TS1510 Cartridge Interface Clone
🔧 Project · 🟢 Active · Owner: Carl Miles · 2024-02 → 2026-03
A modern, redesigned reproduction of the Timex/Sinclair 1510 Command Cartridge interface (and compatible cartridge PCBs) for the TS1000/TS1500/ZX81 line, produced in small community batches.
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About
The TS1510 was Timex's cartridge interface for the ZX81-class machines, and original units are scarce. Carl Miles reverse-engineered and reproduced it as a modern clone — both the interface and matching cartridge PCBs — iterating through several redesigned revisions and running small production batches for the community from 2024 onward. The idea of cloning the 1510 goes back much further on the list (see the 2009 Yahoo-era thread below), but Carl's effort is the one that actually shipped hardware.
Related discussions
- TS1510 on ebay — 81 msg · 2024-03-18 · groups.io
- Redesigned TS1510 Clone Cartridge & Interface PCBs have arrived... — 5 msg · 2024-11-11 · groups.io
- New batch of REDESIGNED TS1510 CLONE Interface and Cartridges for purc — 34 msg · 2026-03-09 · groups.io
- redesigned ts1510 clone — 7 msg · 2024-12-15 · groups.io
- update regarding the TS1510 cartridge adapters, to Carl — 3 msg · 2024-07-11 · groups.io
- TS1510 Clone from Carl — 7 msg · 2024-07-05 · groups.io
- TS1510 cartridges. — 2 msg · 2024-10-26 · groups.io
- ts1510 cartridge — 4 msg · 2025-02-18 · groups.io
- To Carl re: TS1510 games — 10 msg · 2024-09-26 · groups.io
- TS1510 clone — 21 msg · 2009-07-22 · Yahoo era
In the meetings
Discussed in 28 meeting recaps:
- November 16, 2025 — TSU Meeting SUNDAY
- November 3, 2025 — TSU Meeting MONDAY
- October 19, 2025 — TSU Meeting SUNDAY
- October 6, 2025 — TSU Meeting MONDAY
- September 21, 2025 — TSU Meeting SUNDAY
- September 1, 2025 — TSU Meeting MONDAY
- August 4, 2025 — TSU Meeting MONDAY
- May 5, 2025 — TSU Meeting MONDAY
- March 3, 2025 — TSU Meeting MONDAY
- February 3, 2025 — TSU Meeting MONDAY
- January 19, 2025 — TSU Meeting SUNDAY
- January 6, 2025 — TSU Meeting MONDAY
- December 2, 2024 — TSU Meeting MONDAY
- September 9, 2024 — TSU Meeting MONDAY
- August 5, 2024 — TSU Meeting MONDAY
- June 23, 2024 — TSU Meeting SUNDAY
- June 3, 2024 — TSU Meeting MONDAY
- May 19, 2024 — TSU Meeting SUNDAY
- May 6, 2024 — TSU Meeting MONDAY
- April 21, 2024 — TSU Meeting SUNDAY
- April 1, 2024 — TSU Meeting MONDAY
- March 17, 2024 — TSU Meeting SUNDAY
- March 4, 2024 — TSU Meeting MONDAY
- February 18, 2024 — TSU Meeting SUNDAY
- April 4, 2022 — Timex Sinclair User Group Meeting
- …and 3 more
Topics: Cartridges, EPROM & dumping · TS1510 cartridge interface · Hardware projects & new boards