{"id":863,"date":"2006-02-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=863"},"modified":"2006-02-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T12:00:00","slug":"one-for-the-zx-spectrum-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/17\/one-for-the-zx-spectrum-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"One for the ZX Spectrum Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look what I found<\/a>! (or was pointed to, to be more accurate).<\/p>\n

This is a copy of a BBC documentary called ‘Commercial Breaks’ that had earned somewhat mythical status in the Spectrum fan scene. I do have a copy of it on VHS in my house and had been planning to get it online at some point, but now I needn’t bother. (Although my viewing experience has been terribly jerky and I’m not sure whether that’s a problem on the host or at my end.) This video was filmed just a short month or two after I was laid-off from Imagine Software and less than a year before I started working at Ocean Software, so I was very much part of this scene (although, looking at 80s British Geek fashion, I hesitate to admit it).<\/p>\n

The quite inscrutable chap demonstrating the game in Ocean’s office is my best mate from the Ocean days – Jonathan (Joffa) Smith, who was (and no doubt still is) a coding genius. He’s pretty shy which you might not be able to detect from his ultra-cool external persona during that scene. I can assure you that it was probably naked terror, despite his appearance!<\/p>\n

Enjoy 😉<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look what I found! (or was pointed to, to be more accurate). This is a copy of a BBC documentary called ‘Commercial Breaks’ that had earned somewhat mythical status in the Spectrum fan scene. I do have a copy of it on VHS in my house and had been planning to get it online at… Continue reading One for the ZX Spectrum Fans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":904,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/11\/speccy-instrumentation\/","url_meta":{"origin":863,"position":0},"title":"Speccy Instrumentation","date":"November 11, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Code instrumentation is a subject that's discussed constantly in Oracle-land, probably because Oracle's server is instrumented pretty well. 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