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by Ed in SoDak
Tue Jul 29, 2014 9:10 pm
Forum: GAMES
Topic: Sandy's Treasure Hunt ZX-81
Replies: 1
Views: 1585

Sandy's Treasure Hunt ZX-81

This game is a Hero versus Monster game. It got its start as a listing in some magazine I picked up back in the mid-80's. It wasn't bad as originally written, but some of it was frustrating to play. So I did some extensive embellishing, adding a map to the caves and movements in all 8 directions ins...
by Ed in SoDak
Tue Jul 29, 2014 8:07 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: ZX81 in a another case and 'proper' keyboard?
Replies: 20
Views: 8913

Re: ZX81 in a another case and 'proper' keyboard?

Thanks! I created this FrankenTimex about 30 years ago. IBM stands for "I Built Mine." :roll: It's about to get its third motherboard but at least the case and keyboard have survived!
-Ed
by Ed in SoDak
Tue Jul 29, 2014 7:47 pm
Forum: Emulators
Topic: Another ZX81 emulator besides Eighty-One?
Replies: 9
Views: 20598

Re: Another ZX81 emulator besides Eighty-One?

ZXSP for Mac. A pretty nice one from Germany that's been around awhile. The author maintains a website with all the versions for old to new Mac platforms.

http://k1.spdns.de/Develop/Projects/zxs ... ributions/

-Ed
by Ed in SoDak
Thu Jul 24, 2014 1:55 am
Forum: Hardware
Topic: ZX81 in a another case and 'proper' keyboard?
Replies: 20
Views: 8913

Re: ZX81 in a another case and 'proper' keyboard?

I just had to add these pics as my first post here. There's more than one way to chop up a TS-1000!

That's a TI99/4A keyboard pretty common to see for $5 back when I did this hack of a mod. The tinfoil keeps out the Aliens, no invasions yet!
-Ed
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