but you've probably got other things to do with the family and I'm glad I didn't have to wait for your lovely video). I've rambled, you should probably edit me :)

[@superviewer]

Our Speccy resided in my fathers hobby and rehearsal room (he worked as a classical double bass player and teacher). My main nostalgy is around the early 'Ultimate Play The Game' titles, and Jetpac in particular. Wheelie, Doomsday Castle, A Day In The Life and Maziacks also comes to mind. It was an amazing world that opened to me. My carreer in computer graphics could be said to have started with 'The Artist' on the Spectrum and continued on the C64 (Print Fox) and the Amiga (Deluxe Paint). All pre-Photoshop and Quark that came next. Will there ever be a time like that again I wonder... I think we were lucky to be that particular generation. Thanks for reigniting some great memories.

[@c.b.1378]

Thanks for the review! I grew up in Norway, and the ZX Spectrum were never very big here, unlike the C64 which me and several of my friends had as kids. In fact, I don’t think I have ever seen a ZX Spectrum in real life, which makes me that much excited for The Spectrum, which I have on preorder on Amazon. :)

[@stephengardiner5410]

Everything about this episode was sick - the console, the games, the sounds...and Perifractic! And thanks to PCB Way too - or as we know it Peri's Curdling Bowels 😂

[@brick6347]

Today's my birthday, Peri. Today! Couldn't you have released this a month ago... oh well, Christmas present! And £89.95 is amazingly reasonable actually, cheaper than a pi400.

[@RetroRecipes]

Happy birthday!

[@bevbeveridge4707]

Great review ! Reminded me of many happy years of spectrum gaming . My “new” spectrum turns up tomorrow and now I can’t wait !

[@Dunbar0740]

I need to walk into Dixon's and buy this... then return it because it doesn't work... twice, to get the original, full, 1983 vibe.

[@ennahh76]

My zx spectrum+ was bought at Boots (yes, they did actually sell computers) with a boots datacorder and some boots data cassettes that were 8 minutes long. My spectrum +2a was bought at Dixons.

[@gperch]

Ours was Dixons (or Currys?) too - October '83 for Christmas. It was replaced twice (once probably because I foolishly plugged the joystick interface in after switching the Speccy on, as I couldn't be arsed waiting the

[@Dunbar0740]

@@ennahh76 I got my Spectrum +2 (grey) from Laskys. It worked out of the box, although I was disappointed with the performance of the built in "Datacorder". I assumed it meant no more wrestling with tone controls to hit the load "" sweet spot. How wrong I was. Adjustment now required a tiny screwdriver to be inserted through a tiny hole to adjust an unknown something or other that sometimes worked, when the stars were aligned (or was it the heads?)... I've been waiting to get that complaint off my chest for 38 years. Thanks for listening.

[@richarddinsdale6722]

The Spectrum vs C64 issue was that for 2 to 3 years you would require a extra £150 to £200 to buy the C64 and only play a slightly better version of space invaders or inferior version of Elite

[@RetroRecipes]

That's a very fair point

[@djdublo]

This looks great. Although rarely played on a Spectrum, I and a lot of school mates had Amstrad CPCs!! My wife had a spectrum, and has fond memories of the Horace games, particularly Horace and the Spiders.

[@ennahh76]

Horace goes skiing for me.😅

[@johnsaunders6510]

What a fantastic review. Had me smiling from ear to ear. My mate had a speccy and this brought back great memories.

[@neilbeaumont2820]

40 years ago this xmas my brother and I got our speccy, bough one of these for my niece and nephew

[@MrH77]

My first computer was a Vic-20 that my dad brought home around 1985. Very exciting that was. I loved the game Blitz. I got a ZX Spectrum +2 for Xmas 1988. I had a love/hate relationship with it. I had a QuickShot II joystick, and along with loads of tape loading error messages and that awful game loading screeching sound, plus a stripped screw head in the tape deck with me having to fine tune the games, I enjoyed Kikstart 2 and R-Type the most. Out Run, the car was the same colour as the road. "If this game loads" ha ha. Wish I had a commandore 64.

