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PRICE LIST New: PC-PSU with supply for 2 Floppies and MB02 36,00 MB02-Printerlead 13,00 Spectrum +2A, new and original package, complete 220,00 Diskinterface D80 + Flopppy for Didaktik or Spectrum 111,00 KS B-Laufwerk for D80 60,00 KS Proface AT Extern (Keyboardinterface for connecting PC-Keyboards to Spectrum) 55,00 KS Proface AT intern 52,00 KS Melodik AY-Soundbox (unboxed) 21,00 KS 128k upgrade Kit for 48k (only Hardware Specialists) 21,00 KS 128k upgrade Kit incl. building inside (send Spectrum board) 52,00 KS Mice Maus (Mouse using Kempston Port) 25,00 KS +2 Cassetterecorder 36,00 Floppy Disc drive (1,86 with MB02, 720k with Opus, 780k with +D) Please specify 24,00 PSU for +2A/B and +3 or PSUl for +2 (also 48k and 128k) Please specify 31,00 FDD lead for 2 drives 4,00 Microdrive 25,00 Multiface 128 (working also on 48k) 26,00 Dust Cover 48k+/128k 8,00 Keyboard membrane 48k 11,00 Keyboard membrane Spectrum +/128k, new quality, not aging 21,00 Printer Ink Ribbon original STAR LC 10 , Doublepack 2 pieces 11,00 Microdrive Cartridges (ex-software) 3,50 Plus 3 Tapelead 10,50 Spectrum +2 Lightpen 36,00 Spectrum +3 Lightpen 27,00 Silverpaper for ZX Printer 5,00 Phaser-Pistole with Software (Tape or +3) 20,00 +3 drive belt 2,00 Wafadrive Cartridges 16K= 7,00 ¢¡ 32K= 7,50 ¢¡ 64K 8,00 Used: Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128k, complete with all cables 144,00 Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2, complete with all cables 70,00 Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2A, complete with all cables 65,00 Sinclair ZX Spectrum +3, built in 3li drive, complete with all cables 100,00 Sinclair Spectrum 48k (Gummy), complete with all cables + Introduction Tape 64,00 Sinclair Spectrum 48k +, complete with all cables + Introduction Tape 64,00 +3 Drive (tested) 74,00 Interface I 62,00 Opus Discovery Diskinterface with 1 x 720k Drive (new ROM) 118,00 Joystickinterface 1-Port 3,00 2-Port 11,00 Joystick (many different) 2,50 Sinclair SJS-Joystick (+2/+3) 6,00 Also we have a lot of Software offers and books. Please contact us and we will send you our pricelist. Products marked with 8BC or KS are sold in the name of 8-Bit Company or Kompakt Servis. We organise the business. Prices excluding postage. Delivery as long as stock lasts. Orders to: SINTECH, Gastäckerstr. 23, 70794 Filderstadt, Germany Tel./Fax: 0049 711 775033 SUMMER 2002/Issue 1 email: [email protected] http://www.sintech-shop.de ZXF/01 page 4 SUMMER 2002/Issue 1 Contents The ZX Spectrum lives on... Five pages of Spectrum news pp 5-9 ...if anything, it's getting stronger. Over the began to realise that my plea for the past few years I've been on something of a Spectrum to be remembered was more journey. It all started in 1994 I think, when I than a little superfluous, for with all this Remake reviews: Cybernoid 2 and Sabre Wulf pp 10-11 bought a copy of Gerton Lunter's Z80 for my going on, there was no danger of it being ageing 286 and started reliving the 'Spectrum forgotten whatsoever. experience' on its monochrome monitor. So the subtitle of ZXF is Spectrum Chris Cowley's BASTRIS laid bare pp 12-16 Sluggish on that particular machine though it Computing Today, which is exactly what I was, Z80 positively flew when I upgraded to a want this magazine to reflect. At the second hand 486 two years later. When I cutting edge of computing technology bought my first Pentium in late 1998, however, The ZXF interview: Garry Lancaster on the +3e pp 18-21 some might consider the likes of the ZX it stopped altogether, protesting that the Spectrum best only remembered, perhaps computer I was trying to run it on was simply through an ocassional game of Manic too fast. That was also the time when I made The Plus 2 tape recorder and how to maintain it pp 23-25 Miner on an emulator; but this is in fact an my first connection to the Internet... active and developing scene - no longer When I first published ZX Format on the web just a thing of the past for me - and How far would you go to achieve obscurity? pp 26-27 (in the year 2000) I was still very firmly in remembering is only part of what it's all 'retro-mode,' overwhemled by the sheer about. amount of emulators and Spectrum software I want to learn more about the ZX available on the net, yes, but viewing this all Spectrum, that special little machine that I ultimately as just a number of people coming grew up with and continue to enjoy. It Important! This is a trial issue. I've thoroughly enjoyed together to speak fondly of their past. The doesn't matter that it's old: I don't expect it myself producing this