LGR Oddware - Sinclair RAM Turbo Interface
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Date: 2022-04-14
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lazygamereviews
I grew up in England, but I moved to the States eight years ago.
My sister came to visit today, and she brought (at my eager request) my ZX81, ZX Spectrum and ZX Spectrum +.
She also brought my Ram Turbo interface.
Thanks to World of Spectrum, I was able to download and print the instruction manual, and thanks to one of my favorite yourubers, I got to watch this awesome review of it: )
Thanks for another entertaining and educational video!
The button on the side is a reset button according to WoS, but mine is the earlier model that doesn't have the button.
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I grew up in England, but I moved to the States eight years ago.
My sister came to visit today, and she brought (at my eager request) my ZX81, ZX Spectrum and ZX Spectrum +.
She also brought my Ram Turbo interface.
Thanks to World of Spectrum, I was able to download and print the instruction manual, and thanks to one of my favorite yourubers, I got to watch this awesome review of it: )
Thanks for another entertaining and educational video!
The button on the side is a reset button according to WoS, but mine is the earlier model that doesn't have the button.
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maximumrisk2004
I wonder if someone can tell me the Name of a System I saw once at a friends house and never again. I dont remember much since I was young, but a Friend had a big onepiece Computer that was white and reminded me a bit of the Amiga. It had a cartridgeslot at the top and the only game I remember him starting up was about a rabbit collecting carrots and there was what looked like a robber on top that threw bombs. It certainly had those cheap Atari graphics, so I know it probably wasnt a Commodore or Amiga. Mind you this was in Europe where these things seemed more popular.
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I wonder if someone can tell me the Name of a System I saw once at a friends house and never again. I dont remember much since I was young, but a Friend had a big onepiece Computer that was white and reminded me a bit of the Amiga. It had a cartridgeslot at the top and the only game I remember him starting up was about a rabbit collecting carrots and there was what looked like a robber on top that threw bombs. It certainly had those cheap Atari graphics, so I know it probably wasnt a Commodore or Amiga. Mind you this was in Europe where these things seemed more popular.
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Bill
Just to get something straight about the original Speccy: the keyboard was a pig to type on but we had no trouble playing games using the keys for several years. Many games needed only a handful of keys, generally Left, Right, and Jump, sometimes with Up and Down and Fire. At the most five or six, with many games and very easy to manage. Joysticks are essential for flight games, such as Elite, but we still managed.
The problem with ROM cartridges was the relative price of the interface and the price of the cartridges, plus the lack of games available for it.
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Just to get something straight about the original Speccy: the keyboard was a pig to type on but we had no trouble playing games using the keys for several years. Many games needed only a handful of keys, generally Left, Right, and Jump, sometimes with Up and Down and Fire. At the most five or six, with many games and very easy to manage. Joysticks are essential for flight games, such as Elite, but we still managed.
The problem with ROM cartridges was the relative price of the interface and the price of the cartridges, plus the lack of games available for it.
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Mario
Man, i wish i had this back in the day every time i wanted to play HAVOC. It was the longest loading game we had, and sometimes our aging cassette player wouldn't read it right and we'd get the dreaded -Tape Loading Error- right at the end. Had to break out the pencil for turbo rewind, the phillips screwdriver to screw with (adjust) the cassette player's head, and try again.
Also, if they had made these cartridges in a way that they were writable, not just ROMs, they would have gone a lot further. Shame.
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Man, i wish i had this back in the day every time i wanted to play HAVOC. It was the longest loading game we had, and sometimes our aging cassette player wouldn't read it right and we'd get the dreaded -Tape Loading Error- right at the end. Had to break out the pencil for turbo rewind, the phillips screwdriver to screw with (adjust) the cassette player's head, and try again.
Also, if they had made these cartridges in a way that they were writable, not just ROMs, they would have gone a lot further. Shame.
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David
I had this interface back in the day. I think we had one of the Horace cartridges for it. The interface must have come slightly unplugged one day as it killed our first Speccy. Fortunately the store (may have been a Dixon's or WH Smiths) replaced the computer for free! That was a scary couple of days. Even so we never had the interface unplugged on the new machine it was essential for using a joystick. Great times.
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I had this interface back in the day. I think we had one of the Horace cartridges for it. The interface must have come slightly unplugged one day as it killed our first Speccy. Fortunately the store (may have been a Dixon's or WH Smiths) replaced the computer for free! That was a scary couple of days. Even so we never had the interface unplugged on the new machine it was essential for using a joystick. Great times.
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Thomasmu
My first gaming experience was JetPack on a Spectrum, but my Spectrum looked much more primitive than this one. The case was a bit bigger and it had turning knobs on the top and no letters on the keyboard. My blind father (yes he was blind) cut out a larger slot for the joystick extension. Oh the memories, JetPack and Alleycat.
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My first gaming experience was JetPack on a Spectrum, but my Spectrum looked much more primitive than this one. The case was a bit bigger and it had turning knobs on the top and no letters on the keyboard. My blind father (yes he was blind) cut out a larger slot for the joystick extension. Oh the memories, JetPack and Alleycat.
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flarn2006
You said it -kills the computer- if you plug it in while it's on. Do you mean that doing it even once will more likely than not be enough on its own to destroy it? Or is it the usual situation where it's not the end of the world if it happens once or twice, but you'll probably do some damage if you make a habit out of it?
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You said it -kills the computer- if you plug it in while it's on. Do you mean that doing it even once will more likely than not be enough on its own to destroy it? Or is it the usual situation where it's not the end of the world if it happens once or twice, but you'll probably do some damage if you make a habit out of it?
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double-you
i had this back in 87 (from 83) and me and a mate wanted to do a newspaper for the flat we lived in. needed a printer and that particular connector for it lol i still have the sinclair zx spectrum with all of 48KB of memory LOL and a ton of tapes with games on them. the best computer ever.
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i had this back in 87 (from 83) and me and a mate wanted to do a newspaper for the flat we lived in. needed a printer and that particular connector for it lol i still have the sinclair zx spectrum with all of 48KB of memory LOL and a ton of tapes with games on them. the best computer ever.
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Ice
Watching this old vid of yours on which you spent a sizeable portion of hte second half of the video simply playing without really reviewing anything was quite nice. Perhaps you could do some oldware let's plays with an introduction and review or nothing at all and just go into some gameplay.
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Watching this old vid of yours on which you spent a sizeable portion of hte second half of the video simply playing without really reviewing anything was quite nice. Perhaps you could do some oldware let's plays with an introduction and review or nothing at all and just go into some gameplay.
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aly
it always surprises me that no on made use of that rom expansion, we could have had ever drives years ago, at the time they were limited to 16k, but you can work around that up to 512k with -methods-.
there is another version of this that matches the spectrum+ model.
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it always surprises me that no on made use of that rom expansion, we could have had ever drives years ago, at the time they were limited to 16k, but you can work around that up to 512k with -methods-.
there is another version of this that matches the spectrum+ model.
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