Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 Forums

Welcome to the forums - great to see a new ZX81 emulator for the QL - there is an existing one, but whilst the Spectrum emulators have had several versions and improvements, there has only ever been Xtricator (http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/zx81/index.html).

No sorry - they have gone.

Just wondering what your thoughts were on my membrane and how it compared with the other? (I assume you have received it by now?)

A printer emulator as you describe Paul can be achieved with a Memotech Centronics interface and RWAP’s RetroPrinter. https://www.retroprinter.com/ But I assume a ESP32 directly on the ZX81 would make a cheaper interface than Memotech I/F + RetroPrinter + Raspberry Pi. Yes, my idea would be to have...

That looks interesting - some photos and internals of the boards would be nice if you can

Lardo Boffin wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:35 pm

I’ll take one please! Or two if nobody else is interested.

No one else has asked about them, so they are yours

1024MAK wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 19, 2020 11:51 am

Finding Compact Flash cards for use in retro gear is also rather hard

Mark

I listed some of those on the QL Forums - been snapped up already

I have scanned the instructions as well as my hardware permits. The attachments process has seriously reduced these in size and therefore quality (from around 4mb to <300K). Is there a better way of storing these somewhere? If you PM RWAP, he may be able to host the files on the site without the fo...

Thanks. I currently have to share my SD card between three devices. First world problems... :? The other problem is finding smaller capacity cards nowadays - I had a long discussion with an SD card provider about cards for my Retro-Printer - the smallest anyone was making (a couple of years ago now...

OK - we will give it a few days in case anyone else wants the other....