Sinclair ZX Spectrum+

Commodore 64

Amiga 500

Ones upon a time in a distant dimension far far away there were a website called SpecTroMania.dk and even further back in time before anybody were able to remember anything at all, there were a bulletin board system called SpecTroMania BBS.

But why ohh why?!?

If you couldn't care less then I strongly recommend that you choose something else in the menu.

Well well...

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX-Spectrum. I got it at the age of 13. I wanted a Commodore 64 like every other computer nerd at that time, but a Spectrum was what I got. It was probably for the best, because even though the graphics and sound of the C64 were superior, the programming language of the Spectrum was easier for a 13 year old to understand and with time I grew very fond of my little rubber-keyboard.

The first Spectrum emulators for PC came out in about 1992. At first they were nothing to write home about, but a couple of years later they had become a lot better. So in 1994 I started up a bulletin board system (BBS) with programs and games for the Spectrum emulators. I figured that it was a bit crazy to be collecting old stuff like that, so I named it SpecTroMania BBS.

It ran for about 3 years, before I closed it. At the end I hardly got any users because of the Internet. It was my intention to start it up again as a web-site. It took me some time before I finally got around to do anything about it. I discovered that there were a ton of emulator-sites out there on the internet. Some of them where better and more detailed (as in crazy) than I could ever make mine (simply a matter of dedication and time). At that time I had already bought the name SpecTroMania.dk.

There you have it... that's it... there's nothing more to it.

And now... *sign*... I have turned the key on SpecTroMania.dk... how sad... buuhuuhuu!

Ohh well... never mind.

I recently dug up the old SpecTroMania BBS backup-tape and got the board working again locally, just for the kick of it. I took some screenshots just in honor of nostalgia.

Here we go:

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