I’ve been reading up on the #Sinclair #QL recently. I think the problem with Sinclair was, after the success of the #ZXSpectrum the company didn’t know what it wanted. #CliveSinclair seemed averse to the entertainment side of computing and so the QL was billed as serious, businessy. But in doing so it also became boring. Compare that to the #Amiga or even #Macintosh, which could do business, but were also fun. The QL wasn’t enough of an all round Quantum Leap.

The #cambridgez88 with #bbcbasic it was #clivesinclair s last computer. Lovely and bonkers as you'd expect 😜

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On Sinclair:

Timex-Sinclair 1000 was my first machine.

I don't know much about the man, because you don't learn about people from other countries when you go to high school in rural Indiana.

Since the Speccy was never sold in the US, that's basically where Sinclair ended for me.

However, what they did with the design in Russia blows the doors off of the original machines.

Because it was hardware hacking to make something more. And that's the legacy that I really like.

This is Tiratok, which freaking rules, and yes, this is running in @gasman 's speccy emulator, which runs in javascript and is basically complete (it doesn't load a particular type of image, but it DOES do the Russian speccy clones, and it's just spectacular.) (click the "run" thing, it will NOT go to youtube, it runs the program in yoru browser, as if it were a proper machine.) Source available, btw. But I would not start speccy programming with THAT source (:

https://demozoo.org/productions/269479/

#demoscene #clivesinclair