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My ZX Spectrum tweet in celebration of 40 years of the Speccy. (A machine I never had. But a friend at school did, and man it was fun.) 😄

Years later I found this thing on the Amiga called an "emulator" and I was totally hooked. 👍

(Running two games, plus its two help-images)

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2022-04-23

Really missing a brown !
Had a quick test of "Dicing with Death" for the
using 's CharPad with a speccy colorset.

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2022-04-23

My Favourite C64 Arcade Adventures No.15

Saboteur

Durrell

1986

It may be a straight port from the Speccy original but Saboteur is still an excellent game. A cracking combination of stealth, beat ‘em up & arcade adventure, it’s addictive, exciting and thoroughly engrossing.

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2022-04-14

A birds eye view of Melkhior's attic. Pixels by . Download Melkhior's Mansion for free on PC, Mac and Linux at https://t.co/fidJJSwcwL Also coming soon for Speccy Next () and Speccy 128k ()

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2022-04-05

Underwurlde was, I think, the first mega-maze game I played. And it was Sabreman, who is just adorable. I played it a ton on my friends Speccy, played it more on my C64, and then played it even more after getting the Zzap!64 map. It was beautiful in its cruelty. Up 5, fall 10. 😮

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2022-04-03

Eurasian Eagle Owl ^v^
(Pic by SpeccyChicken)

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2022-03-19

Great review Andy, as you quite rightly say, written from the heart by the talented and a must have book for all discerning Speccy fans out there! ❤️

👍📘👍📗👍📕👍📙👍

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2022-03-14

Im sure Speccy is very tasty hehe

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2022-03-09

There's a few of them (drawn by @/SpeccyChicken, @/bird_attitude, and the last two by @/TheRoyalGryphon)

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2022-03-02

Thank god someone out there has restored my faith in proper old school Speccy games! 🙏🙏🙏

None of this crap from the later half of the 80's! 😉

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2022-02-12

No argument from me there! An absolute classic that all discerning Speccy owners should have had in their game collection! 👍😍

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2022-02-12

I keep looking at this pic every day and I'm still impressed how well I look here.

Thank you Speccy, you did an amazing job.

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2022-02-12

I am happy to announce that the ZX Spectrum graphics for Rabenstein are ALL done. I am working on the MSX1 gfx now and I am adding extra pixels wherever I can, to make use of the extended palette and not just port the Speccy look over. And boy, do the MSX1 graphics look great!

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2022-02-12

With a lot of Speccy stuff the art-style ends up kinda like colourised monochrome. 🤔 But the nice thing with the Speccy was that dithering effects were clear on the TV's of the day. With the C64, alternating on/off high-res pixels often made for strange moiré/colour effects. 🤓

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2022-02-06