AMX Mouse interface - the Z80PIO is not a Z80 processor. It’s a peripheral IO chip. “Z80” was a processor and chipset range, not just the CPU.
@ChrisWalshZX
2 жыл бұрын
I made that mistake too while watching the video. Didn't know Zilog called their PIO Z80 too!
@BuckingTheTrend2008
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info. I don't have that depth of knowledge of chips etc.. just went by the name.
@cathedrow
2 жыл бұрын
@@BuckingTheTrend2008 not a problem. Great show as always!
@madblank
2 жыл бұрын
I loved Stunt Car Racer on the spectrum. Didn't find it slow or bad handling. You really need to use the boost in the beginning to get the lead, and time your speed for each jump and corner so you don't damage your car. You need to imagine that the tiles of the tracks you are driving on are really big so your brain gets a better idea of the actual speed. You can see the opponent size in relation to a tile. On the lower corners, close to the ground, we could even get off the track and then back on it. Wonderful game for the spectrum!
@davehandley
2 жыл бұрын
I don't think a video of it does it justice, it really felt amazing to play at the time. Great physics, I loved the bounciness!
@TheRetroEngine
2 жыл бұрын
There's a legend in or around Scunthorpe of a desk collapsing under the weight of daisy chained peripherals from a ZX Spectrum.
@roberthazelby4424
2 жыл бұрын
I always return to the Amiga version but find it incredibly frustrating. If you fall off the track even once you’re stuffed.
@OrdoNekro
2 жыл бұрын
This just popped up in my suggestions, great show! The Spectrum is completely foreign to me but I'm super curious to try the games out.
@Ratchet_effect
2 жыл бұрын
Your shows never get old or boring & yes you are 100% correct! they are Indeed 'Potentiometers' also known as a Trim pot, It's a type of variable resistor or adjustable potentiometer to some, that can adjust, tune, and calibrate circuits. I Still swear your voice matches Johnny Balls extremely well 🖱 👍🏻
@greenaum
2 жыл бұрын
The chip in the interface is a Z80 PIO, the standard parallel I/O chip, it provides two 8-bit I/O ports. That explains why there's a freebie printer port on it, the chip had the spare pins so why not? The description in the magazine you showed says it's "Centronics" AKA standard parallel printer up to the point USB was invented, so it's not serial. The whole thing's about as straightforward as you could get for interfacing any old bit of hardware to the Speccy, you could probably program it's registers to use for all sorts of hardware if you wanted.
@Dev_olution
2 жыл бұрын
Great stuff again Paul and will be checking out the Lord's of Midnight book too
@MarcKloos
2 жыл бұрын
One of my first peripherals was this white AMX mouse, which I still have to this day! People won't believe it when I tell them I had a computer mouse back in 86!
@scottishwildcat
2 жыл бұрын
I won the all-black version in a Your Sinclair Art Studio competition, but it was faulty, and they sent me a white one as a replacement… so until now, I always assumed the white version was newer. I used it with Art Studio quite a bit after that, and adapted a couple of my own programs to work with it too. Think it worked with The Artist, too?
@scottishwildcat
2 жыл бұрын
(You’re not the Marc Kloosterman from the barchetta owners club, are you…?)
@MarcKloos
2 жыл бұрын
@@scottishwildcat I am indeed! My two hobbies are my ZX Spectrum Clones Collection from around the world and my now 27 year old Fiat barchetta which is still my daily driver 😄
@scottishwildcat
2 жыл бұрын
@@MarcKloos Ha, cool. Think I met you at one of Geoff’s UK meet-ups… I sold my second and last yellow barchetta in 2015, sadly. I still only buy yellow cars with roofs that open, though ;)
@MarcKloos
2 жыл бұрын
@@scottishwildcat Geoff still has his car! I have now my 3rd engine (counting including the one that came with the car 😂) and it has been respray painted. But it's still running. I would never want a closed car again! Had I known at the time that you are a Spectrum nut too...! 😉
@TheAuteurist23
2 жыл бұрын
Stunt Car Racer is a game I enjoy to this day. The Speccy and Amiga versions are my favourites.
@Xoferif
2 жыл бұрын
It isn't a Z80 processor inside the interface box, it's a Z80 parallel input/output chip.
@DavidHembrow
2 жыл бұрын
Indeed it is. Definitely not a processor but a Z80PIO. I connected a PIO and a CTC (counter timer) to my spectrum. It was the latter which I used for a home made trackball interface, because it could do it's own counting independent of the processor.
