Zm_Polyhedron - Speccy of the future ??? Phoenix Interviews Raydac Where do you live? I living in St.Petersburg city (in Russia). How's the spectrum scene there nowadays? ZX-Net 400. Chaos Construction'99. At us many people are engaged in a Spectrum. In ZX-Net the approximately 400 men. The summer will carry out (spent) a festival Chaos Construction'99. Seems like it is still a cool scene! How does zx-net work? Has not understood. Set a question more correct. Shite... Is it BBS-driven? Yes Ok ... There are modems available for which computers? Scorpion and Pentagon. Modem have type is Vicomm. What is the maximum baud rate? Approximate 2400-3000 bits per second. Fast huh? ;) Where do you plug it? Does the pentagon have a comm (rs-232) port? Vicomm modem is connected in tape port of the spectrum. In pentagon, scorpion and polyhedron not have comm port. Ok. The polyhedron ... That's your new speccy clone project, right? This project is saving for a platform a Spectrum. It essentially new implementation of a platform. This platform will allow of the game on a Spectrum colour without change of the code. How do you do that???????????? It will be given with the new concept of construction of home computers. Erm... ok. It is very a pity, that I while poorly know the English language. That's ok, please continue ... Now we select element base for implementation and I think that all will be ready to summer. Can you estimate a price for the finished product? 40$ - mother board In it computer 256 kB RAM In full construction it computer ~60-70$ That's very cheap! What processor will you be using? Z80 frequency 7 meghertz. Like scorpion? Yes. in the next models it will have a Z380. That sounds interesting... What sound chip? Just AY? While that just AY8910. It computer work in scorpion mode , 48 mode, 128 mode and in ZM_Polyhedron mode. What's the difference in zm_polyhedron mode? All your black-white games will become color. I can't see how you can do that without re-programming the game ... There is a possibility, but it nobody knows. Ok ... i get the picture. (nurse! ;-) It very powerful construction of the home computer and such yet were not. Oh... i see. (not!) We now want to open the corporation for manufacture of this computer. Our corporation will be named "Fenix computers". Nice name ... ;) Will polyhedron be in a tower or desktop case? Mother board of the polyhedron is very small and it will be in what the buyer wants in. Cool. And the keyboard? PC like? It is very a pity, that I have not the direct channel of delivery of details because of a boundary keyboard by and PC and ZX. ???????? Keyboard will by ZX, and possible connect PC over special card. Ok ... Will it be tr-dos based? Yes it be tr-dos based. 5 1/4" or 3 1/2"? I think, that will be 5 1/4 " . Will it have pentagon or scorpion timings? In my computer , CPU will by work without steps of delay, so will be as Pentagon. I here recently have made slightly colour After the War game, and it was very interesting to play in colour variant of this game. I still can't figure out how it's done without re -programming the whole game ... To know how it is necessary :) Then everyone learn (find out) as it easily color on the spectrum it is really. Ok - thanks for everything!!! If anyone wishes to contact Raydac, here's his e-mail address: Raydac@usa.netÂ