Zx spectrum 16k games

This game available to download for free and for all 16K ZX-Spectrums, puts you in control of a mighty Tardigrade; an extremophile that is out in the far reaches of space looking to eat its favorite food Toffee Sweets; Sweets that have been scattered across the galaxy left over in a box of Quality Street. As noted by the website : Collect the toffee pennies before the air runs out. Flip levers to open pathways. Go to the exit. You bounce off walls, but are killed by spikes and baddies.

You can see the perforations for the speaker at the bottom left, around the foot. Wait, what's this - 16k? I'm not going to be playing too many games without the full 48k complement. You can buy a RAM pack that fits on to the edge connector at the rear, but they're mostly famous for falling off while in use.

The machine boots, the rf jack works and the case is in good order. This seems like a good candidate for fixing up. The keyboard is not responding but that can usually be attributed to a broken membrane as they are known to grow fragile over time. The main problem is that there is not enough RAM to run anything more sophisticated than Jetpac - but that is fixable too.

The computer is held together with 5 identical screws. You have to be careful removing the cover as the keyboard membrane is part of the top but is also attached to the motherboard at the bottom. Now we can get a closer look with the Keyboard out of the way. All the capacitors, the 9 blue cylinders in the photo, look good with no sign of leakage. This is a two-step process, which is well described in the document that the Retro Spares Shop supplied with the upgrade kit.

This is an Issue 3 Spectrum , so the wire links that I need to solder are under the heatsink. The earlier Issue 2 design has the wire links just to the right of the large ULA chip. You can also see, in the highlighted red rectangle in the image above, where the new memory and logic chips have to go. The heatsink is held on by a single flathead screw.

Be careful though, there is a nut behind the motherboard which will fall out when you remove the single screw. It's also likely to get attached to the speaker magnet if you let it loose inside the case. Here you can see the links that need to be bridged. From Mobygames. Original Entry. Uploaded by Jason Scott on June 22, Internet Archive's 25th Anniversary Logo. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest.

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