[@all.day.day-dreamer]

Thank you for bringing up the imagination aspect of enjoying these types of games back then. I remember Project Firestart on the C64 ... amazing game, and I remember how my imagination would run wild while playing this game and the two combined, made for such an amazing experience.

[@rastersoft]

Get well!!!! A big hug from Spain, from a Spectrum fan.

[@RetroRecipes]

Muchas gracias!

[@ChrisKoerner]

Remember the sounds of loading a TRS-80 program via Cload (or cloadm) on my CoCo via the attached cassette recorder and it’s that attention to detail they did that makes me so happy even though my life was Tandy and the CoCo I still love watching these for other computers. I want one!

[@chrisshaw451]

Love that tape loading, really takes me back.

[@paulallen6915]

Ah that noise, reminds me of playing Atic Attack in a friends bedroom on his Spectrum. I had a TI994A and then a C64, then the A500, but there were so many different home computers back then. My posh friend had a BBC ! The landscape for them seemed to be changing so quickly. My earliest memory of computing was in 1980 when all our computer club chipped in and bought the ZX80 in parts and then building it up in a few of the dinner time's at school. We then did some fund raising and bought a PET, which seemed like something from the set of Space 1999 ! Happy days.

[@SirHilaryManfat]

Commodore 64 owner back in the day, but I could have almost been a Speccy owner. Around Christmas '83 me and my Bro were begging our parents for a ZX Spectrum, but the local Dixons were sold out, so we opted for the C64. Much as I love the good old commie, the original ZX Spectrum was such a beautiful design and a great computer. So tempted to get this!

[@ddummer]

My friend had a ZX-spectrum up in the addict so yes.. this is nostalgia.. but we also had the cold war coming but the ignorance of bliss of not knowing too much about the surrounding world in our time bubble was pretty nice. :)

[@Ori-Retro-Gamer]

Best times Peri, the sounds bring me right back. 🙂

[@mortimore4030]

The Atari 400 mini was Retrogames best offering so far, IMO. The 800XL and 130XE are my favourite 8-bit computers. I think Retrogames will put out a full sized Atari 800XL at some point.

[@RetroRecipes]

It's definitely up there, but no keyboard whereas this thing brings back the rubber glory!

[@bobbus_74]

C64 and Spectrum fans can get along just fine now, right? RIGHT??

[@ruisilva5758]

@@bobbus_74 Always have. There's no point to disagree that the C64 is the best.

[@adamskyj69]

Yep, many of us Brits owned both at some point anyway (maybe me and my friends were spoilt lol). Those days of swapping tapes in the school yards - ah, the memories! I still think that the Speccy had better (playable and challenging) games (Ultimate games for instance), it was just let down by its colour clash and sound, meanwhile I remember spending a lot more time humming the loading tunes than playing the eventual loaded game on my C64, well until I got a 1541 disk drive lol.

[@bobbus_74]

@@adamskyj69 they did indeed have their own strengths. As an owner of both, like yourself, I can also attest to loving both machines.

[@nickolasgaspar9660]

I am not sure 8bit users of any platform can ever go along "just fine" with C64 fanboys...lol.

[@escos0410]

I was commodore nut, c16 was the 1st, then had a c64 bought But if I’m brutally honest If the spectrum could do what the c64 could do colour wise and sound it would have blown it out the water

[@Reed-Publications]

Sorry to hear that you and the family been sick. My wife and I have also been sick the last few weeks. It just won't go away! 🤧

[@fredsmith1970]

You appear to have now fixed your Retro gaming room, with a splash of 80's black and rainbow. 🙂

[@rickdangerous80s]

Very very very nice episode!!! Thank you for the nostalgia!!! ☺️👍

[@lactobacillusprime]

Love all tech. Grew up with a C64 used the Spectrum over at a friend’s place a lot. Similar story of fond memories of using the machine over at a friend.

[@tankypoo285]

I ordered the Spectrum - I used to run a web site when I was at Uni - Noticed your super cool BBC micro in the background. I use to buy Zapp 64, Crash, your Sinclair and Sinclair user. I have my USB Ready to go with over 100 games. So glad it has the 128k mode for games like Glider Rider and Enduro Racer - for the music titles and other titles that great music on the title screen. .

