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should have had it sent to me ;p

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

reminds me of my arcade stick!

This is a nice minimalist layout!

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?

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

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

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...

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

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.

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... )

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

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

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:

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

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

quickshot or kemston?

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.

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:

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

...ooooooh yes. I remember it well.

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


then saved by microswitches!

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

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!

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:

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?

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!