My 8 bit computer retro setup
February 9, 2022(originally posted 2020-09-10)
Recently started my 8 bit hobby again by starting to get the two machines from my parents attic that I still owned from the past: my original old Commodore 128D and the ZX Spectrum 128 I aqcuired a decade after.
As a youth there where four machines that I used by far the most:
- Commodore 64, followed by the Commodore 128D
- ZX Spectrum, followed by the ZX Spectrum + and 128 'Toastrack'
- Oric Atmos
My trinity completed, plus an old acquaintance
Over the past few months I have made this trinity complete by acquiring an Oric Atmos, recently followed by a Texas Instruments TI-49/4a I also used in the past.
Let's see where this new hobby leads me.
(update 14/2/2022) Since the original post I added some machines. My present collection:
Commodore
- Commodore 64
- Ultimate 64 with v1.4 Elite board
- Commodore Plus/4
- Commodore 128 ('flat')
- Commodore 128D (my original one, extended with an Ultimate II+ cartridge
- Commodore 128DCR, also with an Ultimate II+ cartridge
- Commodore 1541 diskdrive
- Commodore 1350 datasette
- Commodore 1351 datasette
- Commodore 1084S-D1 monitor
- Commodore 1901 monitor (presently broken and not in use)
- Pi1541 disk emulator
- SD2IEC mass storage device
- Petscii Robots SNES pad userport adapter
- PS/2 to 1351 mouse adapter
- Commodore SFX music keyboard
- MPS-803 dot matrix printer
- Seikosha SP-180VC dot matrix printer
- NEOS mouse
- 1351 mouse (not fully working)
Oric
- Oric Atmos (two machines)
- Cumana Reborn disk drive emulator
- Twilighte Board
- 8Bit Hub
- Egoist IJK interface and Egopad
Sinclair
- ZX Spectrum 128 'Toastrack'
- Sinclair Interface 1
- RAM Turbo Interface
- DivMMC Future mass storage
- vDrive ZX microdrive emulator
Texas-Instruments
- TI-99/4a
- FinalGROM99
- Sidecar SAMS card 1 MB extension
- TIPI mass storage
- PHP-1500 Speech Synthesizer
- RGB to SCART interface and joystick adapter
Audio and video connections
- RGB2HDMI to convert C128D 80 column output to HDMI
- Sven Pooks 40/80 column video adapter, own two, one with and one without S-video output
- Framemeister xRGB mini to convert the SCART outputs of the TI, Oric and Spectrum plus the S-Video output of the C128D to HDMI
- Lotharek Hydra 2 Revised as SCART switch for the TI, Oric and Spectrum
- Behringer Xenyx Q502USB mixer for bringing sound output to the PC
- Elgato Cam Link 4K, own two to be able to capture 40 and 80 column of my C128D at the same time.
Joysticks
- Wico 'The Boss'
- Wico 'Command Control'
- Quickshot 318-102
- Suzo The Arcade
- Quickjoy III Supercharger, SV-123
- ArcadeR joystick
- Standard TI-99/4a joystick pair
- Super Nintendo Enterrtainment System gamepad
- Egopad
Additional photos of present setup:
