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PRICE LIST (prices checked 30 March 2003) Top tips for using PAW with an emulator New hardware: PC-PSU with supply for 2 Floppies and MB02 36,00 € 'overlays,' as they were called - Use an emulator. You probably were going to anyway, but just in case MB02-Printerlead 13,00 € to add extra features to the you were tempted to go for the 'performance art' process of using real Spectrum +2A, new and original package, complete 219,00 € system was included. Essentially hardware, consider the pain of having to SAVE and VERIFY your Proface AT Extern (Interface for connecting PC-Keyboards to Spectrum) 69,00 € KS a modular system anyway (48K adventure game database each time you end a PAW session with the Proface AT Intern (internal interface) 62,00 € KS users didn't get the whole system simplicity of a quick snapshot save. at once and had to load in and Melodik AY-Soundbox (unboxed) 24,00 € KS Speed up your emulator to about 300 per cent to speed up the entry of out of memory the various +2 Cassette recorder 36,00 € long text passages (the cursor gets slower... and... slower... the more you modules - location text, process Floppy Disc drive (1,86 with MB02, 720k with Opus, 780k with +D) Please specify 24,00 € type). Any faster though and key presses might be missed. Speed it up tables, etc - as required, which all the way when using the text compressor, however. PSU for +2A/B and +3 or PSUl for +2 (also 48k and 128k) Please specify 29,00 € must have been a chore), the FDD lead for 2 drives 4,00 € potential for these was Run two seperate emulator windows - one for editing, the other for Multiface 128 (works also on 48k Spectrums 26,00 € enourmous, but the only testing; alternatively you could use two seperate emulators. Snapshot Multiface +3 46,00 € commercially released overlays save your current 'state' and then load it into the other emulator to test. Dust Cover 48k+/128k 8,00 € that I know of were the 3 Kelsoft This way you can immediately edit/investigate any bugs you encounter modules (Phosis, Mega and ). I without having to exit the test routine to get back to the editor. Plus 3 Tapelead 9,90 € wonder if there were others Normal Tapelead 3,00 € Edit using SPIN. Pressing ENTER when you're editing text in PAW simply released into the public domain, returns you to whatever sub-menu you came from. If you want to Spectrum +2 Lightpen 36,00 € however, and if you know of any actually enter a carriage return (ie, to do what ENTER would normally Spectrum +3 Lightpen 27,00 € I would really like to hear from do) you need to change the INK colour to white and press DELETE - to you. Phaser Gun with Software (Tape or +3) 19,00 € do the former you'll need to know which combination of PC keys mimics VGA-BOX (connect Spectrum 128/+2 to VGA monitor) 49,00 € PAW is not the best that an SYMBOL SHIFT EXTENDED whatever. But you don't have to worry about Used hardware: adventure writing system for the any of this if you're using SPIN: its excellent Keyboard Helper feature Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128k, complete with all cables 129,00 € Spectrum could possibly be - you includes a Modes picklist, from which you can select 'White Ink' and then are restricted to a 32 column send this command to the emulated Spectrum. Of course you can also Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2, complete with all cables 79,00 € display, for example (although use this to change text colour easily, make text BRIGHT, and so on. Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2A, complete with all cables 79,00 € you could define different Sinclair ZX Spectrum +3, built in 3'' drive, complete with all cables 99,00 € Ask a friend to playtest your adventure on an emulator. Ask two. Ask character sets) and a 42 column three. Get them to make an RZX recording of their test session(s) for you Sinclair Spectrum 48k (Gummy), complete with all cables + Introduction Tape 64,00 € display just looks so much nicer) - to . Aside from their general verbal/written feedback, the input Sinclair Spectrum 48k +, complete with all cables + Introduction Tape 64,00 € but in my mind, at least, it's by recording will be an invaluable source of information for the sorts of +3 Drive (tested) 29,00 € far the best there is available. commands/instructions they are expecting to be able to enter and Interface I 69,00 € CRASH even went so far as to which you might have overlooked. Oh, and make sure you leave a bit call it the best utility ever written Microdrive 25,00 € of memory spare on the test version so you can actually implement any for the Spectrum. Not bad. Of modifications/suggestions that come out of the playtests. Wafadrive 39,00 € course it is downloadable from Opus Discovery Diskinterface with 1 x 720k Drive (new ROM) 119,00 € WoS and - even better news - Plus D clone without case, 3.5'' floppy with PSU and cables 129,00 € the rather excellent technical Joystick interface 1-Port 3,00 € 2-Port 11,00 € manual can also be accessed Joystick (many different) 2,50 € online at www.madhippy.com/8- Sinclair SJS-Joystick (+2/+3) 6,00 € bit/sinclair/paw/index.html Consumables: One final point is that another rather nice feature of using PAW Microdrive Cartridges (ex-software) 3,50 € is that you can now convert 48K Wafadrive Cartridges 16K= 7,00 €, 32K= 7,50 € PAW adventures to fully blown +3 drive belt 2,00 € Windows adventures. You'll Silver paper for ZX Printer 5,00 € need Douglas Harter's WinPAW Keyboard membrane 48k 11,00 € (www.winpaw.com) to do this, Keyboard membrane Spectrum +/128k, new quality, not aging 21,00 € version 5.0 of which was released this July. You'll also need UNPAWS to decompile your Also we have a lot of Software offers and books. Please contact us and we will send you our pricelist. original Spectrum adventure Products marked KS are sold in the name of Kompakt Servis. We organise the business. database, also available here. Both of these programs are Prices excluding postage. Delivery as long as stock lasts. freeware. Got any comments on adven- Orders to: SINTECH, Gastäckerstr. 23, 70794 Filderstadt, Germany ture writing? Send them to [email protected] Tel./Fax: 0049 711 775033 email: [email protected] http://www.sintech-shop.de ZXF05: 4 ZXF05: 29

enjoy games more. are uniform across the range. It's you're right in saying we're then just printed out on gloss unreleased, but dusted off items Talk us through the processes a card. so to speak. new game submitted to you has to go through. I realise it's still It really is just a 100% DIY system, Of the future releases, FOOTBALL probably too early for any set but seems to work GLORY is a previously unreleased procedures to have been game, whereas PLATFORM Cronosoft has been going for a I am computer literate. It's a label me so long to work out. to our online community any established, but it would be GAME DESIGNER was a half few months now. The four I'm comfortable with. I wouldn't differently? interesting to know what sort of written previously abandoned Since 1999, of course, Internet Spectrum titles you've published describe myself as a 'nerd' or a work needs to be done and by project, that has now been useage has exploded. The web is We can choose to be annoyed so far have been genuinely new 'geek' - even if I used such terms, whom. Do you design all the finished off and tidied up for now a 'mainstream' resource, by these posts or we can choose insofar as they've not been which I don't - but I am reason- inlay card covers, for example? release. Jonathan Cauldwell's pushing computer literacy up the to be delighted that the commu- previously published anywhere, ably competent with a computer. What software do you use to MORE TEA VICAR?, which is an R- ladder of respectability, and while nity is potentially about to be but - with the exception of I learnt to program BASIC on the record TZX files onto tape? And TYPE inspired shooter, is a brand movie stars might still like to say enlarged. And it actually takes no Egghead in Space - not new as Spectrum (naturally), then on the so on. new game, and is being that they don't know how to turn more time or effort to write an in only very recently written (and BBC for my A-Level in Computer developed as we speak (and is a computer on, less and less encouraging message than a It's all very 'amateur' - anyone please feel free to correct me on Science, then on the SAM Coupe looking absolutely fantastic by paople now think that this is a rude one: "Hi there - welcome to could do it! With all of the that if it's wrong). I guess the and finally on the PC (good old the way!). cool thing to for them to say. It's comp.sys.sinclair - you'll find the previous games, the author has QBASIC). I've dabbled with Visual most exciting thing about the all too easy for us to forget, admist answer to your question (and sent me a file for use with an BASIC. I'm happy with DOS and label is that it might inspire Also, I've had emails from a all of this enthusiasm, that many more besides) at emulator, such as a .TAP or .TZX all flavours of Windows, and I have couple of people saying that computers are actually still quite www.sinclairfaq.com. Enjoy!" file. I can have a good some experience with MacOS and they are developing games that hard things to get your head checkout of the game, and test RISCOS. I can get the hang of To put it another way: may be of interest to the label, around if you've not had a it out etc. most PC applications fairly rapidly one of which is a text adventure considerable bit of experience You can give a man a fish and he type game. Whether these other if I need to use them. People I then use the software TAPER, to with them. will eat for a day. projects will come to fruition, we come to me with their PC record the software onto audio can only wait and see. problems and I can usually get Which is why I become quite You can teach a man to fish and tape. TAPER doesn't always them sorted out. Which I am upset when I read some of the he will eat for a lifetime. seem to make a perfect Would you be interested in titles disparaging remarks made in CSS happy to do. But if you critisise the man for not recording, as the Spectrum developed using Jonathan's to newcomers asking an honest, would do, so I use that stone age game designer? Despite my skills, I still run into knowing where the river is, he'll but simple question (and usually piece of software 'THE KEY' to things that stump me - as we all probably decide he never liked Yes, I'd quite happily accept doing so very politely). For clean it up a bit. It'll load in, and do - from time to time. Things that fish anyway. Hop'n'chop: because all I ever wanted to these, but would most likely put example, "Hi there - can anyone save out a perfect copy, so I put others find simple. Back in 1999, a be was a lumberjack.... them out at £1.99 here tell me where I can find a Or something. All of us have been this onto a professional tape. I thing that stumped me for a while game called '' that I in the situation at one time or can then do the duplication Rather than see just Manic was this 'newsgroup' thing called used to play?" Yes, we've seen another where we've worried myself using the good old tape Miner rip-offs though, i'd like to comp.sys.sinclair. At this point in people to start *writing* games questions like this a hundred times about asking about something to tape method, using a decent see more imaginitive and time I was several months into the again (ie, not just dusting off old before, but do we have to be everyone else seems to know deck. I decided to do this complex uses of the package. experience of actually having an games they never got around to quite so demeaning in our replies? about. Imagine what you would myself to start with, because I PGD is a powerful and flexible Internet connection at home submitting for publication - not "Try reading the FAQ before you feel if you did ask and were then have no real idea how successful piece of software, and very (having previously only used it in that dusting off and submitting post next time"; but does the visitor ridiculed by someone (and a game will be, and I don't have different games are possible with Cyber Cafes and the like). I had previously unreleased games is a necessarily know that there is an imagine the sorts of words you to commit large sums of money a bit of ingenuity. Also, the way learnt the of email and was bad thing, of course). Now this is FAQ and where it is. "Can't you would later use to describe that om getting 1000s of each game the software is written, it allows already on my way to completing obviously not going to happen even manage a Google search?" person when you relay the duplicated professionally. I do programmers to incorporate the my first ever website for the school overnight, because the games But does the visitor necessarily incident to a friend over a pint). use professional tape though, stand alone game into their own I worked in; although I was a mere have to be - well - written. Like I know what Google is (I recently Do we really need to be so supplied by a company that programs, so proper front ends fledgling, therefore, I had made said, Cronosoft is still a youngster, discovered that a friend of mine, precious? does duplication. That way, I can and presentation features can good use of my time. But how the but are you aware of any brand immensley skilled in electronics get nice quality, short, and be added. hell did one access a new software under develop- and logical systems had never completely unbranded tapes, 'newsgroup'? I often came across ment for possible future submis- Also, for the record, I'm quite even heard of it)? If a car pulled Until Christmas. that I can label myself. references to CSS on web pages, happy to accept software up next to you in your town and sion to the label? but all of these seemed to assume The inlays I've all done myself, written using software like THE the driver politely asked you the The origins of the software varies! that the visitor new what a though I admit I'm no artist, so QUILL and GRAPHIC ADVENTURE way to the nearest supermarket, Colin Woodcock Egghead in Space was actually newsgroup was and how to get to should anyone want to use their CREATOR. would you stamp your feet like a revamped especially for the it. Of course I worked it out [email protected] own design, I'm completely two-year-old and complain that Cronosoft release (new screens eventually, and now - in hindsight happy with that. I have a set of visitors never bother to consult the were added to a version that - I wonder how on earth some- templates set up in MS Publisher, information map in the town hall? had been available for free thing so simple could have taken so the logo's and colour coding Why, then, should we treat visitors download). The other titles, ZXF05: 6 ZXF05: 27

FURTHER FAQs STATE-DEPENDENT showing younger players how nostalgic, or so enthusiastic for a are very few C64 users that still CSSCGC2003 UPDATE games have developed, but I machine that was made 'before rely on cassettes for data storage > CSS FAQ update SNAPPING don't see the casual user (in that My, but you've been busy. With 21 your time'. - with floppies and hard drives I mean those people that never being very much the norm these The tour-de-force that is the > .SZX format documented entries, the comp.sys.sinclair Cronosoft is not exclusively a owned the original system when days, whereas with the good ol' comp.sys.sinclair FAQ The snapshot as a file format is Crap Games Competition 2002 Spectrum label - from the onset it was popular) sticking with it for Speccy, the sheer number of (www.sinclairfaq.com) has had yet now pretty much obsolete as a was hardly the most well-endowed you have asked for software from the long term. people with standard tape another update. The May 2003 method of spectrum software incidence of the annual any retro format - yet so far only systems ensures that cassette version of possibly the most distribution. Virtual cassette and competition. For the 2003 event, It'll always be popular with the Spectrum titles have appeared. games will always be well comprehensive Sinclair document disk files are now the main vehicle however, you seen to have been real retrogamers though. Most Given that we know that the received. anywhere in the world has had a for this - and quite right too. This is working away like beavers to seem to be aged around the other formats have very active number of new entries added, not to say that none of us use compensate. With no less than 42 late 20s to mid 30s, are married, scenes - particularly I've yet to see if the prospect of including links to the new snapshots for our own personal use entries received so far (and more, perhaps with families - and long Commodore, of course - why do luring C64 owners back to their Spectrum label Cronosoft and to at home, of course; as a method no doubt, by the time this is for the days when games and you think this is? datasettes will be successful! ZXF's very own online shop! published), shady host Dave the computers were interesting and of saving progress made in a Well... this is partly my fault! Generally speaking, what's the [Enough with the sales pitch -Ed] Lurker has had to take the exciting. These people, that were tough game they are invaluable, Although I'm a fan of especially response been to Cronosoft's Best of all for PDF fans like myself, unprecedented step of splitting up kids in the early 80s, now have and snapshot files are still the Spectrum and C64, my request for new titles? you can now download the whole the entries over more than one web the money and ability to find employed for the Speccy Tour knowledge of all things Spectrum lot in PDF format, print it off and page. And, with submissions such and buy all of the games they On the whole it's been each year. is far more advanced than that stick it in a ring file for easy as Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen's wanted but could never afford encouraging. Once I get the of the C64. I have in the past reference (Paperless office? One of the problems with the Advanced Wallpaper Construction all those years ago. Commodore side sorted, there few weeks, gained the rights to Never!). Although, at 93 pages existing snapshot formats - .Z80 Kit and the re-emergence of should be a healthy range of We have a gaming heritage in long you might need a spare ink and .SNA, both exceedingly long Millionaire, last year's winner, in a titles available. Also, Jonathan this country, with the Spectrum cartridge at the ready and a in the tooth now, by the way - is special 'Cheating Bast. Edition' (for Cauldwell (Egghead in space, especially, that we should be soothing cup of tea to hold your that they don't include any which, read same game submitted Dead or Alive etc.) is currently truly proud of, and it's up to us hand through the experience. information about the hardware by different guy), it looks like 2003 working on new titles, including 30-somethings to make sure that Nonetheless, a fantastic resource. state of the system the snapshot is going to be a vintage year. It's the R-Type inspired shoot-em-up it's not forgotten! has been created on - what's nice to know that in a world with so 'More Tea Vicar?' and is also going on in the nether regions (ZX many problems we can, er, make a ZXF has received letters - just a ironing out the bugs from SEVENUP: GROWN UP Printer, Multiface, Currah µSpeech, few more... few - from youngsters getting into 'Platform Game Designer'. As etc), for example, or what tape the Spectrum scene who were long as there is a steady flow of > Graphics editor out of beta The place to go is file's in the virtual cassette player too busy tackling such mile- new games, then things will be at the moment (and what position http://8bitorbust.info/cgc/. You've Metalbrain's superb spectrum stones as walking, talking and great. it's in - crucial for multiload five months left: get coding! graphics editor SevenuP has taken solid food back in the mid 80s to games). I am a little disappointed that the brave step over the beta be aware of the Spectrum. Do some of the less popular threshold. Version 1.0 was you think the machine can have Since version 2.5, Spectaculator machines haven't had any released in June and now can an appeal to 'the youth of today' (now in version 5.0) has developed submissions though. I'd really import and convert many of the - and, if so, on what grounds? and supported a new snapshot file love to release software for the popular image formats such as distribute a number of Commo- format which overcomes this I do think the Spectrum can ZX81, Vic 20, or Dragon 32 for BMP, GIF and PNG. Compared to dore 64 games, but I'm trying (& limitation: the ZX-State - or .SZX - have an appeal to younger example. the likes of LCD's BMP2SCR Pro and format. Spectaculator author people, but not in the same way struggling) to find a way to As a Spectrum fan yourself, when Derek Jolly's YASPIC (see last issue), Jonathan Needle has now got as it affects us 'thirtysomethings'. convert these disk image files did you get back into the the conversion is fairly around to documenting this There are always some who will into a format that can be modern Spectrum scene - or did unspectacular, however the pure format and the (very detailed) want to find out the roots of distributed on tape, that will load you never leave? Aside from felxibility of the editor more than results can be found at his site: gaming as we know it, (and both quickly and reliably. Uncle Cronosoft, of course, what do makes up for this (you can always www.spectaculator.com/docs/zx- good for them!) but I think for the Clive, in his infinite wisdom, you think is the most exciting open images previously converted state/intro.shtml majority, the lack of eye and ear produced a tape loading system elsewhere, after all) and - given that is fast and forgiving for the thing going on in the community Cue, incidentaly, a very long and candy that the Spectrum brings, the frequency of Metalbrain's Spectrum. Unfortunately, the today? technical discussion in css may not be enough to tempt updates so far - it wouldn't surprise same cannot be said of the C64. between Jon and Phil Kendall, them away from today's I never left completely...I stopped me one jot if future versions start and the sensation of an almighty consoles. I definately don't want Commodore stuff will be using my Spectrum as a main adding in more complex conver- rush of wind passing over my to type-cast or insult today's appearing soon though, I'm micro around 1992, when I sion options. He's obviously a head... generation of gamers in any happy to say :) moved on the the ST & . seriously dedicated chap. way, but the Mega Drive, or Around 1997, I got internet There is also a major difference www.speccy.org/metalbrain/ for Not for the faint hearted, then, but Playstation are to them, what the access, and went emulator though between the Spectrum more information. brilliant stuff, all the same. Spectrum, or Amiga is to us. I crazy! The idea of being able to and Commodore scenes. There guess it must be hard to get download and play all of those ZXF05: 8 ZXF05: 25

