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Do you know the memory "Poke" hack to make it run at 2x speed? It's great for calculations, but more important the screen turns into complete psychedelic madness! I forget the address-- used to know it by heart.

i bought a panasonic msx2+ computer from japan a few years ago and theres no problem running it in canada or usa. japan is also ntsc.

Even I will attest that Dungeons of Daggorath properly takes the #1 slot. :)

I had "Out Of Box Experience", which I renamed "Excitement!"

The hiss comes from the opamp driving the speaker. That opamp is in the switching power IC that generates the 5 volt signal. You will definitely need a loud audio source for the 2068. I’ve not tried the TZXduino but for folks who want to use a phone/tablet, I recommend a small LM386 amplifier to boost the signal.

a TZXduino should work for loading ZX Spectrum tape files off of an SD card.

a Sinclair with a Power switch? BLASPHEMY!

OOOh! nice! I want a Speccy meself!

If a 27C256 is needed and you have 27C512 I would think you could write both original and Spectrum ROMs to it and make it switchable (highest address line link to either GND or 5V).

try loading WAV from a source with a higher volume level. Smartphones and tablets from the last 10 years all have ear protection and for that reason can't be turned up loud enough. Any Linux PC set to 150% output volume and the WAV played with VLC set to 120% volume is working in my case. Better solution is to use a tape emulator like TZXDuino or MaxDuino or SVICAS. You can easily build your own MaxDuino with a cheap Arduino Uno clone and some parts like SD card reader and audio amp for a few bucks. Makes for a nice project as well.

There was an Emulator cartridge with the ZX Spectrum ROM available for the TC2068 and TS2068. No ROM swapping needed. TC2068s sold in Portugal came with it bundled. Let me add that I rarely used it without the cartridge as all software I run was for the Speccy.

Good rule of thumb - All Spectrums need new capacitors. I imagine the Timex is no different

The hosts you're connecting to are running a TNFS server. You can run your own locally and connect to it, and there are many others out there (at least that have Atari software, not sure about coco).

you went from canada to usa to buy games ? how about custom fees ? there are stores in canada too.

Awesome video, Ken... Glad you finally got to using the Fujinet. I've had mine for a few months now and love it. I also have the SDC and the Backbit Pro - and all 3 have their own strengths and weaknesses. One thing that I love the Fujinet for that you didn't touch on is connecting to BBSes. You should give that a try and make another video! Also - good choice of the Game On Results list! ;-)

Really cool, I don't have any modern storage solution for my CoCo yet so this might be the ticket. By the way, Irata (pronounced kind of like errata) is Atari spelled backwards. It was first popularized by the game M.U.L.E. (Irata is the name of the planet it takes place on) but has been used for many other geeky things since.

Great video. It is wild that we have this in 2024. I would love to see you mess with a DS-69 as well as Ears setup for the Coco.

Epic, sir.

I am commenting before I watch the whole thing here, so this may be useless, but... 1) Older C64 boards like the one you have there are known to glitch with the diagnostic software. 2) It seems to me that you may be having socket contact problems, IC sockets, especially the cheap Chinese ones don't last long if you remove and insert ICs too many times. 3) That TL866 programmer does not do the best job on testing logic ICs, yes, they are functionally tested, and if they fail, they are most certainly bad, but if they pass, that doesn't mean they are 100% good. Not all logic ICs are equal, and that programmer does not discriminate 74LS, 74HC, 74HCT ones and also the tests are done at a much slower speed than the actual speed they need to run in the computer. In short, don't trust the TL866 on logic tests, especially when it says the IC is good. 4) Diagnostic harness will give you all kinds of false bad reports if the edge connectors are dirty, please make a habit of cleaning them sparkling shiny before you connect the harness. Also plugging them in on dirty edge connectors will contaminate the female counterparts of the harness, you need to clean them too with lots of contact cleaner and a toothbrush if you have been using them on uncleaned edge connectors.

8-Bit Show And Tell sent me here

Yeah there were a lot of Vic20 carts in unusual sizes. I remember the games by iMagic like “Demon Attack” and “Dragon Fire” were on small black carts. Also I had some Sega Vic20 games believe it or not like “Buck Rogers” and “Star Trek” that came on these nice rounded rectangular shaped carts with smooth edges.

Yes I definitely played all my commodore games from cassette back in 1985, a disk drive was too rich for my blood! Glad to see another Canadian retro fan. I'm from Winnipeg and heard about your channel from 8-bit show and tell. A few months ago I got one of those new "ZX Spectrum Next" computers from the kickstarter. Even though it "can" play games off tape it's so much nicer to just load the .tap files right off the built in SD card reader. I like retro, but a few modern conveniences are nice. I'll take modern storage media any day.

Great video about a great game! Thank you! Oh, and… Robin sent me… :-)

8-Bit Show and Tell brought me here. Nice video

WOOT! Thanks for the review!

Pretty cool! I think the oldest Mac I have is an SE/30. I should get one of the earliest models sometime and try this out.

Great upgrade on that Macintosh! Love it!

Does the Rominator allow for 800K Floppies, with the proper drive? With only 1 MB of RAM installed, the maximum system version should be 6.0.3. with 4MB you can run 7.0.x

It's interesting watching you methodically rule out possibilities as you diagnose the cause. Will be really cool if you eventually get this working perfectly!

Does this mod use the Ch3/4 switch to kill color?

I have cats so I subscribed. Big grey one you gave there.

I'm looking forward to seeing this work... in the fall! :)

I would love to have a PET, but my two biggest fears are spending a ton of money on one and then not know what to do that could be fun with it and that I can technically achieve, and the second thing is that a lot of issues with it seems to be quite complicated to troubleshoot, like you are showing.

Thank you for the video. You were not the last person on Earth to find out about that little adaptor .... Apparently I was. Thank you again. Your helpfulness is only matched by your fashion sense. 😂

I aplaud your good video production values. Maybe review non-game applications? Still not convinced to buy a CoCo 3.

Oooh an Odyssey! I begged and begged my parents for an Atari VCS and was denied. They did however find a second hand Odyssey for me. Which in 1980 was an absolute turd. But now, oh how I wish I had kept it. ;)

Man the back of that car is claustrophobia central! Whew, I don't think I could've made that trip unless I was up front.

Hopefully it was a blast :) at least everyone was safe from me :P

Thanks for the awesome trip report Ken! Boatfest wouldn’t be the same without you!

Great to see and talk to you man! Hopefully we'll see you next up in your neck of the woods!

This looks like it was a fun trip. Thanks for sharing it with us! Also looks like a nice haul you returned with.

Looks like it was a lot of fun, enjoy your time in the cabin

You are absolutely correct in describing Boatfest as the "most relaxed retro get-together." That's what makes Boatfest so unique and special.

Great job capturing the event!

Nice video!

Bah instructions. What fun is that. ;D Just bought one f these a couple of days ago. Looking forward to its arrival.

Luckily if its the video ram that should be an easy fix. My pet had weird issue with its character rom that caused similar issues.

OOoh! nice! You need more PET videos so I can learn all about them! I am getting my PET's soon, after 5 years of waiting... I am sooo excited!!! and that video anomaly looks like a stuck bit...

So if I write a program in BASIC, how do I save it to the USB stick?

Apparently this also works on the Dragon 32/64, I'm off to eBay :)