Mark Szeliga Szolkowski's Blog: April 2007

Friday, April 27, 2007

Preservation Team Shop

I found this link after reading the page 4 of the new issue of ZXF

They sell loads of old Spectrum tapes at about a pound each!

Labels: Sinclair, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Spectrum games

# posted by Mark @ 4/27/2007 09:26:00 pm 0 comments

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

A-bike on Radio 2

Heard Chris Evans talking about it tonight on the way home.

See here for more details.

# posted by Mark @ 4/25/2007 10:37:00 pm 0 comments

Monday, April 23, 2007

BBC article for the ZX Spectrum's birthday

The BBC web site has an article entitled How the Spectrum began a revolution

Labels: 25th anniversary, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Sir Clive Sinclair

# posted by Mark @ 4/23/2007 11:09:00 am 0 comments

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Sinclair C5 admirer

I popped into Sale on "Chitty" (as Lucy calls it) to pick up a couple of kebabs for supper.

At the traffic lights near the swimming baths, two blokes wound down the window and asked me how much they cost. When I pedalled away from the lights, they said, "I thought it was electric?" Shows how much they know about 22 year-old plastic gearboxes.

While I was waiting for the kebabs, a gang of pleasant-looking youths started walking past followed by a 36 year-old man who wanted to shake my hand and tell me all about his friend who was famous for writing music for games for the Commodore 64 (hawk-spit). Apparently, a few weeks ago one of his friends said to him, "You'll never guess what I saw in Worthington Park this week - a Sinclair C5!"

I wonder whose that could have been...

Labels: Sinclair C5

# posted by Mark @ 4/21/2007 10:29:00 pm 0 comments

Monday, April 16, 2007

ZX Spectrum: 25th Anniversary

Monday 23rd April 2007 will be the 25th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum's release. There's a thread on World Of Spectrum.

Also, there's going to be a new edition of ZXF! Excellent.

Labels: Sinclair, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, World of Spectrum, WoS, ZXF

# posted by Mark @ 4/16/2007 02:50:00 pm

Saturday, April 14, 2007

A-bike Central Blog

Garry Wright from A-Bike Central recently invited me to contribute to the blog, and I made my first post there tonight about my ride today accompanying Ruth & Lucy on Ruth's bike.

Labels: A-bike central, Sinclair A-bike

# posted by Mark @ 4/14/2007 09:07:00 pm 0 comments

Monday, April 09, 2007

Holiday snaps and a "new" athletics video

Here are some pics from Mallorca last week.

I also found "new" video on YouTube

Labels: Mallorca, Seb Coe, Steve Cram, Steve Ovett

# posted by Mark @ 4/09/2007 08:35:00 pm 2 comments

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