The ZX Interface 2 is a peripheral from Sinclair Research for its ZX Spectrum home computer released in September 1983. It has two joystick ports and a...
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The ZX Interface 1, launched in 1983, was a peripheral from Sinclair Research for its ZX Spectrum home computer. Originally intended as a local area network...
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Sinclair Research also introduced the ZX Interface 2, which added two joystick ports and a ROM cartridge port. Although the ZX Microdrives were initially greeted...
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Kempston Micro Electronics (redirect from Kempston Interface)
The Kempston Interface, a peripheral which allowed a joystick using the de facto Atari joystick port standard to be connected to the ZX Spectrum, was...
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including memory expansion modules, the ZX Printer, and the ZX Interface 1 and ZX Interface 2 add-ons for the ZX Spectrum. A number of QL peripherals were...
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Jetpac (category ZX Spectrum games)
that the ZX Spectrum had a limited lifespan. Jetpac was one of the few Spectrum games also available in a ROM format for use with the Interface 2, allowing...
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The following is a list of clones of Sinclair Research's ZX Spectrum home computer. This list includes both official clones (from Timex Corporation) and...
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Sinclair BASIC (redirect from ZX BASIC)
The missing functionality was later added by additional code in the ZX Interface 1. After Nine Tiles and Sinclair went their own ways, several new versions...
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The original ZX Spectrum computer produces a one bit per pixel, bitmapped colour graphics video output. A composite video signal is generated through an...
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Didaktik (category ZX Spectrum clones)
seen on a real ZX Interface 2), the available Sinclair joystick port was always mapped to what would be the "Sinclair Right" or "Interface 2 Right" joystick...
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ten games ever to be released on the 16K ROM format for use with the ZX Interface 2. They were also republished on cassette, with distinctive silver inlay...
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Pssst (category ZX Spectrum games)
Weekly (19): 33. Retrieved 30 September 2015. "ZX Interface 2 direct by mail". Popular Computing Weekly. 2 (40): 1. 6 October 1983. Retrieved 30 September...
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Bus mouse (redirect from Microsoft InPort Device Interface)
Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and Acorn Archimedes computers. BIOS interrupt call PS/2 port USB AMX Mouse - A bus mouse sold for the BBC Micro, Sinclair ZX Spectrum...
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engrained that it led to devices like the Kempston Interface that allowed Atari joysticks to be used on the ZX Spectrum. The port was also used for all sorts...
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+D (category ZX Spectrum)
The +D (or Plus D) was a floppy disk and printer interface for the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was designed to be smaller and more reliable than its...
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Horace (video game series) (category ZX Spectrum games)
and the Spiders were two of the few ZX Spectrum games also available in ROM format for use with the Interface 2. The original Horace game, Hungry Horace...
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Timex Sinclair 2068 (category ZX Spectrum clones)
port with a parallel printer interface The T/S 2068 was a more sophisticated device, compared to its UK ancestor, the ZX Spectrum. Arguably one of the...
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accessories and clones, such as the ZX-UNO, the ZX Spectrum Next and the MB03+ Ultimate interface. The eLeMeNt ZX computer is specially designed to support...
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determined programmatically from the character code. ZX Spectrum block characters: 0x80 + topright*1 + topleft*2 + bottomright*4 + bottomleft*8 Amstrad CPC block...
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Gigabit Ethernet (redirect from 1000BASE-ZX)
as 1000BASE-X, where -X refers to either -CX, -SX, -LX, or (non-standard) -ZX. IEEE 802.3ab, ratified in 1999, defines Gigabit Ethernet transmission over...
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Small Form-factor Pluggable (redirect from Small form-factor pluggable interface)
hot-pluggable network interface module format used for both telecommunication and data communications applications. An SFP interface on networking hardware...
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ATM (computer) (category ZX Spectrum clones)
DAC; modem; parallel interface for connecting a printer; stereo audio amplifier (2x1W) Keyboard: mechanical matrix, standard ZX Spectrum layout (40 keys)...
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TK90X (category ZX Spectrum clones)
The TK90X was a Brazilian ZX Spectrum clone made in 1985 by Microdigital Electrônica, a company from São Paulo, that had previously manufactured ZX80 (TK80...
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Pentagon (computer) (category ZX Spectrum clones)
standard Spectrum architecture, including 1024 KB RAM, Beta 128 Disk Interface and ZX-BUS slots (especially for IDE and General Sound cards). This model...
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SAM Coupé (category ZX Spectrum clones)
development by MGT of a special hardware interface called the Messenger which could capture the state of a connected ZX Spectrum to SAM Coupé disk for playback...
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printer that used the same interface, and therefore could be driven by a ZX81 or Spectrum without additional software. Unlike the ZX Printer, it had a separate...
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Sinclair QL (redirect from ZX-83)
launched by Sinclair Research in 1984, as an upper-end counterpart to the ZX Spectrum. The QL was the last desktop microcomputer aimed at the serious home...
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The ZX Spectrum Next is an 8-bit home computer, initially released in 2017, which is compatible with software and hardware for the 1982 ZX Spectrum. It...
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Fast Ethernet (section 100BASE-ZX)
with 100BASE-LX10 or 100BASE-ZX because the use of -LX(10), -LH, -EX, and -ZX is ambiguous between vendors. 100BASE-ZX is a non-standard but...
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