Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 / Z88 Forums

What’s the going rate for a boxed & working Memotech keyboard? I’ve got one to sell, but no idea of its value

SM7I wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 12:01 am Name your price and hit me !

I am due to be selling mine soon, so… I’d like to retire - how’s £1,000,000 sound to you?

(And there’s that ZX80 thing as well…)
(And those ZX81s…)
(And those tiny flat-screen TVs…)
(And that broken QL…)
(And that Z88…)

I’ve put 10 books on eBay - https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/bob-tmh/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from= - as part of having a clear out. They’re mostly Spectrum related. This is part of a larger sale I’m having, which will include hardware (boxed toastrack, fuller ZX81 keyboard) software (Ultimate PTG tap...

This speed difference was pointed out to me very early in my ZX81 game dev, and so in most (if not all - I forget) of my games there’s a delay applied when 50hz is detected so both versions should run at roughly the same speed

patters wrote: ↑Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:33 pm Most of the games I've tried have worked, but not One Little Ghost for some reason. I wonder why it's not compatible with the turbo loader.

I don’t remember doing anything particularly different with OLG compared to any other of my ZX81 games

I’m sure there’s a way to embed tweets into a thread, but until I work it out here’s a video of the conversion...

https://twitter.com/BobsStuffGames/sta ... 8509069312

Very true - it’s ruined a few good cups of tea when I’ve been concentrating on coding it instead of pouring the kettle

I did start work on a version, but Melkhior’s Mansion, and trying to make it a perfect clone, got in the way. I may well resurrect it in the future though.

mrtinb wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 6:24 pm I like the Steps idea. Maybe you could invent Steps 2. With more puzzles.

Personally I doubt I’d design such a game, but if Ahmed did do a follow-up I would definitely look into whether it could be converted to the Zeddy.

Since converting this I do wonder now about making a similar ‘open world’ adventure game for the Zeddy. Not limited to steps this time, but in a similar style (flick-screen or scrolling) with more adventure/quest elements - something like Zelda I believe (although I’ve never actually played that!)