Building Brand New ZX Spectrums with MorefunMakingIt & Thomas
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2023
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ZX Spectrum computing can be enjoyed in a range of ways from emulation to faithful recreations of the hardware. Today Lee shows us some of his creations and Thomas takes them for a spin!
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Thank you for all the kind words, I am so pleased with the Mechtrum it really is one of the best things I have made. The key caps come from Manuel who makes the N-GO so we must thank him too.
I still have 2 units for sale on my store if anyone is interested and these could well be the last two I will make. Looking forward to Saturday it's going to be a great day and I will be helping in the chat all day.
It warms my heart to see what you are all doing for such a good cause. Well done Neil! Great to see Thomas enjoying the retro games
Fantastic video and I love the Befriending Scheme idea. I used to teach adults with special needs and once a week I had the pleasure of teaching a ‘retrogaming’ technology enrichment class. The students enjoyed it almost as much as I did haha!
Interestingly enough the most requested game was Pong, showing what a timeless game that is!
Thomas has an amazing smile!
These machines look incredible.
Thank you Neil, great show and thanks to your guests too!
I have to say, this whole project gives me such a warm feeling. I found myself smiling through this video like a six-month old baby with cronic wind.
Looking forward to the stream and auctions on Saturday, I have a feeling this is going to go very well indeed.
This was a really heartwarming episode. Thanks for this! I hope the auctions garner a lot of attention and money for the charity.
Thomas is a great co-presenter. I was always a Commodore user, but Spectrum had the killer design.
There are those who believe we should take the old, the obsolete, the imperfect, and toss it all in the garbage. Thank you, Neil and Lee, and especially Thomas for showing us that we all have value, no matter our circumstances or our perceived value to society.
Memory lane i still have my original ZX spectrum with my original WH Smith data recorder. Also with my dk’tronics programmable joystick port, an alphacom 32 thermal printer and a. Currah speech module.
Ever since I first saw your video about Soviet clones of the ZX Spectrum, I've been very interested in these kinds of projects. This video definitely made my day, and the day just started.
And those clones are still hacking the United States of America today!
I got my Harlequin 128 from Byte Delight about 3 years ago, and it was a lot of fun to build. Great project at a great price.
11:15 I noticed that you had a Commodore 64 tape on the table. LOL
Haha yes, how did that get in there!!!
@@RMCRetro Everytime I saw it I took a drink. Luckily it only shows up about 4 times. 👍
Thomas is a hero! Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm for these wonderful retro systems!
I loved Thomas's sign-off.
I'm glad to see that there's still a viable Spectrum scene, as the 48k was the very first computer that I owned, followed by the 128k varient. 😊
Loved the orange keyboard, it's "The Real Deal". lol
I grew up on Commodore machines but that smoked spectrum with the white keyboard panel and keys with black text is absolutely stunning. Do want one.
I've been following MFMI for ages, and I know Lee has been working very hard on these machines. This is such a nice story about the community getting together for a great cause. Can't wait for the live stream!
I enjoyed playing Horace Goes Skiing on this very machine in the cave this weekend, keep up the good work guys.
Some amazing kit - letting go of that would normally be painful, but seeing it raise money for a great cause makes it worthwhile. You know where ever it ends up, it will be cared for by an enthusiast which is always a massive plus.
I just have to see Spectrum to bring back memories and only to 5 seconds later see JetPac being palyed.. I can't remember the amount of hours spent playing it.
I was a bit of a digital luddite as a kid, and never had any desire to so much as touch my best friend's LCD games.. until we went on a visit to my mother's friend, who's son had a brand new, just released, Spectrum. He fired up Jetpac pretty much within five minutes of us getting there. Needless to say, from that moment on i totally embraced the new era.. Christmas came, and I unwrapped my own little rubber keyed wonder, along with a copy of Jetpac and Gulpman and I never looked back.
So rewarding building my 1st ByteDelight Harlequin kit, and for it to boot 1st time so chuffed. I obviously went with a all white setup to finish it off.
The Smoked Transparent and White Keyboard Spectrum 19:24 ... looks very nice 👍
These are pure works of art. Great work.
As an American, the Speccies don't have the nostalgia. However, all of these looked amazing. Thomas looked like he was enjoying himself with the games. 😁
Good luck with the auctions. I'm expecting those Spectrums to get a lot of bids.
I'm from the UK but live in Illinois :-D It's definitely fun watching my old countrymen fiddle around with old computers. hehe
ZX Spectra, surely? 😁
My first machine was a 48k but drifted on to commodore machines, grate to see a 41 year microcomputer still going in 2023.
commenting as somebody born way past the 8-bit era of home compute:
Meanwhile the 8-Bit Guy created a " commodore clone" and pored in all the best aspects and the created new additions to make it into what should have been
as far as I understand the scope of the Commander X16 project
What amazing Epic home computers you just got to love em.What a beautifull Cases ! Spectrums just brought entertainment and programming to homes all around the world in an affordable fashion and together with the C64 brought an revolution and paved the way,for the bigger more powerfull machines like the Amstrad Atari and the Amazing Amiga a few years later on.
Bigger more powerful machines like the Amstrad and Atari? 😅
I don't think so somehow, and the jaguar was a disaster 😱
Well with Amstrad i am talking about the 6128 and onwards models that was the most popular and equivalant home computers from Atari hardware wise they were a bit more powerfull and after that the Amiga and Atari ST were too far ahead.Yes The poor Jaguar did not go well but was a very powerfull piece of hardware for its time. @@deanosaur808
That orange speccy is just beautiful!
