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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Sept 16, 2021 13:32:24 GMT -5
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Sept 16, 2021 15:19:14 GMT -5
Clive was a complicated chap, but without him modern computing would look a hell of a lot different. It's easy to dismiss him as the cheap british computer guy who peaked in 1983, but the ripple effect of his decisions really did have repercussions that affect us all to this day. ARM chips wouldn't exist without Clive recruiting then alienating the founder of Acorn/ARM so mobile computing would look a lot different, and a whole lot of UK game developers got their start tinkering on computers he either produced or inspired.
Rest in Peace, Clive, you were a character and you changed the world, even if it wasn't always how you intended.
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Post by Hurbster on Sept 16, 2021 15:20:00 GMT -5
A large part of my childhood right there, when Dad got the kit version of the ZX81, RIP.
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Post by Gecko on Sept 16, 2021 18:42:20 GMT -5
RIP
My first proper gaming was done on a Spectrum. Many hours spent playing on it, many hours spent waiting for stuff to load off the tape on it.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Sept 16, 2021 19:09:25 GMT -5
Our first computer was a ZX81..
I remember when I was 5 playing the first video game to give me nightmares.. my first horror game experience if you will…. 3D Monster Maze
RIP
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Post by crashmatsbazz on Sept 17, 2021 4:37:27 GMT -5
we had the ZX Spectrum, i remember sitting waiting for what felt like hours waiting to play Chucky Egg and Daley Thompsons Decathlon.
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Post by Hit Girl on Sept 17, 2021 10:30:50 GMT -5
Someone who lived near my house when I was a kid had a little Sinclair car.
RIP Sir Clive
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Sept 17, 2021 11:14:34 GMT -5
i got the old 48k speccy in 85 with two games ... well with computer scrabble, make-a-chip and survival plus some others including horace goes skiing ... the REAL bought games first were ...
kokotoni wilf and daley "whistlin'" thompson decathlon!
and i still have the vast majority of my games too and all complete INCLUDING the code masters cd pack!
imagine he didn't want to make a business machine ... we'd be stuck with ... ugh ... BROWN!!! and the games industry would be HALF it's size, that's how important the guy was ... no bedroom coders, no smash hit home computer for cheap prices ...
rip sir
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Sept 17, 2021 12:18:32 GMT -5
I still think the C5 could have been a hit had they chosen a raised seat and handles, but that was Sir Clive in a nutshell, really. His ideas always had a kernel of brilliance at the core but the execution would almost always be a little off or hindered by the technology available at the time. The C5 and his later Zeta bike motor are the kind of things that are becoming super popular these days with E-scooters and the like, now battery tech is good enough to make it all work, the flat TV with a squashed tube reflected by a mirror he spent the early 80s working on was a technology used by major pocket TV and various videophone/intercom makers until the 2000s, the QL had networking and all kinds of bells and whistles that made it fantastic for business use, but it was let down by the microdrive, weak graphics and people not buying it for home use as it wasn't good for gaming, it never built up a software base. That in itself is another Clive decision that went on to have a massive, unforseen impact, the QL being business focussed and lacking software lead to Linus Torvalds learning to program his own for it, skills he'd later use to create Linux, which again, modern portable computing is built on.
The world would be a vastly different place had Sir Clive not been a part of it.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Sept 17, 2021 16:08:09 GMT -5
RIP. For all his eccentricities he gave us the Sinclair spectrum and I’m forever grateful for that. I had a Spectrum +2A. Which was a +3 computer with a tape deck instead of a disc. The +2 was pretty reliable but for some reason they decided to use the +3 for the system after that for the 2A, which was buggy as shit and had a problem playing some of the older 48k games. This was after the sale to Amstrad and it seemed to me that a bit of quality control was lost in the sale. I was too young to understand any of the computer side of it but damn we were spoilt for good games on there in the early 90s.
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Post by Ryushinku on Sept 17, 2021 18:05:06 GMT -5
My first computer was a Speccy 128k. With The Never-ending Story and Daley Thompson's Supertest!
I still have it, and all the cassettes for legit almost 500 games I had for it.
He certainly allowed me to take my first step in the video gaming world, and what would lead to me having a career in IT, and posting on this board right now. Ripple effect indeed. RIP Sir Clive.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Sept 17, 2021 19:18:33 GMT -5
My first computer was a Speccy 128k. With The Never-ending Story and Daley Thompson's Supertest! I still have it, and all the cassettes for legit almost 500 games I had for it. He certainly allowed me to take my first step in the video gaming world, and what would lead to me having a career in IT, and posting on this board right now. Ripple effect indeed. RIP Sir Clive. never ending story was one of the first games i bought ... couldn't play it for mud ... and it was the double cassette case version!
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