• 1ns1p1d@lemm.eeEnglish
      15·
      13 days ago

      Yup! I remember it so well. I even remember seeing this ad in a magazine and begging my dad to order it… I was 10 years old, and built it with him.

      I also remember going to a home computer sale event in my hometown. No shops were selling computer stuff in that town yet. Men with beards and long hair laughing that I was buying 1k Chess to play on my new computer.

      The location for that sale was turned into public toilets.

          • Owl@mander.xyz
            2·
            12 days ago

            Why were they laughing ? This is a perfectly reasonable chess implementation

            • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
              3·
              4 days ago

              Typical snobbery.

              The Sinclair was rather ridiculed at the time as “not a real computer”.

              Nothing ever changes - Instead of being excited by someone having the skills to implement chess in 670k of memory by using freakin’ machine language, and appreciating the Sinclair for what it is, they compared to what they had.

              I mean wow, if you’ve never done machine language coding… I’m flabbergasted.

            • 1ns1p1d@lemm.eeEnglish
              4·
              11 days ago

              It was great. I was 10. I needed to be able to win once in a while, and I did.

              They were laughing because they were early neckbeards. They probably had 16k of ram on their fancy BBC Micros.