Terrific guests and charity, Neil. Well done for featuring them. Look forward to the auction 👍🏼
This channel is incredible.
Most excellent.
That black 48k case is iconic.
That has been one of the cool things about the Speccy in these later years: the mostly off-the-shelf components that went into it. Yes, it meant there were a zillion clones (which can be either a good or a bad thing, depending on your view), but it also means we can re-create it relatively easily in the modern day. Unlike the C64, which has been a bit of a nightmare.
We had a 3rd party keyboard back in the day..
The little Rubber Keyed Speccy lived inside... until the keyboard stopped working.
What a lovely trio of gentlemen! Hope the auction goes well!
that white zx spectrum really is stunningly good looking. even the pcb like how often do you see a purple pcb with all blue and black components on it.
can't wait to see all of you and the other excellent guests on the live stream Saturday
that smokey+white spccy looks amazing
Nice initiative! Good to see The Cave supporting it!
Great cause, and Lee is a legend for his incredible mechtrum.
PIMP MY ZX SPECTRUM!! 📢🙃
I still love the ZX Spectrum. Glad it came to Denmark back then. I have a Raspberry Pi adventure currently. Especially with MMBasic and Pico.
Great work to everyone involved in this project amazing work just wish I was able to afford one of the spectrum
That white case looks amazing.
What an incredibly wholesome video and an amazing cause! Go Lee!
Great video - top work from Lee - That Mechtrum looks great
Wow, just wow!
I kind of miss those simpler days with my Timex Sinclair 1000....
Great stuff! Now just wait for Comcast to come knocking and demand royalties for that rather fancy Sinclair logo on the flight cases... 😂
[3:40] The first spectrum reminds me of old didaktik (Czechoslovak clone of zx spectrum) micro i used.
Some great looking spectrums!! Looking forward to the stream
Great work
Excellent video as usual
Wonderful!
The USB port does load games via the audio plug, but you may not be able to save your program back to it. 😊😊😊 21:39
Bloody ace pal
The best ZX is the Russian ZX Evolution. Which I am lucky enough to own.
in the last year or so ive heard the word bespoke more than in my entire life.
Update: Lee and Thomas raised an incredible £13,000 through the auction of these machines and JustGiving donations. The Befriending Scheme is going to receive all of the money raised, an incredible effort well done guys!
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Auction Links: www.morefunmakingit.co.uk/charity2023/
Just Giving Donation P age: www.justgiving.com/page/morefunmakingit
Lees UA-cam Channel: www.youtube.com/@MoreFunMakingItLive Stream: ua-cam.com/users/livePfF5H2jWBfQ?feature=share
The Befriending Scheme: www.thebefriendingscheme.org.uk/
🔧Kit Donations for the Spectrum builds:
Neal - www.youtube.com/@NLKMediaGroup
Fergus Logan - x.com/FergusLogan
Lee Smith - www.youtube.com/@leesmithsworkshop
Rudy - x www.youtube.com/@RudysRetroIntel
Arcadesy - x/arcadesy
Retro Krazy - www.youtube.com/@RetroKrazy
MikeDX - x.com/TheMikeDX
Julian Brown
Bobbus74 - x.com/bobbus74
Devzine - x.com/devzine_pl and t.co/YiVw1daaYP
Charles - www.youtube.com/@RetroTeaTime
Taz - x.com/tazfaedodge
Nigel - www.youtube.com/@NigelsWorkbench
Ginger Hippy Gaming - www.youtube.com/@gingerhippygaming7962
James - x.com/Ghost82uk
Chris from the Cave
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Does the Mectrum cartridge come with the obligatory blu-tac?
Neat
Mmmm....orange keys.❤
You using SMD ZILOG Z80A chips or ARM chips.
That C64 cassette is feeling very lost throughout this episode! (Magic Roundabout - Actually more in the way of French origins, but it can be classed as English/British in one respect or so). (Just saying!). That WHSmith tape deck looks like a really robust one; has lasted a long time too!
case looks Amiga 1200 inspired
When Sir Clive Sinclair died, Steve from GamersNexus kept calling it the "Zee-X Spectrum," and that got on my nerves.
thats because we say zee for the letter z.
I think that's because it's not called the "Zed Ex Spectrum" -- it's "ZX Spectrum," and Zs are pronounced differently across the planet.
But, I'll make you a deal: If you get everyone in Europe to stop calling the SNES a "sness," I'll get everyone in the US to stop calling it "Zee Ex."
@@cal2127 Thanks, captain obvious. It's supposed to be called the Zed-X Spectrum though because of its British origin and cultural impact.
@@nickwallette6201 I'll make you a deal: if you stop acting like one Anglophone country in the world that says "Zee" instead of "Zed" amounts to "across the planet," I might listen to your arguments.
@@eddiehimself Well, one and half, technically. Canada is mixed.
The more important takeaway here is that, the Internet is global and the globe is a big place. Might as well get used to it, or you'll just drive yourself batty getting hung up on unimportant differences.
Neil, sorry to nitpick but surely the correct phrasing should have been ‘zx spectra’?
If you are looking for FPGA/CPLDs what about reaching out to Lisa Su at AMD as AMD own Xilinx.