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@@chris-johnson thanks! You didnt have to pass on the savings to me 🤑😂, I just wanted to mention it as I saw your comment and I forgot to spread the word about the $80 deal
Hi from England! I loved the Z (zed 😂) X Spectrum (Speccy as we called it) back in the day. This was my first computer and introduced me to programming. This beauty is responsible for my career in IT. Sir Clive Sinclair was a genius. I would buy magazines that showed you how to program the Speccy. At school, we would exchange cassette tape copies of games and use dual tape decks to 'copy' games.
I had a Master System for a year after my Spectrum + & it made me realise that I really missed actual computing. That Speccy put me onto a path in IT too.
Same here, I was 13, when this first came out, and it started me on a journey that led me to be in a job programming at just 18. This is me looking back about over 35 years in IT. Amazing memories.
I love that you persevered with a system you have no nostalgia for or experience. For many of us Brits this was our first ever computer which rapidly became a games machine. Was hoping you’d try manic miner!
Yeah pull out a usb arcade stick or a pad mate, the keyboard was reserved for player 2 back in the 80s while we rocked our kempston interface joysticks. It's also not a mini that's the actual size of the real 48K Speccy they later made a + model with a proper solid keyboard and then 128K version and then Sinclair got sold to Amstrad who made the +2, 2A and +3 until the early 90s. Home Micro Computers died here in the mid 90s after Commodore went bust and Atari moved back to Consoles. Everybody moved to consoles or DOS gaming instead.
The original ZX Spectrum was my first computer and I still hold it in high regard. Nothing says 1980's more than that design! I hope you enjoy playing some of the classics.
Also get the Timex/Sinclair 1000 which was the US version of the ZX81. Timex made a US version because Sinclair had contracted Timex to manufacture their computers at a Timex factory in Ireland.
Actually, as a Scot, I gotta point out that the Timex factory was in Dundee, up here in Bonnie Scotland! They built the ZX81 and the Spectrum up here until the Amstrad take-over of Sinclair Research.
Dude the Spectrum was AWESOME when you consider that yes, the color variety wasn't great but we have to play the games and appreciate the nice, solid framerate for the experience. Like seriously if you look at the Amstrad and maybe even some Atari at the time it had a faster framerate that made the Spectrum games likely much, more enjoyable to play. It's no wonder so many liked it.
the C-64 was way better with a much better soundchip. The spectrum sounded like Who strangled the cat? Sorry to say but it never was sold in Australia and nobody noticed or cared at the time you loved the Hyerscan too?
@@flatcapman Comparing the Spectrum to the Hyperscan is just mean and petty. The Spectrum was designed to be as cheap, affordable and use low-cost media. The Hyperscan was designed to milk maximum profit for Mattel by (effectively) up-charging every single game option (from extra lives to extra levels) by binding them to NFC trading cards sold in blind packs.
A fun side note, it's not a mini console, that's the same size as the original unit. The ZX Spectrum was small enough that a mini edition would be pointless. Games had keyboard controls since the unit didn't have joystick ports w/o an add on, and often needed key presses to start up anyway, so a working keyboard is kind of a must for the machine. It's a neat device for sure. Also, if your monitor can do 50 Hz, it's best to run in that mode.
This is awesome! My first real computer through school! Born in 72! Bought games, swapped games, copied games off mates! ;) some absolute classics! Get on Jet Set Willy, Skool Dayz! Carnival! Savre Wulf, Atic Atac! Pyjamarama!! Soooo many fantastic games!! I'll definitely be ordering! Great content! Love your honesty with reviews! Respect from England MLP! 🤜🤛🕹️🎮👾
QAOP and Space, loved that control scheme. Fave games were Uridium, Head Over Heels, Spy Hunter and Bomb Jack. I always remember Combat School taking 8 minutes to load and crashing at the last second. Fun times.
Good video! I was thinking of getting one of these myself! The American version of the Spectrum computer was called Timex-Sinclair 2068 color computer made by Time Corp., the same company that makes watches! In around the year 1983. It is an interesting system! Nice!
