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Re:ZX Spectrum Graphics Magic: The Basics Every Spectrum Fan... by nine_k on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @12:30AM (#44295783)
ZX Spectrum was one of the few inexpensive options, especially with color support. However terrible it was, it was also very enticing, or just the only thing you had at home, and could tinker with.
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Re:ZX Spectrum Graphics Magic: The Basics Every Spectrum Fan... by stas2k on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:06AM (#44296421)
I still remember getting a USSR clone(Leningrad) at 5 years old. It is probably earliest memory I have.

Did not know English, could not read anything, but still spent hundreds of hours first playing, and then tinkering with it.

There was no OS to mess up, and it booted instantly to a Sinclair BASIC prompt.

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