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Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop

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"AndyW" <Andy@nojunqmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On 06/09/2015 11:19, James Harris wrote:
>> With the Recreated ZX Spectrum aka bluetooth keyboard (of all things)
>> and the ZX Spectrum Vega I am surprised that, to my knowledge, no one
>> has come up with a ZX Spectrum laptop.
>>
>> I am thinking of a machine which had the normal appearance of a 
>> laptop,
>> i.e. with keyboard and screen and internal battery power, but where 
>> the
>> innards behaved as a ZX Spectrum. As the Spectrum's display was of 
>> low
>> resolution I expect that a suitable screen would not be expensive to 
>> add.
>>
>> Imagine being able to carry and use the box anywhere and not have to
>> plug it in to a TV.
>
> Simplest way would be to pick up an old cheap netbook, add a 
> lightweight linux distro that boots directly into a Speccy emulator.
> Some of the very old netbooks (EEPC 701 or 900) are available on ebay 
> for peanuts. There is one going now for £29 on BuyItNow.
> £30, an hour's work in installing the OS and software and then a day 
> speccyfying the case with a decent speccy paintjob. Not sure how to 
> speccyfy the keyboard, the keyboard is too low profile for zombie 
> flesh keys.

I wasn't thinking of this for my own use. I just wondered why no one had 
come up with a laptop version of the Spectrum.

While they are recreating the internals (which I would have thought 
could be done cheaply with an FPGA or an Xmos device or an Arm CPU 
running an emulator, especially if there was no TV out needed) I would 
have thought it would be cost effective enough to add a screen and 
battery.

James

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No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 11:19 +0100
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop deKay <nospam.andyk@lofi-gaming.nospam.org.uk> - 2015-09-06 18:00 +0000
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop AndyW <Andy@nojunqmail.com> - 2015-09-07 07:58 +0100
    Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 18:37 +0100
      Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop AndyW <Andy@nojunqmail.com> - 2015-09-08 07:19 +0100
        Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "dott.Piergiorgio" <dott.piergiorgio@gmail.com> - 2015-09-09 07:20 +0200
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-07 08:33 +0100
    Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 18:44 +0100
      Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-08 09:29 +0100
        Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 16:34 +0100
          Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-09 11:54 +0100
            Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-12 15:55 +0100
              Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net> - 2015-09-13 17:46 +0100
        Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "dott.Piergiorgio" <dott.piergiorgio@gmail.com> - 2015-09-09 07:38 +0200
        Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop AndyW <Andy@nojunqmail.com> - 2015-09-09 07:40 +0100
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-10 09:23 +0100
    Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-12 16:16 +0100
  Re: No ZX Spectrum laptop Marcos Cruz <null_email_so_use_my_contact_page@programandala.net> - 2015-09-19 19:41 +0000

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