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Episódio 173 – As novas novidades – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/22/episodio-173-as-novas-novidades-parte-b/

#Podcast #80386 #8086 #8086CPU #Adafruit #AliExpress #Amiga #AppleIIc #Commodore #Commodore64 #CRASHMagazine #EhBASIC #fpga #Harlequin #IbmPc #Intel #Laptop #Lazarustorm #LCD #microdrive #Minimig #MSX #MSX2 #MSXGoauld #MSXMini #Notebook #Omega #OmniDesktop128HQ #OneChipBook #PCBWay #PiStorm #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #sinclair #SMX #Sony #Stargate #

Episódio 173 – As novas novidades – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/22/episodio-173-as-novas-novidades-parte-b/

#Podcast #80386 #8086 #8086CPU #Adafruit #AliExpress #Amiga #AppleIIc #Commodore #Commodore64 #CRASHMagazine #EhBASIC #fpga #Harlequin #IbmPc #Intel #Laptop #Lazarustorm #LCD #microdrive #Minimig #MSX #MSX2 #MSXGoauld #MSXMini #Notebook #Omega #OmniDesktop128HQ #OneChipBook #PCBWay #PiStorm #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #sinclair #SMX #Sony #Stargate #

Episódio 173 – As novas novidades – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/22/episodio-173-as-novas-novidades-parte-b/

#Podcast #80386 #8086 #8086CPU #Adafruit #AliExpress #Amiga #AppleIIc #Commodore #Commodore64 #CRASHMagazine #EhBASIC #fpga #Harlequin #IbmPc #Intel #Laptop #Lazarustorm #LCD #microdrive #Minimig #MSX #MSX2 #MSXGoauld #MSXMini #Notebook #Omega #OmniDesktop128HQ #OneChipBook #PCBWay #PiStorm #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #sinclair #SMX #Sony #Stargate #

Episódio 173 – As novas novidades – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/22/episodio-173-as-novas-novidades-parte-b/

#Podcast #80386 #8086 #8086CPU #Adafruit #AliExpress #Amiga #AppleIIc #Commodore #Commodore64 #CRASHMagazine #EhBASIC #fpga #Harlequin #IbmPc #Intel #Laptop #Lazarustorm #LCD #microdrive #Minimig #MSX #MSX2 #MSXGoauld #MSXMini #Notebook #Omega #OmniDesktop128HQ #OneChipBook #PCBWay #PiStorm #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #sinclair #SMX #Sony #Stargate #

Episódio 173 – As novas novidades – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/22/episodio-173-as-novas-novidades-parte-b/

#Podcast #80386 #8086 #8086CPU #Adafruit #AliExpress #Amiga #AppleIIc #Commodore #Commodore64 #CRASHMagazine #EhBASIC #fpga #Harlequin #IbmPc #Intel #Laptop #Lazarustorm #LCD #microdrive #Minimig #MSX #MSX2 #MSXGoauld #MSXMini #Notebook #Omega #OmniDesktop128HQ #OneChipBook #PCBWay #PiStorm #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #sinclair #SMX #Sony #Stargate #

Episódio 173 – As novas novidades – Parte A

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/08/episodio-173-as-novas-novidades-parte-a/

#Podcast #CEO #ChrisSimpson #Commodore #Commodore64Ultimate #CRASHMagazine #fpga #gamepad #GideonZweijtzer #JackTramiel #microdrive #Perifractic #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #sinclair #TheSpectrum #Ultimate64 #ZXPrinter #ZXSpectrum

Episódio 173 – As novas novidades – Parte A

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/08/episodio-173-as-novas-novidades-parte-a/

#Podcast #CEO #ChrisSimpson #Commodore #Commodore64Ultimate #CRASHMagazine #fpga #gamepad #GideonZweijtzer #JackTramiel #microdrive #Perifractic #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #sinclair #TheSpectrum #Ultimate64 #ZXPrinter #ZXSpectrum

Episódio 173 – As novas novidades – Parte A

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/08/episodio-173-as-novas-novidades-parte-a/

#Podcast #CEO #ChrisSimpson #Commodore #Commodore64Ultimate #CRASHMagazine #fpga #gamepad #GideonZweijtzer #JackTramiel #microdrive #Perifractic #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #sinclair #TheSpectrum #Ultimate64 #ZXPrinter #ZXSpectrum

Episódio 173 – As novas novidades – Parte A

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/08/episodio-173-as-novas-novidades-parte-a/

#Podcast #CEO #ChrisSimpson #Commodore #Commodore64Ultimate #CRASHMagazine #fpga #gamepad #GideonZweijtzer #JackTramiel #microdrive #Perifractic #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #sinclair #TheSpectrum #Ultimate64 #ZXPrinter #ZXSpectrum

Episódio 173 – As novas novidades – Parte A

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/04/08/episodio-173-as-novas-novidades-parte-a/

#Podcast #CEO #ChrisSimpson #Commodore #Commodore64Ultimate #CRASHMagazine #fpga #gamepad #GideonZweijtzer #JackTramiel #microdrive #Perifractic #podcast #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #sinclair #TheSpectrum #Ultimate64 #ZXPrinter #ZXSpectrum

Random stuff from my drawer. #diskette #microdrive #IBM

I woke up in the middle of the night after I realised that Uncle Clive missed out on the one thing that would have made the Sinclair #ZXSpectrum a serious business machine - Including a number pad on the #Microdrive!

