Comments on: ZX Spectrum nostalgia

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Sat, 15 May 2010 18:08:47 +0000

[...] have already did that with also a Zx Spectrum and an iPod or an Atari 2600 and MP3 player [...]

By: ZX Spectrum Games

ZX Spectrum Games — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:54:31 +0000

What time and effort to load in some software!

You can’t beat a real machine on an old crt tv.

These days I tend to stick to emulation for my Speccy playing – no screechy load noises here!

Now, time for me to get back to Spectrum Games

Nice article.

By: Damon

Damon — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:14:15 +0000

I am in the process of acquiring a ZX Spectrum in which I plan to use for writing chip music. I was wondering if you would mind giving me a quick tutorial on how you used the iPod to load .tap files and how to hook up to a modern TV/LCD screen because with my Commodore 64 I lucked out finding a more modern cable instead of using the RF Leads.

Also- Would a second gen iPod nano work? I am not sure if they changed the solid state memory set up from gen one to two
Thank you so much-if you’re down to help I can be reached at hardjowirogo@gmail.com

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:14:43 +0000

The ZX Spectrum has a lot to answer for – was the machine that got me started! We had one of the first of the 48k ones, not sure if it is still around at Mum and Dad’s, although I recall that I did manage to blow something up on it.

Amazing thing to realise is quite how small the memory on the machine is compared to what we take for granted on even something as ubiquitous as a mobile phone.

Interesting about it not working on the LCD display – hadn’t heard about that, but then I’d not ever tried hooking a spectrum up to one. Would be curious to see if something in the next generation like an Amiga suffered the same problem.