Tape Loading
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A rusty trunk that sat in my workshop for months turned out to hold a boxed Spectrum+, a Timex Sinclair 2040 printer and a pile of books and tapes.
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An 80s style C64 tape piracy board: I build the Clonemaster V2 three-way Datasette splitter, blow a fuse with a rogue jumper, then successfully copy a tape.
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A full TZXDuino build from Zaxon’s kit, including the V1 board fix, Arduino IDE and library setup, the old bootloader gotcha, and loading games on a ZX Spectrum.
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A spares or repairs ZX Spectrum 128K +2 gets a cheap buck regulator in place of its missing 7805, and its dead Datacorder turns out to need glue, not just belts.
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A big bag of Commodore 64 bits for £40: Gridrunner, boxed software, a plotter, an Oceanic OC-118N drive and a breadbin C64. Did I overpay?