Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 / Z88 Forums

Welcome on board Will!

You forgot to attach the pic.

I only have Minestorm at the mo (its built in) and have the overlay. It looks better without on that one I think.

I can see there are a few multi-carts out there. May have to be a purchase at some point.

The Vectrex now there's a strange beast. I have it on Pi emulation but cannot get to grips with it at all. I think it is one of those things you need to see properly not via an emulator. The image quality on the little black and white screen is simply amazing and I think just has to be seen. I don’...

Hee hee ! Why are you replacing that ULA Lardo? I always liked the look of those later Ferranti jobbies. I managed to buy a couple of vLA81s so it will end up as a 32K zeddy with composite mod the easy way. :oops: It will then either be a spare for when I can get ZX8-CCBs again or if times are hard...

It was either Shirley (who apparently had anger management issues) or Killed By Death lyrics. Maybe the latter would have been more multinational? And not just over 55s! :o Rubber key Spectrums have always seemed hard work. Just finished a +2A and that was really nice to work with. Even the tape pla...

Moggy wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 25, 2020 4:08 pm

Removing one, that's the easy bit.

Easy? Easy! And, at the risk of sounding like Shirley Crabtree, easy!?!

Actually it was a lot easier than I expected. RAM chips always seem to be hard work but it was pretty straight forward.

The nice shiny ULA is now sat in a socket in preparation of a vLA81 arriving. First time I have been brave enough to remove a working ULA. And it still works!

Not sure if this is accurate:

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/spectrum-roms

And some disassemblies.

http://www.fruitcake.plus.com/Sinclair/ ... embly4.htm

Up close if required:

Here is the inside of a +2A currently awaiting attention. Looks like two ROMs.