THE COMPLETE YS Republic, MEGUS from Russia and TOP STUFF the UK's very own GASMAN. > New CDs from Mort > Hit counter soars at YSRNRY upon the ZX80 but used the FORTH is unfortunate since that is mainly Remember the Crash CDs Rock 'n' Roll Years programming language in place of what it was used for! Sinclair reported on in ZXF03? You might webmaster Nick Humphries has Sinclair BASIC. The BBC enlisted both ICL (now absorbed recall that a chap named Stephen 'come up trumps' with a couple of , supported by the into the Fujitsu group) and long Stuttard (aka Mort at WoS Forums) new ideas recently, which have BBC, made promising inroads into term partner to produce a scanned every last issue (plus a brought visitors to his site in their UK schools and, surprisingly, the US range of cassettes embodying few extras), burned the lot onto 5 droves. market. education, novelty, business and CDs and then practically gave productivity, and, of course, games Clocking up hits in their thousands, November saw the announcement them away for a mere £20. Well software. Nick's Spectrum Top Trumps page of the 1. The Oric 1 was now he's gone and done it again, has been referenced in a number expected later in November and They were not well received. At this time with Your Sinclair, of non-Spectrum websites, making well in advance of Christmas, £4.95 for the cheapest titles, arguably the favourite Spectrum it a top internet destination for although the launch was then Spectrum User (December 1982) publication of the UK scene. surfers worldwide. The premise is delayed until early December. It complained that "people expect YS ran for nearly eight years, DO YOU REMEMBER can be faithful to Top Trumps as we knew was unclear as to whether the Oric better games for this price". They launching at the start of 1986 downloaded now as a series of and loved it, with each player made it for Christmas 1982. Either also added that "there are no (following a couple of years under free MP3 tracks from their site at receiving cards from a deck of 74, way, this would only have been to really outstanding tapes in the the title Your Spectrum) and http://ayriders.zxdemo.org each rating a classic Spectrum the Spectrum's advantage. The series so far" and noted that some managing 93 issues in total. title for each of the following Oric was a superior machine to the titles were just a "rehash" of existing categories: ZX81 titles. ZXF hasn't yet managed to get its Spectrum in many ways, sporting 16 hands on these CDs yet, but if 1K FORAY Whooshability - Was the game colours and better sound (courtesy They certainly weren't the best, of an AY-3-8912 which, incidentally, they're anything like as good as > Minigame competition 2003 dead fast to play, or was the 'Space Raiders' was a 'Space the Crash CDs then fans are in for gameplay of a more sedate was used on later Spectrum Invaders' clone, 'Hungry Horace' a big, big treat. Indeedy. It's minigame time again. Last nature? models). At £99 in its 16Kb guise and was a 'Pacman' clone (might as year, the Spectrum chalked up 10 £169 for the fully-loaded 48Kb model well buy an Atari, huh?), and VU- Strokability - Did the game charm entries in the quest to find the best it was cheaper too! This probably CALC was the ZX81's limited you with its sickening cuteness or game written in just 1024 ; forced Sinclair's hand when it came spreadsheet albeit in updated AY REMAKES did it have the hugability of although four of these made it into to Spectrum price reductions in the form. And these were from the Margaret Thatcher? > Riders release second album the eventual top ten (with a total first quarter of 1983. Psion produced titles which were of 62 entries), the crown of the Hot of the heels of their first Blastability - Were there plenty of While the Ace remains a historic considered of higher quality. ICL competition in the end went to release, YOU ARE ADULT, chiptune- things to shoot, kill, maim or oddity and the Oric and Dragon did redeem itself with its 'Biorythms' Robin Harbron's C64 title Splatform, band AY Riders have released destroy? Or was it a game you were only marginally successful (the and 'Geography' educational series with the highest Spectrum entry their second collection of could safely play in front of your reasons are many and debatable) of tapes. being Paolo Ferraris' 1Kanoid at Spectrum 128 tunes. DO YOU granny without her tutting? the Spectrum survived their number five. This year there are There were exceptions to the "in- REMEMBER? is a remakes album, challenge admirably, going from two categories to the competition, Ponderability - How puzzling was house" rule. Take Bug- for featuring a wide variety of tracks, strength to strength. Familarity with with the 1K game reprised for a the game to play? Did you have instance which produced popular ranging from a version of Mike the ZX81, Sinclair's public profile, and second outing alongside a new 4K to stop and think every now and titles for the Acorn machines and a Oldfield's Incantations 3 to an its software catalogue must have contest. The overal size of your then or was it a simple case of whole host of "cottage industry" extremely competant version of helped. entry must not exceed these limits, shoot first and ask questions later? producers, most run by teenagers That Titanic Song. There's also a who had learned to program on and this includes headers, loaders, Memorability - Do people still talk Software version of Tatu's 30 Minut and, as the earlier machines. The big basic stubs, and data files. about the game today, a couple an additional track (and as a In 1982, the initiative for ZX Spectrum players, the software superstars, of of decades since its first release? rather splendid demonstration of The closing date for entries is software production was well and the coming decade, Ocean, Or do they rank alongside just how skilled these chaps are) September 29, 2003, at precisely truly on 's shoulders. Activision, Microprose, Mirrorsoft Brosettes? this has been mixed into the 12.00 GMT. You can make as This is usually the case with new etc. didn't catch on until later but original, vocals and all (surely the many entries as you like. Full rules, Players then select one of these machines, a manufacturer needs a owe their Spectrum software girls could use this as one of those alongside the details of any categories (without knowing the certain software base to give an market to the original Sinclair extra tracks you get on CD submissions received so far can be other's card) and then compare to initial momentum. It was the same software and the bedroom singles?). found on the minigame website win the pair. with the 80's home video revolution. enthusiasts. over at www.ffd2.com/minigame/ VHS won its fight with Betamax The AY Riders are a European There's also a discussion board for Nick's since followed this up with simply because there was more Next issue: 1983 collaboration, comprising general debate and support, and second online game, Who wants software, i.e. video tapes! YERZMYEY from Poland, FACTOR 6, www.museummc.org.uk the site links also to the previous to be a Squillionaire, which - as TDM and X-AGON from the Czech you can probably guess - consists Sir. Clive didn't intend the new (c)2003 Matthew Harrodine. two competitions. machine to be just for games, which ZXF05: 10 ZXF05: 23

