Greetings from Germany

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cbmbsw
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Greetings from Germany

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Hello ZX enthusiasts,in the year 1981 the zeddy was my first contact with personal computing,within these days my journey in I.T. starts,followed by commodore,amigas,pc´s. In 2000 i became "specialist on it" later"softwaredeveloper".
Last year a friend take me to a retro event...from this point i was infected by the retroviralcode. :lol:
I find some boxes with lot of old Hardware,who i have hold in stock.
Now i collect,all of those things that made my career over the period of 35 years.
Either i begin to build new things for this rarely old machine.
So my opinion is to save this old knowledge for further generations.

hughs cbmbsw
dr beep
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Welcome from Boxmeer to you (7 km from German border),

Take a look in what is done the last years. Many new games came out.
Isometric games in 16K bij Bob
Hires games in 16K by i.e. JIm Bagley (and his portal of Dragons lair)
and I coded hires games in in 1K.

But that's not all. Also new hardware to make the ZX81 work with modern TV, ZXPAND-interface to use compactflash card.

If you don't have a ZX81 you can use the emulator EightyOne on the PC to refind a lost love :D .
cbmbsw
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greeting naar boxmeer...nderlandse talen..ggg
i have my yesterday fixed zeddy serialnumber 003-008348 from 1981.
pics you´ll find@
facebook.com/invisiblelifeform...

jep een ik hebb dobbelzout van HARIBO... :lol:

bedaankt een tot ziens..
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gammaray
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I would like to take the ZX81 to a local college. Start a STEM group. Then challenge the various engineering students to take on the project of recreating many of the peripherals that once existed in it's heyday.

My experience is that vision for this idea is wanting. Meaning most cannot understand the importance of a practical project. Classes take ultimate precedence and labs are few and far between.
5-TS1000,UK ZX81<-Sheelagh, US ZX81, 2-TS1500/KDLX , 3-TS2040 printer, 2-TS2020 cassette decks, ZXPAND+AY, ZeddyNET, ZXBlast, UDG, ZX8CCB, AERCO, BUILDS/REPAIRS ZX Spectrum, ZX80 Minstrel, ZXMAX48 v1 v2, 2-TS-2068, ROM, 16kRAM
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1024MAK
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Welcome on board Hughs!

:D :D :D

Yes, a surprising amount has happened in the past five years. So please do have a good look around. There is still plenty going on in the ZX World 8-)

Mark
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There are four lights!
Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb :!:
Looking forward to summer later in the year.
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siggi
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I hope you also know the "German" (Swiss) Forum
http://forum.tlienhard.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=5

Griesse
Siggi
My ZX81 web-server: online since 2007, running since dec. 2020 using ZeddyNet hardware
http://zx81.ddns.net/ZxTeaM
dr beep
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Interessantes Sonderheft mit viel Info aus 2012.
http://www.8bit-wiki.de/index.php?id=3& ... 1436480000
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