As a follow-up to my post about the ZX Spectrum last week – I was feeling nostalgic and was googling up sites with information about the home computers of the 80s when I stumbled over this amazing book: The ZX Spectrum Book – 1982 to 199x For starters, the book is about the same size [...]
April 23 2007 marks the 25th birthday of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. No other home computer had more impact in Europe during the early 80s and no other single machine in history has inspired so many teenagers to become engineers, programmers and designers. The computer itself was a stroke of pure genius. Small, powerful, cheap [...]
I thought I will maybe spend a couple of blog posts over the next months showing off some of the cameras in my collection. Let’s start off with one of the latest additions to my ever growing empire of vintage Kodaks: The Kodak Duo Six-20 Series II. This camera was built some time between 1937 [...]
Sometime in late 1983 the owners of Sinclair Spectrum home computers in Europe were witnesses to the debut of the first true isometric 3D computer game – Ant Attack. The game was simply a revelation! The author, Sandy White, has a page up about the Making Of of Ant Attack, and there you can also [...]