ZX Spectrum Laptop 

ZX Spectrum always in our hearts.

I'm from Ukraine, after a month without light, my pc burned out, I turned on the Spectrum and loaded exelon, it seemed like a work of art, something beyond

Oh god, young me would have loved a laptop like this. From 1982-1992 the Spectrum was my only computer. It raised me, taught me programming and launched a long gaming industry career for mysef. And Jet-Set Willy was the first mind blowing game I got for it. It really was a revelation in 1984 with it's multi-screen setup. It's an impossibly hard and buggy game though, but back in those days we never expected to beat games anyway. Also..isn't the rubber-keyed version just the most gorgeous microcomputer design ever?

Loved the running around with the speccy in hands. Only old school folks know the pain of being wired to the same place with a tube tv for HOURS. Great video btw.

This just popped up on my vids today, love the good old speccy 😊 hello from the Uk 🇬🇧

Brilliant! I grew up with ZX Spectrums and recently bought myself a new version. I have to load games similar the old fashioned way by playing the tape file over Bluetooth, which is slow but also quite relaxing at the same time. Lovely to see you both so excited over this lovely little machine.

The last bit was the best! Laughed so hard. Great show!

I love your enthusiasm 😀

Good day Taylor and Amy. Showcase cool factor 100%. As a ZX80 fan this to me is a desirable product. I appreciated watching the battery fitting and knowing about it being sent as two separate main pieces. Your enjoyment is contagious! Best wishes for the channel. Warm regards from the Cape of Good Hope peninsula SA

thanks for this video. informative ,funny.

That is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. Pure genius. Why aren’t there more 8-bit laptops? That’s the ultimate mod.

Clive Sinclair would be SO proud!

I love this video and your excitement at getting a brand new zx spectrum, i want one!

The hand over the face is perfection. I don't know why I've never tried that.😂 Great episode, y'all! Also, I'm loving the shirt, Taylor. Time to order merch!

I have got an oringinal Spectrum 48k from the 80s. I didn't know Americans knew about the ZX Spectrum. It was called Timex in America.

That's a brilliant Specky laptop you've got there and Amy's face at 12:26 when Taylor says "We have to take it apart" excellent ;)

I had zero idea that they offered a mini screen for the ZX Spectrum! Agreed, it's so cute! Please do take it to a Starbucks and record a "The Taylor and Amy Show at the coffee shop" video LOL!

As one who began their computing journey with Sinclair machines, I am so jealous. One of these back in the 1980's would've been beyond my wildest dreams. Also, I'm so pleased to hear you correctly calling it by its proper name and not that (make an Englishman cringe) dreadful zee ex spectrum. 😁

This is the coolest thing I've seen today! 🤯🤯🤯

I had no idea that was available. Amazing! 😂

😲I never even imagined such a thing as a Spectrum laptop. What an awesome thing. Aint technology great! Another super fun video. Even the dog liked it.

In recent years, there seems to be a retro explosion of games for the Spectrum. In fact, I think that more games are made now (and of much higher quality) than in the 80's... I highly recommend the new games: "Gluf", "Valley of Rains" and "Old Tower".

Hi just found your channel, brilliant 👍 you both seem to have real passion for the retro scene keep up the good work 🕹️

That is freakin' cool af. :) I watched some of ya'lls other videos. Good stuff. Subscribed!

Had an original rubber key Speccy back in the day....never thought I's see the likes of this!

Omg I had no idea this even existed. I've just placed an order for the laptop version. I loved my original Speccy so much x

I'm glad you figured out those complicated DIP switches. LOL!

The spectrum for all of its limits lives on - it has a magic of its own and - well done Taylor and Amy - I didn't know about this gear. :)

Love it! Thanks for uploading guys.

Nicely done. Screen version looks sexy. Speccy, aaaah that was my childhood and my first computer. Great games like Commando, Myth, Sir Fred, Saboteur, Robocop and many many more. Gold age of gaming...

Wow! You are brilliant!