You have to try and imagine your in early 1980s, and you never seen anything like this We today are over exposed to computers, but back then we were not
Massive flashbacks to my childhood as soon as you pulled it out the box 😂 As others have said, hilariously it's full sized! Best key settings are QASD-Z, imo. QA (up-down), SD (left right) and Z for fire. I never used a joystick until I inherited a competition pro (and +2 128k) from my brother.
love the review thx ML Pixel! i grew up with the speccy, try selecting 'cursor keys' for controls - that us 2 fingers on your left hand on 5 and 6, and 7,8 with the right hand, your fourth finger is on zero for shoot and your thumb for bottom row keys. also the hobbit troll section, you have to move away from that room, wait for dawn, gandalf or thorin will tell you, then you go back and the trolls have turned to stone, you can then get the key. u can also use shortcuts 'op do' is open door, e is east, w,s,n etc. enjoy : )
Exact same size and I loved my little Spectrum 16k with Jet Pac, TransAm and of course the famous Jet Set Willy! Skipped the 48k Spectrum and upgraded to a Commodore 64 after that.
My cousins had a Timex Sinclair (Yea, here in the US, the Sinclair computers were sold by Timex, the watch company) at the time I thought it was pretty mediocre, but I was using a TI-99/4a at that point. They actually released a few models in the USA: the T/S 1000 followed by the T/S 1500 which were both pretty much the ZX-81 and the T/S 2068 which was the last one they sold in the US, as well as the closest equivalent to the ZX Spectrum (so long as you had the Spectrum ROM on a cartridge for it)
Interestingly, T/S 1500 uses the ZX Spectrum chassis in gray colors, but has the T/S 1000 innards with 16k expansion built in. Yes, the 2068 is basically the US Speccy with a really nice updated design, imho.
Nice video. Thank you for not demonstrating it with Manic Miner (which everyone is and it's getting frustrating). I'm waiting for a firmware update and then trying it with my 8-bit-do controller. The online manual tells you how to bind controllers etc to downloaded games (my hint is to note the controls as you download them).
I only knew about the Spectrum because of gaming magazines but never saw one. Good unboxing and review and cool video Ron!👍 I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving and ate a lot of turkey!😋
@madlittlepixel Thank you for the review! I'm American as well, and as a kid no one ever heard of the zx in the USA. As you know, everyone had an Atari, Commodore, or maybe a Radio Shack computer back in the day, if we even had one at all. It was only in my later years that I learned about the ZX and found it quite interesting, although very "primitive" to many things it compared to. It can definitely be fun, and has some cool games, once you get your head wrapped around it. On your next try with it, use your Atari usb controller or one of your 8bitdo usb controllers....they will work on it. Not every game needs the keyboard, but it will be necessary for some. Thank you again for the review, I greatly enjoyed it!
OPQA... Anyone that used a spectrum knows inmediatly.. Its a real size one actually... And if you have other controlers from retrogames products like C64 amigamini or the400mini they work with this one..
It is out of stock at the moment. When i preordered mine it let me order it fine, I am from the USA. I haven't got mine yet as when i preordered it they must have miscalculated how many they had. I have to wait until January to get mine. Maybe one of the workers at AmazonUK seen mine and decided to scalp it on Ebay for $200-$400 like the listings you can see there.
They off and on do that for some reason, im not sure why. Maybe due to demand or something they cut off shipping to anyone outside the UK for a bit, but I did get it from there. Ive seen this happen before, but they wind up changing it back after a bit to allow anyone to order.
Crash magazine was uk zx spectrum magazine ZZap was the uk commodore 64 magazine These two computers really competed for the home computer market in uk when we were kids in 1980s, ie those of us who were growing up in 1980s Us in uk were not exposed to usa consoles, apart from atari2600 In uk it was mainly home computers, not consoles for us. Commodore amiga replaced the spectrum, and c64 Uk computer market was mainly home computers, while you americans mainly had consoles in 1980s We in uk would not of really heard of nes or all your consoles in 1980s.
It's not a mini. Its' a clone of the full size original zx 48k rubber keyed model, with the added bonus of 128k compatibility. It's got a lot of classics missing due to licensing.
