Put the kettle on, load Scrabble and watch an intelligent, entertaining game of computer vs computer!

You don't seem to be aware (because you didn't mention it) that the Way of the Tiger game is an adaptation of a popular (back then) series of gamebooks.,

Thank you very much for reviewing our game and being so kind about it, that was ace! 😃

Thanks Paul for another great show. I wonder if there are any Z80 gurus out there that could reverse engineer the digitiser and write some new software for it? Some people like a challenge. Steve

What’s your thoughts on the new Spectrum Retro? Are you going to be reviewing it?

I own the digitiser that bob had. He used it to make the rampage loading screen

Have you seen the new Donkey Kong game for 48k?

Was hoping you'd get to do a review and hear your thoughts on "The new Spectrum", next episode maybe?

Oh, I love those photo re-creations, Paul! Captures the spirit of vintage nostalgia so well.

I wasn't able to get to Coventry from London early enough to catch you at Crash 2024. I might try and stay the night before next time

Data-Skip also had a (tiny) store selling everything Sinclair related when few other places in the Netherlands did. I bought my 128K toast rack from them, as well as the Cheetah midi keyboard, a Multiface, the Spec Drum, the DK Tronics Light Pen and the AMX mouse, and more that I'm probably forgetting. Good times.

I'm just wondering if that is Marian Gold from alphaville on the videoface box

Thanks again, Paul! Love these shows. :)

Hah! I recognise that Smash advert.

I dunno why neither of you look like how I imagined from your voices? … I thought sure the Jeff would be a long haired jim Bagley type..

Chaos is the only zx spectrum game I still play regularly. Get your friends round, get a takeaway in and play Chaos! The perfect night in :-)

Is it possible the screen grab doesnt work because Caps Lock is enabled? Sqij does something similar from memory?

I know you don't normally take requests but I'd like to hear your thoughts on Dynamite Dan II in a future episode 👍

having spaffed every penny i earned from a paper round on my 48k the ONLY game i had for weeks was scrabble and it was bloody hard !!!

I was expecting something on The Spectrum. Didn’t you get a review copy? What do you reckon?

15:37 Nice Red Dwarf reference!

Great to wake up to a bit of Speccy goodness. I had wondered if you would be looking at The Spectrum from Retrogames but I assume that will be upcoming.

When i saw this, I was hoping for the 'THE SPECTRUM' review, Have you got one, are you doing a review ..?

I had a VideoFace (Romantic Robot version) and could definitely save screens on it 👍

My friends from Hilow (developers of DataDrives (a high speed, menu driven cassette drive controlled by the computer), Barba Negra (snapshot, debugger and graphics viewer interface), Eprom cards and modems (all for the Speccy) and Iron Byte (programmers of Freddy Hardest in South Manhattan (Guardian Angel), Buggy Ranger, Narco Police and Mega Phoenix (PC version), and myself had the Videoface running along a computerized (PC) astrological chart (programmed by one of them) in a stand at a posh Video Fair in 1986-87 held at a Casino Hotel in Montevideo, Uruguay. We took pics of people willing to pay to have their face digitized and printed... I don't recall the saved screens being of inferior quality to the "live" ones, it worked fine digitizing from video cameras or VHS recordings...

Superb as always, thank you! - Could you please do a feature on KWYLL, the upcoming new Spectrum game creator that's in development? it is amazing!

Trio!!!!

Thank you

Inject this into my spinal column and refer to me only as Mr Clive Eubank Sinclair. LETS GOOOOOO. RIP.

Good show paul and Goeff , I'm 100% sure there was another gadget , where you could digitise your self in pixel form .I know because I had one back in 1987 .but to save was one picture at a time . Slow process getting that to run lol you should have come over to the Retro Robbins area you would have loved while I had to show off , still I have some more interesting projects for you to have a butcher's at next year🎉

Nice to see a face to the voice!

Trio!! I want my Trio and I want it now!

I recreated the roll of paper with the graph and listing from the ZX Printer box.

I've got the Rombo Vidi-ZX. Neat bit of kit, but also of no real use. The saved pictures look awful. LOL.

17:45 SD-card loader (or USB thumb drive), HDMI, AY-sound chip, joystick interface that can do Kempston, cursor, Interface 2 and Extended colours by means of ULAplus... Sounds like you might want a The Spectrum instead!

Morning feast of Speccy Goodness :) thank you Paul

I got a Zx touch but found it disappointing. The stick is vague and the buttons hit or miss. It’s also a nightmare to set up and use .The speaker is below your right hand so is muffled. It’s a real faff to use. If you have plenty time to search the internet for help setting it up I would just use a phone and an emulator.

Can't believe how old CHopper Drop is now, I'm still playing it all the time, love it!

Paul - is it my imagination or is this piece of genius almost as good as CTech Kong? kzbin.info/www/bejne/raOpY51rh9p3mtE

Cheak?

Thanks for reviewing Johnny The Ghost!

Ah this brings back memories! I had a Discovery 1 too, I fitted a second drive myself and could do disk to disk copies, also the Multiface does work but as others have said you need to place it between the Speccy and Opus. I used the printer port with a Tandy dot matrix printer and used to have breadboards plugged into the edge connector for my own electronics projects - I used to write my own Z80 code into an SRAM chip then page it onto the ROM space so I could use non-maskable interrupts. I was such a nerd back then - also the power supply in the Opus was a bit weak so I remember swapping out the power transistor for something more meaty (a 2N3055 springs to mind), I had to mount it under the front flap and use the Opus case as a heatsink as it would get quite hot. I also had the composite output plugged into a green screen VDU which gave a crystal clear image, although monochrome at least you didn't notice the attribute colour clash! It's amazing how we all learnt stuff from magazines and books as this was all way before the WWW. Ah them were the days......

Really enjoyed this. I'm coming this year, so I hope you're planning on doing this again!

Paul there is a new handheld Speccy out now, The Zx Touch and pricy but way way better than that Vega rubbish

Paul, have you ordered the new Spectrum from Amazon £89

It's a shame Sinclair couldn't buy Fuller and produce a Speccy you could just drop in the Fuller keyboard.

"Is the Earth flat?" "Only after eight" 🤣

A spectrum that doesn't like manic miner......