Documenting all my builds and restorations. Mostly retro computing or modern remakes.
New Build C64 - Build List
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New Build C64 - The Manual
To recreate the manual I had to pop to eBay to find a reference one. Good quality manuals were hard…
Building a new Commodore 64 from all new parts
Work in Progress of building a brand new C64 with all new parts including manuals, and box
New Build ZX80 – The Manual
I needed to reproduce the manual and required a decent quality version to do so. Fortunately, the machine I purchased…
Recreating the Vega +
If you don't know about the Vega + then consider yourself lucky, and maybe look on YouTube for one of…
ZX80 Parts List (Work in Progress)
BOM to build your very own ZX80
New Build ZX80 - The PCB
The PCB has again been redrawn by Wilco2009, you can find it here: https://github.com/wilco2009/zx80-81-Double-Clone Using https://jlcpcb.com/ I used the following…
Building a new ZX80 from all new parts
Due to all the lovely feedback on my Spectrum 48k video and series on here I have set upon a…
New Build ZX Spectrum – Build Photos
If you would like to use any of these images to write about the build please feel free, but please…
New Build ZX Spectrum - The Box
The box is the final stage to do, and the main focus point of the build. I started with a…
ZX Spectrum New Build Video Walkthrough
Video guide to the new build Spectrum
ZX Spectrum Issue 3B Cost
So should you build this? Probably not if you just want a Spectrum to play with, either buy a refurbished…
New Build ZX Spectrum - The PCB
First thing we need is a PCB to base everything around. Thanks to the hard work of Pabb he has…
New Build ZX Spectrum – Creating the manuals
Who can forget the two orange bound manuals that came with the Spectrum, for most it was our first introduction…
New Build ZX Spectrum – Creating the Horizons Cassette
Totally unnecessary (like a lot of this build) but quite good fun, I thought now I have recreated the Spectrum…
New Build ZX Spectrum - Power
Time to install the parts needed to provide power to the Spectrum. The original was strange in the respect it…
New Build ZX Spectrum - Installing The Transistors
The transistors have some of the biggest differences with the original board so far. Whether it is because the original…
Lego ZX Spectrum
Guide to building a ZX Spectrum 48k out of Lego
Install Raspberry Pi Zero Into ZX Spectrum Next
Guide to installing a Pi Zero into the AX Spectrum Next to enable acceleration and loading of TXZ games
Testing Lower RAM On The ZX Spectrum For Beginners
Guide to testing the lower ram of the ZX Spectrum 48k
New Build ZX Spectrum – The ULA
A modern recreation of the ULA thankfully has been made available by Charlie Ingley relieving a massive headache with the…
New Build ZX Spectrum – Adding Lower and Upper RAM
The old Spectrum used two types of RAM. 4116 chips for the lower 16k of RAM and 4164 or 4532…
New Build ZX Spectrum – The ROM
We have two options for the ROM, the one in the video uses a custom build ROM, or we can…
New Build ZX Spectrum - Composite Video
https://youtu.be/mlmRKhcmS6k?t=671 For the composite video we are going to be using a piece from You Make Robots - https://www.youmakerobots.com/sinclair/75-zx-spectrum-composite-mod-for-16k-and-48k.html You…
New Build ZX Spectrum - Installing the DIL sockets and Chips
https://youtu.be/mlmRKhcmS6k?t=507 Time to move onto the chips. For these we are going to first install DIL sockets, so that we…
New Build ZX Spectrum - Installing The Diodes
Diodes time, and like the electrolytic capacitors from before we need to take care which direction we install these. If…
New Build ZX Spectrum - Installing The Capacitors
Now we are done with the resistors it's time for capacitors. We will be using two types of capacitors in…
New Build ZX Spectrum - Installing The Resistors
Installing resistors onto the new build Spectrum
ZX Spectrum Issue 3B Parts List
Parts and sourcing information for Spectrum 3B Boards
Building a new ZX Spectrum from all new parts
This series of posts will be documenting my quest to building a ZX Spectrum using as many still available parts as possible.