SPECTRUM +3 SOFTWARE AND apologies to Gerard - I'm meant to MORE EXPANSION Now it can be different; with be programming for him right now, YABUS.ZX, you can connect the SPARES but I've just finished writing a script > YABUS.ZX from Jarek Adamski extentions easy and easily that does something incredibly More hardware, and this one looks disconnect them (of course whilst silly, and that idea was implanted mightily impressive. Jarek Adamski the power is off!) by a friend of mine who casually is a name you might recall from I don't know if you ever tried to mentioned "I wondered if you'd ZXF03 as the hardware guru build your own interface - perhaps thought of doing something like behind Andrew Owen's ZX 8255, perhaps AY, perhaps this?" - I managed to twist it into Spectrum SE. Jarek has, for some something more advanced. My an idea which will teach me a time now, been an innovator of experience says there always were new Perl thing, and there goes add-ons for the various Spectrums two important problems: another 48hour project...) and the Sam Coupé. He's also 1) how to connect the signal bus, "Now that things have calmed authored the ZXVGS operating down after the two game system for Spectrum compatibile 2) what to do to keep the releases, Top Trumps continues to computers. possibility to connect something be slightly more popular than His latest creation is the YABUS.ZX, else (non-through, such as a Timex Squillionaire - guess it's the an edge-connector interface FDD 3000 interface). nostaglia value." offering an external bus for a YABUS.ZX removes both these And all this while Nick's main whole range of peripherals. Just problems at once. It's a through project is progressing - the Your so that we're clear, these are interface and the YABUS slots are Sinclair Rock'n'Roll Years TV show. perpherals designed for use with easily accessible from the top of its Planned for later this year, the the YABUS, not just any old box. I might mention that in YABUS HARDWARE: documentary will be 30-40 minutes peripheral, but a considerable (as a whole) modules called long with plenty of movie clips of range of such interfaces do YAMOD are plugged into the 3 inch 180K disc drive for +3. Reconditioned with 3 months warranty Spectrum games accompanied already exisit. YABUS slots. £10 each. These drives can be supplied with cream coloured facias in by an 1980s soundtrack. The Here, Jarek describes the YABUS.ZX Several years ago I made a place of the black facias if wanted -- just ask. project is extraordinarily ambitious, in his own words: prototype of YABUS for my Sam but a look at the preview page on Coupé. To have more fun, I built a Belts for the 3 inch drive £1 each. New. Loads available. (Just send a the YSRNRY website will convince What is YABUS.ZX? Two YABUS slots YAMOD with AY-3-8910. It worked you that Nick is taking the task in a small, through interface, that S.A.E. with order to cover postage -- correct for up to 20 belts). and played music. :-) Now, I've very seriously and has already connects to the rear slot of the ZX plugged this YAMOD into Monitor lead to convert +3, +2 and +2A to use an CTM644 developed some serious video Spectrum. YABUS.ZX. It is correctly detected skills. The demo of the Interface 2 colour monitor. £4 each. It could be you wanted to and works! 'flyover' is particularly impressive. connect some extra interfaces to This is a special property of YABUS - 3 INCH DISCS: So it's hardly surprising, with all this your Spectrum. You had to join the hardware independency. The work, that Nick's site flipped 1 them in "a sequence" behind the same YAMOD can be plugged 3 inch Blank discs: Second-hand good quality Amsoft or Maxell only million visitors earlier this year. Spectrum or disconnect one into a wide range of computers supplied. All have been reformatted, verfied and relabelled. 80 pence Congratulations, I believe, and before connecting another, as based on Z80 CPU - e.g. ZX, well-deserved. many of them were non-through. each or £7-50 for ten. Larger quantities available 100 for £65, 1000 for The connection was not always Spectrum, Timex FDD 3000, Sam, £450. Top Trumps: perfect and you had to do some MSX, CPC...) www.ysrnry.co.uk/cgi-bin/toptrumps.pl experiments with the 'angle of Of course, it doesn't make sense, Sometimes available new 3 inch discs at £1 each, please ask. Who wants to be a Squillionaire: insertion', etc. but it is important in case of some www.ysrnry.co.uk/cgi-bin/squil.pl kinds of YAMOD. I didn't try with YSRNRY TV Show: computers with different CPUs JOHN R P KING www.ysrnry.co.uk/tvprog/index.htm (6502, 68000), but this is also possible (I would like to try with 26, GUYSFIELD DRIVE, SOUTH HORNCHURCH, RAINHAM, ESSEX. Amiga...). RMI3 7AJ Both the YABUS and most of TEL: 01708 630477 [email protected] YAMODs are very simple, so they are cheap. www.pcwking.freeserve.co.uk I've mentioned that you can easy build an YAMOD. From my side, I've designed several modules and ZXF05: 12 ZXF05: 21

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BASin 'emulator' window and which, Spectaculator Gloop/Amusement Park when the program is paused, will No release as yet of the show you exactly where the Version 5.0 and now 5.1 of upcoming version 0.5 of SPIN Jonathan Needle's Spectaculator computer is in your code (you Author: Jonathan Cauldwell (Gloop published by Cronosoft) Price: £2.99 (Gloop) / Free (Amusement Park) previewed last issue, but if a have arrived since the preview of can then execute it from that Download: www.cronosoft.co.uk (Gloop), http://members.fortunecity.com/jonathan6/egghead/id7.html break's being taken it's assuredly point step-by-step or line-by-line); 5.0 last issue, the latter being a well-deserved one. Meanwhile, a variables window that lists all brought in at the start of July. Paul Dunn - co-creator of this the variables in play and their 5.0 came in pretty much as superb emulator (I've said it Jonathan Cauldwell is a relatively you've missed the point; the current state. And so on. You described last issue, with one before and I'll say it again - that recent Spectrum Hero, but hero he awakening here is not so much to can cut and paste code, and simply superb addition - emulated keyboard helper is an inspired most certainly is and I for one give do with the return of commercially also search it with a Find and microdrive motor noise. It works piece of work) - has returned to him a jolly big thumbs up for being available Spectrum software as it is Replace tool. brilliantly - even the noise made by his original vision of SPIN and a genuine HuBWAW (Human Being to do with the re-realisation that an empty drive queried is produced BASin. And a BASin is already an immensley Who Adds to the World). Egg- designing Spectrum software is fun produced on demand. This is one delightful program it is too. useful tool, but a look at the head in Space, through its (as is the reviewing of it, as is the menu items not yet implemented of those 'value added' little extras Cronosoft release, has contributed anticipation of the new release BASin has evolved quite a bit whets the appetite still further: the that don't need to be part of an greatly towards a rejuvenation of and as is the experience of the since the preview release 'UDG/Charset Editor' by itself emulator (just like black and white the Spectrum software scene: purchase of something real - you mentioned in the last issue of ZXF; could be a godsend if it means TV mode) but which make the future Cronosoft releases include can write all the emulators you the latest version available (as I you'll be able to WYSIWYG the whole thing so much fun. brand new titles, including want, but Spectrum software is the write) is alpha 8. Along the way little critters straight into decimal. 