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PRICE LIST (prices checked 20 April 2004)

New:

PC-PSU with supply for 2 Floppies and MB02

36,00 €

MB02-Printerlead

13,00 €

Proface AT Extern (Interface for connecting PC-Keyboards to Spectrum)

69,00 € KS

Proface AT Intern (internal interface)

62,00 € KS

Melodik AY-Soundbox (unboxed)

24,00 € KS

+2 Cassette recorder

36,00 €

Floppy Disc drive (1,86 with MB02, 720k with Opus, 780k with +D) Please specify

24,00 €

PSU for +2A/B and +3 or PSUl for +2 (also 48k and 128k) Please specify

29,00 €

FDD lead for 2 drives

4,00 €

Multiface 128 (works also on 48k Spectrums

26,00 €

Dust Cover 48k+/128k

8,00 €

Plus 3 Tapelead

9,90 €

Normal Tapelead

3,00 €

Spectrum +2 Lightpen

36,00 €

Spectrum +3 Lightpen

27,00 €

Phaser Gun with Software (Tape or +3)

19,00 €

SCART-Monitor cable (choose for 128k/+2 or +2A/+3)

25,00 €

VGA-BOX (connect Spectrum 128/+2 to VGA monitor)

49,00 €

VGA-BOX Multi purpose (Connect any PC monitor to Spectrum 128/+2)

79,00 €

+3 drive belt

2,00 €

Silver paper for ZX Printer

5,00 €

Keyboard membrane 48k

11,00 €

Keyboard membrane Spectrum +/128k, new quality, not aging

21,00 €

Spectrum keyword stickers

8,00 €

Used:

Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128k, complete with all cables

129,00 €

Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2, complete with all cables

79,00 €

Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2A, complete with all cables

69,00 €

Sinclair ZX Spectrum +3, built in 3'' drive, complete with all cables

99,00 €

Sinclair Spectrum 48k (Gummy), complete with all cables + Introduction Tape

64,00 €

Sinclair Spectrum 48k +, complete with all cables + Introduction Tape

64,00 €

+3 Drive (tested)

29,00 €

Interface I

69,00 €

Microdrive

25,00 €

Wafadrive

39,00 €

Opus Discovery Diskinterface with 1 x 720k Drive (new ROM)

119,00 €

Joystick interface

1-Port 3,00 €

2-Port 11,00 €

Joystick (many different)

2,50 €

Sinclair SJS-Joystick (+2/+3)

6,00 €

Consumables:

Microdrive Cartridges (ex-software)

3,50 €

Wafadrive Cartridges

16K= 7,00 €,

32K= 7,50 €

Also we have a lot of Software offers and books. Please contact us and we will send you our pricelist.

Products marked KS are sold in the name of Kompakt Servis. We organise the business.

Prices excluding postage. Delivery as long as stock lasts.

Orders to: SINTECH, Gastäckerstr. 23, 70794 Filderstadt, Germany

Tel./Fax: 0049 711 775033 email: sintech@online.de http://www.sintech-shop.de

SPRING 2004 Issue 7

Contents

Nineteen pages of Spectrum news. Boy do my fingers hurt. p5

Your views and opinions p24

New spectrum software reviewed p26

Fire and Ice p26

Fun Park p28

Blink p30

TV Game p31

Retrospective. Matthew Harrodine examines 1984 p33

Rough guide to the Plus D p36

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below.

Editor: Colin Woodcock (mail@cwoodcock.co.uk)

Website: www.zxf.cjb.net

Contributors this issue: Kevin Bennet, Matthew Harrodine,

Matthew Westcott, Nick Humphries, Darran Jones, James Zeun,

John King and Thomas Eberle. A big thankyou also to all letter

writers.

All written material, unless otherwise stated (and excepting letters) is

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mainstream level I can't say, but

my sincere hope is that when it

does all calm down again the

'long term' Spectrum community

will be swelled by new members

looking to bring their own

creativity to the scene. I am

continually astonished by the

contributions made by the

existing members of our commu-

nity - as evidenced by this issue's

news section - and I know that

the Spectrum is safe in their

hands.

Welcome readers old and new to

ZXF magazine.

It's been an extraordinarily busy

few months. The number of

developments within the

community have been

staggering, from an online version

of The Complete Spectrum ROM

Disassembly to the first installment

of a downloadable Spectrum

documentary; from a new ZX

toolbar for Internet Explorer to a

live concert by the AY Riders in

Poland. And then there's the new

magazine, Retro Gamer , and its

fantastic success. It takes quite a

while to put together an issue of

ZXF alongside all my other

commitments and, let me tell

you, putting together this issue's

news section has been quite a

challenge. It's the biggest news

section yet.

