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Gulliver · 24th May 2023, 10:02 pm

I finally took the plunge and got a Spectranet ethernet adapter for my Sinclair Spectrums (I have a 48K "rubber devil" and a 128K toastrack these days)

I have to say, I am impressed. The unit worked right out of the box, connecting to the manufacturer's server which is pretty useful itself. Though I found Mark Round's site even better. And there's even Platoterm - a Plato terminal with access to much of the old Plato material from the 70s and 80s. I enjoyed playing Plato at battleships for the first time in 41 years.

The humble Speccy is online. I never once thought I'd hook up a Spectrum to the internet! There's even an irc chat client and a telnet client! But most of the pages designed for the spectrum are a bit of a cross between the old BBS and modern web pages. It's rather like surfing the web on your Spectrum.

24th May 2023, 10:02 pm	#1
Gulliver Hexode Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Luton, Bedfordshire, UK. Posts: 469	Spectranet - ethernet for your Spectrum I finally took the plunge and got a Spectranet ethernet adapter for my Sinclair Spectrums (I have a 48K "rubber devil" and a 128K toastrack these days) I have to say, I am impressed. The unit worked right out of the box, connecting to the manufacturer's server which is pretty useful itself. Though I found Mark Round's site even better. And there's even Platoterm - a Plato terminal with access to much of the old Plato material from the 70s and 80s. I enjoyed playing Plato at battleships for the first time in 41 years. The humble Speccy is online. I never once thought I'd hook up a Spectrum to the internet! There's even an irc chat client and a telnet client! But most of the pages designed for the spectrum are a bit of a cross between the old BBS and modern web pages. It's rather like surfing the web on your Spectrum.