Sinclair ZX80 / ZX81 / Z88 Forums

Based on your experience, what is the best way to take pictures of motherboards, interface PCBs, etc? My camera may be a little bit old (Olympus C-700) is a little bit old or I may not know how to choose the proper settings, not sure. But my pictures always come out blurry, even with auto-focus on. ...

Is there among us (or maybe among the ZX81 German group) who would be willing to build interfaces, cables or adapters for a price? I ask this because: 1-There are many interesting, exciting ideas for the ZX81 and compatibles 2-The instructions, schematics, diagrams for such ideas are usually availab...

Thanks! Will try it sometime this week.

To make it even easier for the ZX81 people, here's the ZX Spectrum listing: 5 CLEAR : INK 2: POKE 23658,8: BORDER 6: PAPER 6: CLS : PRINT INVERSE 1;"DUNRIC'S 8K ADVENTURE": PRINT "WELCOME!": PRINT 10 DIM N$(20,9): DIM O$(20,20): DIM V$(20,9): DIM D$(25,2,36): DIM M(25,6): DIM L(20): LET V$(19)="LOOK...

Paul Panks wrote:Thanks for the tips. Bruno, I live in the USA near the west coast. How about you?

Santa Ana, California, about 40 miles away from L.A.

Hi Paul. Welcome! If you don't mind asking, where do you live? If you're in the U.S. like me, I might have some of the things you need. The TS1000, for example, was one of them. Regarding the cassette player, here in the U.S. you can still go to a Radio Shack store and buy the ones they used to sell...

I'm not sure how popular the add-ons for the ZX81 were, but I know that here in the U.S. they weren't popular at all. You see lots of ads on old mags but you rarely see one on eBay, or someone saying 'I have one of those'. It seems there was a boom of interest and new stuff for the ZX81 in its first...

I know there's instructions, not schematics nor eagle files, for backplane expansion PCBs for the ZX81 and TS2068, but I can't remember where I saw it. :| It might be on the book 'Powerful projects for your TS2068', which can be adapted for the ZX81, or in one of the Sync magazines. Sorry. I've been...

Replying to the original question, yes they can. But instead of messing around with slow baud loading, check this out: http://code.google.com/p/otla/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4xyDdIdVKk http://personal.auna.com/casariche/otla/otla1.htm (in Spanish) The conversion isn't automatic, but it's eas...

Thanks Rich.
Oh well, how good is an interface without its software? I guess I'm gonna let this one go.