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This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
Filed under 'zxspectrum'
➠ July 3, 2009
Battle between ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro to be BBC4 comedy drama
The story of Sir Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry is being turned into a one-off BBC comedy-drama. To British nerds of a certain age, this is the most exciting news ever.
➠ October 29, 2008
JSSpeccy: A ZX Spectrum emulator in Javascript
Officially the best thing in the entire history of the internet today.
➠ June 6, 2008
Big Ideas (Don't get any)
Beautiful video of Radiohead’s “Nude” being “performed” on old hardware. (Slightly skeptical because I don’t recall the 48k Spectrum having multi-channel sound, but let’s not piss on the chips of a great clip.) Forward to 1:10 if you want to skip the Spectrum loading sounds.
➠ August 20, 2007
10 PRINT “yoz ROOLS OK “; 20 GO TO 10
From Yoz's talk on "Folk Logic" -- How every kid in the 80s learned to "program".
➠ June 19, 2007
Kempa.com: Vinyl Data
Compilation of the ZX Spectrum programs sometimes included with British pop singles in the 80s. “OH DEAR!! a bat bit you” I had no idea about the Urusei Yatsura track. Gonna have to give that a shot!
➠ April 23, 2007
ZX Spectrum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
25 years ago today, the ZX Spectrum was unleashed by Sir Clive. And now, let’s pause for a quick Manic Miner session in celebration.
➠ January 5, 2007
WotR 80 - Jet Set Willy:Online
Multiplayer Jet Set Willy! Play as teams collecting objects, or capture the flag mode. It’s like my entire childhood was leading up to this.
➠ July 10, 2006
Profanity Adventures
“A nostalgic look at what used to happen when you tried typing swear words into text adventures”. Missing are those text adventures that swore *at* you, when you typed in the names of rival games companies, magazines that had given them bad reviews, etc.
➠ February 5, 2006
zx spectrum walkthrough - Google Video
Complete video walkthroughs of classic Speccy games (although JSW has clearly been poked to avoid the Attic bug).
➠ January 26, 2006
Forensic criminology, the ZX Spectrum way
Hee! An episode of CSI:Miama had a Big Expensive Computer. The sounds generated by the computer? A ZX Spectrum loading Knight Lore.
➠ October 2, 2004
About This Site
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.