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    David Webb the investor activist made his start as a games programmer for the ZX Spectrum

    https://archive.org/download/World_o...urSpectrum.jpg

    https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entr...zNAxCjcnBszROl

    https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entr...ectrum/Starion

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    Had a few mates from school who had Commodore 64's and remember that we used to like playing the Spy vs Spy game in colour on them. My mates both had 5 1/4 inch floppy drives too, which was a big deal compared to the considerably slower loading compact cassette tape drive, although they were inexpensive and easy to copy via any tape to tape boombox of the day.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Skyhook:
    Had a few mates from school who had Commodore 64's and remember that we used to like playing the Spy vs Spy game in colour on them. My mates both had 5 1/4 inch floppy drives too, which was a big deal compared to the considerably slower loading compact cassette tape drive, although they were inexpensive and easy to copy via any tape to tape boombox of the day.
    ha ha you’ve just remnjnded me of The Hobbit on tape load. It would take about 7-8 minutes to load up and would sometimes abort mid load. I never got very far with that game
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    Quote Originally Posted by ByeByeEngland:
    ha ha you’ve just remnjnded me of The Hobbit on tape load. It would take about 7-8 minutes to load up and would sometimes abort mid load. I never got very far with that game
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