The first flightsim I played was Night Gunner on my neighbour's ZX81!
We got our first 48k Spectrum in approx 1983, and played Jetpac. We never owned an interface 1, we killed off a number of "Kempston Compatible" joysticks, and we loved our Sinclair Microdrive, because it loaded Elite in a matter of seconds. We cheated with our multiface and we laughed at our VoxBox.
When the "B" key died (through playing Ghostbusters too much) we bought the Spectrum+ upgrade kit, but we kept our beloved rubber keyboard for sentimental value ;D
We eventually bought a QL, played on an early flightsim, and got a modem. We spent many happy hours on Bulletin Boards like "The Gnome at Home" and "Westworld", until the phonebill arrived :-[
We finally moved onto an Atari ST......but there was nothing quite like the Speccy :)
Hi Steve...!
....love the news...!
Still got all my Speccy hardware/software, Microdrives, Multiface One, various interfaces, Kempston interfaces, Plus D floppy drive, Suncom Joystick, Speccy Magazines, and just about all the Spectrum programming books ever printed...
...a bedroom full of "Speccy Stuff".... ;D...!
Then bought the lovely Commodore Amiga 500 Plus. followed by the Amiga 1200 with added processor/memory upgrade plug-in hardware...!
..still got it all...!
...JOY... ;D...!
The good-old days of Computer Gaming...!!!
Paul...I love 8 bits...and 16 bits...

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