{"id":43,"date":"2016-01-22T13:39:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T18:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2016-01-22T13:39:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T18:39:51","slug":"retrochallenge-201601","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knm.org.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/retrochallenge-201601\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrochallenge 2016\/01"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I'd mentioned in a <a href=\"https:\/\/knm.org.uk\/blog\/2015\/11\/gaining-traction-on-an-old-interest\/\">previous post<\/a>, when we were over visiting my Mum last year, I filled a 4.5cuft box with fun bits and pieces from my childhood, including my Amiga 1200, Spectrum +3, and two 48k ZX Spectrums that aren't very happy. Well, the box arrived on Christmas Eve, just in time to go (almost) under the tree.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the time, I thought \"Great! I can work on this over the Christmas break\", except it didn't turn out to be much of a break, so all that happened was I unpacked the box, took some photos, made sure everything arrived in one piece, and moved everything into the basement. That's where it sat until the new year.<\/p>\n<p>I had thought the two 48k speccies would make a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickensonline.co.uk\/retrochallenge-2012sc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Retrochallenge<\/a> project, but I was too busy with other things to make any preparations, or to even make a submission. Well it turns out the +3 and the A1200 were a bit more interesting than I thought, and since I didn't start work on them until earlier this month, well, maybe they can be a Retrochallenge entry afterall.<\/p>\n<p>I'll put some more posts up soon showing better pictures of what was in my box of toys, and then documenting the work so far on my ZX Spectrum +3 and Amiga 1200 to get them both (mostly) working. There's still some more work to go, and as I progress, I'll try and document that as well.<\/p>\n<p>Keep watching this space \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;d mentioned in a previous post, when we were over visiting my Mum last year, I filled a 4.5cuft box with fun bits and pieces from my childhood, including my Amiga 1200, Spectrum +3, and two 48k ZX Spectrums that aren&#8217;t very happy. Well, the box arrived on Christmas Eve, just in time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/knm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/knm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}