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8629187 No.8629187 [Reply] [Original]

What’s the best one to buy at this point?

>> No.8629206
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8629206

Spectrum + 2. Built-in tape loader and the keyboard isn’t total fucking shit

>> No.8629209

Why would you want a Speccy?

>> No.8629212

>>8629206
Many games made in 1986 and later have Spectrum 128 support certainly anything from the larger publishers like Ocean did and have actual music and less load time (though the initial game load takes longer)

>> No.8629221

>>8629206
For a turbo autist such as myself, can this model load tapes from an external cassette drive? I believe the one i have in storage had its build in drive crap out.

>> No.8629232

>>8629209
selling my nintendo games and consoles for a speccy and my kid’s college education

>> No.8629245

>>8629232
>speccy fan
>having a kid
... you stole that kid, right? return it, weirdo.

>> No.8629258
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>>8629221
Looking online, I don’t think so. Apparently if the tape loader on the keyboard itself buggers out, it’s a simple fix with a screwdriver but I wouldn’t bet on that. Honestly best bet is to avoid the Amstrad models as they’re known for being faulty and awkward. Best choice to get i would say, is the Spectrum Plus. Keyboard isn’t a total fucking nightmare and it supports tape loading. The other Plus computers don’t fully support most of the library due to how it handled tapes, so this is your best bet if you want something that works with every tape released for it and has a good keyboard

>> No.8629268
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>>8629258
Be wary though that the none rubber key model is notorious for hardware failure. There’s the Spectrum 128k which fixed those issues but you might pick up a Spanish model as they were developed for the Spanish market first, so he warned. Honestly all the Spectrum models are a total gambit in quality. Doesn’t matter what make it is, there’s always something wrong with it. Shitty keys, malfunctioning tape deck, developed for third world countries, etc. Its a total free for all

>> No.8629272
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8629272

Post you're best speccy games
For me it's Atic Atac and Target Renegade

>> No.8629282
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>>8629272
luv me atic atac

>> No.8629292

>>8629282
unironically better than 99% of the NES' library

>> No.8629297

>>8629187
FUCK OFF WITH THESE THREADS! SERIOUSLY! FUCK RIGHT OFF WITH THESE SHITTY ASS MUH SPECCY THREADS!

>> No.8629305

>>8629292
Serious question: why do Spectrum fans have a perceived rivalry of sorts with NES?
You never see Spectrum being mentioned on NES threads, but NES is always mentioned on Spectrum threads.
What's the rundown? Was there a Spectrum vs NES rivalry in UK back in the 80s? You'd think the rival would be another PC, not a japanese console.

>> No.8629320

>>8629305
With the NES? Absolutely not. No one gave a shit about Nintendo then. If you owned a console you probably had a Master System. NES only did well when the Ninja Turtles bundle got released but it quickly got overtaken by the Master System. The real rivalry was between Spectrum and Commodore users

>> No.8629325

>>8629320
Well, I don't know, according to what I see here on /vr/, it seems Spectrum fans are all obsessed with NES, not Commodore.

>> No.8629330

>>8629325
Go back to your bing bing wahoo thread faggot and suck some jap cock, this here thread is for speccychads

>> No.8629354

>>8629330
lmao
there IS some weird shit going on with NES living rent free in spectrum fans. Unless it's just 1 faggot samefagging a lot. Wouldn't be surprised.

>> No.8629359

>>8629305
Nintendo fans are insecure and have to insert themselves into every conversation.

>> No.8629492

>>8629305
>You never see Spectrum being mentioned on NES threads, but NES is always mentioned on Spectrum threads.
put 2 and 2 together, genuine spectrum posters aren't interested in NES, they have no hatred of it, they simply don't care about it and I don't mean it in a bad way.
It's trolls starting flamewars who come in here and shit the threads up with Nintendo, that's why there are no mentions of speccy in NES threads, it's that simple.

>> No.8629675 [DELETED] 

bump

>> No.8629686

>>8629232
Are you a member of those London oriental grooming gangs?

>> No.8629694

>>8629354
I don't think you have the IQ necessary to participate in this thread

>> No.8629705

>>8629245
one of my dads (the one that stepped up) is a speccy fan. he had one when he was a kid and his eyes legitimately lit up when I told him I read posts about Horace & the Spiders on 4chan

>> No.8629726

Get an omni128 if you can, great little thingy.

>> No.8629734

>>8629272
>>8629272
Who is this stunning beauty? And although I never owned a speccy I still have a great amount of respect for hiw it was able to punch above its weight.

>> No.8629756

>>8629686
Gangs of Asian hairstylists who jump people and give them nice haircuts?

>> No.8629758

>>8629734
none other than the yewchube eceleb known as Kim Justice.

>> No.8629773

>>8629272
Atic Atac, Jetpac, Head over Heels, Fred, Moon Cresta.

