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The Rubber-Keyed Wonder

I thought, yeah, we can do this now We've got a Sinclair 48 K ZX spectrum, let's go make...

I thought, yeah, we can do this now We've got a Sinclair 48 K ZX spectrum, let's go make Citizen came

Full Transcript

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I thought, yeah, we can do this now We've got a Sinclair 48
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K ZX spectrum, let's go make Citizen came.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:59:35
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 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,
You could maybe do a tiny little bit of a beep - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:07
You could maybe do a tiny little bit of a beep
So it draws a frame of graphics, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
So it draws a frame of graphics,
I'm often asked whether I can make music as well - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:06
I'm often asked whether I can make music as well
Someone else supplied the music for Saboto - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:10
Someone else supplied the music for Saboto
When you kick someone, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:11
When you kick someone,
Now bear in mind that sound continues continuously, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:12
Now bear in mind that sound continues continuously,
So on the spectrum, any music I played, I had - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:08
So on the spectrum, any music I played, I had
So at each intra, which occur 50 times a second, - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:12
So at each intra, which occur 50 times a second,
So there's this distinct 50 hertz hum - The Rubber-Keyed Wonder 00:09
So there's this distinct 50 hertz hum