I am sure if the Interface 1 had the Microdrive port on both sides then it wouldn't just be a hit with the lefthanded users too!

Have you ever wanted to load arbitrary Microdrive files using machine code, but Sinclair’s hook codes let you down? Well: want no longer and behold: SHADOWLOAD!

#zxSpectrum #microdrive #interface1 #asm #z80 https://github.com/flatduckrecords/zx-interface-1/blob/main/shadowload.asm

So I got that batch of 21 small-capacity #CompactFlash cards. Among them was this #IBM #Microdrive from 2000. It's a tiny hard drive in a slightly thicker-than-standard CF card package. I ddrescued an image to see if the surface is good - it is - but the disk is egregiously slow.

@juanfr Even journalists on day one understood better than Clive Sinclair that microdrives weren't fit for purpose, and that business people could not, and would not rely on them.

#sinclair #microdrive #QL #ZX83 #ZXSpectrum #Spectrum #Speccy #retrocomputing

By the way, if you want to know what was a ZX Microdrive... DON'T use Google. It's plagued with disinformation and fake news.

Use Wikipedia for now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Microdrive

#retrocomputing #ZXSpectrum #ZXMicrodrive #Microdrive #Speccy #Spectrum

By the way, if you want to know what was a ZX Microdrive... DON'T use Google. It's plagued with disinformation and fake news.

Use Wikipedia for now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Microdrive

#retrocomputing #ZXSpectrum #ZXMicrodrive #Microdrive #Speccy #Spectrum

By the way, if you want to know what was a ZX Microdrive... DON'T use Google. It's plagued with disinformation and fake news.

Use Wikipedia for now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Microdrive

#retrocomputing #ZXSpectrum #ZXMicrodrive #Microdrive #Speccy #Spectrum

By the way, if you want to know what was a ZX Microdrive... DON'T use Google. It's plagued with disinformation and fake news.

Use Wikipedia for now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Microdrive

#retrocomputing #ZXSpectrum #ZXMicrodrive #Microdrive #Speccy #Spectrum

By the way, if you want to know what was a ZX Microdrive... DON'T use Google. It's plagued with disinformation and fake news.

Use Wikipedia for now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Microdrive

#retrocomputing #ZXSpectrum #ZXMicrodrive #Microdrive #Speccy #Spectrum

Narrator's voice:

Microdrives didn't.

#ZXSpectrum #Microdrive #Speccy #Spectrum #retrocomputing

Extracellular ephys peeps: Are you building your own microdrives/hyperdrives/implants? In their new preprint on http://bsrxiv.org, van Heument et al systematically analyze how many you should build to make them awesome! Check it out at http://dowhy.org/?127.0.0.1/wtf.bsRx.13 #electrophysiology, doing #openscience using #openhardware in #neuroscience #tetrode #siliconprobes #microdrive @3Dneuro

A Modern Replacement for the ZX Spectrum’s Odd Tape Storage System - Unless you were lucky enough to be able to afford a floppy disk drive, you probabl... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/a-modern-replacement-for-the-zx-spectrums-odd-tape-storage-system/ #raspberrypipico #retrocomputing #classichacks #tapeemulator #zxmicrodrive #microdrive #zxspectrum

A Modern Replacement for the ZX Spectrum’s Odd Tape Storage System - Unless you were lucky enough to be able to afford a floppy disk drive, you probabl... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/a-modern-replacement-for-the-zx-spectrums-odd-tape-storage-system/ #raspberrypipico #retrocomputing #classichacks #tapeemulator #zxmicrodrive #microdrive #zxspectrum

A Modern Replacement for the ZX Spectrum’s Odd Tape Storage System - Unless you were lucky enough to be able to afford a floppy disk drive, you probabl... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/a-modern-replacement-for-the-zx-spectrums-odd-tape-storage-system/ #raspberrypipico #retrocomputing #classichacks #tapeemulator #zxmicrodrive #microdrive #zxspectrum

A Modern Replacement for the ZX Spectrum’s Odd Tape Storage System - Unless you were lucky enough to be able to afford a floppy disk drive, you probabl... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/a-modern-replacement-for-the-zx-spectrums-odd-tape-storage-system/ #raspberrypipico #retrocomputing #classichacks #tapeemulator #zxmicrodrive #microdrive #zxspectrum

A Modern Replacement for the ZX Spectrum’s Odd Tape Storage System - Unless you were lucky enough to be able to afford a floppy disk drive, you probabl... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/29/a-modern-replacement-for-the-zx-spectrums-odd-tape-storage-system/ #raspberrypipico #retrocomputing #classichacks #tapeemulator #zxmicrodrive #microdrive #zxspectrum

Had a broken #Spectrum #Microdrive, but I was able to repurpose it for my #chipmusic setup!

Anyone using a lot of USB-powered #audio equipment knows how annoying ground loops can be. With this I've got 5x stereo isolators in a relatively small box.

#chiptune #music #musicproducion #synth

The ZX Microdrive: Budget Data Storage, 1980s Style - An enduring memory for most who used the 8-bit home computers of the early 1980s is the use of casse... - https://hackaday.com/2020/09/18/the-zx-microdrive-budget-data-storage-1980s-style/ #sinclairzxspectrum #hackadaycolumns #retrocomputing #zxmicrodrive #microdrive #zxspectrum #tapedrive #sinclair