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Games / Re: how to play larger games s...

Last post by spikemorrissey - Yesterday at 21:43

Thank you for the reply. I downloaded RVM and created the machine but how do I load the games please?

#12

Technical support - Hardware related / Re: Disc Missing and Bad Comma...

Last post by eto - Yesterday at 20:07

I remember watching a disk controller investigation by Noel that displayed ISP, see Floppy Disk Controller Repair.

oh... this is very close to what I experience. Thanks for bringing it up. 

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Off topic / Re: It's 40ºC here in Spain! N...

Last post by cwpab - Yesterday at 19:53

Yes, so I've heard. The water in the air makes the UK feel like Seoul these days... Ouch.

It's not the temperature or the humidity by themselves... It's the combination of both elements!

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Technical support - Hardware related / Re: Disc Missing and Bad Comma...

Last post by Rabs - Yesterday at 19:39

1) boot message is ISP (all 0 although there should be one 1)

I remember watching a disk controller investigation by Noel that displayed ISP, see Floppy Disk Controller Repair.

This turned out to be the IC203 and I have had problems with this IC in the past, see my posts CPC 6128 DISC MISSING BUT THE DISC DRIVE IS GOOD

But I guess you may have already replaced IC203 and checked all the tracks?

Hope this helps
Rabs

#15

Other retro / Re: What's the console or comp...

Last post by eto - Yesterday at 18:41

BTW: CGA in Europe looks completely different compared to GGA in USA. That's a huge difference

CGA is equally ugly on all continents as long as RGBi monitors are used. 

The exception for this is that the early CGA cards have a composite output that on a NTSC monitor (TV set) will create artifact colours. 

Although this was part of the definition by IBM this only works over the Composite signal and not the RGBi signal that was typically used on professional monitors. I would expect that rarely someone connected his IBM to a TV set, so I'm not sure if a lot of people ever discovered the colourful side of CGA. 

The 8bit guy has covered this some time ago here: 
(and then after 5:35 he shows the artifact colour mode)

And looking at this I would say that CGA in composite mode is still ugly - just a different kind of ugly. 

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Off topic / Re: It's 40ºC here in Spain! N...

Last post by Bryce - Yesterday at 18:39

We made it to 36°C here today and it's going to be 38°C tomorrow. But the temperature isn't really the problem, it's the humidity that gets me.

Bryce.

#17

Technical support - Hardware related / Re: old model 464 with garbled...

Last post by Bryce - Yesterday at 18:36

You could have already broken 40007 without a cooler.

Technically correct, but you'd have to run the CPC for quite a while. If the CPC isn't working, I doubt he was running it for more than a few minutes each time.

Bryce.

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Technical support - Hardware related / Re: old model 464 with garbled...

Last post by eto - Yesterday at 18:11

You could have already broken 40007 without a cooler.

I never had an issue with running a 40007 without cooler even for a little bit longer. I wouldn't run it for hours without the cooler but I didn't recognize a heat issue when I do a few tests without the cooler applied. 

Would this kind of chip be ok as a replacement? I

yes

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Technical Support - General / Re: DDI1 Clone disaster

Last post by angelcaio - Yesterday at 18:04

I bought this on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.es/YIHUA-858D-soldadura-desoldadura-temperatura/dp/B0BYSKPJQX/ref=sr_1_15?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.d6CCwzT7t1oLYMJLpE4B1roSUYGG6bXI8N9_W_Te5ok9RDZJetUEJ1s5KJ9lUReJgoUogR1ryhWJCSSx1vSvUc5iRTNB--HNUjlOwSRlbGMU1HfdXzRzg0tRJefa_JIrvSyICWC1RLJi58shkuv59v51S_vvQkATlT3fn-hwWq5IzmhWzxyHPzcEuIgLk7rY61qJjF8glGcJxA1Ae_T8Y2nk8mTZLRCeUW2Fsx6LdDg.C5gtdTpod8knq_u3fM7YLf4h3P8jt7IoAggjDUs2J_I&dib_tag=se&qid=1751293551&s=tools&sr=1-15

Maybe it will help to desolder... and resolder....

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General Discussion - Introductions / Re: I feel like I am on a diff...

Last post by cwpab - Yesterday at 17:11

Here's something interesting for the OP... CPC Power lets you filter "dumps" (all games, demos, etc.) by final language, and there are 2 pages of dumps in Italian!