I remember in the eighties and early nineties, a lot of kids had Amigas and Commodore 64's and such, there was the rich kid with the Archimedes, then there was the one kid who had a 'Speccy' (or the "POS" as we called it). Nobody talked to him.
I kind of like these machines. They don't appeal to me for gaming, but I like the idea that a whole generation had these machines available. I also need a BBC micro. The idea that the state tries to educate it's people is something that is missing today.
@ oh man I too am looking for a nice BBC micro. And so it’s the same in Germany, that education went down the drain? The concept of teaching kids valuable and applicable knowledge is so far detached from today’s syllabus. They rather teach them weird nonsense like non-binary and to fear climate change. Fear never changed anything my dad says. I guess that’s why you guys decided to send your son to an international school. My colleague Mou, she’s from India and lives here her son also goes to the international school, it’s a level apart from Dutch schools. And very liberal too. He absolutely loves it and he speaks English very well. But also Dutch fluently (I don’t know how they do that, for a 13 year old that came here at the age of 6). I actually played with BBC basic last week in the new RiscOS. And it’s so strong and brilliant. The fact that you can code assembly in between [ ] is so incredible. And just like with the Amstrad very useful graphics routines. It was an IT educational powerhouse. That was the last time the UK really thought education through as well 🤣
Apart from the very early issue 1 (a rarity and a highly sought after collectors' item now) almost all issues regardless of being in a rubberkey or plus casing, were manufactured both as 16K or 48K. There is no distinct date on which 16K version ended. That "screaming" isn't coming from the 7805 regulator, it is coming from the coil (transformer) of the DC-DC conversion circuitry which produces the 12V DC and the -5V DC lines required for the 4116 DRAM (lower memory 16K). 14.42V is not that high because the original PSUs of the Spectrums were not regulated and they could put out anything between 11 to 16V when not under load. Please measure the PSU voltage again when the Spectrum is running. I can bet it will drop to around 10-11V, which is perfectly fine. I wouldn't recommend using that cheap noisy adapter, better to use the original, or a very good quality modern SPMS with proper noise filtering. For 7805 replacements, I recommend Traco or Recom DC-DC modules. Do not use the cheap Chinese DC-DC modules that come as a small PCB.
unsubbed as there was to much talking about or on your "sponsors page" and the real useful info you actually didnt know . as pointed out below but you managed an 18 min video just to cut 3 wires and connect some wires then not know how to load a game from a device you said you built . be the man not work for the man .
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I remember in the eighties and early nineties, a lot of kids had Amigas and Commodore 64's and such, there was the rich kid with the Archimedes, then there was the one kid who had a 'Speccy' (or the "POS" as we called it). Nobody talked to him.
You really found a love for the Speccy 😉
I kind of like these machines. They don't appeal to me for gaming, but I like the idea that a whole generation had these machines available. I also need a BBC micro. The idea that the state tries to educate it's people is something that is missing today.
@ oh man I too am looking for a nice BBC micro. And so it’s the same in Germany, that education went down the drain? The concept of teaching kids valuable and applicable knowledge is so far detached from today’s syllabus. They rather teach them weird nonsense like non-binary and to fear climate change. Fear never changed anything my dad says.
I guess that’s why you guys decided to send your son to an international school. My colleague Mou, she’s from India and lives here her son also goes to the international school, it’s a level apart from Dutch schools. And very liberal too. He absolutely loves it and he speaks English very well. But also Dutch fluently (I don’t know how they do that, for a 13 year old that came here at the age of 6).
I actually played with BBC basic last week in the new RiscOS. And it’s so strong and brilliant. The fact that you can code assembly in between [ ] is so incredible. And just like with the Amstrad very useful graphics routines. It was an IT educational powerhouse.
That was the last time the UK really thought education through as well 🤣
Apart from the very early issue 1 (a rarity and a highly sought after collectors' item now) almost all issues regardless of being in a rubberkey or plus casing, were manufactured both as 16K or 48K. There is no distinct date on which 16K version ended.
That "screaming" isn't coming from the 7805 regulator, it is coming from the coil (transformer) of the DC-DC conversion circuitry which produces the 12V DC and the -5V DC lines required for the 4116 DRAM (lower memory 16K). 14.42V is not that high because the original PSUs of the Spectrums were not regulated and they could put out anything between 11 to 16V when not under load. Please measure the PSU voltage again when the Spectrum is running. I can bet it will drop to around 10-11V, which is perfectly fine. I wouldn't recommend using that cheap noisy adapter, better to use the original, or a very good quality modern SPMS with proper noise filtering.
For 7805 replacements, I recommend Traco or Recom DC-DC modules. Do not use the cheap Chinese DC-DC modules that come as a small PCB.
unsubbed as there was to much talking about or on your "sponsors page" and the real useful info you actually didnt know . as pointed out below but you managed an 18 min video just to cut 3 wires and connect some wires then not know how to load a game from a device you said you built . be the man not work for the man .