Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 / Z88 Forums

Welcome... plenty to see!

Thanks. Eventually we will have replaced every chip lol...

Thanks. Hmm.. Will try a different file.

SD card initialized fine. and I can create and switch to directories - maybe just a bum file.

Toolkit says its installed. Do I have to assign my file to vdrive one? I can't just drop it in there?

Thanks. I have the manual, I guess I just don't understand it. I installed the toolkit, formatted the card, created a directory, put a MDR in it, changed to the right directory and listing the files shows my file there, but .ld 1 "filename" just gave me a flashing question mark like it wasn't parsin...

Cool.. I'm doing the dev on a PC/Mac these days but the hardware was the bit I was interested in. I'd like a Zxpand, but they don't seem to be available much. I'll check out the soft version though, thanks!

When new, I had a Memotech assembler which was the lap of luxury compared to hand coding all that hex... Would kind of like one again for memory lane. Every see any around?

Cheers.

What was your first Sinclair product and when? Here in the states, this was pretty niche stuff. I didn't even realize it till years later, but a friend gave me a sinclair mini-radio in elementary school which I just cherished, so that was my first, in about 1971 id guess. I lost the back so made a n...

Here in the states we never got the speccy, but always wanted one. Microdrives were especially magical to me back then which also never came here. Fast forward, and I have both a nice (mint) 48k speccy with new membrane and composite mod, and interface one, and a vdrive in a 3d printed case (and a c...

Great, so with a good ula, should be able to fix about anything else I would think. Practically everything else is already replaced - matter of elimination! lol