OqtaDrive turns a Sinclair Spectrum into an internet terminal with one transistor

5 years of OqtaDrive: Microdrive emulation to Sinclair Network over the internet

Five years after its first alpha, OqtaDrive has grown from an Arduino Nano emulating eight Microdrives into a gateway that connects vintage ZX Spectrum and QL machines to the internet. The Nano streams data over a serial link to a Go daemon, enabling snapshot loading, browser upgrades, ZXDB search, and CP/M support. With release 0.7.0, a tiny hardware tweak lets users SAVE and LOAD files across the world via the Sinclair Network—no modifications to the vintage machine required.