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A simple fractal written on an emulated Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer.
The spectrum's processor only ran at 3.5Mhz and due to rendering the fractal taking so long at that speed, I increased the processor in the emulator settings to run at 100Mhz and even then it takes a long time.
The code is not elegant as I am sure you will agree!
I'm going through some older images again... and this one is from (Alamo Village) Brackettville, Texas. I'm aiming for a more authentic appearance with a grittier, more wilder western feel.
The title I ripped from one of my favorite ZX Spectrum games.. Google it ;)
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... loading "R-Type" from tape...
Info:
Model: Sinclair ZX-Spectrum 128K +2B
CPU: Zilog Z80 @ 3.5MHz
RAM: 128Kb
Who had one of these ?? I loved mine in fact we had a house fire and it was the first and only thing I grabbed ! Thankfully the house was ok and I could get back to my game of Manic Miner !
How the old computer stuff is shaping up in the new place. It's still work in progress, but getting there I think.
I'd have some sort of competition to name everything you can see, but there's nothing that rare here and, anyway, a lot of stuff has the name of it on the front/top somewhere....hence I've tagged everything I can instead.
(that said, you don't see Atari 1200XLs, Philips N60s or Timex TS1500s in the UK that often)
Who would have thought that when I got that spectrum nearly 30 odd years ago we would be in the place we are now with iPads/Phones etc. What is going to happen in the next 30 or will innovation slow down... I hope not.
It still works, though loading the games using a tape recorder set to a specific volume is extremely tedious in 2006!
Mosaic and frame by drdavewatford, picture by Andrew Tipping (Bricks Magazine)
For more info about this build visit goo.gl/pTkIz4.
You've just gotta love the 80s!
Spectrum 128K with floppy drive.
I've still got the Sharp ghetto blaster!
My first computer! A Sinclair ZX Spectrum with 48KB of memory and 16 colours (8 of which were just brighter variants of the other 8!)
The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom by Sinclair Research.
It was released as eight different models, ranging from the entry level with 16 KB RAM released in 1982, programmable in Basic language with a cassette recorder.
It was my first computer.
From a photo of TV screen
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum
Even though I started with a 'regular' ZX Spectrum with just 16Kbytes of RAM (quickly upgraded them to 48K), I recall that the Spectrum+ seemed a huge enhancement with its 'almost real' keyboard and bigger case less prone to over-heating.
2012
Digital collage print
Edition of 3
24 x 24 inches
This is one of a set of 10 digital collages I made for the "Shinobi Marilyn" show at Emily Amy Gallery.
©Ashley Anderson
As a kid I'd write code and doodle graphics on graph paper. I'd then send them to different software companies in the hope of impressing them. However since I was only 10 they'd just send me back posters. Here's one from ocean software which lives on my office wall.
Write Your Own Adventure Programs For Your Microcomputer was a book which showed you how to write text adventures in BASIC for your home computer. It contained a step by step guide which culminated in you producing a 64 location adventure called Haunted House. Written by Jenny Tyler and Les Howarth, it was released by Usborne in 1983. The book included adaptions for the program to run on the ZX Spectrum 48K / Timex 2000, TRS-80, Apple, Dragon 32, VIC-20, BBC Micro, Commodore PET, Oric and a specially adapted smaller version for the 16K ZX81 / Timex 1000 by Chris Oxlade.
ZX Spectrum #alttext 8x8 píxels representation of the #zxspectrum #microhobbit #retrodrawing #retrogaming
"Be who you want to be."
Ad from a 1988 Smash Hits magazine for the ZX Spectrum +3 with disk drive. "The fantastic 128k memory gives you the power to putsmart the most sophiticated enemy" - wouldn't more power to the computer mean the computer is smarter?!
...that is if the inlay is to be believed.
A computer version of what hipsters call a "mix tape", this is a ZX Spectrum games compilation tape, lovingly crafted by Adrian Darwin and featuring a colour-pencil rendition of the Sinclair Spectrum colour-slash.
I borrowed this in the mid-80's and I expect he wants it back.