@martin.pokorny
Жыл бұрын
Now! 13.12.2022 and there's snow all around. Now it's the best time to read "The Lords of Midnight" :-)
@NomenLuni1975
2 жыл бұрын
Great review of Drew Wagar's Lords of Midnight Book. I read it a couple of years ago and loved it. Lord Midwinter was indeed a brilliant character and I made the connection to Mike Singleton at the time too. I bought the Doomdark's Revenge book for myself last Christmas but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. Soon, hopefully.
@geoffneil5073
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. A review of the Doomdark's Revenge book should be coming to the show very soon.
@NomenLuni1975
2 жыл бұрын
@@geoffneil5073 Lovely. I'm looking forward to that.
@jezz2k
2 жыл бұрын
Stunt Car Racer runs better at 7MHz in Spectaculator. You can ramp it up to 14, 28 and even 50MHz and its still playable and comparable in speed to the Amiga version. The 128K version crashes when running at 100MHz, but the 48K version doesn't, at least in 48K mode.
@AmbersKnight
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent show as always. It is a pity that more software wasn't written for the various mice we could have seen a real change in the way the Spectrum evolved. I agree that Quartet definitely sounds better with that AY hack and that Chez Maxime looks a lot of fun.
@harrivayrynen
2 жыл бұрын
Wow. I thinking that I have same multimeter. It still works. And 9V battery last many many years.
@BuckingTheTrend2008
2 жыл бұрын
I bought it years (probably 15+) ago and only changed the battery twice :-)
@Dolphination
10 ай бұрын
This mouse coupled with 128k Advanced OCP Art Studio was just excellent!
@retrodave79
2 жыл бұрын
OMG Stunt Car Racer, I cant count the amount of hours, days or months I've spent playing this game, really loved it as a kid. And since my brain was already slow from factory....
@Mindrax
2 жыл бұрын
Chez Maxime looks amazing. Gonna get my hands on this game.
@axs203
2 жыл бұрын
I used to love Quartet and I loved the Amx mouse
@neurogate459
2 жыл бұрын
Cool, youtube showed me new Spectrum channel! You got a new subscriber :)
@galbaum33
2 жыл бұрын
Chez Maxime looks amazing!!!
@gabrieleamore3081969
2 жыл бұрын
It was fun to work on this
@-Digital-Reality-
2 жыл бұрын
Chez Maxime - just love the graphics in that one!
@gabrieleamore3081969
2 жыл бұрын
Glad you like those sprites 😉
@davidkitson7725
Жыл бұрын
It's not a serial printer port. It's a parallel (Centronics) port. :)
@PauloDias-nm2eu
2 жыл бұрын
been waiting for this a whole month. cheers
@SomePeopleCallMeWulfman
2 жыл бұрын
Aonother great episode. Now I'm tempted to buy that Lords of Midnight book.
@geoffneil5073
2 жыл бұрын
If it didn't come across in the review I certainly recommend it
@alien8r33d
2 жыл бұрын
The correct term for them is 'Preset'.
@stevesgaming7475
2 жыл бұрын
Superb as always, thank you sir!
@gregoryoakman8639
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Paul for a great video, always great.
@anticat900
2 жыл бұрын
Interested in this a had the 64 version, yes say it struggles, but it was alot faster and clearer than the 64 one.
@frankowalker4662
2 жыл бұрын
Those demos look great. Great episode as always. Cheers, Paul.
@charliejade8959
2 жыл бұрын
I've noticed the AY tunes never cause any slow down. I wonder if it has it's own built in processor?
@roberthazelby4424
2 жыл бұрын
The AY music relies on a dedicated AY sound chip, so the work is taken away from the main CPU.
@reagandow850
2 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love your monthly video magazine! As a Yank, I never had a Speccy but I’d truly love to get a Next ZX Spectrum. I grew up on Atari and 8 bit computer games and still to this day find these original, simple games, much more fun then many of today’s micro transaction filled garbage. I do love Indy games created like older 8/16/32 bit games. To me, nothing is more beautiful then pixel art. Thanks for all the hard work you put into these videos. Please reach out to me if you come across something I can buy without getting it from a scalper. I absolutely despise them. ;)
@EgoShredder
2 жыл бұрын
The problem is compounded now in the last few years, with regular people coming along on Ebay to check the sold prices as a guide to how to price their own stuff with. They assume this is the going rate, and maybe unaware that the prices have been artificially inflated. All the things I bought in say 2015 or 2016 now cost 3-4x as much. Certain things I was looking at last year in 2021 that were £100 are now up to £400!
