Video gaming projects and general musings
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
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!
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