ZX Spectrum has thousands of games but most of them looks like NES games and the controls are some times different and cumbersome than modern consoles probably because it's a computer not a game machine.
In the US it was unheard of, it sold very little and no one knew it existed. All the kids I knew had Atari or Commodore. If the review is being done by an American reviewer, that is most likely the reason.
It’s not a mini really it’s the same size as the original, I’ve put them side by side and they have done a great job you can hardly tell the difference👍🏻😎🍺. Have you updated the firmware so your new Roms you add have kempston support👍🏻😎🍺.
Dammit, now I just want to play that Hobbit game. Luckily, I found it on the Internet Archive, I can play it in my browser. Better do that before the games on there get shut down. 🙄
Well, if you want an alternative source, try Spectrum Computing, which is the main TAP/ROM website. It doesn't cover all publishers because they will take down games on request (because Activision so needs to protect the rights to Little Computer People on the Spectrum 128 /sarcasm) but it covers a lot of the game library and has a built in emulator. You'd probably be better of with a dedicated emulator that can save your progress though.
There was a company that was going to do something like that some years ago.. the PC Mini... Then it just vanished... I remember talking about it in a video before.
Why don't you try downloading ExoDos.. It's a large download but it features nearly every DOS game ever made including docs ,magazines from the DOS era and books. Everything is all set up for you automatically too... No messing with Dosbox etc...
I saw other reviews for this and you can use USB controllers like the ones from the C64 Mini/Maxi, the A500 Mini, or the Atari 400 Mini. Also one reviewer mentioned the Speedlink Competition Pro joystick working as well.
I had a Spectrum when it was current. I only ever used the default keys for games which is all I did on it. I broke the z key playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon.
There's an option to map your own controls for individual titles in a little menu. There's a firmware update which means that games that offer a Kempston joystick option will operate with usb game pads without you having to manually set the keys.
Its not a spectrum mini Its the same size as original It was famous for having an awful keyboard, and the keys had to be pushed down so hard But it was first home computer alot had, so people knew no different It was out when you americans would of had tandy colour computer
A replica of a popular British microcomputer which is powered by a system-on-a-ship Linux thingy running an emulator. The original cost about half what a Commodore 64 would and was about the size of a hardback book. It was designed to use commodity parts which led to interesting video/colour output. (Commodore used custom chips as they owned MOS, a chip fabricating company). It was sold in Europe but was also (being cheap and made with off-the-shelf components) cloned in Russia, the former Eastern Bloc and South America.
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Heads up: Atari VCS All-In Bundle is $99 (console, joystick, and controller) on Atari's website. Been waiting for this price point to pick one up. Wanted to pass the info along!
@chris-johnson dude buy it through walmart instead, its still Atari sold and shipped but its $80 instead of $99 😘
@@chris-johnson Walmart $80 listing for Atari VCS bit.ly/4g3Uc2M
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@@chris-johnson thanks! You didnt have to pass on the savings to me 🤑😂, I just wanted to mention it as I saw your comment and I forgot to spread the word about the $80 deal
It's no mini ... it's exactly as big as the original
Correct. It is the Spectrum Maxi
Hi from England!
I loved the Z (zed 😂) X Spectrum (Speccy as we called it) back in the day. This was my first computer and introduced me to programming. This beauty is responsible for my career in IT. Sir Clive Sinclair was a genius. I would buy magazines that showed you how to program the Speccy.
At school, we would exchange cassette tape copies of games and use dual tape decks to 'copy' games.
My mate had a speccy, I remember seeing him copy game cassettes using a twin deck hifi
I had a Master System for a year after my Spectrum + & it made me realise that I really missed actual computing. That Speccy put me onto a path in IT too.
Same here, I was 13, when this first came out, and it started me on a journey that led me to be in a job programming at just 18. This is me looking back about over 35 years in IT. Amazing memories.
Its not a mini console. Thats it full size and its a personal computer lol. If you know you just know.
I'm already on the spectrum...
😂 you're not alone
At least that's what your mom says.
after seeing this dude play the text adventure game I think he is too
The Spectrum had 48K of addressable memory, hence the nod to that figure with the 48 games...
