Re: Rainbow Islands British Version
Posted by weesam on .
I'd like to point out that Spectrum games were not ROMS*, but came on audio cassette tape. The player was connected to the mic socket of the spectrum and played. 2 minutes later the game was loaded into RAM (so switch the Spectrum off and the game goes. Have to load it again).
* not always true. At the start of the Spectrums life (1982) a few games did come on ROM cartridge. Mostly, would you beleive, these games were from Ultimate. I think Jetpac, Trans Am and Cookie came out on ROM.
Sad really, it was a much better format. But I suppose price was king. Tapes were cheap, and anybody could programme their own game and mass produce the cassettes.
THanks. I found an emulator the other day but hadn't found any roms. I would've looked yesterday but I was busy...