Saturday, 20 February 2010

My Gaming History : What do we do with our past?

Back in about 1993, when I had my Amiga, I used it convert ZX Spectrum games into snapshot files(SNA).



This was not a simple task, it required a ZX Spectrum emulator, an old fashioned portable tape recorder, the audio leads and a few 800 kilobtye floppy disks.


1942, 1986

But, here is the question, what do we do with this kind of data? It is actually history at this point!


Feud, 1987

The website "World of Spectrum" maintains an archive, but contrary to popular believe, you technical have to own some of the games to download the files.


Virus, 1988

But, who is interested in ZX Spectrum games now? After my 8 bit generation is gone, who will care? Do I delete my files, or keep for nostalgia?

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