Sounds like any other way than a _scr would be smaller

I got one from Dillons on sale for £99. I'd always wanted one since I first saw it because it was marketed as having a fun yet serious side, and I only ever saw the Spectrum as a toy, the Beebs as very dry and everything else as, well, everything else. Within 2 weeks of buying the QL, I was working ...

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Especially if only larger, easy to solder SMD footprints like SO are meant, that's absolutely fine for me. But I'm interested in high functional and mechanical equivalence to the QL. For my taste, it should be able to run 128K RAM if configured, support microdrives, and unchanged operating systems....

I suppose that question depends on who is having to do the soldering ("soddering" for the USA ;) I've done some hand soldering of SMD stuff, and it's a tad finiky, but no tombstones. (Yet!) All the SMD components would be mounted for you. Mostly, it's DIPs changing to SOICs. The reliabili...

I don't know what this composite mod is, but they have colour and mono composite available on the RGB socket.

I have no idea what this game is, but what kind of compression could you do on the splash screen?

Sooo, to kick things off, would people be terribly offended if all the 7400 series logic was SMD instead of DIP?

I 100% back Tobias here.

Do you plan to use a monitor or plug it into a TV? If a TV, will you use UHF aerial cable or a SCART lead?

There were library parts for the DB9 connector. I had to make the Card Edge Connector 2x15 no 6th row myself.