Spectrum – Video Game Stuff

Retro Pickups Atari, Sinclair, Aquarius

October 25, 2017 roxbury Leave a comment

Recently came across some lots of retro pickups locally. Firstly a bunch of mostly Sinclair stuff, with a bonus Aquarius. So we have here: Boxed ZX Spectrum 2+ Boxed ZX81 Spectrum + Boxed Mattel Aquarius Heap of Spectrum tape games, and some accessories. Now for the Atari ST lot: 2

Spectrum 48k Joystick Interface & Tape Loading Emulation

July 23, 2016 roxbury Leave a comment

As per my latest post I have a nice cleaned up ZK Spectrum 48k. Now the most important part, playing some games! Now I don’t have a tope deck to load games, nor do I have a joystick interface. Here is what I did to fix that. Below: the end product!

Spectrum 48K New overlay, clean up and composite mod

July 21, 2016 roxbury One comment

Locally in Australia Sinclair Spectrums weren’t very common. At the time Commodore 64s were the most popular 8 bit computers amongst anyone I knew, followed by Amstrad CPCs with smatterings of other 8 bit micros around. I cannot ever remember seeing a Spectrum for sale locally, although I am sure