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Small Acorn Electron Upgrade Mod

dougytJuly 22, 2015July 22, 2015
Personal

After a quick mess around with the Electron I noticed what looked like composite out for a video output, but when it was plugged in to my tv only output black and white. At the same time on Mark Fixes Stuff Facebook group there was a post by someone else […]

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Acorn Electron Gets An Airing

dougytJuly 21, 2015
Computing And Retro Gaming

Going back to my school days and Microcomputers and home computing were still in their infancy. Schools needed to make computers available to teach pupils like me about these new machines, and after a short battle Acorn won over Sinclair to supply a new micro for this purpose to work […]

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ZX Spectrum 128k +2 Repair

dougytJuly 19, 2015
Computing And Retro Gaming

While I was playing Toobin, for the review elsewhere on this site, my 128k Spectrum +2 decided to throw a hissy fit and stop working. After several attempts at restarting, resetting and dropping it on the floor from a few inches height (yes, it does work sometimes and fixed the […]

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Review of Toobin from Hit Squad on the ZX Spectrum

dougytJuly 12, 2015
Computing And Retro Gaming

Toobin for the ZX Spectrum, a quick play video and review

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C64 Multicart 1

dougytJuly 5, 2015
Computing And Retro Gaming

Recently in one of the Commodore 64 themed Facebook groups I saw a post offering a homebrew multicart for the Commodore 64. It was being offered as a single cartridge holding several games which could be selected from a menu using a joystick. This looked like a great idea so […]

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