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You already know for sure, maybe you read it on Slashdot o at Barrapunto (Spanish version). A day like today, 25 years ago, Speccy was born. It would make us to have nices times.

But it wasn’t only the games, but also those moments we spent programming, investigating or just hacking with a POKE…

Yes, ZX Spectrum is still alive.

A book about ZX Spectrum golden years has been released. I guess only geeks & enthusiasts (myself included) will be interested. The book comments the golden age of this fantastic machine by reviewing 250 games that made history. It covers the ZX Spectrum years from its beginning in 1982 to the early ’90s.

I encourage you to visit the site, where some pages are shown, and also many 8 bits world artwork and sprites that will bring you memories for sure.

I’ve just read at speccy (a Spanish ZX Spectrum devoted portal) that a new ZX Spectrum Users World Map is up and running. I know we are much more than those already appearing. Would you put your pin there?

Apart of Captcha!, to fight trackback SPAM I also use Trackback Validator, which works very well but has a little problem however: regardless the trackback is ham or spam, you always get it via email if “mail comments” feature is enabled in your WP panel. So you might end up with your mailbox flooded of spam trackbacks (even though they’re correctly filtered in your blog).

Due to this, I’ve made a little hack to fix this. So only valid trackbacks are mailed to you, not the SPAM ones.

Download it here.

Update: (2007-04-01) It seems I’m not the first one to do something like this. Although it uses another approach (hacking WP directly).