Demo of Standard vs Upgraded ZX Spectrum
Uploader Comments (ZXSpectrumUpgraded)
Top Comments
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Jee, you've destroyed a Spectrum to put there this crap pc junk. Sorry but that's stupid.
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Sorry not a ZX Spectrum lol. This is a pc.
All Comments (36)
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Spec-tacular!
That's a really great case mod!
I've been think about doing something like this when the tiny Raspberry Pi boards become available.
You've beaten me to it and achieved far more than I could hope to do.
My daughter uses a PC/DS/Wii/PS3 etc but I wanted to introduce her to the joy of tinkering with a Speccy, learning a little bit of BASIC and playing some classic games from my youth but with a bit of modern context (mouse, GUI interface, high rez 3D graphics etc).
This hack s
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If you had tagged this as a beagleboard rehoused in a spectrum casing then it would have been mildly interesting.
But you didn't
I was hoping for something like one of the gfx accelerators + spectranet at least
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Gives me flashbacks to the good ol' days of tape loading noise, rubber keys and colour clash! As for the upgraded spectrum, why choose Debian? Go with Linux Mint, Zorin OS, or even better, Windows!
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AWSOME MOD!
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kinda defeats the purpose but I don't think you can create the same architectured cpu from stratch
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@Abrimaal Sure it does; the emulators support those too.
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Well, you have 2 systems controlled with one keyboard and mouse: Linux and ZX Spectrum 48. Have you thought that it does not support features from newer Spectrum models (128, Pentagon) - multichannel sound, disk drives, memory paging etc.
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@RRRoman212 и его эмулятор
Там линукс стоит
google "zx spectrum case mod" for some more info on it.
ZXSpectrumUpgraded 2 years ago
It runs a Beagle Board with 500MHZ ARM processor, 256M memory, 256M flash (for BIOS) and 8GB SDHC (class 6 - fast!) for Linux and files.
ZXSpectrumUpgraded 2 years ago