ZX81PLUS35 ZX81 clone: Difference between revisions
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Revision as of 19:11, 27 April 2014
The ZX14 is a much improved Sinclair ZX81 clone built with the modern materials techniques and components of 2014.
it will be fully open sourced effort (but note that the original design of the zx81 is still owned by Amstrad)
3D Preview
Here is a (3D rendered) preview.
Schematic
the latest schematic can be found here:
A small preview of it can be found on the right, click on it for a somewhat larger version:
there is also a color coded schematic (.PDF), it can be found here: note that SMT components are depicted purple, and PTH ones green.
File:Color coded ZX14 schematic with eprom support.pdf
Keyboard
I have also been busy designing a solution for the keyboard. My solution is to use commercially available cheap 6x6mm buttons, which (with some effort by bending the pins a bit) can be mounted on an EuroCard sized piece of 1/10"raster perfboard, the result would like something like the picture on the left.
Here is the schematic of the keyboard: File:KB matrix schematic.pdf
I also designed a new keyboard overlay suitable for such a keyboard with the keys going through holes in the overlay. Here is a drawing showing how it would look:
Here is a .PDF version that should be correctly scaled when printed on A4 paper.