The spectrum was one of a family of 'home computers' made by Sinclair- a very 'british' company.
They started in 1980 with the ZX80 evolving to the Spectrum in 1982 with it's 16k upgradable to 48k. Eventually becoming 48k as standard it was what most of us this side of the pond grew up with during the early 80's. Games were loaded by tape meaning you could easily copy your mates version!!
Ahh the good old days....

Ah thanks yes sounds very much like the TRS-80 ah good old Data-Cassete Spectrum sounds like a T-1000 I rember it was first hard drive something around 100 meg , Thought then that was an amazing amount storage that would never be all used .hahah
It was that or spend hours typeing code from a computer mag.
Did you guys have the Kings Quest Series of games Roberta Williams made some great stuff over the years. Poor old Sir Graham allways being duped by Mordar .

From My long ramble above , I am curious to know what your guys thoughts are on the Gravity settings for the differnent modes . That and the fact that if the Ground scores more damage the the attacking aircraft the ground wins ie crash no kill credit . lets say my 109 has a 1000 points of health Gilly comes along in his spit and blasts the hell out my wing with those lead peppering brownings of his that he so dam good with for 425 points My 109 flips over and augers in the ground now scores 475 points damage thus we get a crash not a well deserved kill. I think this is why the water seems to elimnate alot of the no kill crashs it seems to do no or very little damage .

thoughts???

The 'Beast' itself
http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/a...pectrum48k.jpg

Wow so sleek and clean looking you europeans and your fashion savy hahah.
Keyboard looks like a precurser to laptop .

Speccy is slang for the Sinclair Spectrum 48k. It was a home computer released in the early 80s that took the UK by storm. The guy behind it is re legend Sir Clive Sinclair. He was an eccentric genious who blew it all with the Sinclair C5, a battery powered trike that killed his company.
My dad nearly bought a C5 from Rumbelowes for £40 when they flopped. He always regrets not getting it as they are collectors items now

Ah there she is. I had the older model with plastic keys which was meant to be an improvement but I always wanted the original rubber keyed one.

It's certainly a good point. I have experimented both accidentally and on purpose with ground vs water. Was in a strike with dave,McQ and winny last night where McQ, dave and winny were team A with McQ and dave had 17's versus myself (17) and I think an IL10. We were on the Britain map and as such I had to bomb and travel like a nutter to keep up with their scoring. On a low bomb pass with winny behind me I dropped a full load from no height and accidentally bombed myself. So from an 8000lbs perspective the 8000lbs won!
Next one was were I had drdeath nobailer chasing me over the ships in an IL10 and having lost engines at 14k ft, glided down whilst bombing. I then could turn anymore and thought I try that over water. Even with the god canons blazing into my rear I managed to 'crash' rather than be shot down by dropping bombs as I glided in. Now I'm aware that a certain couboy carries bombs on his spit in most modes and deliberately bombs himself at ground level and it seems from testing this would also be possible over water. So to a degree whilst being over water helps it doesn't prevent it altogether. I've also noticed that should you clip a house or a tree then it also gives the kill as a crash so whilst what your saying it possibly true it does have exceptions. Just IL2 and it's quirks! After nearly a year of playing nothing surprises me with this game anymore.

I hear yha Gill but on a very postive note since I started playing again I have noticed a big improvement in crash dept No one droping bombs on themselves yet!!! . Some new players from this side of the ocean. And a much btter mix of aircraft in matches Seen a lot of Yaks La's and 51's and 47's then befor I like that better then 10 guys all in Spits with the odd 109 thrown in by guys like me who just could not turn and shoot . Also discoverd that I would sooner be on the Six of a B17 then a Blenhiem Man those BAR's in the tail of that are more nasty then the 50's on the 17 it seems

did u guys play this?it was not good, but it was about a spit- so i played it a lot,
spitfire40 1986,spectrum