Micronet

[ComSoft6128]

Not a CPC in sight unfortunately but OH!...... the memories.
I used this in 89/90, did anyone else use Micronet?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szdbKz5CyhA

[arnoldemu]

Not a CPC in sight unfortunately but OH!...... the memories.
I used this in 89/90, did anyone else use Micronet?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szdbKz5CyhA

I used prestel 3 times from my friend's house via a slow 1200baud modem.

[Vyper68]

I can remember some kind of deal with BT & Commodore and you got a 300 Baud Modem and access to some kind of C64 BBS/Chat Room kind of thing it was quite laugh at the time. When it worked and when i wasn't getting wrong off me ma 

The phone bills were quite steep as well so me dad took the modem off me 

[remax]

I don't know anything of what's in this video but this guy looks and talks like Jemaine Clement 

[Vyper68]

I'm loving the old school telephone next to the Beeb on the right. Did anyone ever use those Acoustic Coupler's i saw them but never used one. I did see some clown using one in the old BT Phone Box to send some data. It was funny even back then, it sounds ludicrous now. 

[blackdalek]

They actually broadcast a program during the end credits? What an odd idea. I wonder if it ever worked and does anyone know what the program was?

[arnoldemu]

They actually broadcast a program during the end credits? What an odd idea. I wonder if it ever worked and does anyone know what the program was?

With the BBC micro and the teletext adaptor you could download programs from both Ceefax and Teletext. The games were quite good. The games used multiple pages, all of that was hidden in the first few lines of the picture.

I also know of some records where there was audio which you could load into the spectrum, and one of these had a game.

I know of some other programs that had "data bursts" which were only a few frames of information at the end and you had to use a video player or something to slow down the picture to read it.

Which method does this program use? Is it in the teletext or as audio?

[robcfg]

If you download the video and extract the audio track, it looks like a standard computer tape recording:

[arnoldemu]

If you download the video and extract the audio track, it looks like a standard computer tape recording:

Which computer is it for? Have you tried using freeuef to see if it's for the bbc micro?

[robcfg]

I cannot for the love of God find that damned MakeUEF utility as acornpreservation.org does not exist anymore and FreeUEF just converts UEF files back to WAV files.


I tried a couple of emulators but none will load WAV files... 


You'll find attached the wav file if you like to play with it.

[remax]

I cannot for the love of God find that damned MakeUEF utility as acornpreservation.org does not exist anymore and FreeUEF just converts UEF files back to WAV files.


I tried a couple of emulators but none will load WAV files... 


You'll find attached the wav file if you like to play with it.

I may be posting rubbish but the first link on google bring me to this page qith a valid link for MakeUEF 


https://www.stairwaytohell.com/essentials/index.html?page=homepage

[Vyper68]

Here is the folder of UEF Tools with make UEF in it.

[arnoldemu]

The audio definitely sounds like a BBC micro program, but it seems short. It has the leader and a small data block.
Is there any more?

The version of MakeUEF I used doesn't find anything.

[blackdalek]

The audio definitely sounds like a BBC micro program, but it seems short. It has the leader and a small data block.
Is there any more?

perhaps the program just does 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD";:GOTO 10

[Gryzor]

Ah, that retro tech...

https://www.facebook.com/kimberly.phillips.75641/videos/1882835895339652/

[robcfg]

Maybe the program continued after the credits and isn't included in the YouTube video.