A friend of mine used to live out in a village about 5 miles from my place as the crow flies. Somerset country lanes might have added to the distance. As something to do on a Sunday, I would lob my Speccy with an Interface1 and Microdrive, some carts loaded with ripped games using a Multiface 128 and that Multiface in to a backpack and cycle out to where he lived on a badly maintained BMX.... I miss those days... If I had one of these things back then, I probably wouldn't have got so much exercise or the worry about the Microdrive failing...

Well this one made my night.

Fun fact, the name 'retroradionics' was no doubt inspired by the name of Sir Clive Sinclair's forerunner company to Sinclair Research (manufacturer of the Spectrum), which was called 'Sinclair Radionics.'

Oh, that looks awesome! I really like how it goes together. I hope that other classic computers get the same treatment! I would love a c64 or atari 8 bit in the same form factor.

Holy smokes, that is super cool!

As a person having had the 48k ZX Spectrum as my 1st computer I'm rrrrrrrrrrrrrealy impressed that people like you are interested in the ZX Spectrum in the 2020th... REALLY like the video. Have a lot of fun with the thing. - The ZX Spectrum is the computer which was setting up the Software (Gaming-) industry in the early 80th here in Europe. P.S.: (EDIT) By the way... The SCART cable is one of the things I'd really like to have. ;-> P².S.: By the way a 2nd time Waiting for parts of an order of retroradionics for aprox. half a year or more is quiet normal. :(

That is the most beautiful thing I've seen in an age. As a Speccy owner since '82 I can say in all honesty everyone is bad at Jet Set Willy. Thanks for sharing this 😎👍

My Omni laptop arrived today. I love it. But not as much as watching you run around the garden holding it like you’d found The Holy Grail. One of my fave bits of RU-vid in ages. Bloody hilarious.

What a cool option the mini-screen is! I agree, I want six of them so I can carry them around or pull one from anywhere I am and start using it.

Where can I buy one of those cool Taylor and Amy show cups? I also think going to Starbucks with that cool computer would be funny but you gotta make sure the sound is up .. Another great show ladies!!!

That thing is so sexy! Remember the 1980's sitting at a friends house with their NEW ZX Spectrum hooked up to the TV and trying to figure out witch keys to control the game 😅

Love Taylor's hair

Zx rocks forever

It is so cool both sisters share passion for this things.

Old School Fun great vid Taylor & Amy. I miss the MSX2 and the original Metal Gear.

Yeah is a blow back futuristic piece. NICE!

Really cool. I bought a 48k speccy off eBay I occasionally drag out. I will probably buy an Omni in the future. The regular one not the laptop. Keep up the great work ladies.

@9:49 That doesn't sound like hall of the mountain king... that sounds like Fiddler on the Roof's "Rich man" (or whatever it's called) song (well, a bastardization thereof). Another great episode! Love the portability demonstration ;)

"I want ten on these to carry around with me" Same

Фантастика! Теперь Спектрум на аккумуляторах и с дисплеем. 😁

Thank you girls ! The best free advert until now ;) ... Remind me to "bribe" you next time with some gifts !!!

Cool video. Thank you.

How cool is that!! I didn't even know that was a thing. Good stuff!

After learning they'd buzzed a Vintage Computer Fair (although the Chicago edition), I imagined this duo meeting up with Stewart Cheifet (host/producer of "The Computer Chronicles")

Wonderful! SCART is a French standard (acronym!) but they don't call it that... Think of the fun you can have with BASIC now you can see all the keyword shortcuts! Jet Set Willy plays "If I Was A Rich Man, Yabba Dabba Doo" over and over and over from Fiddler on the Roof :) That is one awesome laptop!

From above it looks legit like an original from 1982.

That looks amazing, I can even make use of the scart as I'm from UK 😁👍

I still have my old Spectrum, my first computer many years ago. Might need to get this new version...

and now I need this :D

Omg my childhood just fell out of me 😳

Fun stuff...techno rockin'

I remember Clive Sinclair hinting at a portable ZX Spectrum, which was expected to use the flat screen television technology he'd developed. I think screens and battery technology needed to get better. Great to see someone finally made a portable Spectrum.

