Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 / Z88 Forums

Folks, there's a good-looking ZX81 package with tapes and books on eBay.fr at the moment (just over 2 days to go) - but when I try to look at the listing it says: "Malheureusement, l'accès à cet objet a été bloqué en raison de restrictions légales en vigueur dans certains pays. Conformément à ces re...

I believe this is the ZX81 "piggyback fix" - there's a web page about it here:

http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum ... /index.php

I've got such a board at home, haven't had time to photograph it or add it to my site yet tho.

Cheers, Simon

So the site update should be complete now.
Don't know why but the FTP server was disconnecting after a certain numbers of files or bytes - had to upload in ten separate sessions to get the site back up again.
Anyway, let me know if you have any problems...
Cheers, Simon

It appears to be a problem with the FTP client I'm using to transfer the files. Part way through the transfer I see the error: I won't open a connection to 10.0.0.6 (only to a.b.c.d) Which appears to be a active/passive issue. Note that this happens after about 1000 files have been transferred succe...

Yeah, thanks, I have no idea why that should be

Pretty much all of the generated HTML files are zero-length, despite being fine on my local copy.

I'll see if I can figure out why that happened.

Cheers, Simon

Well I've finally got round to updating my website with around 50 new tapes and some other interesting bits, including a description and download for my Super Sudoku 81 program (all machine code!), updated my JtyOne emulator to support ZX80 emulation (for CSSCGC 2008), and added a TrueType version o...

You could take a look at the dk'tronics 4K Graphics ROM board - that included sockets for other ROM/RAM chips, and sat at the 8-12K range I think. There's a circuit layout on my site:

http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/genera ... 4KRom.html

Cheers, Simon

I'm sure I've got several spare copies of the book, can let you have one for postage and packing cost. I've actually got a big backlog of books, tapes and hardware to list on eBay, just trying to finish my next web site update (>50 new tapes to add, hopefully publish the update before the end of thi...