[@glennproctor4178]

I'll probably buy one of these, but they're sold out at the moment - good to see there's a demand!

[@doctorsocrates4413]

I have many fond memories of my time with the 48k speccy in the 80s....it was a great machine of that particular era.

[@GeorgesChannel]

Great Review, Master Spectro-Fractic! Enjoyed every minute of it! Your video thumbnail made me laugh for an hour, seriously! Wasn't a spectrum guy either, but i own the rare C116, which should have become the Spectrum competitor....

[@RetroRecipes]

Ahh my new nickname!

[@FactsBeFacts]

I'm excited for this, I had a couple of rubber key speccy's. Livestock run off is usually the culprit when vegetables get contaminated with E coli. Hope you all are recovering well.

[@Anthony-qt8wv]

I will have mine on Monday. I live in the USA and never had a Spectrum before or tried any games for it. The system look very cool and when i saw it had a working keyboard i was like ok i am in! I cannot wait to try it for the first time!

[@jamesleetrigg]

Loading graphics on the spectrum is such an art form in its own right ❤

[@spinnetti]

I don't know what it was exactly, but the industrial design of the Speccy beats everything of the era and I still love interacting with it.

[@sveinnarn]

I ordered mine just a few days ago. I have a few originals which I'm fixing, but having this as well is perfect.

[@proteque]

been waiting for this one! nice with a look back at how your studio looked.

[@salvessen6100]

I started out with the ZX81 then moved up to the Spectrum. I'm very much looking forward to getting one of these. Great show and Review, as always. All the best

[@Phil-Sands]

I have 4x ZX Spectrum 48K machines, 3 ZX+, 3 ZX +2 Grey's, 1 ZX +2A, a Harlequin 128, ZX 81; and just ordered The Spectrum. I also have in my collection for my sins an Amiga 1200, 3x A500's, A VIC 20, C64C, Sony MX, Acorn Electron and Amstrad CPC 464. As for newer things in my collection I also have The A500 and C64 from Retro Games, a Raspberry Pi 400 and several Raspberry Pi versions as well as about 10 different PC's, but my favourite is always the ZX Spectrum. And, yes, my wife hates them being in the house. 😁

[@countzero99uk]

So looking forward to tomorrow. This was the computer of my childhood (well the ZX Spectrum+) Your review was great :-)

[@martynlewis9020]

Thank you Retro Recipes, I knew this would happen. I already own a Spectrum Next and a ZX Touch, I have no need for this. But zero will power means I watched your review and placed my order!

[@eskey691]

Hold on it's not the weekend. Had two friends with spectrums and it was the best time ever as we always tried to out do each other over what was the best for games such great days. I was never reallty a big fan of the spectrum as i was always a commodore guy but i did enjoy a few games on it like Outrun. That being said this seem like a great bit of kit and i do like the menu music. Hope you guys are all felling better very soon and am looking forward to seeing what you bring us all next, so until then have a great rest of the week and take care 🙂

[@RetroRecipes]

Technically this is Saturday's video 😅 Thanks for your kind words!

[@JFredrikAndersson]

I remember playing Atic Atac at my friends house in the 80s on the Spectrum. I have not seen it since then, but I still remembered the loading screen when I saw it in your video! We also played The Hobbit often, but never got past the spiders... I soon after this got a Commodore 64. My absolute favorite game (on both machines) was Manic Miner.

[@MrLeafsta]

Amazing, the loading sound of the game. The memories just flooded back.

[@arthur071169]

A PROPER unboxing video. Many thanks.

[@DunkRed5]

Had this on pre order from Amazon! Just had it dispatched for our retro Christmas. Our 9yo can enjoy the Spectrum, battleships, subbuteo and the rpg book warlock of fire top mountain! Not looked forward to a Christmas this much in a long while!

[@stevenallan5822]

The 48k Speccy is where it all started with me, getting this one next week, can't wait.

[@jonord]

I had a C64 back as a kid. Didn't really know of any other home computers back then (apart from the Swedish ABC 80). Once we visited a friend of my father, and his son had a ZX Spectrum (he was a few years older than me). He proudly showed off his ZX Spectrum to me, and I was very underwhelmed by it, but as he was much older than me I didn't dare to say anything about it. As I recall we played a game that was also available on the C64, I think it could have been Zaxxon. And also Jet Set Willie.