Oh qué belleza la Spectrum

RetroGames are now releasing a ZX Spectrum in November! 😮😁

Here I am enjoying a couple of tasty tamale's and you guy bust out 8 bits of awesome. Perfect lunch!

I need to hunt out my ZX Spectrum. It's somewhere in the depths of my spare room. I hope it still works!

I bloody want one!

It's like my mom always said - never trust a SCART!

Very bizarre to see Egghead Plus on it; that wasn't a complete game, just a few test screens I put together to see what Egghead might look like in a ULAplus palette.

Nice very compact that does have a super super bright screen

Best. portable. ZX. Spectrum. video. ever.

Great fun as always. Soon I bet you will have to have a 2048 subscriber cupcake show!

Finally, I can play Jet Pac on the go!

Seems like it would be worth a trip to a coffee shop dressed in your best 80's clothes and sit at a table using that.

I think goto became illegal sometime in the 1990's, you have ben warned.😜

Y'all should do a tour of y'all's retro room. That would be rad.

Zed ex spectrum, nice pronunciation of the uks classic sinclair pc

That’s not The Hall of the Mountain King, that’s If I Was A Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof 😂

Liked and Subscribed.

You guys are so funny too 🙏🤣🤣

nice Spectrum Laptop Sir Clive would be Proud.

There is a newish Spectrum game out called "Buzzsaw". It plays like Pac Attack, the puzzle game. It's recommended. Hi from England girls!

That sounds a lot like "If I Were A Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof, as opposed to "In The Halls of the Mountain King" ...

Had one in 1984 when I was 10. Loved it. what you call the Desktop model. And no scart. proper original model from 1984.

2:45 Amy "Why did you have to go home from work?" made me LOL pretty loudly...and I'm at work myself. I don't know a lot about SCART either, other than hardcore retrogamers sometimes use it because...well, I'm not sure why. But, it's a rabbit hole to go down if one were so inclined.

It'd be awesome to see a future version using Zilog's 50Mhz ez80 with max memory... one for the suggestion box.

14:32 hahahah love it!

One thing is for certain: especially the last bit is some content that you won't find anywhere else! ;-)

There is a 'newish' game called Buzzsaw out. Its a Pac Attack Tetris style game with the pac man. You gals might like it. I played it and it's got good controls. Bomb Jack is great on the Speccy. Spiky Harold is a cute platform game, but super difficult.

It is great to see Sinclair Spectrum as "laptop" :-) I did not know, that it is something such possible, and i fully coincide with your enthusiasm. :-) I could not to imagine before 35 years, when i worked with Spectrum, something simmilar. I have question - how long can this "laptop" run on fully charged batteries? And which capacity of accumulators do you used? Thank you for your work.

OOh, new faces , nice vid :)

Looks cool, hope to see some Spectrum128K reviews soon. I seriously want one for Christmas now! Will you guys ever do a live stream playing some of these retro games?

imagine being 10 years old and seeing an original 16k version for the first time..

Отлично!

7:14 "It's ALIVE! ALIVE!"

Back in the '80s, were either of you avid readers of Compute! magazine or its spinoff Gazette?

You can expand the screen real estate to fit the screen.

I'm picturing what the neighbors were thinking when Taylor was running around the front yard: "Oh, look, she's finally gone crazy. But it's OK, because her friend Amy is videoing her for evidence so she can get the help she needs." 🤣

Very cute. I had a C64 in the 80s and have only experienced the Spectrum via emulation. Actually, the first emulator I used was on the Amiga and as I recall, it would only load "snapshot" files. There was even a program specifically for converting one snapshot format to another. I liked some of the games, but I wish the 48K model had had a proper sound chip, as the audio was always the weakest part of most of the games. BTW, that's a gamepad, not a joystick. ;)