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Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 (1987)

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Duration: 11:15

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Welcome to episode 8, where we, on our 16k issue 2 1982 motherboard, will play Rainbow Islands in 128k mode with AY music. We will play Borsch 128k, a Quake clone, with our K-Mouse interface and we will watch a 128k demo that has support for Turbo Sound.

This is a very powerful 16/48k setup - In episode 2, you can see it running a huge 512k demo with Turbo Sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbryLXeXzkc

You can see in Episode #1 what hardware has been used for this setup. Also in Episode #1 you will find the links you need for it.

Rainbow Islands: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/724/ZX-Spectrum/Rainbow_Islands
Borsch 128k: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsbA5yiL0Jw
In the Future 128k demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZsBrnSeqWg

This series is for ZX Spectrum 16/48k users. We show how to upgrade to 512k + DivMMC, AY, Turbo Sound, K-Mouse and HDMI output. This computer setup will work like a ZX Spectrum 128k in USR 0 mode. What's missing, is the Video RAM from the 128k machine, so software that takes advantage of the two VRAM will not work correctly. So this upgrade will not give you a 100% working 128k machine, but it will add the missing AY music for all the 48/128k games. Many of the 128k games will work (Many ...not all), while the missing VRAM is more of a problem for the 128k demos.

Advantages compared to a standard 128k machine is that this setup can play 6 channels Turbo Sound music and run some of the huge Pentagon 256k and 512k productions. There are no on/off switch to use for the AY and Turbo Sound. It is not needed, both setups are enabled of the time.

A great upgrade and the most you can get out of a ZX Spectrum 16/48k computer. If you are a fan of the original ZX Spectrum 16/48k model and do not want to replace it with one of the later 128k models, then this is the setup for you.

THIS SETUP ADDS:

- 512k RAM
- AY
- Turbo Sound
- Kempston joystick port
- Sinclair joystick port
- Kempston mouse
- HDMI output
- ULAplus enhanced colour palette
- Reset button
- Mass storage device

OPERATING SYSTEMS:

- esxDOS
- Bob Fossil's Long Filename Browser

SUPPORTED FILE SYSTEMS:

- Tap
- Trd
- Scl
- Sna
- Z80