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Restoring a ZX Spectrum+ Toastrack
I talk a lot about Commodore machines in this blog; they left a bigger dent in me growing up, but like most kids of my generation living in Portugal in the 80s, the first computers I played with were actually Sinclairs—first my friend’s ZX81 and then a ZX Spectrum 48K that my parents offered me. I have many memories of playing games like the Horace series, Manic Miner, Jetpac, or Chuckie Egg on my Spectrum.
I talk a lot about Commodore machines in this blog; they left a bigger dent in me growing up, but like most kids of my generation living in Portugal in the 80s, the first computers I played with were actually Sinclairs—first my friend’s ZX81 and then a ZX Spectrum 48K that my parents offered me. Instead, for cost reasons, they use a membrane with multiple plastic layers and printed conductive tracks that make contact when the physical key and a rubber mat are pressed against them. I used an RGB2HDMI 12 Bit Issue 4 I had hanging around, with the 6-way IDC hat adapter that supports three- and four-level analog RGB signals, and built a cable to connect it to the ZX Spectrum’s .
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