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WARAJEVO: The ZX Spectrum Emulator That Gave People Hope
WARAJEVO: The ZX Spectrum Emulator That Gave People Hope | Kim Justice
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Warajevo is a Speccy emulator with an incredible story — it was made in horrendous conditions by two soldiers during the Siege of …
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Hopefully you enjoyed this story. Did you have any experience of using Warajevo back in the day? Have a shout in the comments.
Kim, I highly recommend the documentary "Scream for me Sarajevo" which depicts the trip Bruce Dickinson (at the time formerly of Iron Maiden) and his band made into beseiged Sarajevo to do a concert. The emotional and morale effect the concert had on the young residents of the city is extremely moving, along with heartbreaking depictions of the brutality of the seige. It's one of those life changing films in my opinion.
I'm from Montenegro yugoslavia. I remember electronics being a hot commodity in the black market.
Samir Ribic would also develop and release a ZX Spectrum Emulator that ran on the TI89 and TI92+ graphing calculators named "TEZXAS", released around 1999-2000. A truly amazing piece of software, but TI89 and TI92+ graphing calculators were used in high schools and colleges by Americans, and they had no clue what a ZX Spectrum was, and were unable to appreciate the significance of that program.
Never underestimate eastern European coders
This is an amazing story and the documentary itself is really good as well, hope this gains a bit of traction because more people should know about this.
Very interesting video! Thank you
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Well, there’s a Speccy related tale I had no idea about. Sterling effort again!
What a brilliant story. Thanks for making this one Kim
That's okay, Kim, I am stupid. Thanks for clarifying that it's an emulator 😉
The sound distortion on Warajevo's beeper is actually kind of an interesting effect, like playing on a TV with a slightly busted speaker.
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I grew up on ZXAM for my Amiga A1200 which finally became usable when I got an 030 accelerator in about 93. The magazines were full of adverts for “PD” CD ROMS full of Spectrum games. I think this what gave me the idea to start LAZARUS – the Amiga emulation site (of champions) in 1997 when I had to let my Amiga set-up go. Happy and sad times. Great video.
Echoes of this with the current Ukraine conflict with the soliders playing World of Tanks in their breaks to let off steam. Also a bunch of gamers are involved in fighting and relief efforts from abroad. Some of their friends they play with went missing and they wanted to help
Can't say I've used this emulator, but thank for pointing out the history behind it, making a great story and the result even more impressive – especially with extremely limited ressources and very few ways to exchange with others.
Personally I've started with RealSpectrum which I often default to and occasionally use to write real TRDOS floppies.
Such a wonderful idea for a video. It's stuff like this that reminds you just what can be accomplished with enough drive and optimism for the future, but also that you should never take what you have for granted. Living in the USA, I never used any Sinclair products (let alone had bombs going off outside my windows), but I've always had a lot of respect for emulation developers. I help work on a few emulation projects these days, and it's a great community with a lot of really cool people. Cheers.
The lines with Samir would be better off fully redubbed to be honest – the partial inserts are very distracting
An emulator of one of the most horrific gaming ststems to ever exist. Lucky us.
One of your best, mate.
one of your best Kim
Thankyou Kim, interesting and insightful as always.
It's a great story, but your strange SAMIR pronunciation, almost robotic, was challenging to listen to.
This story is incredible and told beautifully! It's reached me on a day where I needed something inspirational like this. Fantastic video, Kim!
I was a young man in the early 90s, the war in Bosnia was on the news nearly every day but we were far removed from the horrors of it here in UK. We just don't realise how lucky we are sometimes to live the life we do, in times of peace and with plenty whilst others are enduring absolute suffering. We moan about the slightest nonsense and get caught up in stupid dramas yet here were people going through a real utter hell. And today the same is happening in various other countries as we speak.
Amazing work that these guys managed to make this emulator in the face of such adversity.
"SAMIRRRRR"
The ZX Spectrum 48K is the first piece of computer or videogame hardware that I ever emulated despite being a Yank and having no idea what a ZX Spectrum was. This was probably late 1990s early 2000s. I frequented a Neverending Story fan page and they had a list of videogames that were based on the movie, one of them being a ZX Spectrum text adventure. I downloaded an emulator (no idea which one), the rom, and possibly a bios and got it working. This sent me down the rabbit hole of downloading a bunch of games for the spectrum and trying them out. The whole color clash thing was really weird and I had no idea what the actual computer itself even looked like, but it sure had a shit ton of games. Eventually I figured out there was a 128k version of the spectrum with better graphics. I did find some games that were quite enjoyable (I don't recall which), but with my new found appreciation for emulation I soon moved onto emulating NES games. Good times.
0:05 of course it's an emulator, no one uses windows anymore.
I guess you got Sameer's name wrong in the voice over and had to replace, all I could get from this vid was a odd Sameer dub lol
Absolutely superb video. I first experienced Z80. I now use the excellent Spectaculator, which was well worth buying.
Great video about a fascinating and inspiring story, Kim – I wonder if Sir Clive could ever have envisaged his humble machine being a source of escape and comfort during such horrible times.
Still amazes me that some games for the speccy the makers won't release as freeware. At this stage I don't think there's any point to this as where else you going to play these or buy them to play.
So, what was that strange game that seemed like you were controlling the disembodied head of Clive Sinclair?
What a great video, a real gem. Thanks for making it!
Didn't this emulator also have a feature that converted 48k snapshots into exe files so they could be run directly? I'm sure I remember being able to do that with some emulator back in the day and I have some vague memories of using this one.
I love this, also i love the little editing flourishes
Fascinating subject. And one that i knew absolutely nothing about!
It makes me wonder if there are any whizzkids currently writing code in Ukraine and/or Gaza? Not to mention countless other places where lives are turned upside down because of religion, politics and/or sectarian hatred. We will never learn 😢