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A return visit to the Birmingham Museum Collections Centre on another Open Day. This time I heard about a free heritage bus ride from Snow Hill Queensway, had a long wait but the bus eventually came.

And headed back for my 2nd visit. Mostly the same items I saw before, so tried to get photos of things I didn't get last time (although there maybe some repeated shots).

It was on the final day of Birmingham Heritage Week on Sunday 16th September 2018.

Zone 1: Smaller Objects Store

Video game consoles of the 1980s are now museum pieces!

ZX Spectrum

ZX Microdrive

The joystick from my ZX Spectrum 128k!

Um ZX Spectrum

Corners tacked, just all the pins inbetween to go.

Spectrum, Commodorre & Amiga computers

Zilog is golden

ZX Spectrum www.myspace.com/zxspectrum

Oct 25, 2008 (Daugavpils, RMS)

ZX Spectrum www.myspace.com/zxspectrum

Oct 25, 2008 (Daugavpils, RMS)

ZX Spectrum www.myspace.com/zxspectrum

Oct 25, 2008 (Daugavpils, RMS)

The master tape of the text adventure game I wrote in 1983-4. I submitted it to two or three software houses but they all rejected it - rightly.

See avaragado.org/2012/04/23/zx-spectrum30/

Well hopefully in the up and coming months I shall hopefully be able to do some more interesting subjects. This month these items were found around the house and shot in an "old" style.

ZX Spectrum www.myspace.com/zxspectrum

Oct 25, 2008 (Daugavpils, RMS)

Le manuel de l'ordinateur " SINCLAIR ZX Spectrum+ ".

8-bit fun at the Lass O' Gowrie pub in Manchester. Read more about this place on my pub blog at gettothepub.com/2010/07/05/a-week-in-pubs-wc-28-june-2010/

...and my friend here is not happy about it.

If you're in London, listen from Monday on 104.9. It's your last chance to enjoy.

10x filter

Not a complete rainbow, but you get the gist.

Macro Mondays Theme: Rainbow

The old ZX Spectrum Crash videogame magazine (I am mentioned in one of these)

ZX Spectrum www.myspace.com/zxspectrum

Oct 25, 2008 (Daugavpils, RMS)

ZX Spectrum www.myspace.com/zxspectrum

Oct 25, 2008 (Daugavpils, RMS)

ZX Spectrum www.myspace.com/zxspectrum

Oct 25, 2008 (Daugavpils, RMS)

Camera 360

I'm not sure my brain can rattle off the maths on how many pins I soldered, but doing these sockets felt like an endless task.

Everytime I looked at how many I'd done with a sense of progress, I'd look at how many left to do with a sense of dread.

J'ai eu l'occasion de trouver de nombreux jeux à l'automne 2017 en parcourant les longues allées de Sainte-Geneviève-des Bois.

Ce sont surtout deux stands dans lesquels j'ai déniché mon bonheur, à savoir :

- un lot de jeux pour micro-ordinateurs (Judoka pour MO5/TO7, Sabre Wulf pour ZX Spectrum, Xevious + Captain Blood + The Running Man + des disquettes pour Amstrad CPC )

- un lot de jeux PC en big box (MegaRace 2 + Flight Simulator 95 + 3D Ultra Pinball + S.C.A.R.S. + Vikings + une compilation avec Dark Forces et Rebel Assault) et d'autres en boitiers (l'add-on The Deeper Dungeons pour Dungeon Keeper 1, Forgotten Realms : The Archives collection 1 qui contient les trois premiers Eye of the Beholder et enfin Heretic II). A noter aussi The House of The Dead 2 et In Memoriam : Le Dernier Rituel pour PC.

J'ai également trouvé d'autres jeux consoles un peu plus récents :

- 007 Nightfire sur Gamecube

- Tetris Party Deluxe sur Wii

- Final Fantasy VIII sur PlayStation

- Call of Duty : Black Ops II sur Xbox 360 (pour le faire en multi-consoles)