Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 / Z88 Forums

sirmorris wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2017 11:02 pm I've got a number of DB9 sockets of various types here and without exception they're all way too big.

How about if the SD card was replaced with a micro SD, allowing everything to slide over and creating more space at the joystick end...?

sirmorris wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2017 5:18 pm What about if I put a header on the board...

I like that plan!

Chad

I may not be the best person to ask, given I did this to my original ZXPand within days of receiving it:

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Chad

That's a great upgrade! Seeing this spurred me to dust down my ZXpand, replace the 3.0 ROM with a newly burned 6.6 and upgrade the fw from 1.1 to 2.2. Wow, I love the autoboot and ZX command! Just wondering with the new design, did you consider 'doing a pi' and moving from SD to micro SD? Perhaps it...

Wow! Just... wow! It never ceases to amaze me how much you can cram into so little.

Hi Jim,

Nice to see you here too Looks like you've really hit the ground running, I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

Do You have, by a chance, any photos? I did try to get one of the ZX81 but it didn't come out too well (just using a camera phone). However, there are a load of walkarounds on YouTube, just search for "Play Expo 2012". At least one I was looking at last week showed the ZX81 briefly as the photograh...

Well, I went along and after spending a lot of time around the arcade machines (Manic Miner ported to PacMan hardware was quite something!) I went in search of the 8-bits. There were a good few Speccys on display, 4 linked via network cards but they were running Chuckie Egg rather than the multiplay...

It really is time I dug out my EPROM programmer and updated my ZXPand so I can try this... :D

I know that there will be at least 1 zx81 there (mine). Has anyone got any suggestions for software to put on my ZXPand to show it off to its best (Last year it spent most of its time playing Manic Miner and 3D monster Maze) Great, I'll come and say hello! :) I think any of the new releases would b...