Sony even did the smart thing for once in licensing the technology to other manufacturers. The advantages over tape and CD were obvious: it was smaller, the plastic cartridge was tougher, and it didn't skip when joggled. Sony introduced the MiniDisc in late 1992. We've rounded up ten of our favourite technologies that never lived up to their promise or their press: it's the tech that never took off. A new technology is talked up in swells of hype, anticipation and promise. Sadly, this sort of thing happens all too often. Then we played with it for about a day before it went in a drawer, never to be seen again. We bounded out of bed to meet the postman first thing every morning until our Japanese import finally arrived. We searched the Web for a place to buy it, we told everyone we knew about it, we hopped from foot to foot with excitement about it. Spectrum +2 = 9v DC, 2.When we first heard about the MP3-playing Soundwave Transformer toy, our heads nearly exploded.
#SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM INTERFACE 2 MINIDISC SERIAL#
UHF PAL TV port, Serial interface (RS232) port, Parallel Printer port (8 bit), Auxiliary interface port, RGB Monitor (and PERITEL TV) port, MIDI output port, Two Joystick ports, Tape/Audio Out, Expansion I/O port (full Z80 bus) Sinclair Basic 48k (compatibility mode) and Sinclair Basic 128kĨ with two tones each (normal and bright) Selling a boxed black spectrum +2 at the moment on ebay, as well as a ZX81 :) $item.view$alt$web$id$321657454426 As long as you use them as intended they last forever :) I couldn''t live without mine it''s like my childhood never left me These are solid machines considering the fun people made of companies like Amstrad same goes for Sinclair. I''m prepared to change the tape drive belt if it were to perish and snap there isn''t much to worry about as far as repairs go. The built in cassette deck worked fine back then and does now, I haven''t had to twiddle the Azymuth screw as yet like I did back in the day but I think that was more down to recording methods rather than any fault of the tape head.
#SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM INTERFACE 2 MINIDISC PLUS#
I own a reasonably mint +2(grey) same as the one I owned back in 1986 I have all my old games plus many more I got cheaper in the 90''s and will continue to use it I got a lovely scart lead and a refurbed Quickshot 1 joystick plus the joystick converters for both ports(a must) I do have an SJS1 joystick but keeping that intact as they snap easily as most of you will remember.
Please consider donating your old computer / videogame system to or one of our partners from anywhere in the world (Europe, America, Asia, etc.). They also removed the keypad scanning routines of the Spectrum 128 and +2 (remember the keypad sold with the Spanish Spectrum 128k ?). When Amstrad conceived the +2A/B and the +3 they redesigned the motherboard and made some internal changes on the bus. Note that the first ROMs developed by Amstrad for the +2 model caused compatibility problems with the old Spectrum software, so they changed a few things in later ROMs. The difference between the +2A and +2B was mainly due to a move in production from Hong Kong to Taiwan. It means that their motherboards were quite similar to that of the +3. There were several models of the Spectrum +2 : the Spectrum +2 (grey case) which had a motherboard nearly identical to that of the 128, and the Spectrum +2A and +2B (black case) which were simply Spectrum +3 computers with a tape-recorder instead of the disk drive. There was still a calculator mode in the start-menu but the « Tape tester » option of the 128 had been removed since the tape-recorder was built-in.Īs with the other 128k models, and due to the limitations of the Z80 CPU which can only address 65536 bytes, the 128kb RAM was not directly usable (unless with bank-switching routines), but could be used as a RAM disk. It was the most popular sound chip at the time.Īs on the Spectrum 128, two BASIC versions were implemented : the 48k BASIC to remain compatible with the original Sinclair Spectrum, and the 128k BASIC which was already introduced with the Spectrum 128. Thus, the sound chip used is still the well-known Yamaha AY-3-8912 which is the sound chip of the MSX computers, Oric computers, Atari ST series) and many other computers of the 80’s. It was a kind of mix between the Spectrum 128 and the CPC-464 !Įven though it used several features of the CPC-464, such as the built-in tape recorder and a good full-stroke keyboard (at last!), it is above all an improved Spectrum 128. Thus, it is not suprising that the Spectrum +2 is very similar in shape and functionality to the Amstrad CPC-464. The Sinclair Spectrum +2 was the first Sinclair computer made by Amstrad after they bought the rights of the Sinclair computers products.
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