[@stevenray8737]

Wonderful review! While we had a 48K+ model, it'll be nice to finally experience the rubber key original. Lords of Midnight is the jewel in the crown, but Target: Renegade was incredibly popular back in the day. Can't wait to try out Nightbreed!

[@ennahh76]

Mine was shipped yesterday and I thought I was getting it a day early, but no, amazon have it sat in the delivery warehouse until tomorrow. If I was to nitpic, a criticism would be even though the loading sounds are there, it looks like the flashing loading colours aren't. Maybe something they could rectify in a future update, then in my eyes, it would be perfect. My first ever computer aged 9, zx spectrum + with hard keys. With all the retro computers being released, all I ever wanted again was a spectrum, and now it's real. Tomorrow, after 39 years, I will be 9 again. 😊

[@MarcKloos]

It is there: 19:36 You just have to increase the border size! (And you can also speed up the tape loading 😉)

[@safirahmed]

Many who were loyal ZX Spectrum users also became loyal Commodore Amiga users.

[@MarcKloos]

Nah, Commies upgraded to an Amiga, Spec chums got an ST!

[@safirahmed]

@MarcKloos The history of Commodore, Amiga and the Atari ST can be confusing.

[@Carl_Thompson]

I used mine back in the day equally for coding and gaming. Can’t wait to be 13 again tomorrow when mine arrives

[@nicholasgarratt5646]

I like it but if I bought one, it would be like my C64 and Amiga Mini where I used it for 30 minutes and now stuck in a cupboard. Nostalgia is sometimes best kept in the past.

[@RetroRecipes]

Yes but I believe in that 30 minutes you de-age 3 years!

[@pda1799]

A cool fact. Booty was the first video game I have ever played. On ZXS. ZX was my first home computer, had it for about 6 months, then had to sell it. Just to get C64 later same year. And NEVER have I missed my ZX. C64 ftw))))

[@CasperLD]

Wow, that tape loading sound got me.

[@Allen-by6ci]

The box certainly looks like something the Spectrum would come in.

[@MarcKloos]

Naah, Clive wouldn't approve! Just plain coloured cardboard, no glossy bits!

[@gperch]

@@MarcKloos The outer packaging seems to be plain brown cardboard, like the original mail order shipping boxes. I guess the glossy / retail box is within. The original box and the computer itself were works of art, thanks to the late Rick Dickinson.

[@GJ-mn9ly]

Great video as always!, the speccy 48k was my first computer, and then I moved on to C64 in time.But with speccy it had a certain charm, and had some great games in the day.And how cool is 'The Spectrum' for the modern time👍.

[@deagt3388]

My first love, I also had a C64C, but I always preferred the Speccy! ;-)

[@darrenwilson99]

I'm an Amstrad CPC6128 kid, but loved all other home micros. Great to have this even though I already own a +3

[@sheppertonstudios8253]

I think if you use one of the basic borders near the start of the options you will also get the flashing loading colours as well!

[@ClassicTrialsChannel]

That loading sound is a computer to me. my first computer was a rubber keyed 48k Spectrum.

[@gperch]

A friend's mum said the loading sound (or lines?) gave her a migraine. I think they ended up with a VIC 20? Naturally we never spoke to them again. ;)

[@SirHackaL0t.]

Oh my! How much younger you looked in 2020!

[@BillsOldandNewGaming]

Mine arrived today. Usb stick ready but as it arrived early I hadn't got around to sorting it into a more manageable file structure so it will be a mess around with the pre installed games for now and maybe make use of that rewind function to complete my all time favourite game starquake.

[@mattwatsonthesecrethelicopters]

I still have my original 48k lovingly stored in the original box. This brought so many wonderful memories flooding back for me. Very tempted to grab one of these. But...does it have Daley Thompson if so beware the famous dying rubber keys! ;)

[@avenginglettuce]

Excellent, all round look at rhe machine. Delighted to see CRASH back. 😃

[@RetroRecipes]

Yeah the layout design in that issue is amazing!

