Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 - Review & Overview
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- čas přidán 24. 04. 2021
- This is a review and overview of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 computer, the very first Amstrad designed model and the first to feature a built in tape deck.
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The ZX Spectrum 128k + 2 was my very first home computer games system, i got it for Christmas 1985...good times 😃
48K Speccy was my first computer (although I had an Atari 2600 previously, but that was a games console) and I loved it so much, typed in program listings from magazines, learned how to program in BASIC, played a ton of games with my friends, we had so much fun with it.
By sparking a lifelong interest in learning about computer technology, I think it achieved what Sinclair was attempting to accomplish. Thank you Sir Clive, RIP.
This was my Spectrum, a big upgrade from the rubber key and served me well until I got an ST.
I had a gray plus 2, but it came with Donkey Kong, Mario Bros and that Ian Botham game. Happy memories!
My dad bought me the +2 grey one with the 10 games from Dixons for Christmas when it was released. I know all those games! My original +2 broke but bought a friends +2A so many great memories of this computer!
Top tip, if you happen to acquire a re recorded game from your friend (tape to tape recording) they didn't always load up. Just above the rewind button on the datacorder is a small hole. Using a very small positive screwdriver you can adjust the tape reader head. Just don't turn too much or you'll wreck it. This video brought back so many memories, cheers. 👍👍👍
Yep, I always kept a glasses screwdriver handy!
I owned the Grey +2. I broke the rewind key & had to order a new one as replacement. Also owned several of the 48k versions... I bought a second hand Fuller keyboard which was a replacement keyboard for the spectrum rubber keys version & had to solder the ribbons.... I remember using my mothers nail polish to prevent them from shorting which actually worked..
Nicely done. Absolutely nailed it.
My mother got me the black one with the gun and joystick friends were a bit jealous oh and i had operation wolf with it 😊
Nice video shot, keep it up, thanks for sharing it with us :)
I had one of these many years ago. I programmed my first ever game on the +2. Game was called "Ejectaman" and you had a man constantly running at the bottom of the screen, you had to press a key to "eject" him upwards and get him through a gap in the brick roof atop the screen. It was an awful game but I was happy that it worked.
Interesting video, showing a Spectrum I didn’t know about. Rosie is a very cute cat.
She's a gorgeous little thing, still looks like a kitten.
I knew the guy who wrote frogger for amstrad .. Showed me the cpc before it was released ... I would mod one of these cases with a screen in the tape hole and cherrypik keyboard and a rasberry pi 5 . . . . . I wrote copycat by bitbyte software . .. Thanks for this vid
My first computer after my atari 2600 . Loved it .
Horace goes skiing , match of the day , Daley Thompsons decathlon .
Happy days ❤
I forget which games my +2 came with except for one. H.A.R.D - Heavily Armed Roboid Destroyer. Awesome acronym!
Bought one a few days ago. Waiting for the cables now!!!
Congrats! I'm sure you'll have a lot of fun!
Thanks for the explanation. Missed any comparison of the video output on CRT's. Is there a difference in the RGB out of the 2+ and the BBQ-grill version? This 2+ looks like a reincarnation of my CPC 464. I think the most beautiful is the 48+, without BBQ facilities.
Omg ... Now I'm nostalgic
Still have mine
We had a +2.
It was a black one.
I remember Witchfiend most of all
You had a +2a then, same as me.
I have many Sinclair computers mostly spectrum
This was available in the UK. They did a James bond pack in with the gun too.
This is a UK pack I'm reviewing in the video and I am English, so not really sure what you're getting at that there!
I did actually mention the James Bond pack in the video, that was one of the last Spectrum packs they did and came with a black +2a/+2b - not the original grey +2.
@@TheLairdsLair sorry, I thought byou was Australian, I think I got a little bit confused and thought you was in Australia and this was their release of the system.
You are absolutely 100% accurate on the colour of the bond pack.
I remember hearing that not all the +2s have the same board inside but I could be incorrect.
I wasn't "getting at anything" I was just interacting with your channel, for the algorithm but if it's not something you want I will refrain in future.
You don't need to take offense, I was just confused at your comment. I am even more confused at you thinking I'm Australian though given I have a home counties traditional English accent!
Anyway, thanks for stopping by and commenting!
I had the James Bond pack for Christmas, must have been about 1990
G'day sport!
Never owned a Speccy. I had to make do with a Commodore 16 and later an Atari 65XE. Used to spend all my pocket money buying Mastertronic budget games at the local market either on a Tuesday or a Friday from a games market stall. Later still bought myself an Sega Mega Drive for my 18th birthday and when I was around 20 an Amiga 600 Lemmings pack from Silica Shop just about at the time Commodore went bust(great timing huh?), Came with a pack of 4 free games including Chaos Engine, Syndicate, Nick Faldo's Golf and I forget the name of the fourth one, I think it was a pinball game.
You forgot the free game which came with the Spectrum 48k +. Turn the computer upside down and shake! A great way to learn the QWERTY keyboard layout...
27:05 you obviously never owned a TI99/4A and felt the joy of the pain sticks 😁
Reckon the ZX Spectrum 2+ is the best way to go. You can load games from cassette and save them to an SD card reader!
This model i rebulid It through second hand machines i bought
Thanks for the video just picked up one of these, that version of oh mummy looks a bit tit compared to the Amstrad version 😄 was an amstrad owner in youth noticed that alien destroyer has the same art as galactic plague, same game?
Amstrad Oh Mummy is far superior, but both are great. Alien Destroyer just uses the same artwork, Amstrad being lazy.
Found one for free,but did not try it. Somebody has an idea for creating Music with it?
if you find a mk 1 chunke keyed amstrad 464 let me know from 1984...for sale
I wish someone would make a cryptocurrency wallet on the spectrum so I could store my Ethereum and 0xMonero. No one would think that a privatekey or passwords would be held on one of these old things.
It would give it a new use and life in the 21st century.