I love that you persevered with a system you have no nostalgia for or experience. For many of us Brits this was our first ever computer which rapidly became a games machine. Was hoping you’d try manic miner!
Yeah pull out a usb arcade stick or a pad mate, the keyboard was reserved for player 2 back in the 80s while we rocked our kempston interface joysticks. It's also not a mini that's the actual size of the real 48K Speccy they later made a + model with a proper solid keyboard and then 128K version and then Sinclair got sold to Amstrad who made the +2, 2A and +3 until the early 90s. Home Micro Computers died here in the mid 90s after Commodore went bust and Atari moved back to Consoles. Everybody moved to consoles or DOS gaming instead.
Who remembers the loading times on the tapes and the sound while loading?
Outrun on it was a "joy", both in gameplay and in stage loading times.
And the satisfying different screech as it drew a loading graphics. Got mine for crimbo yayyyy
I would love an Apple ii mini.
This is great as it has a keyboard like the c64 maxi. So awesome
The original ZX Spectrum was my first computer and I still hold it in high regard. Nothing says 1980's more than that design! I hope you enjoy playing some of the classics.
Also get the Timex/Sinclair 1000 which was the US version of the ZX81. Timex made a US version because Sinclair had contracted Timex to manufacture their computers at a Timex factory in Ireland.
Actually, as a Scot, I gotta point out that the Timex factory was in Dundee, up here in Bonnie Scotland! They built the ZX81 and the Spectrum up here until the Amstrad take-over of Sinclair Research.
Dude the Spectrum was AWESOME when you consider that yes, the color variety wasn't great but we have to play the games and appreciate the nice, solid framerate for the experience.
Like seriously if you look at the Amstrad and maybe even some Atari at the time it had a faster framerate that made the Spectrum games likely much, more enjoyable to play. It's no wonder so many liked it.
the C-64 was way better with a much better soundchip. The spectrum sounded like Who strangled the cat? Sorry to say but it never was sold in Australia and nobody noticed or cared at the time you loved the Hyerscan too?
whatcha mean was awesome? its still awesome. best machine i ever owned.
@@flatcapman Comparing the Spectrum to the Hyperscan is just mean and petty. The Spectrum was designed to be as cheap, affordable and use low-cost media. The Hyperscan was designed to milk maximum profit for Mattel by (effectively) up-charging every single game option (from extra lives to extra levels) by binding them to NFC trading cards sold in blind packs.
5:30 that magazine is very very cool
A fun side note, it's not a mini console, that's the same size as the original unit. The ZX Spectrum was small enough that a mini edition would be pointless. Games had keyboard controls since the unit didn't have joystick ports w/o an add on, and often needed key presses to start up anyway, so a working keyboard is kind of a must for the machine. It's a neat device for sure. Also, if your monitor can do 50 Hz, it's best to run in that mode.
Can you code in basic on it like the original?
@@jwadsworth4195yes
@@jwadsworth4195yes
@@jwadsworth4195Yeah, there's a "classic" mode that has basic.
This is awesome! My first real computer through school! Born in 72! Bought games, swapped games, copied games off mates! ;) some absolute classics! Get on Jet Set Willy, Skool Dayz! Carnival! Savre Wulf, Atic Atac! Pyjamarama!! Soooo many fantastic games!! I'll definitely be ordering! Great content! Love your honesty with reviews! Respect from England MLP! 🤜🤛🕹️🎮👾
QAOP and Space, loved that control scheme. Fave games were Uridium, Head Over Heels, Spy Hunter and Bomb Jack. I always remember Combat School taking 8 minutes to load and crashing at the last second. Fun times.
Good video! I was thinking of getting one of these myself! The American version of the Spectrum computer was called Timex-Sinclair 2068 color computer made by Time Corp., the same company that makes watches! In around the year 1983. It is an interesting system! Nice!
I had an Apple 2e as a kid, I'd be all over a mini one of those.
When I click on the Amazon UK link, it just says that it does not ship to the US. Can't find this on Amazon US.
The Timex/Sinclair 1000 made my vic-20 look powerful.
