Indo Speccy
MemoirHardwareA £10 "untested" rubber-keyed Speccy bought sight unseen in East Java, a government import ban standing between me and a bag of axial capacitors, and a £36 chip for a £10 computer.
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Technical deep dives, programming tricks, ROM lore and other long-form pieces about the ZX Spectrum and how it really works.
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Look at me everybody, I’m a computer programmer!!!
MemoirBASICMy brother typed in a Hello World loop from the orange Sinclair manual. I changed one line, hit RUN, and turned around for an audience that wasn't there.
The Golf Course
MemoirINPUT MagazineBASICA whole issue of INPUT magazine, typed in blind and left to render for the length of a coffee break — and a brother who wanted to know why none of it was a game.
It’s a fair swap, not!
MemoirA borrowed copy of Dynamite Dan, a copy-protection scheme that beat "The Key", and a brother who traded it away for Engineer Humpty on the strength of the cover alone.
When AI Meets the ZX Spectrum: And Suddenly 48K Looks Rather Large
MemoirAIZ80I set Claude Code loose on a ZX Spectrum game with $100 of credits and the new Fable model, expecting a doddle. Here's why 48K of 1982 hardware humbled it in ways a modern REST API never could.