Any doubts about a rise in interest

in retro gaming can now be

safely put to rest, it appears, and I

can't help but feel that the

coming months will be looked

back upon as a golden age in its

own right in years to come. A

new market has been exposed

by Retro Gamer and I have no

doubt that its success will be

causing a lot of business people

to look very closely at how they

might exploit this. I'm still hoping

that we'll see a Spectrum of sorts

in the shops by the end of the

year - not a 'real' Spectrum, of

course, but one of those fancy TV

plugin gizmos pre-loaded with a

small selection of popular

games. The ZX Spectrum - the

rubber-keyed version, of course -

is iconic in its status in the UK and

to ignore its attractiveness during

a period of mass interest in the

genre would seem to me to

make little business sense. As

Retro Gamer announced in its

opening issue - the one that sold

out of its 40,000 copy print run -

they "simply couldn't launch a

retro magazine without running a

feature on the Sinclair range of

computers." Exactly.

ZXF is currently published every

four months - in April, August and

December. If you would like to

write for a future issue please

contact me at the address below

and I will be delighted to discuss

with you your ideas. Game

reviews, event write-ups, letters

and articles are all very welcome.

For the August edition, please

have your contributions with me

no later than Sunday 11th July.

Whatever happens on the high

street, we can be sure that the

Spectrum will continue to be

supported by those who have

been an active part of the

community since long before this

new interest began. How long

the interest will remain at the

Until August...

Colin Woodcock

mail@cwoodcock.co.uk

NEW TO THE SPECTRUM SCENE?

The essential sites you need to visit.

www.worldofspectrum.org

The cornerstone of the community: emulation, discussion, downloads and online gaming.

www.spectaculator.com; www.ramsoft.bbk.org; www.worldofspectrum.org/emulators.html

You'll be needing an emulator to play those games on...

www.the-tipshop.co.uk

More tips, hints and pokes for those games than you can shake a pointy stick at.

www.ysrnry.co.uk; www.crashonline.org.uk; www.sincuser.f9.co.uk

The online editions of all your favourite Spectrum magazines: YS, CRASH & Sinclair User.

http://raww.org/

Spectrum news from around the world. Constantly updated!

www.sinclairfaq.com

All your further Spectrum questions answered.

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THOSE BUSY RIDERS

>New album/ZX album/Warsaw gig

Once again those 8-bit tune masters,

the AY Riders, have released a new

record. '8 Bits is enuff' is their third MP3

release of music crafted entirely from

the Spectrum 128's AY chip and follows

on from their 2003 album of covers,

'Do you remember?' The team have

changed slightly since then, with

Megus moving on to PC music, to be

replaced by a new member, the

clearly very talented C-jeff. And this is

their longest release, with no less than

31 tracks. http://ayriders.zxdemo.org/

So, with three records under their belt,

the next milestone has to be live

performance, right? And it all

happened at OFF Club in Warsaw on

28 February, pulling in an audience of

over 200, reportedly. Pictures, from

which this one is taken, available at

the Riders' site - and a report by Rider

Matthew Westcott starts below.

Whilst you're there you might also like

to check out a new release of the

Riders' original record You are adult for

the Spectrum itself. This is the first of

the records to be released in this way

(in .TAP format) so that the music can

be listened to the whole album on the

machine that actually created it. It's a

rather snazzy interface too.

AY RIDERS PLAY WARSAW

>Matthew Westcott (aka Gasman) reports on the concert

ZXFM

>Starglider Radio Launches

What do you do when you're bored on

Boxing Day? Launch a radio station, that's

what! So decided CSS veteran Starglider

this year, spotting an eight bit gap in the

growing phenomena of online radio. Ok,

so there's no Chris Moyles to talk between

the tunes on this new ZX Radio service, but

when they're all Spectrum AY tunes who

needs that sort of banter anyway?

2am, Sunday 29th February 2004.

Everything was quiet after a night of non-stop chip music. 250

revellers were heading home, dazed from experiencing a

concert like no other. Equipment was packed up and piled

high in car boots, and we were on the drive back to the home

of Wojtek, the main organiser, to catch some rest. That's when

Wojtek posed the question: When you first heard the suggestion

of an AY Riders concert, what was your initial thought?

Factor6, TDM and I were in agreement - we all thought it was a

stupid idea.

Containing an ever expanding playlist,

from which tunes are played at random,

Starglider Radio is even open to requests

(although the list - at the moment - is

being restricted to game tunes only). You

can listen to it at

www.starglider.dynu.com/radio/

It was back in September, at the drunken get-together known

as International Vodka Party, that the idea was raised.

Yerzmyey announced to the assembled Riders that a club

owner in Warsaw wanted to host a live performance of the

band. We immediately started wondering how on earth

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