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The opportunity was taken to improve the museum and it was during a sort-out of the software archive that Dymond's games were found.

Like other museums around the country, the institution was forced to close its doors when the lockdown hit. Gameplay dei 5 giochi presenti sul numero 1 di Special Program uscito nel Maggio 1984 in versione ZX Spectrum.

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The games, documented by Mortimer in his YouTube channel and available for download on a suitable emulator, give an insight into the era, almost 40 years ago, when it was possible to create a niche for oneself at the start of the computing wave.Īs for Mortimer, he is a volunteer at the Museum of Computing in Swindon. Retro Microlympics concludes with possible reopening dates for UK computer museums.Staying in the UK this summer? Good news: Temples of IT nerdery are reopening.El Reg visits two shrines to computing history as the UK lifts coronavirus lockdown.UK's National Museum of Computing asks tunesmiths to recreate bleeps, bloops, and parps of retro game music.Dymond himself went back to college, collecting IT qualifications and working in support for IT issues at Dumfriesshire schools before his death in 1999. But fire up they did, on a ZX81 emulator, resembling their ZX Spectrum counterparts except without the flashy bitmapped graphics and colour.ĭymond's story as a ZX Spectrum developer appears to end with a final advert in the 1983 edition of Sinclair User as larger games companies edged smaller developers out of the market.

Readers will be unsurprised to learn that the nearly four decades since the cassette graced the shelves of the British retailer had not been kind, and some restoration (including the replacement of the cassette shell and spools) was needed before the games could be fired up. Items are new / unused unless stated.The latter is altogether more intriguing and was recovered by Mortimer from the original WHSmith C15 audio cassette (and thought to be the only copy still in existence). I have sourced as many replacement parts as I can fine and listed them here. The quintessentially British home computer is now 30+ years old and most will have been through some rough treatment (and then left in the loft for decades!). Midnight Resistance - Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Archive Gameplay. The introduction of colour provided a viable platform for games, most of which were originally written by the growing army of hobbyists, which led to an explosion in the machines popularity.
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