5.1 adds in support for AVI video Jonathan's own eagerly awaited very lifeblood of the scene, and it there's been a little discussion as The time I used to spend with recording, which I think was the Platform Games Designer, and the just doesn't feel fully alive without to what this program actually is. squared paper and a remit of RealSpectrum only forums at WoS are alive with it). we did actually know this Is it an emulator? Is it a new calculator... previously. So now, at 50 frames games designing chatter. If it already, but the prospect of version of Sinclair BASIC? per second, you can record your seems like much ado is being publication and a tenner or two to Actually, it's something altogether Spend a little time with BASin and ZX performances for posterity. The made of just a few more titles to fund our next ebay purchase was different, and the key to this is in you'll soon find plenty of reasons idea that a telly somewhere add to the many thousands just the little extra bit of motivation it's subtitle (for want of a better to wish that this had been around showing a skillfull handling of Jet already freely available then needed to float the idea back into word): Sinclair BASIC Develop- twenty years ago. It's top stuff, Set Willy might have eyes glued to consciousness. ment Environment. and you can download it from http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p it might seem to be stretching The plot of Gloop: mutant aliens BASin is essentially a utility for aul.dunn4/BASin_R6.zip fandom a bit to far, but think how intent on taking over the world writing ordinary Spectrum BASIC. much time you spend in pubs with have established for themselves a The original 48K ROM is still your attention drawn hypnotically reputation for getting in the way of tucked away in there, interpret- vbSpec to the games machine in the a good day. Once again, then, ing all the code written, but corner showing demo mode... it's up to you to prevent the end of between this and the user are all In April, Chris Cowley announced The latest version also allows you the status quo, and into the aliens' manner of tools to make the that he will no longer be to print on your real, flesh-and- base - a deserted warehouse - experience easier. For starters, maintaining the only Spectrum blood printer directly from your you rush. Your mates, meanwhile, commands are entered letter-by- emulator to be written com- emulated Spectrum via either the support you from outside, lobbing letter instead of through the pletely in Visual Basic. But, fear 128/+2/+2A/+3 RS-232 serial port or in energy giving sweets through a keyboard choreography required not, vbSpec fans, Chris has the +2A/+3 built-in Centronics hole in the roof to sustain you and of the original tokens (and all passed on the project to Miklos parallel port; both of these are gum with which to shoot bubbles Street - the one with the Snickers non-alphanumeric characters are Muhi. These are clearly very now supported. And you can now at the nasty critters and send them bars on special offer. Frederick mapped onto your PC key- capable hands, since a new run multiple instances of Spectacu- from whence they came. will keep a lookout for any board's layout, so you won't even version - version 1.80 - has already lator (which you couldn't before). pigeons passing over the dodgy been released under Miklos' Yeah, right - like that takes more have to hunt around for the roof and cry warning should a authorship. This features joystick than one pair of hands. "I'm going quotation marks or the dollar sign With the complete range of package through the hole not be support (Kempston, cursor, Fuller, in to defeat the aliens from anymore). Then there are plenty 'official' Spectrums now covered of Maximus' doing. I'll, er, Sinclair1, Sinclair2 and user robbing us of our futures - who's of windows to open up that pull by Spectaculator, it looks like Jon's administrate..." apart what is actually going on in defined), full screen mode, becoming interested in the clones: with me?" cries the hero. "We're all your program whilst it runs: a multiface poke emulation and 5.1 also includes some preliminary with you," comes the passionate Gloop is Jonathan's third release runtime BASIC viewer, for more. Good luck Chris in your 128 support to run reply, "and we'll be right here, under the Cronosoft label example, which shows a new ventures and to Miklos, demos requiring Pentagon timing. throwing in confectionary through (although it was actually written in complete listing of your program welcome. vbSpec now resides at t'hole yonder. Maximus here will 1994) and - and I'm going to www.spectaculator.com independently of the main www.muhi.org/vbspec/ run as one with the wind to the come right out and say this - for newsagent at the corner of High me it's not one of his best. Unlike ZXF05: 14 ZXF05: 19

Emulator news efforts. This would make it cartridge style, from the external I am sending this on an Amiga, WOS GOINGS ON possible to bring classic titles unit. In extended mode, the though I have a Linux box here back into general availability. Spectrum would act as a too for SimCoupe etc. way" of evolution. Our vision is Luca, but I gave up too early. In > New home page at WoS terminal to access the new CPU Multiple hardware modes should You might like to pass on a that a new emulator should take the spare time I like to make small unit's features. advantage of the capabilities trips riding my motorbike; I also Those of you who have visited allow for different developments couple of links to your readers. www.worldofspectrum.org recently to operate on a basic piece of The path. offered by modern hardware like playing guitar (of which I These point to my reviews of will have noticed a fresh new look hardware. Rather like the and operating systems: 3D learned the basics myself in the Adoption of a current or future Spectrum emulators on Amiga to the home page. The design, Sideways-ROM board on the BBC effects for the GUI, multi-channel past years) and I recently started variant of the Sprinter, supporting and Linux systems (I've reviewed crafted by Paul van der Laan is the Micro. The original Spectrum was hardware mixing for audio, to learn music "in deep" aiming to development and reducing costs the ones on Qdos too, but not winner of a competition held by designed to be an affordable TCP/IP for ZXNetwork emulation ...erm... EMULATE the guitar would be a delicate path to currently on line): WoS owner Martijn van der Heide, computer, and this is