Pounds my good man we did not adopt the Euro 😂
You have to try and imagine your in early 1980s, and you never seen anything like this
We today are over exposed to computers, but back then we were not
What mini?! This is an exact replica of my computer from back in 1984/90 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I grew up with these. Learned to code with my dads 128k model which was the one after this. Im tempted to get my dad one for Christmas.
Massive flashbacks to my childhood as soon as you pulled it out the box 😂
As others have said, hilariously it's full sized!
Best key settings are QASD-Z, imo. QA (up-down), SD (left right) and Z for fire.
I never used a joystick until I inherited a competition pro (and +2 128k) from my brother.
Note since spectrum designed for PAL and games sometimes use it is better to use 50Hz if monitor supports it
We used to use
QAOP for directional keys, lol ie up down left right
But lots of games were played by kempston joystick
This is a cool review. Thanks for importing it for the review.
love the review thx ML Pixel! i grew up with the speccy, try selecting 'cursor keys' for controls - that us 2 fingers on your left hand on 5 and 6, and 7,8 with the right hand, your fourth finger is on zero for shoot and your thumb for bottom row keys. also the hobbit troll section, you have to move away from that room, wait for dawn, gandalf or thorin will tell you, then you go back and the trolls have turned to stone, you can then get the key. u can also use shortcuts 'op do' is open door, e is east, w,s,n etc. enjoy : )
forgot to say, this isn't a mini, it's an actual sized replica lol
Had the 48k in the 80's always used a joystick favourite game was cookie
this system would be so interesting if you grew up with this
If you load Bloktris from your usb stick, it'll play the sound slow in Pal 50 htz but will play normal speed in 60htz. A great tetris clone.
Im no spectrum guy either. But I just ordered one. Art needs to be rewarded.
ZX81
JET SET WILLIE AND JETPAC ..great games
Exact same size and I loved my little Spectrum 16k with Jet Pac, TransAm and of course the famous Jet Set Willy!
Skipped the 48k Spectrum and upgraded to a Commodore 64 after that.
Jet set willy was awesome. Remember boulder dash?
My cousins had a Timex Sinclair (Yea, here in the US, the Sinclair computers were sold by Timex, the watch company) at the time I thought it was pretty mediocre, but I was using a TI-99/4a at that point. They actually released a few models in the USA: the T/S 1000 followed by the T/S 1500 which were both pretty much the ZX-81 and the T/S 2068 which was the last one they sold in the US, as well as the closest equivalent to the ZX Spectrum (so long as you had the Spectrum ROM on a cartridge for it)
Interestingly, T/S 1500 uses the ZX Spectrum chassis in gray colors, but has the T/S 1000 innards with 16k expansion built in. Yes, the 2068 is basically the US Speccy with a really nice updated design, imho.
You're correct about the metal plates inside.
Nice video. Thank you for not demonstrating it with Manic Miner (which everyone is and it's getting frustrating). I'm waiting for a firmware update and then trying it with my 8-bit-do controller. The online manual tells you how to bind controllers etc to downloaded games (my hint is to note the controls as you download them).
I only knew about the Spectrum because of gaming magazines but never saw one. Good unboxing and review and cool video Ron!👍
I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving and ate a lot of turkey!😋
@madlittlepixel Thank you for the review! I'm American as well, and as a kid no one ever heard of the zx in the USA. As you know, everyone had an Atari, Commodore, or maybe a Radio Shack computer back in the day, if we even had one at all. It was only in my later years that I learned about the ZX and found it quite interesting, although very "primitive" to many things it compared to. It can definitely be fun, and has some cool games, once you get your head wrapped around it. On your next try with it, use your Atari usb controller or one of your 8bitdo usb controllers....they will work on it. Not every game needs the keyboard, but it will be necessary for some. Thank you again for the review, I greatly enjoyed it!
When you see "Kempston" That refers to using a joystick/controller. Select that and you won't be obligated to play via the membrane keyboard.
lookin forward to this one 🥺💖
The british apple-like sleek design of the Speccy
I'm guessing you could use a usb controller. My old Spectrum had an adapter for two joysticks.
Played with a joystick on my ZX back in the 80s. You can use USB joysticks/joypads on The Spectrum.
