SyntaxBomb - Indie Coders

Looks like some enterprising individual going by the store retrobro.co.uk, is trying their luck with flogging a USB with abandon ware software for the release of theSpectrum over on Amazon UK.
They are also doing this for a few other retro systems. Reminds me of when the retro games craze started back in the late nineties, or was it the early two thousands. And a CD was released that was on sale at a few well known UK stores, with around a thousand ZX Spectrum games on it. It was soon withdrawn, due to the fact that a lot of copyright owners were not too happy about it. There were a few complaints from those that bought the CD as well, with it being stuff that could be downloaded from certain sites at the time, plus a lot of the archives of the CD were corrupt.

I think I'll stick to buying my own USB stick and using or buying my own games.

Got coding on a speccy out of my system 40 odd years ago, don't feel the need to go back. 

Quote from: 3DzForMe on November 16, 2024, 17:55:50Got coding on a speccy out of my system 40 odd years ago, don't feel the need to go back.

Then don't? Unless you Really, Really want to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcIONooCrnk

What should be inside the box. You have to wait right to the end.

Quote from: Baggey on November 17, 2024, 16:01:57

Quote from: 3DzForMe on November 16, 2024, 17:55:50Got coding on a speccy out of my system 40 odd years ago, don't feel the need to go back.

Then don't? Unless you Really, Really want to

Not that I didn't have some fun back in the day coding Battleships in ZXBasic, but those 'ships' sailed a while ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhFSmXfGg7s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSKMzSkLuWE

I wonder if my soon to be new toy ordered from Amazon order will turn up today? But knowing Amazon, it will be some completely random day where nobody is in.

Cant wait to see a few Click Bait Piccy's

Quote from: Baggey on November 22, 2024, 08:33:41Cant wait to see a few Click Bait Piccy's

You are going to have a long wait. Just received an email to say that my order will be any time between December 4th to January 4th next year.
Amazon are going to have to get the act together. Some people cannot just rearrange their lives around Amazons delivery dates. Had the same thing with the last order I had, stated a date and then delivered the bloody items the day before. Luckily it was just before 6pm, and I just happened to have got back in.

Think I'll cancel it and go to Smyths Toy. My local store has 7 of these in.

EDIT: Remind me never to get anything from Amazon ever again. As I ordered this with a bunch of other stuff. I cannot cancel the bloody thing. Say contact customer service, but the links take you round in circles.

QuoteAmazon are going to have to get the act together. Some people cannot just rearrange their lives around Amazons delivery dates.

That's why I now get my Amazon deliveries delivered to my local Post Office. I can collect when it's convienient to me then.

When you order you can select from several local Post Office/Pickup points.

Noel's got one.

If you've already got one. Be warned. Retro Games LTD have added a disclaimer that you up date your firmware at your own risk. 

Quote from: dawlane on November 29, 2024, 05:26:18If you've already got one. Be warned. Retro Games LTD have added a disclaimer that you up date your firmware at your own risk.

I thought we were going to be moving away from this sort of stuff. When there are updates after updates people lose track of things. Rushed into production! Just look at the Nexty it's a mind field of updates and bugs! However you can recover from a bad flash. They obviously experienced this themselves. I was one of the first backers.

When it first came out there were HDMI problems, Keyboard problems just to name a few.

I loved the old stuff. There's your computer Bugs and all and it stayed that way. That's how people learnt to program it and exploit it's quirks. Just look at some of the Demo's and exploits being done on the C64 now!