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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 DRAM for the 32K of Upper RAM. An interesting tidbit is that the up...
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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 also use a programmable EPROM with a small modification on the PCB....
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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...
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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 can easily remove chips late...
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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 you look at the board image below, you w...
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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 our build, the first type are ceramic capacitors. These...
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NEW BUILD ZX SPECTRUM - INSTALLING THE RESISTORS
Installing resistors onto the new build Spectrum