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I remember a year or more ago someone posted a demo using a ZXpand to show a menu of about 20 selection options. When a letter was pressed on the keyboard a screen was loaded in either text or graphics. Another key would swap between text and graphics. This would show about 20 highlights of ZX81, it...

They load fine outside File Commander. So it shouldn’t involve the PIC.

If it’s too complicated to test with E-FILE, then maybe a Force Load command

Great program. One thing I miss: Unfortunately Execute does only work on .P files. I have files with different extensions that are ordinary program files. .AS2 ZX Assembler 2 source .TAS Tasword files .WS2 WordSinc II.3 files .BER Berch Assembler source Etc. These cannot be loaded with ZXpand Comman...

I have used a ZX81XT to get space between my Lambda 8300 and the ZXBKBv3 keyboard controller I've built. But yesterday all kinds of chars came randomly on the screen, but the computer worked. It was hard to use, as most of the chars on the screen were corrupted. This was very frustrating. Finally I ...

I have a non-working ZX Printer for display, and an Alphacom 32 for printing.

Pro Built-in sound Built-in Joystick Executes machine code above memory address 32k (no M1NOT problem) Con Not all hardware extensions work No Hires or Pseudo Hires (WRX, G007, ARX) No User Defined Characters (UDG) External keyboard corrupts load from tape Detection of NTSC/PAL on different I/O-por...

The ZX81 printer that works decade after decade is Alphacom 32 (or in the US: Times Sinclair 2040). There are 5 on sale on eBay. http://r.ebay.com/3deYoi http://r.ebay.com/eBU2vb http://r.ebay.com/AxJ544 http://r.ebay.com/5cHLGT http://r.ebay.com/OCp54t Edit: There are also 3 Timex Sinclair 2040 mod...

I can report that the ZXpand works ok with the Lambda 8300. Since the Lambda 8300 has a different I/O-port for detection NTSC/PAL, an unmodified ZX81 ROM will assume NTSC and therefor the screen is unreadable. You can work almost in blind and use CONFIG "X" at the end, to change back to Lambda's bui...

To fit an 28 pin EEPROM in a 2364 PROM socket needs a conversion circuit. It's built but not tested. I couldn’t get it to work. But then I found that the EEPROM contained 00h’s every time it had been tested. Then I realized that /WE should be tied to 5V and not floating. The two pins were next to e...