Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 Forums

Daeve wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 19, 2019 8:57 am

Not sure I’ve seen anyone sell them, but they can be printed: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1880449

Edit: it seems you can via - https://www.shapeways.com/product/R4EKH ... 0-case-top

Good find!

If you google images of the PCB versions (list here https://spectrumforeveryone.com/technical/zx-spectrum-models/) and then compare what you can see through the edge connector to what you can see in the images you can probably identify it. There are quite a few images here https://k1.spdns.de/Vintag...

Mutant Caterpillar Games may be able to help.

http://www.mutant-caterpillar.co.uk/

You can get an NTSC conversion kit for the rubber key Spectrum from Mutant Caterpillar Games.

http://www.mutant-caterpillar.co.uk/sho ... ts_id=4393

If you go the route of a ‘real’ Spectrum you can get HDMI with this plug in https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/brand-new-zx-_hd-hdmi-interface-for-the-zx-spectrum-27558 Not used one myself. I have a SpectraSCART (which does a superb SCART output). You can also get SD card readers. There are l...

They are silly money. A very nice boxed one can do £300 plus at auction which is as close to a ‘true’ value as you can get. They can go for even more with the white PSU.

I have a spare main board / possibly two. I need to have a look and see how complete they are though! I will post some photos later and you can decide if they are of any use to you. No idea if they work. They won’t have any chips but Z80s are easy to get. I get them from here https://www.retroleum.c...

This looks like it.

http://www.zx81.de/memotech/memory16.txt

The dip switches control whether the RAM pack is a master or slave etc. You can plug mote than one of these at a time I believe.
I am sure I have a manual that shows what the settings are somewhere. I will have a look later.

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