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Well, more preparation tonight for the festival at the weekend. I'll do the final proper packing tomorrow.

I also fixed the wiring on the vDrive sound board and made a second one to show at the festival, and possibly give away.

The final version, with the speaker glued to the rear bulkhead of the ZX Microdrive case, sounds OK as the case is amplifying the sound, e.g.



There is an annoying "ticking" sound around the end/beginning of the digitised sound clip but it's definitely good enough and about the same volume as the original drive/tape mechanism.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!

Stop posting vDrive stuff, or I'm going to end up ordering one :dizzy:
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rubber_jonnie wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 10:43 pm Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!

Stop posting vDrive stuff, or I'm going to end up ordering one :dizzy:
I suspect that you posting that message might have the opposite effect? ;)
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Hehehe! You need two vDrives... one for the QL and one for the ZX Spectrum + Interface 1, which if you don't have already you need to get. ;-)
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Well, @rubber_jonnie - you might save on the postage if you buy both at the same time!
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stephen_usher wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 10:16 pm There is an annoying "ticking" sound around the end/beginning of the digitised sound clip but it's definitely good enough and about the same volume as the original drive/tape mechanism.
The start and stop is very abrupt, isn't it?

I think after listening to that for two minutes, it'd be getting the wire cutter treatment from me anyway!

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It's not hugely different from hearing the tape join go through every 5 seconds or so. If someone wishes to try to make a better sample then the source is on-line and freely available on Github. :-)

https://github.com/stephen-usher/vDrive ... n/ATTiny85
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stephen_usher wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 10:14 am It's not hugely different from hearing the tape join go through every 5 seconds or so. If someone wishes to try to make a better sample then the source is on-line and freely available on Github. :-)
5 seconds, eh? Someone should do one of those Christopher Nolan style Shepard-Risset tones for it. I'm not sure if that'd be better or whether you'd have to hide all the hammers in the house.

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JezC wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 8:14 am Well, @rubber_jonnie - you might save on the postage if you buy both at the same time!
:lol: :roll: :hide:
Gaaaaahhhhh!!!!

Stop it damn you!!
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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JezC wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 8:14 am Well, @rubber_jonnie - you might save on the postage if you buy both at the same time!
:lol: :roll: :hide:
I didn't fall for @JezC 's sales pitch as I'm not entirely in the market for a Spectrum vDrive, but the vDrive QL is ordered :roll:
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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