ZX Spectrum - Biorhythms - I load it so you don't have to.

Join me to look at a typical load once only title from ICL/Sinclair - Biorhythms. Apologies in advance - this is a terrible waste of your time!

[@PartarioAbdullah-Levi]

Biorhythms, that was such an 80s thing. This was also one of the games that came on the BBC Micro "Welcome" cassette.

[@stevesretroloft]

I didn’t know there was a BBC welcome cassette, I might try to find it for when I get round to doing my BBC master video!

[@PartarioAbdullah-Levi]

It was the only bit of software that we had for the one at school. I remember there was a brickbat game on it and a poem generator.

[@nowster]

And before that on the demo cassette that came with the Video Genie (a TRS-80 clone).

[@stevecarter8810]

The "horizons" tape! It contained one playable game and a load of dross

[@stevedocherty6240]

Fans of the 2000AD comic might remember a Zenith story where the pop star / superhero's enemies miscalculated his biorhythms because his manager had told him to use Elvis's date of birth rather than his own for publicity purposes. The whole thing was very 80s haven't heard anyone even mention biorhythms for decades.

[@stevesretroloft]

Hopefully I'm not going to start a come back for it!

[@RichMye-wx1ob]

My dad was never into computers but for some reason he actually typed in a biorythrms program from a magazine he brought in 84 onto my spectrum. 🤔

[@stevesretroloft]

It does seem Biorhythms was a very 80's thing.

[@ukar69]

It was a waste of time then, it's a waste of time now! Didn't expect it to bore me some 40 years later.

[@stevesretroloft]

Sorry about that 😆

[@MadMatt021081]

That old WHSmith tape recorder!

[@stevesretroloft]

Mine was the Currys own brand (Triumph) - that said it was a standard shell for many others to badge.

[@MadMatt021081]

@@stevesretroloft ah! Thank you for the insight!

[@paulj5080]

Good old ZX Spectrum stuff, I've got a 16k (with the 48k upgrade kit) Rubber Beermat that still works; it lives in the cupboard of old stuff along with a ZX81, a BBC B (with a 5.25 floppy drive and an original Elite floppy), a C64, an Atari STFM and an Amiga 500; with the exception of the Atari they all work fine, the Atari needs a few bits to bring it back to life.

[@stevesretroloft]

Nice collection, I’d love to pick up both an Atari ST and Amiga - although the latter are silly prices now.

[@paulj5080]

@@stevesretroloft Got my eyes on an Amstrad CPC that's been gathering dust in my mate's garage for years.

[@PartarioAbdullah-Levi]

@@paulj5080 464 or 6128?

[@ezedjay]

Well my memory is obviously failing me 😂
I would have put money on it that this was on the Horizons tape.
This must have been on the dodgey C90s full of stuff my mum used to bring home from work haha

[@stevesretroloft]

It might have had something similar on it now you mention it

[@MarkGodfrey73]

Yeah thought it was on horizons too. Probably getting mixed up with foxes and rabbits

[@ann_onn]

@@MarkGodfrey73 There was also a program called "waves" on horizons, which combined two sine waves to make a regular interference pattern.

[@MarkGodfrey73]

@@ann_onn think I remember that from my youth but don't remember it on a YT video I watched recently heh

[@yannisgk]

SURELY A NEW AGE OR SCIENTOLOGY "THANG"!!!

[@stevesretroloft]

There's a probably a hidden Thetan level or Audit mode!

[@yannisgk]

@@stevesretroloft mayB, i dunno!!!

[@gdutfulkbhh7537]

Nothing to do with the Scientology UFO cult was ever that cheap!

[@TechnoAssassin-vx6zf]

had something similar on the Acorn Electron……yes that is a real, genuine old computer 🤣 Even had Elite on it…..lmao

[@stevesretroloft]

I do remember them, never got round to trying one. I do have a BBC so the experience is similar.

[@TechnoAssassin-vx6zf]

@@stevesretroloftI thought the BBC's were put in schools as far as i remember as we had them in ours. The electron i think was the home branded version of it. at least thats what I remember being they are almost identical

[@stevesretroloft]

@@TechnoAssassin-vx6zf Yes, Acorn won the contract to put a computer in every school and the BBC ran an accompanying programme on TV at the time. The Electron was simplified device (a lot less chips internally) compared to the original BBC - but a mostly compatible device. Sadly it came in to existence just as the boom for the home micro market was over and led to the demise of Acorn as home computer supplier.

[@TechnoAssassin-vx6zf]

@@stevesretroloft damn, you know your stuff 🙈😂👍🏻 top banana

[@PartarioAbdullah-Levi]

​@@stevesretroloftFortunately they diversified into chip design and are still doing rather well under the name ARM.

[@ann_onn]

There was a printed listing for a biorhythms thing in ZX Computing magazine, April '84.
It was better than this - more graphical.

[@stevesretroloft]

Who knew Biorhythms would be so popular!