ZX Spectrum Lo-Profile keyboard

Half-Saint · 23 Jan 2013, 20:41

No time to comment.

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dirge · 23 Jan 2013, 20:47

should have had it sent to me ;p

That's really something else mate. Very very nice.

dirge · 23 Jan 2013, 20:50

reminds me of my arcade stick!

7bit · 23 Jan 2013, 20:53

This is a nice minimalist layout!

Mrinterface · 23 Jan 2013, 20:54

Grrrr... Salt in my wounds....

Like I said : excellent find. This find prompted me to get me my own one by setting up an ebay watch.

Are you sure you are not re-selling?

webwit · 23 Jan 2013, 20:56

Pah no dk'tronics! Is there a Speccy inside?

7bit · 23 Jan 2013, 20:57

If he ever sells it, it will belong to me!

rodtang · 23 Jan 2013, 21:16

There have been a few of them on ebay.de since Half-Saint got his, if I knew you were interested I'd would have posted/pm'd about it and you could probably have had one each...

Half-Saint · 23 Jan 2013, 21:19

Yes, there's a Spectrum 128k inside modded to output S-video!

nathanscribe · 23 Jan 2013, 22:08

Are those caps printed? My DK'Tronics had stickers, and I wore them out. Good old noisy clattery switches too. And room inside for not only a Speccy but an Interface II! And power supply. And amplifier to make those beautiful BEEPs even louder.

Mrinterface · 24 Jan 2013, 10:56

rodtang wrote:There have been a few of them on ebay.de since Half-Saint got his, if I knew you were interested I'd would have posted/pm'd about it and you could probably have had one each...

Well, I completely forgot about them.... Until I saw the post.

So, if you ever run into one again, please notify me! ( Me first, then 7Bit of course...

)

Half-Saint · 24 Jan 2013, 13:29

the caps are nicely textured and appear unused. labels are printed.

Icarium · 24 Jan 2013, 14:49

Aww..somehow I find keycaps with tons of shit on them adorable.

Ducky Nordic · 26 Jan 2013, 19:03

Nice! Thats a pretty board u have there....and with a 128K spectrum inside, whoa

Offtopic:
about Sinclair...just received my Rapberry Pi and installed Chameleon. Heres me goofing around and playing some ZX spectrum classics on the basement floor:

Half-Saint · 26 Jan 2013, 21:21

Sweet but you're missing something... a Competition Pro joystick!

dirge · 26 Jan 2013, 21:30

Half-Saint wrote:Sweet but you're missing something... a Competition Pro joystick!

quickshot or kemston?

webwit · 27 Jan 2013, 00:48

My attic is full of surprises. I threw away at least 10 of these which I broke on Daley Thompson's Decathlon and Kick-off (Amiga) in some distant, misty past.

Ducky Nordic · 27 Jan 2013, 17:41

Half-Saint wrote:Sweet but you're missing something... a Competition Pro joystick!

Ya i know...but that pad is the only USB game controller i have unfortunately.

More offtopic:
Also ran some of my favourite Amiga classics on the raspberry, the oh so great Space Quest series:

nathanscribe · 27 Jan 2013, 19:51

webwit wrote:which I broke on Daley Thompson's Decathlon

...ooooooh yes. I remember it well.

dirge · 27 Jan 2013, 20:03

quickshot 2, life expectancy of a day... usually taken apart and fixed with tape.

then saved by microswitches!

RougeRambo · 30 Jan 2013, 15:59

i've got a zx spectrum in the garage...somewhere, i will try to dig it out tonight.

sordna · 30 Jan 2013, 16:35

Saboteur. Terorrmolinos. Manic Miner. poke 23659,0. The memories!!! My first computer hardware mod was on a ZX spectrum 48K (with the rubber keys), finding the composite video signal on the side of the RF modulator, drilling the case, installing an RCA jack for video out, and soldering it. Much better A/V quality, dunno why they didn't include composite video out rom the factory.
I'm still amazed at the pseudo 2-channel music they pulled off in some games and music apps!

nathanscribe · 30 Jan 2013, 18:02

sordna wrote:I'm still amazed at the pseudo 2-channel music they pulled off in some games and music apps!

I remember being pretty impressed by this one - bearing in mind this was the 48k version, so no multi-channel AY chip:

Half-Saint · 01 Feb 2013, 09:09

Ducky Nordic wrote:
Half-Saint wrote:Sweet but you're missing something... a Competition Pro joystick!
Ya i know...but that pad is the only USB game controller i have unfortunately.

More offtopic:
Also ran some of my favourite Amiga classics on the raspberry, the oh so great Space Quest series:

How did you run SQ on the raspberry?

Mrinterface · 02 Feb 2013, 11:29

Bought myself a zx81 power supply. The guy said he had a 'large keyboard' for the spectrum he would also put into the box....

What a nice surprise I got!

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