one of the and other services (file sharing, soloists/virtuosos I like best (Joe pursue as it is an extant commer- which came about as a result of a ethics we should embrace. http://www.simon.mooli.org.uk/AF etc...) just to name a few; we did Satriani, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, cial product. discussion in the forums area of /7.html that in RealSpectrum at the time etc. - yes, it's DAMN hard!). A new Spectrum should utilise the site as to whether or not WoS We need to work together to (surround sound, video filters) Useless to say that I'm passionate wherever possible, standard, http://www.simon.mooli.org.uk/LX needed a new look. make a new Spectrum happen and we are going to do that of computers and electronics :) cheap, and easily available F/Spectra/Spectra.html or it won't, so flexibility may be again in RealX for today's My own view was not. That aside, hardware components, or we will I got my very first Spectrum in the order of the day. I now work with SAM ROM and computers end up with two entire layers of 1985, it was a 48K; later in 1992 I however, Paul's design is unques- BetaBASIC author Dr. Andy retro supply problems and added We may be embarking upon a What's on the horizon for bought a 128K+ and in 1993 I tionably a superb piece of work. Wright, by the way. We both costs. The 3.5" , the PC fairly new way of developing a MakeTZX? found a second-hand DISCiPLE And what you might not have write assembler (preferably) and keyboard, the PS/2 mouse and technology-consumer-driven with a disc drive. Today I possess noticed yet is that there are bits of C and C++ (to get the We've just released another SVGA graphics spring to mind. product development. a lot of Sinclair machines and actually two designs which assembler started) on Playstation version of MakeTZX (version 2.33 alternate - one which features the peripherals, plus a couple of A new Spectrum may be Best wishes, 2 these days. to be precise). Its main purpose is original rubber-keyed Speccy and Spectrum clones... I think I've produced under a proper to introduce the CSW v2.0 format another which features the 128+. David Harrison I've had a couple of things become a little bit Speccy- contract, at an 'all costs' price, to the public, plus it extends Paul actually created 3D models mentioned recently in the SAM maniac!!! ;) when a fixed number of pre- Thank you for your comments MultiLoad (formerly known as of each of these machines for the Profi club mag - professional- orders have been made, and the David. You present some Activision) support and is able to * * * web page design and has also looking A5 like yours, but more funds deposited with the board, interesting ideas, which I'm sure decode for a couple more produced desktop wallpaper of his German - and still read and write So it appears that the most to make it viable. will get many who read your loading schemes. for Quanta and QL Today. striking aspect of this new 48K model for download from letter thinking. I hope we receive Most enthusiasts seem to want a Recent Sinclair releases from me Who are Ramsoft? What do you emulator will be in the user WoS. some responses. new Spectrum as a new include MIDI and sampled sound do (when not writing Spectrum interface. Whilst Ramsoft wanted > Alchemist PD uploaded emulators)? to keep actual screenshots under computer, although the other Personally - and as I said last updates for QLs and emulators, wraps for the time being, they did So much is added to WoS options need to be considered issue - I don't think there is a the long-lost SAM BASIC Compiler LUCA: send ZXF a copy of their between issues of ZXF that it would and perhaps supported. market for a new Spectrum, and I Lightning (based on Zip) and Sam be impossible to report on it all; an don't think there is a need or Fractal Explorer - 256x192 Hi, I'm 30 and I live in a small presentation made at the Varese The emulator/OS path. town near the sea called conference in addition particularly worthy of even a desire amongst Spectrum Mandelbrots in 16 colours in less Grosseto in southern Tuscany. In April. Which includes some very note, however, is the release of The prospect of creating the new enthusiasts for one. I do like the than 25 seconds, on a Z80B. :-) the Alchemist Software library by Spectrum as either an emulator, idea of new peripherals you can the real life I'm about to become interesting 3D models as well as a I'm currently waiting for back- Lloyd Garland in July. Alchemist or as an for the plug into the back of a standard a computer engineer this fall and reference to skinning. A 3D issues of SAM Revival. I stopped PD was and is a major resource, PC architecture should be Spectrum, however, because for I have no doubt that my passion emulator? Feast your eyes below reading CSS years ago (no time featuring games, demos and considered. I think we would lose me the whole point of using the for computers and electronics and feel free to speculate... for more screen-sifting) but still many, many little utilities. The only something important, but with Spectrum in the 21st century is entirely originates from the get spams to prove I was there problem is that - at present - the second hand PCs now so cheap, pushing back the limits that bit Spectrum, which I own since ;-). 1984. I like to practice open-air software is only availible in .TDO it is an option. further; interfacing the old with the new, and so on. Your efforts are appreciated and sports like riding the bike, volley format - the format used by the The extensible terminal path. and all the beach sports, and I Teledisk disk archival tool (a I look forward to reading issues 3 have several interests and generic tool not specific to the Another alternative would be to and 4 over the next few days. use a real Spectrum as either (1) I downloaded issues 1 to 4 at hobbies which I like to share with Spectrum). Once unpacked, the Cheers my friends. I'm a peaceful man programs are stored in either +D or a standard Spectrum or (2) a work and have read 1 and 2 so and I'm against wars and hate. +3 disk images (and whilst pretty terminal for an external, new far (luckily CodeWarrior takes a Simon N. Goodwin computer based on a more long time to compile things :-). much all emulators can handle Ex Crash, Your Spectrum, Your STEFANO: modern chip from the Z80 family. You probably know who I am as the latter now, you'll need Sinclair, Sinclair User, ZX In basic Spectrum mode, you mention my name in issue 1. I'm 28 years old, I live in Arezzo, RealSpectrum to read the former). Computing, Computing Today, software stored on a drive Issue 2 rates only a 6 as a lot of it eastern Tuscany, where I'm Alchemist Research, maintainers of Practical Computing, working as an I.T. technician in a attached to the new CPU unit is either things I well know (the the library, also published a would be copied into the beginner/restarter stuff) or things World, Amiga local company. I tried to fanzine - AlchNews - for many graduate in I.T. engineering like Spectrum's memory ROM- of no interest (I don't do Windoze; Format, Linux Format etc, etc. ZXF05: 16 ZXF05: 17

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There's been a view or two expressed in the online spectrum communities over the last four months. Ooooooooooh yes. Europe. Theft. Europe. WoS. Europe... Perhaps it's time we all took a few calming breaths and spent a moment on progressive muscle relaxation. Meanwhile, atop the umbrella factory...

