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SO, the speccy is 30 this year, and there is talk of a new FPGA ATMEL Risc hardware reboot.. FU*K THAT, you need an original spectrum. A nice 48k rev 1 thru 4, that is any 48k squishy key, or a clacky key Spectrum+ or Spectrum 128.. NOT a +2 or +3, as these are made by Alan sugar and not Clive Sinclair, and are therefore shite.
So, go to ebay, pay from 20-100 euro for your kit, do the COMP OUT mod: http://womblesretrorepairshack.blogs...video-mod.html so you can plug it in to a AV in port, then set about getting a stash of games and blah: http://theisozone.com/dl-start/43715/1/ and http://zxaaa.untergrund.net/ftpeng.html
This is a nice one: ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/users/AAA/A...pack.part1.rar and ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/users/AAA/A...pack.part2.rar make up a .exe which will install an emulator and extract a very nice set of .tzx files which you can use..
There are plenty of .tzx players out there that will play a .tzx file out of your soundcard into the back of the spectrum, but the one i found actually works is playtzx-win32 (attached), it's a command-line utility, here is me running a .tzx i made from a .sna of ghostbusters:
Of coarse, you can search for a .tzx player, and get one with a nice GUI that works i suppose.
One thing that bothered me slightly is there are many different types of file for the speccy, and they all work in emulators just fine, but to get them to manifest as AUDIO, you need to make them into a .tzx for a tzx player using the oldschool Taper proggy, complete with it's own GUI (attached) - use the right-mouse once in side to pop out the menus, open a file then save as and rename it is a .tzx or whatever, or you can use a .tap file, and play it in winamp with the .tap player plugin for winamp (attached)..
Hardware - much more fun.
So, go to ebay, pay from 20-100 euro for your kit, do the COMP OUT mod: http://womblesretrorepairshack.blogs...video-mod.html so you can plug it in to a AV in port, then set about getting a stash of games and blah: http://theisozone.com/dl-start/43715/1/ and http://zxaaa.untergrund.net/ftpeng.html
This is a nice one: ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/users/AAA/A...pack.part1.rar and ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/users/AAA/A...pack.part2.rar make up a .exe which will install an emulator and extract a very nice set of .tzx files which you can use..
There are plenty of .tzx players out there that will play a .tzx file out of your soundcard into the back of the spectrum, but the one i found actually works is playtzx-win32 (attached), it's a command-line utility, here is me running a .tzx i made from a .sna of ghostbusters:
Code:
>playtzx ghostbst.tzx ZXTape Utilities - Play TZX , TZX to VOC Converter and TZX Info ZXTape file revision 1.10 Number of Blocks: 7 Starting playback on CoreAudio using 44100 Hz frequency. CoreAudio initialized Block 1: Description: 48K Snapshot - 3000 bps Block 2: Program : GHOSTBST Length: 19 Normal Speed Block 3: -------------------- Length: 738 Normal Speed Block 4: -------------------- Length: 16386 Speed: 219% Block 5: -------------------- Length: 15667 Speed: 219% Block 6: -------------------- Length: 6397 Speed: 219% Block 7: -------------------- Length: 514 Normal Speed
One thing that bothered me slightly is there are many different types of file for the speccy, and they all work in emulators just fine, but to get them to manifest as AUDIO, you need to make them into a .tzx for a tzx player using the oldschool Taper proggy, complete with it's own GUI (attached) - use the right-mouse once in side to pop out the menus, open a file then save as and rename it is a .tzx or whatever, or you can use a .tap file, and play it in winamp with the .tap player plugin for winamp (attached)..
Hardware - much more fun.
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