[@avenginglettuce]

​@@RetroRecipes​Well, who am I to argue with that. 😉

[@MegaGeek82]

The ZX SPECTRUM 48K was my first Micro computer

[@005AGIMA]

Get well soon mate. I've not ordered one, of these but I really REALLY want one. So why didn't I order one? Because nothing screams Nostalgia like adding something to your Christmas list and hoping someone else gets the hint. I didn't get a 48k back in the 80s. Let's see if Santa brings me one in 2024 (and if he doesn't, then I'll order one lol)

[@SoulPoetryandOtherWorks]

Excellent Retro Machine. I hope it has different clock speeds for those Freescape Games to run better. So you are going to attach your VDrive MNicrodrive to a +2 Spectrum? That could be a challenge as the Amstrad +2 Spectrum ditched compatibility with the Interface One which allowed the Microdrives to be attached. The ZX Spectrum 128 was the last spectrum to support interface one directly. As for the Retro Games recreation, if it supports the Fuller Master Unit through emulation, the Currah Microspeach and the Specdrum interfaces as well it could be a must-buy.

[@RetroRecipes]

Yeah I have the adapter thingy

[@ChrisLeeW00]

If I could have had this instead of an NES growing up, I would have liked the spectrum better. I would have spent all my time with BASIC

[@Robots0verHumans]

@RetroRecipes: Is it possible to buy the printed Zzap! Magazine somewhere in Germany?

[@RetroRecipes]

Absolutely - order internationally at link in description

[@FoxyLad]

Hope you and your family are feeling better soon 👍

[@edwardo1973]

rivalry but the best kind, we're all friends now right :)

[@mavfan1]

Wow, 4 years ago you looked 14 years younger! 😜

[@RetroRecipes]

Amazing what a beard can do. Thanks!

[@gordyboy01]

So Sorry to hear you all got food poisoning 😔🤢, hope it wasn't too bad for you and ladyfractic, but especially hope wasn't too bad for little babyfractic 😢. Great recipode 👍, Think I said before, one year for Xmas parents bought me the ZX spectrum +3, my brother got the commodore 64. Remember vividly that Xmas us playing Ghost 'n Goblins, paperboy, and dizzy on my spectrum😂, then playing his commodore 64 bubble bobble , choplifter and more. Ah the memories 🥺, how time flies Anyway can't wait for the upcoming recipode of specky unboxing you were talking about. Looking forward to it 👍❤️

[@colinthomson7518]

oh nice a new spectrum, I had a spectrum+. manic miner is my favourite game and great memories playing all the games again.

[@henrik5284]

I had no idea Jim Carrey was into C64 and ZX Spectrum

[@RetroRecipes]

Albytey then!

[@robertsturt5300]

I was a Speecy owner, but started on a VIc20. Always wanted a C64 as well though :)

[@Dr.Dawson]

I get the nostalgia for the old modem/tape loading sounds but for someone with tinnitus it’s not cool anymore hahahaha.

[@preay12345]

It wold seem Amazon is no longer selling for delivery in the UK, shame as I was really tempted by this.

[@RetroRecipes]

Sold out but it'll be back!

[@raptorchow329]

I always take the weights out of my "mini" computers, and the joysticks. Just my personal preference. Get well soon!

[@danboid]

Zzap me Crashes Jim Bagley la! That is a very slick retro case indeed. I wasn't expecting it would be metal! What confused me about this video is the gamepad. Was that CD32-alike controller included with the Spectrum? When you were configuring it it looked lie it showed the outline of the gamepad which made me think it was included but it seems like a very odd choice of controller to include with a Spectrum to me. hmmmmm Slick video as ever Mr fractic!

[@aresaurelian]

It does not look or sound like it, but this machine inspired me to improve home computers. I loved Ant attack.

[@djm9937]

oh dear ! get well soon all of you. Great video !

[@steveford1070]

Ive a few of the mini's and og systems, never had a specky but have this on order, look at it, it's gorgeous

[@ihgday6103]

The speccy received alot of stick for its rubber keys where other computers had typewriter style keyboards. Times have changed and all new laptops have terrible calculator keys too.