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Amstrad CPC hardware / Re: Which chip for internal ro...

Last post by Rabs - Today at 20:13

What about flash chips like  AT29C256 ? they are not easily sourced, but still a lot more recent than amstrad-period ROMs. They are 5v and the pinout seems ok... ?

I guess that's the problem, sourcing them.

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Classifieds / Re: [London] Looking to borrow...

Last post by m_dr_m - Today at 18:19

I can buy one too (only the keyboard)!

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Classifieds / [London] Looking to borrow a C...

Last post by m_dr_m - Today at 18:04

The CPC at my first isn't working properly (random crashes), and I need my daily dose!

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Amstrad CPC hardware / Re: Which chip for internal ro...

Last post by orzel - Today at 17:27

What about flash chips like  AT29C256 ? they are not easily sourced, but still a lot more recent than amstrad-period ROMs. They are 5v and the pinout seems ok... ?

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Games / Re: Turrican (128K)

Last post by Jean-Marie - Today at 17:05

The spikes are working too. Now, I'll see if I can tidy up the code, and next week I'll try to write the changes in the Level A file, which should be very challenging.

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Technical support - Hardware related / Making a SCART cable for 6128

Last post by wcameron2005 - Today at 15:40

I've made a cable based on the "Amstrad CPC to SCART" diagram from the below site:

https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/TV_SCART_cable

The cable works fine on my Philips CM8832 monitor (albeit a little noisy), but not on my Akura AHLTV15 (cheap 15" LCD tv): the TV displays a "SCART (AUTO)" message, but nothing but a black screen. I'm using a12v power supply to provide power for pins 8 and (via a 470 ohm resistor) 16. I've tried various things, but the screen flatly refuses to display a picture.

Any help greatly appreciated.

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Programming / Re: Newbie assembler CPC quest...

Last post by andycadley - Today at 15:26

https://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/e/ef/S968ap05.pdf

This lists the default colours.

You can always change them with SCR SET INK and SCR SET BORDER as you have done already.

Ahhhh!!!!

I didn't realise the pen's were already assigned a colour.  I thought the pens were all empty and I had to set the ink's I wanted to them.

This makes much more sense! 

The relationship between PENs and INKs is one of those things that's a lot more intuitive if you've played around with BASIC a lot. I think the firmware guide sort of assumes that you're familiar with BASIC in many ways, so it's worth skimming through the BASIC manual to be honest.

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Technical support - Hardware related / Re: nitengotek (using a Ninten...

Last post by salvogendut - Today at 15:19

Actually I do have something to ask for support. Is there any way to configure one of the leds to be used for the drive activity? This gotek had 2 leds, one red and one green. I rerouted the red one to the Famicom case ( there was one already from the Famicom itself so I hijacked the gotek to use that). In short, is there some config file to tell the gotek to use one of the two leds for drive activity?

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Technical support - Hardware related / Re: nitengotek (using a Ninten...

Last post by salvogendut - Today at 14:00

Just realized I posted this on Technical Support. Feel free to remove, admins!

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Technical support - Hardware related / nitengotek (using a Nintendo F...

Last post by salvogendut - Today at 13:56

Hey everyone, I just finished working on this little project. A few months ago I found a Nintendo Famicom Disk drive in Japan which was sold as non working for about 4000 yen and I could not stop myself from buying it. It looked so cool I had to do something with it. After a little fidgeting and playing with volumes inside the enclosure I managed to get it all together and here it is as drive B on my CPC6128