Spectrum Computing

PeterJ wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 1:33 pm

That's certainly very pretty

1024MAK wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 11:16 pm I use IPA and a toothbrush (no, not the one you use to clean your own teeth with!) to clean up after soldering.

Mark

I keep my old electric toothbrushes just for this

Apologies for reviving an old thread but I'm still on the hunt for boxes.
I contacted about 6 companies in the end and none of them were interested

Nice little thing, I've just asked my missus to keep an eye out for one

I have a folder with ZX81, MSX & ZX folders. These just get filled with their respective files as they come.

I like that touching a baddy doesn't kill you instantly

Graphics look great!

I can't remeber playing any of those games except Tau Ceti (which I won from Crash for my spaceship design} and I didn't enjoy that

Stunning graphics

1. Enough to have a simple display of games your friends will have played (and a few in a drawer) 2. A noob will have maybe 2 dozen cassettes that came with their hardware purchase. An amatuer will have some big boxes to proudly display. A pro will have a spreadsheet catalogue and everything careful...

Storm Over Valhalla guy - definite "Buy" from me!

Christmas is going to be a happy one for a few people

Looks goid
You're not tempted to port it to Android and charge £ on the Play Store?

Jbizzel wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:42 pm Nice. Looks like fun. I just ordered a TTGo VGA32 for £6. I'll give it a go!

I've had one of those for ages but never plugged it in to see what it did

Quite a decent catalogue

https://sunteam.itch.io/

i'd love to turn up to work with that

Audionautas wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 12:14 pm I had a kind of epiphany and read David Mann the first time I saw that screenshot.

I thought it read David Mann too but dismissed it as he used to do paintings for EasyRider and didn't think his work would appear on Sinclair stuff

druellan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 9:36 pm the cover has a signature that seems from a different author:

First name looks like "David"

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2023 7:58 pm Playing Spectrum games on a real Spectrum with that TV must be the 'final level' for any Spectrum fan

As there are no analogue TV signals, this was my "solution" to test that my TV80 and MTV1 were functinal - the Sinclair Research text is minute

Seven.FFF wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2023 5:35 pm I heard that you could touch the tip of a Speccy RF lead to the aerial, and it would give a passable picture. Obviously not if you’ve done the composite mod.

Yeah, that's all I did

I had a photo of mine connected to my ZX somewhere

1024MAK wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 11:35 pm Good luck finding a 200 ohm speaker, it’s only the issue one and issue two boards that used them…
Mark

Can't a resistor be put in series to sort that?

In my little world, "harm" means bleeding/broken body parts on live creatures. If your feelings are harmed, get off the planet - you've a whole lifetime of being harmed ahead. Yes, inappropriate images can be generated but they don't harm anyone, your eyes may bleed if you try bleaching th...

Ultimately, as graphics/video generation technology gets better, it loses it’s character. This applies universally. Not just to the Sinclair computers. It’s the drive for better resolution, more colours and shades, and thus, nearer to real life (or at least “4K” video). Mark Only need to look at PS...

iMHO, the Coupe was the successor to the Spectrum, under the hood, similar in so many ways. The issue of "what came next after " can't really be quantified as the jump to 16bit was enormous. I can only look at the speed, music and colours of Sonic to think that Sinclair would have cheaped ...