Misfit wrote:I just bought ZX81 (I hope it works). Maybe VIC is better than it? But who cares. New machine, new challenges.
Every one of these old machine offers it's own unique challenges, and I'm a big fan of them all
The ZX81/TS1000 has a pretty active community and if your curious about what the little ZX can do, Check out:
http://www.sinclairzxworld.com/ - A ZX80/81 community forum hosted by RWAP
http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk/ - A ZX80/81 developer
http://www.sellmyretro.com/ - RWAP's store site that they maintain... and a sort of retro computer ebay of thing as well
I think one of the measures of an old computer is how active it's community has remained after these many years. My personal experience has been that C= community is probably one of the largest and most active, and there are good sized active communities with Atari 8bit & ST, Apple II, TRS-80 color computer. I 'm not sure about ZX Spectrum, though there is a good amount of new Spectrum hardware out there, or the TI/99 series. The ZX81 community is smaller but active and there's been plenty of new hardware showing up for it. I've seen a smattering of new hardware for the Trs-80 Model I,II,IV, Coleco Adam, and I even picked up a Mattel Aquarius Anthology cart about a year or so ago. Unfortunately, online communities have a tenancy to wax-and-wane cyclically so what up today is down tomorrow until someone pick up the mantle next week.
-John-