Ok built-in joystick looked cool.
03.12.2025 17:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Newspaper advert from home computers in the 80s
Who had written a letter to Santa asking for a ZX Spectrum?
03.12.2025 16:00 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0
Aesthetics? No. Human error.
02.12.2025 15:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
3D Monster Maze. A low-res maze.
02.12.2025 06:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Also: some assembly required if you want snow. The lines after 95 are missing.
01.12.2025 19:06 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“Put” not “Out”. Sigh.
01.12.2025 17:00 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
BASIC program to draw a tree
Said tree
I know some people out their trees up around now..
01.12.2025 16:32 — 👍 49 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1
Recreation of the ZX80 in Minecraft
#ZX80
30.11.2025 15:32 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Looking for a ZX-compatible computer you build yourself? You will NOT do better.
28.11.2025 15:51 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Tynemouth Software on Tindie
I write a blog about old computers, repairing them, upgrading them, replacing them. Read more at blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk
Let's try something different. Let's make today "make me a reasonable offer Friday".
See something in my Tindie store, send me an email or a DM with a reasonable offer (please don't insult me) and where you are so I can include postage, and I'll see what I can do.
www.tindie.com/stores/tynem...
28.11.2025 11:06 — 👍 76 🔁 16 💬 4 📌 1
ASCII art
#TGIF
28.11.2025 15:44 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How bad is the screen?
27.11.2025 05:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
No, different computers.
26.11.2025 17:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tch tch. Thought you liked typefaces.
26.11.2025 15:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
K prompt
K prompt
Spot the difference!
26.11.2025 03:18 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0
Now that’s a talent
25.11.2025 20:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The ZX80 BASIC prompt
“What was the first code editor you ever used?”
25.11.2025 18:05 — 👍 58 🔁 8 💬 21 📌 4
Commentary of ZX81-Forth (Tree #Forth) disassembly is complete. I may add some more detail in due course but every routine has an explanation to help people understand it - github.com/markgbeckett... #retrogaming
23.11.2025 22:18 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Smyths Toys have The Spectrum on offer
In the UK? This is a total steal.
24.11.2025 15:56 — 👍 54 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 6
Before the iPhone..
23.11.2025 15:29 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
It’s mostly for running the built-in games. It’s a retro console first and foremost.
23.11.2025 06:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
THEA1200
THEA1200 - Back to the future of computing! Introducing THEA1200, a full-size reimagining of this classic home computer complete with working keyboard. With its HDMI and USB connectivity, it is truly plug-and-play. Featuring perfect emulation of not only the original A1200 and its Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA), but also the A500 (OCS) and Enhanced Chip Set (ECS) of earlier versions. • Play one of the included 25 classic Amiga games, selected from a simple to use carousel, including all-time greats such as Defender of the Crown I & II, Settlers II, the Turrican trilogy, Beneath a Steel Sky, Lure of the Temptress and Ruff ’n’ Tumble. Or side-load your own games via USB stick with full WHDLoad support and an array of options to choose from. Plus save and resume your game at any time to help you finish those punishingly difficult classics. • Also includes Workbench for the full Amiga experience, allowing the use of the full range of Amiga software, and compatible with 1000's of classic Amiga games and demos, utilizing WHDLoad for simplicity (games must be legally obtained/purchased from the legal owners). • The THEA1200 comes with the original style 2-button mouse and newly engineered 8-button precision gamepad, allowing you to choose your control method. THEA1200 isn’t just a computer. It’s a time machine.
ICYMI - The A1200, a full-size Amiga 1200 replica, is available for pre-order in the U.S. from Amazon for $189 amzn.to/43KrnVz #amiga #amiga1200 #thea1200 #retrocomputing
22.11.2025 19:21 — 👍 33 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
timex sinclair 1000 (sinclair zx81) hooked up to a sony watchman MEGA portable tv
tiny computer setup
22.11.2025 01:31 — 👍 62 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0
My printer worked great: I still have some listings and screendumps from the ZX81 and Speccy. I once was given 50 lines by a teacher and printed them out on my ZX Printer. The teacher was impressed: but made me do them again.
21.11.2025 18:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This is why I want my ZX Printer to work.
21.11.2025 17:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Wikipedia page on Life / Cellular Automata is peak.
21.11.2025 16:43 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Life goes faster when you're older.
Mostly thanks to the 28MHz mode on this Spectrum Next and cheap video effects. #TGIF
21.11.2025 14:29 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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