Sir Clive Sinclair 1940-2021

PostSir Clive Sinclair 1940-2021 by **Dig Dug** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:20 pm

twitter.com/guardian/status/1438553117541511170

I absolutely can not begin to fathom where the British games industry would be today without this man.

Paying my respects with an old classic from B3ta...

PostRe: Sir Clive Sinclair 1940-2021 by **kerr9000** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:35 pm

RIP Sir Clive you brought a lot of fun to a lot of peoples lives

PostRe: Sir Clive Sinclair 1940-2021 by **SEP** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:35 pm

Dig Dug wrote:

twitter.com/guardian/status/1438553117541511170

I absolutely can not begin to fathom where the British games industry would be today without this man.

There would be no Acorn, and subsequently no ARM. The whole computing industry would be very different without him.

PostRe: Sir Clive Sinclair 1940-2021 by **Abacus** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:40 pm

Sad news, a proper inventor.

Mind, if Raspberry Pi were quick on this, a programmable spectrum mini would be in my Amazon basket right now.

This is sad news. A true eccentric inventor.

PostRe: Sir Clive Sinclair 1940-2021 by **rinks** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:10 pm

Ah, gooseberry fool. Changed my childhood, his ZX81 and Spectrum. I hate that he’s always linked to the bloody C5 by lazy journalists.

PostRe: Sir Clive Sinclair 1940-2021 by **Jenuall** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:00 pm

Used to spend ages just playing around in BASIC on my Spectrum. Copying code out of magazines and playing around with it, just felt so incredible that you could write a few lines of instructions to make magic happen on the screen.

Not a stretch to say that I owe my livelihood to the Spectrum getting me into computing back in the day

PostRe: Sir Clive Sinclair 1940-2021 by **Robbo-92** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:12 pm

This is sad news :cry:

I’ve never owned a ZX Spectrum or played any of the games (to my knowledge at least, suppose I might have somewhere down the line) but he had a huge impact on the gaming industry in the UK.

He made gaming accessible to poor kids like me. If the Speccy hadn't been as cheap as it was then I don't think I'd have got one for Christmas.

PostRe: Sir Clive Sinclair 1940-2021 by **rinks** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:42 pm

Daley Thompson trending on Twitter because everyone’s tweeting about Decathlon on the Spectrum!

Jenuall wrote:Used to spend ages just playing around in BASIC on my Spectrum. Copying code out of magazines and playing around with it, just felt so incredible that you could write a few lines of instructions to make magic happen on the screen.

Not a stretch to say that I owe my livelihood to the Spectrum getting me into computing back in the day

Same here. I remember when I was about 7yrs old copying code from a magazine to create a program that would display an analogue clock. It probably took me an hour to type but it worked!! That created the spark that eventually led to me becoming a software developer.

PostRe: Sir Clive Sinclair 1940-2021 by **rinks** » Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:46 pm

Sinclair Programs was the greatest magazine.

"A day in the life" on the speccy was a very shite game where you played as Clive.
Where would the world be without his inventions.

Vermilion wrote:Paying my respects with an old classic from B3ta...

God damn that takes me back!

Woo, yay and indeed, hoopla.

Never would have got into gaming were it not for the ZX Spectrum.

I once worked in the building where the ZX Spectrum was made.

RIP

Played poker with Sir Clive around a dozen times between 2009 - 2013. He was a gent and a good gambler.

PostRe: Sir Clive Sinclair 1940-2021 by **Lex-Man** » Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:04 am

I'm watching this is memory. He does seem like a dick though.

PostRe: Sir Clive Sinclair 1940-2021 by **Dowbocop** » Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:08 am

Christopher wrote:Never would have got into gaming were it not for the ZX Spectrum.

I once worked in the building where the ZX Spectrum was made.

RIP

Just posted similar in the Off Topic thread. My love of gaming can absolutely be traced back to him.

Victor Mildew wrote:
Vermilion wrote:Paying my respects with an old classic from B3ta...

God damn that takes me back!

Woo, yay and indeed, hoopla.

Funnily enough, my brother was actually given a ZX Spectrum+ one christmas in the 80's, to 'help him with his homework'

Sir Clive Sinclair 1940-2021

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