I absolutely love this. Love how everything is explained clearly. People say he's taking slowly but I much prefer that to people babbling on at a million miles an hour and wrongly expecting that you know what they're talking about.
I never saw this tape before, and I was heavily into Spectrum programming at the time. I bet it was expensive! Nice Sony KX20 professional monitor he's using there, I used to repair those, haha
Love his delivery! The clarity and pacing are superb. Only criticism is that he pronounces "wh" like an American (e.g. as in "white") by including the "h" sound 😂. On the other hand, maybe us Brits did that forty years ago, i can't remember!
Remember this well the zx spectrum and basic was fantastic it was where home computer's started writing basic could be tricky but it was fun and exciting you wrote a program for yourself or someone else to follow instructions and then they ran said program, was just had something after that I can remember the different types of things you could have do like drawing or sounds and notes and with a taperoder you had a where to save your efforts of programming and it would have to be a few years until they brought out another where to do that with I if remember right a basic memory card that reminds of the negative game cartridge? And there was an light pen for later. Truly Fantastic the ZX spectrum classic mechanism of technology just a bit of history into the future
10 PRINT "I like this programme as it is very good." 20 PRINT "+ This is the only good video on how to use the ZX Spectrum 48K that I could find on the internet!"
Well, you know, they had to do something like that to make the commands fit on the keyboard, I suppose they chose the one command per key combination entry method since it not only reduced syntax errors but also made tokenizing easier, since each key combination could be directly made to its token, instead of parsing a line of plain text then translating it into the tokenized version like most BASIC variants did.
"Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy..." Oh sorry, wrong movie.
jesus they blatently let coders design how it works, ironically it seems as if sinclair was trying to simplify coding with a one button solution for each command but the flipping modes stuff is so un userfriendly it can only be made by programmers, why didnt they have the mode keys on the left, as oppose to having to ballet dance with your fingers to get to the commands
As a way building a Teaching machine it had one advantage, every command in its BASIC was there in front of me. I wanted to learn what every command did. It was never a case programming for 5 hours only to find out much later there was a built in BASIC command I didn't know about. The keyboard was it's own manual.
As of today Spectrum is not a computer in any practical sense. It's only aprogramable toy. Not reccomended for childern as they won't learn a thing. But if You must for some reason let's use an emulator. At least it will certainly resolve biggest problem of Spectrum used for applications other than games. Its mediocre speed especially in float point calculations.
The original rubber keyed 16 and 48k Spectrum is quite adaptable to meet the demands of today - particularly of course when using a program written in machine code. Yes it may require inventive thinking to circumvent many of the "limitations" that appear restrictive to the system, but it can be a VERY capable machine, with lots of advantages that one mightn't automatically consider compared even with a modern PC. Quieter keyboard depression combined with the relevant POKE to turn off keyboard "clicks", the ability to speed up repetitions of keyboard presses under tailored circumstances the user themselves can program in, ROMs that can load instantaneously AND even store updated memory data, the use of a (not typical) modem (such as the VTX5000) to go online and load pages instantaneously - they can effectively be adapted (without being at all modified) to compete with a modern day PC if the right methods are used.
I love the dramatic way in which he delivers each line, as if not listening carefully might have serious consequences.
@Gerry S.S It's been so long since I left that comment that I'm about to re-watch the video because I can't remember anything about it.
@@DavidHughesss You should! This thing is pure gold.
Bought my Spectrum 16K in 1982 as a 17 year old kid..... Spent days, weeks and months writing programs....
I absolutely love this.
Love how everything is explained clearly.
People say he's taking slowly but I much prefer that to people babbling on at a million miles an hour and wrongly expecting that you know what they're talking about.
Also the fact that this was in VHS, you would want to keep rewinding is you missed something.
I never saw this tape before, and I was heavily into Spectrum programming at the time. I bet it was expensive! Nice Sony KX20 professional monitor he's using there, I used to repair those, haha
Great video, helped me to figure out many interface details. Also language is amazingly clear, slow and easy to understand by foreigners~
I learned to program music from the the manual that came with my 128k. I had the 48k too before. Loved the spectrum!!
oh god bless these videos. i managed to make the first program!
Thanks! Is there a PART TWO then please?
wow takes me back to me being 11 and my parents buying me one
love the speccy 48k
Love his delivery! The clarity and pacing are superb.
Only criticism is that he pronounces "wh" like an American (e.g. as in "white") by including the "h" sound 😂. On the other hand, maybe us Brits did that forty years ago, i can't remember!
Good, precise instruction 🤩
The British computing scene need another Sinclair
Remember the BASIC days?
The Apple II reads the keyboard at peek 49152 but Where is that on the spectrum?
