the ZX Spectrum years

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Thundercats!

Box art picture from www.gamesdbase.com

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WWF Wrestlemania

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R-Type Walkthrough, ZX Spectrum

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The single greatest arcade conversion ever on the humble Spectrum: 

R-Type.

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Some Spectrum clone systems. From the top:

Didaktik Gama ( Czechoslovakia) 

Timex C2048 (Portugal)

Timex/Sinclair C2068 (USA)

Microdigital TK90 (Brazil)

The Hobbit (USSR)

Hobbit picture (c) www.homecomputer.de

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Final Fight Walkthrough, ZX Spectrum:

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Ocean Softwares excellent Robocop game. Yes, its got monochrome graphics, but it plays like a dream.

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The last Speccy game I bought brand new: Turrican 2

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A couple of games that pushed the Spectrum to its limits. Street Fighter 2 Final Fight

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Friday the 13th the game.

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Just some loading screens.

SOme clever use of colour going on to avoid 'attribute clash' (the screen display was broken up into 8x8 pixel block, each of which could display 2 colours only. any more resulted in a 'clash' where one of the colours would override the others).

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The completely awful official ZX Spectrum joystick.

Despite using a standard 9-pin socket for attaching joysticks, the Spectrum re-wired the port to accept only its own standard. Tou use a 'normal' joystick you needed to purchase the 'Kempston Interface' 3rd party add on. This allowed any standard 9-pin stick (such as an atari 2600 stick) to be used.

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Spectrum 128k models (from the top):

128k+

128k +2

128k +3

128k +2a (which was a +3 with the proprietary Amstrad 3" FDD removed and replaced with a standard cassette drive)

+2a photo (c) www.homecomputer.de

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ZX Spectrum 16k/48k models. 

The top one is the 'classic' rubber keys model.