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| Who worked on this HTML release? | |
| This HTML version you are reading now was produced by Craig Daines. It was produced in hyper text markup as a fitting tribute to the above people who all worked at Your Sinclair, and as a tribute to Dennis Publishing. You guys introduced me to the Sinclair Spectrum and programming... Who remembers Program Pitstop? Those were the days... | |
| Thanks! | |
Thank you's go to the following people whose Amiga software I
used in the production of the HTML version of 'Smash Tips':
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Special thanks to the guys that maintain the World of Spectrum web pages and everyone who contributes to it. I also would like to thank Craig Rothwell, Debs, and Jacquelyn at GBAX for their hard work in updating the World of Spectrum CD-ROM each year. Sadly due to other commitments, Mr Rothwell shall not be releasing any further updates of the 'World of Spectrum' CD-ROM, although I wish him well.
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All HTML code was tested in the following Amiga web
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| Why computing is no fun anymore | |
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In the 80's, you had the following computer manufacters: Tandy, The Oric, Texas Instruments, Atari, Commodore, Sinclair, BBC, Amstrad and IBM to name but a few (I do not list the companies who just manufactered consoles). Each of these machines had their own clan who supported their own favourite computer. What happened to freedom of choice? Today if you buy a new computer, you have just two choices in manufacter and two choices in operating system: IBM and Microsoft, or Apple and MacOS. Even Apple struggle to compete with the evil Microsoft. The days of writing your own game in your bedroom in six weeks which Matthew Smith once did with Manic Miner in 1983 and earning thousands are long gone. Computing is dead because their is no passion in it anymore! In the days of the ZX Spectrum, programmers were resticted to compacting their code, graphics and music into a meagre 48 kilobytes of memory, which took some thought and planning. Anyone who remembers this will recall these games were a marvel of compactness and playability like nothing you will see today! Today, programmers no longer have to think anymore because as processors become even more faster in the 21st century, coders become increasingly more wasteful. The cause of this is because now you have overclocked multi-gigahertz processors. Instead, everybody now writes major bloatware and waste system resources right up to the hilt. Hey, If you really want to know what wastefulness really is look at Windows XP ! Your latest Windoze bug fest comes pre-installed on your new Gates Crate courtesy of PC World. [cue music from PC World advert]. Bill named it Windows, because after a major system f*ck up you inevitably want to throw it out of the window! |
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Smash Tips was a partwork originally
collected in monthly parts and came free with Your Sinclair
magazine. The original booklet was produced by the following people
in the year 1988 when the ZX Spectrum ruled:
Sinclair were not only the first pioneers to produce
the first home computers, but also were the first to introduce the
fun aspect to home computing with their arrival of their ZX80
computer. The ZX80 was soon followed by the arrival of the Sinclair
ZX81. Sinclair were also the first to invent multitasking with Sir
Clive's arrival of the Sinclair QL, since on this machine you could
run your program in one window, and the programs BASIC listing
could displayed in the other window.