Since you can type on it does anyone know if you can connect a printer and get it to print out script??
There was a dot matrix printer add on you could get for the Spectrum back in the day. The Spectrum had an expansion slot on the back.
@Safetytrousers I thought so. Thank you!!
Although you can use the keyboard to program on it, it does not support a USB printer, it's a gaming device for all intends and purposes.
@MarcKloos thank you!😺
Tried ordering one earlier today in fact but amazon UK won't ship this to US addresses
Same. How do we get this
I had to use the website over the app to order it.
@@Nashxyzzyou mean logging into amazon uk on a desktop or something else?
@ yes
I used a forewarder. Sometimes it's even cheaper than using the webshop's overseas shipping.
Glad you got one dude!!
Its easier playing Fist on a joystick. Try barbarian too.
OPQA... Anyone that used a spectrum knows inmediatly..
Its a real size one actually...
And if you have other controlers from retrogames products like C64 amigamini or the400mini they work with this one..
It even weighs the same as the original. And the mushy buttons have the exact same level of mush :)
Nope. I measured it weighting 512 grams while my real Spectrums weight 550 - 591 grams (depending on the Issue) 😁
You need a retro flight stick. that is how we controlled it back in day
Can you increase the performance for the games on this? Thanks
A Mini ? Are there 2 ? Gave up after that and the Zeee :p (Got mine last week, but full size one lol)
You can connect a joystick if your struggling with the keyboard
Its ZED not ZEE!
I ordered mine to be shipped to Australia. It cost me $201 AUD. Including delivery.
We have pounds £ in England mate not Euro's € 😂
Hell yeah! EU, more like PU
@@zg-it stop mocking europe.
original had a cassete deck for loading games
Not sure how you got this shipped from Amazon UK it says “This item cannot be dispatched to your selected delivery😮 location”
Yes, came her to ask same question. I'm in the US, and would like to purchase. Anyone know where that ships to US?
It is out of stock at the moment. When i preordered mine it let me order it fine, I am from the USA. I haven't got mine yet as when i preordered it they must have miscalculated how many they had. I have to wait until January to get mine. Maybe one of the workers at AmazonUK seen mine and decided to scalp it on Ebay for $200-$400 like the listings you can see there.
It isn't mini version it is exactly same size.
You needed to enter Basic as real Speccy
I learned programming on one and it made me choose my career.
Taking it back to Spectrum
Hi from England!
I had a C64 and thought the spectrum looked and sounded terrible. Where's the joystick! I ain't playing with a keyboard lol
and those ratings are the ratings taken from back in the day
Amazon says it won't ship to Cali when I click the link in the description bro
They off and on do that for some reason, im not sure why. Maybe due to demand or something they cut off shipping to anyone outside the UK for a bit, but I did get it from there. Ive seen this happen before, but they wind up changing it back after a bit to allow anyone to order.
On most webshops it's are sold out, I assume they want to serve their own guys first, then the rest of the world.
Mlp is the best, but his Gameroom smells like anchovies
I hope they will do a mini msx
Everyone is on the spectrum
spectrum of life?
Crash magazine was uk zx spectrum magazine
ZZap was the uk commodore 64 magazine
These two computers really competed for the home computer market in uk when we were kids in 1980s, ie those of us who were growing up in 1980s
Us in uk were not exposed to usa consoles, apart from atari2600
In uk it was mainly home computers, not consoles for us. Commodore amiga replaced the spectrum, and c64
Uk computer market was mainly home computers, while you americans mainly had consoles in 1980s
We in uk would not of really heard of nes or all your consoles in 1980s.
I got sn 8000 and something, they must have made a lot of them.
It's not a mini. Its' a clone of the full size original zx 48k rubber keyed model, with the added bonus of 128k compatibility. It's got a lot of classics missing due to licensing.
ZX Spectrum has thousands of games but most of them looks like NES games and the controls are some times different and cumbersome than modern consoles probably because it's a computer not a game machine.
It is not a «mini». It is the same size as the original.
i hate it when reviewers call it a mini. its a full size recreation. obviously not original spectrum owners.
