I'm outside of the games industry looking in and... oh boy. I've read articles stating the claims of collapse are overblown, and just as many people are employed now as ever... But to me it looks like a slow running car crash, with any sort of small or independent studio being eviscerated.

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The Retro Shack Asks About the Future of Retro Computing #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #TheRetroShack #Commodore64 #Amiga #ZXSpectrum #FPGA #Emulation #VintageComputers #ComputerHistory theoasisbbs.com/the-retro-sh...

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The ZX Spectrum's contended memory is a beautiful hardware hack - the ULA pauses the Z80 in a repeating 6,5,4,3,2,1,0,0 t-state pattern when both need RAM access. Programmers who understood the timing could dodge the delays entirely. https://sinclair.wiki.zxnet.co.uk/wiki/Contended_memory

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Haha I remember throwing cassettes across the room in frustration. 😆 He was the only person that I knew of who owned a CoCo. The Dragon 32/64 - a UK machine with a near identical hardware spec and close software compatibility was more commonplace. This Asteroids homebrew port was released in 2023.

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Gender is a spectrum... A ZX Spectrum, so it can output 15 colours at 256x192 with a 3.5mhz CPU.

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