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I only heard years later about some of the Spectrum clones, machines like The Hobbit sound fascinating. It obviously did you good!
by stevekemp 11y ago
I only heard years later about some of the Spectrum clones, machines like The Hobbit sound fascinating. It obviously did you good!
- rdtsc 11y agoMine was called BYTE : http://zxspectrum48.i-demo.pl/clones_pliki/Byte_black.jpg http://zxspectrum48.i-demo.pl/clones_pliki/Byte_black.jpg Those rubber keys were terrible. Somehow my dad found a old Soviet fax machine with keys in it which were activated by a magnetic ring, over a vacuum sealed contact, so I spend a day taking appart the keyboard, cut the front of my ZX Clone and soldered those rugged contacts. It looked ugly, but it was very reliable. Also remember having a Pascal compiler, C, a graphical BASIC (Lazer Basic?), wrote my own assembly compiler (it was just a translator from Z80 mnemonic to bytes). It was fun.
- stevekemp 11y agoThe keyboard looks remarkably similar to the 48k spectrum I had, and the little stripe in the corner is adorable. Thanks for sharing. When I used mine I used BASIC, and I "compiled" z80 machine code by looking up the opcodes, one by one, in the manual that came with the machine. I don't remember ever having access to an assembler, or compiler of any kind. But I eventually learned enough that I could hack games to get infinite lives. I have fond memories of the Speedlock system, along with Bleepload, and others of that time-frame.