@wyndblayde6103
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I've been trying to find that Odyssey demo for literally years , but I couldn't remember the name, gonna watch it now.
@BuckingTheTrend2008
2 жыл бұрын
Some great demos on the Amiga.. Happy memories..
@wharfthedwarf7884
2 жыл бұрын
Keep up the great work sir!
@hazy33
2 жыл бұрын
Great stuff as always. Was Chez Maxime written from scratch or with Jonathan Cauldwell's game creator? The main sprite is VERY fast moving.
@extracoconut
2 жыл бұрын
Hi. Watched loads of these...haven't seen a feature on StarQuake yet (all time fav). Do you know if covered or played, and which episode? Ta.
@geoffneil5073
2 жыл бұрын
You are going to have to wait until the next series but OK I'll do something on StarQuake as it is one of the best games ever made.
@retrorobbins
2 жыл бұрын
great stuff paul as all ways
@scottishwildcat
2 жыл бұрын
I won the all-black version of the AMX mouse in a Your Sinclair Art Studio competition, but it was faulty, and they sent me a white one as a replacement… so until now, I always assumed the white version was newer. I used it with Art Studio quite a bit after that, and adapted a couple of my own programs to work with it too. Think it worked with The Artist, too?
@woofgbruk5947
2 жыл бұрын
I wonder if it would work with the paint programme that was given away on one of the Sinclair User covertapes?
@cowbutt6
2 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure both OCP Art Studio and The Artist could use the AMX Mouse.
@NomenLuni1975
2 жыл бұрын
@@cowbutt6 I'm certain it does. I can remember seeing a special offer leaflet in the Art Studio package to buy one.
@andrewdunbar828
2 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure I had one of these mice for my Speccy. But I was a fairly early adopter of the Amiga and sold off all my Speccy stuff so I probably didn't have it for long.
@MrMurdock2021
2 жыл бұрын
Try the ocp art studio from rainbird there is a version that uses the amx mouse
@BuckingTheTrend2008
2 жыл бұрын
Yep - covered it in my AMX mouse review..
@DavideBarlotti
7 ай бұрын
Did you try to use Max Desktop with AMX Mouse?
2 жыл бұрын
The "dials" are known as trim pots.
@lasskinn474
2 жыл бұрын
stunt car racer is good on most platforms.
@rmrepairs
2 жыл бұрын
thankyou
@LUNATIC75
2 жыл бұрын
The Lords of Midnight novel was something of a disappointment. It's a big ol' book, but it just lacks depth. It was shame, but the Amstrad version of the game and story sucked me in to the world and didn't let go for years. I recently went through a Stunt Car Racer revival on the Amiga Mini with a Xbox 360 controller. The analogue pad transformed the game for me. I could actually win races and get promoted! Much respect to both Mike Singleton and Geoff Crammond.
@geoffneil5073
2 жыл бұрын
In the launch video for the Doomdark's Revenge novel Drew talked about how much the source material of the Lords of Midnight constrained him when writing the novel. I think that might have something to do with your disappointment.
@GreenTeaViewer
2 жыл бұрын
Come on, I'm just pleased that someone made a decent, respectful novelization of the game(s). Can't expect them to be the world's greatest writer. And in fact, it's very good in my view.
@highpath4776
2 жыл бұрын
is there a f/b site I can sell an old ZX on ?
@robm8809
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, it's called "Sinclair For Sale". Good luck!
@monkeyisland819
2 жыл бұрын
obviously i dont know ur circumstances but in all honesty i think u'd be better off upgrading to even the cheapest pc and use a free porgram like gimp on if u wanna draw some 'computer' art, and ur pick of games would be a lot better too!
@BuckingTheTrend2008
2 жыл бұрын
The show is called The Spectrum Show. It's about an 80s home computer called a ZX Spectrum, nothing else. That computer had several art programs and a few mice. That is what I reviewed. If you are looking for PC art programs and PC games, I think another channel may be better.
@robm8809
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, you missed the point in a big way. The show is about the ZX Spectrum. Paul's shows are excellent and much loved.
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