27 Apr
2009
27 Apr
'09
9:43 a.m.
You missed the TK90X which appears to be an enhanced
48K Spectrum with a
built-in joystick port. I've not dared to power mine up yet!
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/Microdigital/tk90x.php
No Adrian, I tried to list the "bizarre" computers. Guts of one,
external box of other. TK90X is an almost-copycat clone of the Spectrum. The
case is fatter and there are the ventilation pits on the top. And a joystick
port that conforms to the interface2 standard (6789+0 if I'm not mistaken).
But it "looks" like a ZX Speccy. There are modifications on the ROM (boot
screen, UDG2 graphic editor) but you can put a plain speccy rom on it's
place and it will work. There are some games that REQUIRES the spectrum ROM
(I'm very sorry I don't remember which ones, but it was a common mod in
Brazil to put a copy of the speccy rom on the TK90/95 and a flip-flop with a
reset button to change ROMs and make it more compatible with the original
speccy).
Why haven't you dare? Just put a plain 9-12v dc, positive tip power
supply on that. you'll tune it on channel 3 or 4 to see the image, there is
a mod for composite video out of it, but the original is RF (vhf) only