In the US it was unheard of, it sold very little and no one knew it existed. All the kids I knew had Atari or Commodore. If the review is being done by an American reviewer, that is most likely the reason.
Pronounced 'zed'. It's not mini, same size as the speccy. Anyone know how to add games to the carousel so they have cover art, any hacks for that yet?
Hi Is it possibile to program with It?
Yes, it includes the same version of basic as the original, also the coding shortcut keys work the same way as the original.
@@johnleonard9090thank you very much!
Top game !!! Ultra classic game: Target Renegade!
I’m getting mine tomorrow
I still have my timex
2068?
Its not a mini - that was its size
Hoping it becomes available in the US in 2025!
It's not a Mini, it's the same size as the original!
It’s not a mini really it’s the same size as the original, I’ve put them side by side and they have done a great job you can hardly tell the difference👍🏻😎🍺.
Have you updated the firmware so your new Roms you add have kempston support👍🏻😎🍺.
Dammit, now I just want to play that Hobbit game. Luckily, I found it on the Internet Archive, I can play it in my browser. Better do that before the games on there get shut down. 🙄
Well, if you want an alternative source, try Spectrum Computing, which is the main TAP/ROM website. It doesn't cover all publishers because they will take down games on request (because Activision so needs to protect the rights to Little Computer People on the Spectrum 128 /sarcasm) but it covers a lot of the game library and has a built in emulator. You'd probably be better of with a dedicated emulator that can save your progress though.
Zed - it is British machine
I wish china would make something like this loaded with MS Dos games
There was a company that was going to do something like that some years ago.. the PC Mini... Then it just vanished... I remember talking about it in a video before.
Why don't you try downloading ExoDos.. It's a large download but it features nearly every DOS game ever made including docs ,magazines from the DOS era and books. Everything is all set up for you automatically too... No messing with Dosbox etc...
Use an Atari joystick or a mega drive..
This was a massive move on the Atari 2600 school days was amazing you could rename all the teachers and the students.. ❤
connect controller
If there is no ideal compatible gamepad, then I wouldn't be interested.
I saw other reviews for this and you can use USB controllers like the ones from the C64 Mini/Maxi, the A500 Mini, or the Atari 400 Mini. Also one reviewer mentioned the Speedlink Competition Pro joystick working as well.
The Speedlink USB is very clicky. Might try an Atari CX40+ USB instead.
it works with several compatible controllers/gamepads. I don't think he knew that was a feature/option. Almost any usb controller should work.
It's not mini that's the real size of it back from the day read it helps.
IT'S NOT A MINI IT'S FULL SIZE.
Dead flesh keyboard 😀
You never played it, and never will again, lol. It looks neat, but I don't think it would do well stateside.
needs- pad and universal controls. like he is trying to learn controls every game seems kinda a joke
selecting cursor keys from the menu is the way we all used to do it, it's 5,6,7,8 and usually 0 for shoot
I had a Spectrum when it was current. I only ever used the default keys for games which is all I did on it. I broke the z key playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon.
Evercade pad works well , makes life a lot easier 👍👍🕹🕹
There's an option to map your own controls for individual titles in a little menu. There's a firmware update which means that games that offer a Kempston joystick option will operate with usb game pads without you having to manually set the keys.
@@Metal_Maxine great! that means it is actually viable
Maybe little bit of too much retro in this… lol 😂
Yeah its not mini, it is actually full size
Its not a spectrum mini
Its the same size as original
It was famous for having an awful keyboard, and the keys had to be pushed down so hard
But it was first home computer alot had, so people knew no different
It was out when you americans would of had tandy colour computer
Sexist mini console ever made
It's a maxi!
🌈Taste the rainbow was yesterday, feel the rainbow is today 🌈
What the hell is this thing.
A replica of a popular British microcomputer which is powered by a system-on-a-ship Linux thingy running an emulator.
The original cost about half what a Commodore 64 would and was about the size of a hardback book. It was designed to use commodity parts which led to interesting video/colour output. (Commodore used custom chips as they owned MOS, a chip fabricating company). It was sold in Europe but was also (being cheap and made with off-the-shelf components) cloned in Russia, the former Eastern Bloc and South America.