Reviving a Sony CDP-991, Part 2
In the first part, I powered up my CDP-991 again after 15 years. Next step: Open the tray.
Reviving a Sony CDP-991
Let's do a hardware related project for a change. A few days ago, I found my good old CD player from the time when I was in my early twenties. It's a CDP-991. Sony has produced them around 1991.
Recovering old ZX Spectrum tapes, Part 2
The ZX Spectrum was a comparable cheap home computer, and thus the tape loading and saving mechanisms have not been very sophisticated.
Recovering old ZX Spectrum tapes
Since I am in the mood of heavy ZX Spectrum retro action, I dug out all my old computer tapes in an attept to digitize and convert them. It turned out to be more difficult than I thought...
Optimizations
On a slow processor like the Z80, it is essential to think about execution time. Often a clean approach is too slow, and you need to optimize the code to make it a lot faster.
ZX Spectrum retro game programming
If you are a child of the 1980’s, you maybe remember the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.