The ZX Spectrum Keyboard Project
Having seen a few things lately, including the Bluetooth Keyboard from Elite made to look like a Spectrum (wrongly called the Recreated Spectrum as it does nothing but act as a Bluetooth keyboard) and the Vega, a Joystick Spectrum with too few buttons, and some USB keyboards made from retro […]
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Homebrew Spectrum Game Review Toofys Winter Nuts
It’s a great time to be a retrogamer, not only do we have all the new ways to quickly load a game but also lots of people creating all new content for our all old computers. Toofys Winter Nuts is one of the new games made for an olf computer, […]
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Acorn Electron Gets An Airing
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
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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C64 Multicart 1
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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ZX Spectrum BASIC like falling off a bike?
Around 31 years ago I taught myself enough BASIC on the ZX Spectrum to write a simple game, if you use the word game loosely. It was a catch the ball game, not great but I did it myself. Now, today I typed what I could remember into Spectaculator and […]
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Repairing Retro Computers Again, Atari XEGS Returns
Attempts to repair retro computers including Atari XEGS and ZX Spectrum with varying results.
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