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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

Here's a fast processor, off you go. That was it

Here's a fast processor, off you go. That was it

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Here's a fast processor, off you go. That was it.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:58:44
Uploaded
Apr 11, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Gracious Films

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Movie Summary

Sinclair ZX Spectrum. This film goes into all the finer details of how and why the ZX Spectrum was created, what impact the computer had as well as the various versions
So you had to fashion everything from those raw - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
So you had to fashion everything from those raw
Technically, all those limitations allowed people like me - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
Technically, all those limitations allowed people like me
I always knew the computers for, for having fun - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
I always knew the computers for, for having fun
By the time the Sinclair Spectrum arrived, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
By the time the Sinclair Spectrum arrived,
They were for only one thing - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
They were for only one thing
Of course, not only did we have moving stuff on a little - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
Of course, not only did we have moving stuff on a little
This was a toy shop just like Austin Wells must have felt - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
This was a toy shop just like Austin Wells must have felt
And if this was gonna be my Austin Wells moment, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
And if this was gonna be my Austin Wells moment,
I thought, yeah, we can do this now We've got a Sinclair 48 - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
I thought, yeah, we can do this now We've got a...
So I feel I could make movies in 1982. Oh boy. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
So I feel I could make movies in 1982. Oh boy.
Now I'd seen a couple of three D games on the ZX 81, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
Now I'd seen a couple of three D games on the ZX 81,
And I thought you could do this with the kind - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
And I thought you could do this with the kind
And I thought, ah, if I do a game that's like Star Wars, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
And I thought, ah, if I do a game that's like Star...
So three D Space Wars was the concept from the start. - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
So three D Space Wars was the concept from the start.
And to make it feel like a scene in Star Wars - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
And to make it feel like a scene in Star Wars
At that time, no one had done a - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
At that time, no one had done a
I think there were a couple that came out - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:13
I think there were a couple that came out
So that gave me a feeling that, yeah, I, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:05
So that gave me a feeling that, yeah, I,
We had a, what we called a little beeper, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
We had a, what we called a little beeper,
Well all you can do with a spectrum is um, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:16
Well all you can do with a spectrum is um,