The “Your Sinclair” Rock n Roll Years 1985 now available
Posted on December 15, 2005, by Conor O'Neill, under Personal.
Unless the name Matthew Smith means something to you and you get a wee tingle when the words “Manic Miner” are uttered, then you are probably not interested in the rest of this post.
But, YSNRY 1985 is finally with us just in time for christmas. This is the latest in a very very special (to Speccy fanatics like myself) series of animated “movies” about the hey-day years of ‘Your Sinclair/Your Spectrum’ magazine, an esteemed journal which published two games by yours truly back in 1985/1986!
It really is worth checking out all of the episodes if you ever had a Speccy or even a (spit) Commodore 64, Vic-20, Jupiter Ace, Oric-1, BBC Micro, Electron, ZX81, ZX80 or Enterprise/Elan/Flan. Do the author a favour tho and use bittorrent to download.
Some kind soul with an enormous amount of spare time has scanned in all the issues of Your Sinclair and Your Spectrum. Conor’s works of genius (being “The Grid” and “The Cherry Run”) in pure Z80 assembler can be viewed in all their JPEG glory below.
The Grid: Your Spectrum, Final Issue, December 1985
The Cherry Run: Your Sinclair, Issue 4, April 1986
If you are nostalgic for games that had graphics designed by a blind person, then you can actually play these games on your PC. Grab either ZXSpin or EmuZWin. Then download one of The Grid, Cent The Pete or Cherry Run and check out what a sad puberty I really had.
[tags] ZX, ZX Spectrum, ysrnry, Your Sinclair, Your Spectrum, ZXSpin, EmuZWin, emulation, 8-bit, nostalgia[/tags]
4 Replies to "The “Your Sinclair” Rock n Roll Years 1985 now available"
conor on December 16, 2005
What’s sadder is that I still have the Spectrum in my attic. Unfortunately it is in a replacement case with a proper keyboard so it is probably worth nothing to anyone except me.
After I wrote that posting, it dawned on me that December 1985 was 20 years ago. Now I’m depressed.
I’ve told Oscar, my eldest, that I am going to get a flash card and Spectrum emulator for his Nintendo DS so he can play all the same games I did when I was a kid.
I think he is more interested in the imminent arrival of Mario Cart DS from Santy.
It turns out that this game enables the Wi-Fi feature on the DS and he’ll be able to play against other people on the web. That’s flippin incredible! Despite my best efforts to explain this to him, he admitted that he had no idea what I was talking about.
Modern 6-year olds, eh? When I was 6 I was, emmm, well actually I was fishing for frogs in our septic tank…………
Donncha O Caoimh on April 24, 2007
When I were 6 we had a Pong-type sports console at home. Great fun, especially as it had 2 joysticks! Them were the days! Ah yes.
conor on April 24, 2007
I think we had the same thing. We went up to Dublin to do the Christmas shopping and we were in somewhere like Switzers or Arnotts or Clerys and they were demoing this tennis game.
I’d never seen anything like it. We all jumped up and down until the parents gave in, whilst protesting that £16 was a ridiculous amount of money to spend on a Christmas present. Ah those were the days.
Wonder what £16 is equivalent to now. Less than a bloody Wii I’m guessing.
Walter on December 16, 2005
You were a speccy acolyte ? - You kept that quiet.
> check out what a sad puberty I really had.
I envied people who got their games published in Your spectrum. My sad puberty beats yours by a mile.
Walter