“Groovy Motherfucker”

The story of Sir Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry is being turned into a one-off BBC comedy-drama. To British nerds of a certain age, this is the most exciting news ever.

Officially the best thing in the entire history of the internet today.

Beautiful video of Radiohead’s “Nude” being “performed” on old hardware. (Slightly skeptical because I don’t recall the 48k Spectrum having multi-channel sound, but let’s not piss on the chips of a great clip.) Forward to 1:10 if you want to skip the Spectrum loading sounds.

Compilation of the ZX Spectrum programs sometimes included with British pop singles in the 80s. “OH DEAR!! a bat bit you” I had no idea about the Urusei Yatsura track. Gonna have to give that a shot!

25 years ago today, the ZX Spectrum was unleashed by Sir Clive. And now, let’s pause for a quick Manic Miner session in celebration.

Multiplayer Jet Set Willy! Play as teams collecting objects, or capture the flag mode. It’s like my entire childhood was leading up to this.

“A nostalgic look at what used to happen when you tried typing swear words into text adventures”. Missing are those text adventures that swore *at* you, when you typed in the names of rival games companies, magazines that had given them bad reviews, etc.

Complete video walkthroughs of classic Speccy games (although JSW has clearly been poked to avoid the Attic bug).

Hee! An episode of CSI:Miama had a Big Expensive Computer. The sounds generated by the computer? A ZX Spectrum loading Knight Lore.