Remember this well the zx spectrum and basic was fantastic it was where home computer's started writing basic could be tricky but it was fun and exciting you wrote a program for yourself or someone else to follow instructions and then they ran said program, was just had something after that I can remember the different types of things you could have do like drawing or sounds and notes and with a taperoder you had a where to save your efforts of programming and it would have to be a few years until they brought out another where to do that with I if remember right a basic memory card that reminds of the negative game cartridge? And there was an light pen for later. Truly Fantastic the ZX spectrum classic mechanism of technology just a bit of history into the future
this video is best lullaby for a daytime nap
Agree😎
Love how British used to take the time to explain things. Love how he's like an instruction hasn't been obeyed, very dalek like.
Even tutorial were better back in the days...
10 PRINT "I like this programme as it is very good."
20 PRINT "+ This is the only good video on how to use the ZX Spectrum 48K that I could find on the internet!"
this is GOLD
surprisingly did not take too long
as a child i loved to use various RANDOMIZE USR commands
RANDOMIZE USR 1234
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My childhood 👌😎
is this in 48k or 128 mode?
48K, for God's sake!
_Oh for God's sake_
@@alinaqirizvi587 sorry for asking
Very slow video... but educational. Sadly I tried putting a recorded .wav of the program into a Speccy emulator and it didn't work.
Well, you know, they had to do something like that to make the commands fit on the keyboard, I suppose they chose the one command per key combination entry method since it not only reduced syntax errors but also made tokenizing easier, since each key combination could be directly made to its token, instead of parsing a line of plain text then translating it into the tokenized version like most BASIC variants did.
I never managed to get synth tones like Tim Blake out of my 16K'er.
What the hell,is he Kane from Command and Conquer?
Tears in my eyes.... Not from laughing (well a little), but because I was amazed by this shit 30 years ago ;0) ...Horizons :)
Thank goodness he has a beard or I’d never be able to take him seriously as a computer programmer.
not only introduction to brogramming, but spoken language
programming
@@alinaqirizvi587 🅱rogramming
God this guy sounds sooooo serious.
Gareth Parry
He. Also. Speaks. Very...... Slowly.
"Then, shalt thou count to three. No more. No less.
Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three.
Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three.
Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy..." Oh sorry, wrong movie.
Да, были времена. Интересно вам жилось! Но в Россию spectrum пришёл совершенно в другой обстановке.
what on earth are you saying?
@@alinaqirizvi587 he said "Yes, there were times. I wonder if you lived! But he came to Russia in a completely different environment."
can you improve the video quality? it looks like barf
you know this is a tape recording you idiot
@@alinaqirizvi587 i apologize.
Interesting watching an argument take place gradually over the course of 3 years 😂😂😂 Thanks for giving me a laugh guys.
@@user-vg5rv5xf4u you are welcome for this argument and i am happy to have made you laugh
Bob Ross but programming.
😁
jesus they blatently let coders design how it works, ironically it seems as if sinclair was trying to simplify coding with a one button solution for each command but the flipping modes stuff is so un userfriendly it can only be made by programmers, why didnt they have the mode keys on the left, as oppose to having to ballet dance with your fingers to get to the commands
because it was HIS design, not yours. besides dyslexia is problematic
one command to save space was a bid to save RAM space
As a way building a Teaching machine it had one advantage, every command in its BASIC was there in front of me. I wanted to learn what every command did. It was never a case programming for 5 hours only to find out much later there was a built in BASIC command I didn't know about. The keyboard was it's own manual.
As of today Spectrum is not a computer in any practical sense. It's only aprogramable toy. Not reccomended for childern as they won't learn a thing.
But if You must for some reason let's use an emulator. At least it will certainly resolve biggest problem of Spectrum used for applications other than games. Its mediocre speed especially in float point calculations.
The original rubber keyed 16 and 48k Spectrum is quite adaptable to meet the demands of today - particularly of course when using a program written in machine code.
Yes it may require inventive thinking to circumvent many of the "limitations" that appear restrictive to the system, but it can be a VERY capable machine, with lots of advantages that one mightn't automatically consider compared even with a modern PC.
Quieter keyboard depression combined with the relevant POKE to turn off keyboard "clicks", the ability to speed up repetitions of keyboard presses under tailored circumstances the user themselves can program in, ROMs that can load instantaneously AND even store updated memory data, the use of a (not typical) modem (such as the VTX5000) to go online and load pages instantaneously - they can effectively be adapted (without being at all modified) to compete with a modern day PC if the right methods are used.
This is the newbosten, but the 80's.
jesus saves. jesus loads ""
I think you may have failed to understand the joke. Rofl.