I downloaded (and read of My name is Mihai and I am from nu mi se parea ceva iesit din can also be bought separately as hardware, so there is compatibil- want to get? course) 3 issues of ZX Format. I'm in an upgrade for the 16/48K ity with many different clones. Romania. comun. Dar acum mi se pare un Sam Magnus Wilson shock! So much is happening in lucru extraordinar. Imi pare rau ca spectrum or M.) Peters Plus are currently working I read you ZXF magazine and I ZX world! Hardware upgrades, nu am prins vremurile alea, acum on adding a Sam Coupé mode. found it pretty interesting. There was a modification to new commercial software on umblu prin toate targurile de Although I am a c64 maniac, make the Didaktik M and The Sprinter can be bought from Last Sunday evening I finally tapes, new versions of emulators vechituri pentru a-mi cumpara addict :)) I am also interested in Kompakt compatible with the the Russian company Peters Plus, downloaded in full Issue 4 of ZXF. etc. Speccy lives!!! casete, componente sau orice the speccy, from time to time I 128K Spectrum (apart from the who have previously made many Of course I read it and - believe tine de ZX SPECTRUM. I live in Poland and Spectrum was enjoy also watching speccy 128K sound, this would be fixed other Spectrum clones. or not - then I re-read it 4 times! my first - I was with a hardware add-on called Only one word can describe demos, mostly russian :) FELICTARI! This computer can be used to using it from march '87 to october the Melodik which contained the what I felt: FANTASTIC! The fact that made me write this KEEP IT REAL! write ZX Spectrum programs, you '91 (first it was "gummy" Spectrum, necessary AY sound chip). to you is because I read that can transfer the program to a Your mag is very NICE ! It was then Timex 2048 with AY sound Aurel L., 21 ani you've been here in Romania, Kay 1024 Spectrum emulator on a PC, or to made by only you, hmmmmm..... interface). When I sold it & bought helping the kids and everything a real Spectrum through the tape excellent ! Thank you very much Amiga 500 I was thinking that A much expanded system. else. I really appreciate that. I ports. for every character, every Spectrum was dead. Few years New, Real Spectra. Released in 1998, although all I also really liked how you talked sentence, every news. It was later, when I discovered emulators found on the internet suggests (For more about the Sprinter, see about Romania on your site. I am I don't want to get a PC to do my very hard work but I hope it'll and new software (games & that it is no longer produced. the "int"-section of ZXF Issue 2.) sick of people that show only the Spectrum programming. At forty continue. Come on, lets go ! demos) I realised that I was wrong. bad party from this country : stray times the price of what a 48K Some of the features: ZS Scorpion And I'm happy that Speccy is We (WSS Team) will work, for you dogs, kids with aids, .... we have Spectrum would normally cost at immortal! • 10 MHz CPU The Scorpion is another clone of have to write a lot about Ebay, it's just too much - certainly so much other good things to the Spectrum, a lot more nowadays of ZX Spectrum :) Today I've got Amiga1200 (with if emulation is the only thing • 1Mb RAM show to Europe. powerful than the Pentagon We've started something in the few upgrades) and PC. I emulate you're going to do. Keep the 8 bit faith alive, • Printer interface (ooh, proper series. A board to 'downgrade' it ZX-Spectrum's life and have many Speccy almost everyday and I'm There are a couple of Spectrum printers!) to a Pentagon (for compatibility plans for the future. When we sure that there are many things to Mihai clones still in production, of which with the Pents) is available, started programming Flash Beer come. • Support for external disk drives. www.videocam.net.au/~hannibal many are similar to the 128K with although it is very expensive. we didn't think what will happen Thank you for creating ZX Format! it's menus etc., but include extra • Built-in interface for Kempston Harddiscs and diskette drives are in the world. To sell the cassette Multumesc Mihai pentru scrisoa- Keep doin' good work! features like disc drives and and Sinclair joysticks. available for the computer, and version of Flash Beer was a small rea ta. As many of you are modems. Here are short descrip- you can switch off all the extra idea, but you can see what grew Greetings possibly already aware, ZXF has a Pentagon 256/512/1024 tions of some of these spectrum bits to get a fairly basic Spectrum from it. Many new games special interest in Romania and Piotr Szymanski compatible computers: Pentagons can be very different 'mode'. entered into the market, which is her people. I will always (and they certainly are). The a very good thing ! Of course it's Thanks for your letter Piotr. I welcome any letters from CommodoreONE Handy links: Pentagons come in kit form, and thanks to WoS forums and many cannot tell you what a buzz I get Romania and, since I am able to Ok, so this isn't really a spectrum, can be in C64-type cases, but Commodore ONE: people like you too. But we have from receiving messages from so read a little of this language, but it does have a spectrum can also be in PC tower cases to keep alive this fire more and many countries. This has to be please don't feel you have to http://c64upgra.de/c-one/ mode, aswell as modes for with VGA monitors. more ! what the net is all about. write to ZXF only in English. Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC Pentagon: The Pentagons have a few We think it could do only one For those of you who are So the following really made me etc. This uses the Altera PLD chip, incompatibilities with the other N/A way. Everybody has to work for wondering, ZX Format was the happy - a Romanian friend, but also used in the Sprinter. Spectrum clones. heart, not for money. Our idea is name of my old website - which also a lad who wasn't around in Peters Plus: Didaktik M90/M91 that every WSS game will be free wasn't anything all that special, by the days when it was easy to like Sprinter SP2000 www.petersplus.com and every game will be avaiable the way - and was to have been the Spectrum. The Didaktik was a Slovakian This is a great computer, also on traditional cassette. the name of this magazine until I computer (now being sold by Scorpion: Este o manie. Manie de care sunt although this is not really a relaised there had already been a Sintech in Germany) with twin I don't know which job is harder, si eu bolnav. Dar cred ca astfel spectrum either. What the http://www.scorpion.ru Spectrum (disk-based) fanzine joystick ports (kempston&sinclair). yours or ours. Every one is very- de oameni sunt foarte multi. Sprinter is, is a computer that can called this. So I think I've probably Sintech: very important for the ZX- Revista aceasta asta este un lucru Didaktik Kompakt act like a Spectrum. For this confused a few people along the Spectrum. In future may I offer la care nu ma asteptam. Poate reason, the Altera PLD is used. http://www.sintech-shop.de way. As the Cornish say, madder This is a Didaktik M with a built-in my help to you ? If anything I daca prindeam vremurile acelea This chip can change to the do ut? D80 floppy drive. (this floppy drive Now, what kind of Spectrum do I can help you (for example, news cand ZX SPECTRUM era in floare internal workings of any