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>>8629187
Whichever one gets you the most upvotes on Reddit

>> No.8629846

>>8629838
why does this board absolutely seethe over the spectrum

>> No.8630215

>>8629846
It's just that one guy who posts that same exact image when he sees a Spectrum thread. It's weird because outside of the actual image of the speccy poorly MSPainted into it, it's not even related to the thing he's trying to make fun of. Like it's the back of a Playstation game or something? I don't get it. It's not funny nor clever.

>> No.8630395

>>8630215
>It's just that one guy
No, it isn't. It's half the American posters. They actually think it's funny to whip the crumbling bones of a long dead horse. It's a degree of mental illness that you wouldn't even find in the most aberrant boards of bunkerchan. They are truly sick as a people.

>> No.8630406

>>8630395
nice b8 but not falling for it m8

>> No.8630426

>>8630423
ironic

>> No.8630452

>>8630406
It's observable, you docile prick. We KNOW you're doing it. What the fuck are you talking about? Stop being an apologist for schizo posters who contribute nothing to the board, faggot. It was funny years ago, but now you shit up every fucking thread that broaches the subject. Take your fucking MEDS.
>>8630426
>irony is now defined as pointing out tumultuous and heterogeneous behaviour
You truly are lower than dog shit. Please kill yourself.

>> No.8630470

>>8629359
>>8629492
Doesn't sound very convincing.
I think it's more likely there's 1 guy samefagging a lot, as I don't think speccy fans would be that dense in general.

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>>8629726
This does seem nice, screen or no screen

>> No.8631356

>>8629297
Why do they make you mad? It's just people talking about a system they like. Fits perfectly into /vr/. What's the issue?

>> No.8631508
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8631508

Is there an easy case/keyboard solution for the Harlequin?

>> No.8631596

>>8629305
Why would you not compare the two? Both were popular 8-bit systems.
Speccy and C64 also get compared a lot but no one thinks that's weird.

>> No.8631603

Waiting for this thread to die so I can make a thread to shit on the speccy tbqh famalama. Absolutely despise the british and austroon

>> No.8631612

>>8631596
It’s not a particularly interesting comparison. They’re from completely different markets and have completely different fanbases. At no point did they even really compete

>> No.8632302

>>8631603
Based

>> No.8633064

>>8631603
Did a Spectrum touch you as a kid?

>> No.8633663

>>8631603
We barely know you exist because we tend to focus on aspects of our own cultures. They're far more important. Yours are more disposable, but are redeemed when we somehow get involved. It's like polishing a turd - only magnitudes more difficult.

>> No.8634159

>>8631508
zxrenew do replica 48k cases and membranes too. That's a 128k board you you might have to dremel out a hole for the RGB socket.

If you haven't bought the harlequin board yet then I'd suggest you go with buy a raspberry pi instead and use zxbaremulator on an sd card with all the games on it.
https://youtu.be/fSv9SKehcYQ?t=297
(vids in spanish but has subtitles in english)

>> No.8635040

I've got a 48k, +2, omniHQ and a Next, but lately I play mostly on MiSTer which does a great speccy.

>> No.8635063

BTW for lulz check out the excellent Spectrum port of Galaxian against the total joke of the C64 port.

>> No.8635071

>>8635063
The Spectrum Galaxian would be almost perfect except for lacking the little fanfare tune when you start the game. Perhaps they had the arcade source code. It would be unusual to but occasionally it did happen (like with Rodland) and as it was a Z80 game the code would be easy to convert for the Spectrum.

>> No.8635081

>>8635071
>The Spectrum Galaxian would be almost perfect except for lacking the little fanfare tune when you start the game
playing music on a Spectrum is not very easy to do because of the CPU-driven speaker. you have to do a bunch of delay loops to play different notes and it's a real PITA. so not many Spectrum games have music, and if they do it it will just be on the title screen or something and not in-game because you have to stop everything else to operate the speaker.

>> No.8635089

>>8635081
I know...the Apple II was the same way. Bill Gates said in an early 80s interview, "One of the big improvements of the [IBM PC] is that you can easily play music on it. On the Apple II you had to be a real bits-and-bytes man for that."

>> No.8635116

>>8635063
>>8635071
>>8635081
>>8635089
Same schizo

>> No.8635817

>>8635063
The Speccy port of Moon Cresta is awesome, as is Ms Pacman. For those early ports I think the Vic20 has better versions than the c64 anyway.

>> No.8635876

>>8635817
Most of the Atarisoft stuff on the VIC-20 isn't all that good and the C64 ports are also not impressive. The Spectrum Ms. Pac-Man is not bad although it's clearly a port of the Atari 8-bit version rather than the arcade. In theory it would be easier to port a lot of the classic early 80s arcade games to the Spectrum because they were Z80-based.

>> No.8635892

>>8635876
I disagree, DigDug, Donkey Kong and Moon Patrol are all awesome versions. Not sure of your reasoning re z80, I don't think they had the arcade source code available.

>> No.8635952

>>8635892
>I disagree, DigDug, Donkey Kong and Moon Patrol are all awesome versions
The latter two have ok Spectrum ports but they never put Dig Dug on it.

>> No.8635980

>>8635952
I was referring to the Vic20 versions.