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Asp-Z
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03 May 2010, 2:10 pm

I know I can get power cables off of eBay, but how do I connect it to a modern TV? Ours has componant, SCART, and HDMI input.

Also, what games/software do you recommend I get for it? :D



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03 May 2010, 2:20 pm

Spectrums were very popular in former USSR when I left in 1994.

Uhm. Er.

You need to buy a RF converter somewhere at like, Radio Shack, which can input old-style TV signal and output it into newer format that your TV supports. Ask them. They claim to have answers.

Regarding games:

Exolon
Zynaps
Flying Shark
Commando
Renegade
Fist (Way Of The Exploding Fist)
Laser Squad
Bomb Jack
Robocop
R-Type
ELITE
Soldier Of Fortune
Operation Wolf



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03 May 2010, 3:26 pm

If I recall correctly the spectrum had a rf modulator for connection to an analogue tuner I don't think any sort of rgb monitor output was provided.
You need a short coax lead from the spectrum to the TV's rf socket and then tune to it with an analogue tuner.
This was the same as most games consuls of the period.


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03 May 2010, 4:20 pm

My favoutire games for the speccy were;

Chaos
Rebelstar Raiders
Back to Skool
Treasure Island Dizzy
Spy Hunter
Buggy Boy
Pang

Good luck with getting it hooked up. If you can't there's always emulation.


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03 May 2010, 5:36 pm

monsterland wrote:
ELITE

Still my favourite game ever, although it was for the Acorn/BBC B :)


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04 May 2010, 6:55 am

Asp-Z wrote:
how do I connect it to a modern TV?


You can re-route the composite video connection that goes in to the RF module and wire that into your modern AV connectors. Somebody has even kindly made up a neat How To guide: http://womblesretrorepairshack.blogspot ... o-mod.html



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06 May 2010, 1:42 pm

Please do not butcher the computer by altering the connections to the RF modulator, you will destroy the collectors item appeal of it by making such a mod.


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