Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 / Z88 Forums

Hi Guys,

I'm still around. Just had a weeks holiday followed by a busy time at work. Hopefully get back to the ZXmore in a few days and continue checking it over.

Cheers,
Becky.

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I'm going away for a week on holiday, so won't get time to have a play until I get back. Again thank you for the suggestions.

Cheers,
Becky.

Hi Karl, I have taken a few digital photos. They are high resolution, so should zoom well. Just to explain a couple of things I messed up. C4, I damaged the mounting holes and have connected it on the back of the board between r18 and D11. I also messed up the mounting for the rom switch and tried t...

It all looks okay, but I just realised that R11 has not been placed! Maybe once I do that it might help.

Cheers.

Not quite alive yet:



It's not running properly, but powers up and no chips are running hot. Any ideas guys?

Soldering the ZXmore kit had being going well up until I tried to solder C4. A lapse in concentration somehow screwed it up big time, including destroying the metal collar in one of the mounting holes. Will connecting the capacitor directly from R18 to the output of D11 fix it?

Cheers,
Becky.

Dinosaur wrote: , I must say that the ZXmore looks quite appealing... and even, amazingly sexy ! :D It's the white PCB, it looks amazing. As I understand it, the ZXmore will use the open81 ROM. Can't for the life of me remember where I saw that, but there is a link below if you want to download it a...

Has anyone given much thought to a case for their project yet? I had an idea earlier that an Acorn Electron care would be nice, I looked up how the keyboard was made- turned out it was individual key switches soldered to a pcb, so it would have been simple enough to cut the tracks on the pcb and rew...

Pokemon, I was never an expert. My background is not electronics, I am a nurse. I've only ever dabbled on and off over the years since I was about eight when my dad helped me build a Crystal Set radio from the Ladybird series of children's books. Your right though, by the time the ZXmore is up and r...

Thank you for the welcomes and for the explanations about the inductor. I'm looking forward to starting to build the kit in a week or two. I've been waiting for pay-day to buy a decent soldering iron and some Velleman type kits to practice on before tackling it. I've been able to solder for years, b...