little bundle of pages and I'm more subtitle of my site was Remembering the ZX - or desire it - to be 'state-of-the-art' than happy to keep on doing this into the future; I'm not Spectrum. But then I really started learning. I anymore. And the way I personally learn going to, however, if nobody likes it. If you enjoy ZXF and discovered comp.sys.sinclair first of all - and best about something is to write about it. you want it to continue then consider yourself duty bound to that then alerted me to the existence of the So here is ZXF: my small contribution to let me know this ([email protected]). All other demo scene, which I started then to explore the Spectrum world and the next step in feedback will be gratefully received also - criticisms (please with increasing amazement. I discovered the my journey. be kind), improvement suggestions and notifications of any trade in Spectrum hardware at ebay and the errors you think you've spotted are essential for this sort of range of new devices being developed for the machine today: the +3e hard disk interface project to succeed. Colin Woodcock and ROMs, the Proface PC keyboard This issue has been entirely put together by me. It was interface, the new Spectrum+ wearproof [email protected] great fun, however it's not a level of input I anticipate being keyboard membrane; to name but a few. I easy to maintain in the future. If you would like to contribute discovered Spectrum classics being remade to future issues of ZXF - even if it's just to write a letter - as modern PC games and vice versa. I please do; contact me again by the email address above. discovered endless software projects - for the Editor: Colin Woodcock PC and the original machine itself. I discovered the eastern European clones and Thanks to: Garry Lancaster, Chris Cowley, Jeff Braine, Cliff their tremendous contribution to the longevity Lawson, John King and Thomas Eberle. of the Spectrum spirit. And very quickly I ZXF/01 page 5 ZXF/01 page 6 Retro's not what it used Windows +3e to be > New ROMs for the Spectrum +3e > New look for Retrospec Hot on the heels of version 1.04, version 1.10 The site regarded by many as the place of Garry Lancaster's +3e ROMs offers new on the web for game remakes has had streams and channels for you to play with itself a makeover. The redesigned using the OPEN # command, the most www.retrospec.org launched on 18 April interesting of these being windows! and has taken a move away from its exclusively Spectrum roots towards the With a choice of 48 different character styles, 8-bit scene more generally (many of its justification, automatic scrolling and all the existing titles, after all, were released in usual INK and PAPER type controls, other formats originally). Lancaster's windows offer a powerful way of Spectrum fashion lives on at displaying text output. They even overlap! www.retroaction.co.uk, where you can Of the many games available for free pick up this cheeky little ZX number download, the very latest addition is For more information on the +3e see the for £11 plus p&p. Check out also Graham Goring's remake of Raffaele feature on page 18. Check out also www.eightballentertainment.com/ Cecco's Cybernoid 2 (see page 10 for a www.z88forever.org.uk/zxplus3e/ full review of this title). There are also a few new screenshots to drool over of Jeff Braine's SabreWulf remake - still under > Windows: ebay in May development, but looking absolutely where does he get his ideas from? gorgeous (and not to be confused with > Look at what you could have won Kieran and Declan Sandwell's remake of the same title reviewed on page 11). The computers themselves aside, what about this little lot for an ebay find in May: Above: The new-look Restrospec: damn those guys - Sinclair Interface One & Microdrives _______________________________________ are good. ___________________________________________ - Sinclair Interface 2 - Sinclair ZX81/Spectrum Printer and paper Harrier Attacks Below: SabreWulf - it just looks too good to be true. - Rotronics Wafadrive Tell me it's real. Please... English succession - Video Vault "Clive Drive" > Durell classic remade - Datel Plus D Interface and disk drive Pavel Dovgaluk has brought Durell's - dk'tronics 48k ZX Spectrum Lightpen > German magazine hits UK Harrier Attack! to the PC. A near exact - Nidd Valley DigiMouse and software facsimilie of the Spectrum original, the Suc-Session, the long running magazine of - Cheetah SpecDrum new version only strays beyond eight the Spectrum-User-Club in Germany, will now - Rombo VIDI-ZX Video Digitiser colours to include a scan of the original be sold in both German and English versions.