Most clones I've seen don't look that great, but this one's nice. I noticed that the PCB has no ULA. I'm reading that it was impossible to procure in the USSR because of embargos so the designer, Sergey Zonov, reverse-engineered it and used 74xx ICs. That ..is an impressive feat. It has been replicated by Chris Smith, but by actually opening up a ULA and looking at the circuit. Doing this blindly is just awesome.

It appears to have a better keyboard than the original. The rubber keys were an abomination.

Website does not load for me, unfortunately.

I already have a ZX Spectrum - well, a couple really - in my Pandora:

https://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=zesarux

.. incidentally, the Open Pandora runs a ton of great stuff:

https://repo.openpandora.org

You have to whistle in the code down the microphone.

Happy SPECtober!

I was going to ask how we got three quarters of the way through SPECtober without me noticing, but I guess you just invented it?

I love (‘love’?…), though, that when I searched for it, Google confidently told me all about it, and suggested some ways to celebrate and games to play, despite the fact that your comment was the only actual search result! It’s like it agrees it should be a thing.

https://postimg.cc/VSRMCLPF

I keep hoping somebody makes a product similar to the TRS-80 Model 100 - a slab laptop that ran for 20 hours on 4 AA batteries. With 40 years of technology improvements, I'd hope that a similar machine could run for months or even years on those same batteries.

No LED torches the size of LCD backlight last 6 days. More like up to 8 hours.

Ok avadodin@, we'll give you your money back.

This thing has a 14 inch LED screen never mind the actual computer part. How much energy do you think they can hide in a AAA battery?

Umm the next draws like 3 watts without a display. Which is still 3x less than the original zx spectrum.