Amstrad CT-1 Radio/Alarm-Clock

[MacDeath]

I was wondering...
Would it be possible to turn this thing into actually an amstrad CPC peripheral ?

Ideas :

=real time clock : obviously the most obvious use... But I suppose it only features hour, not even dates.

=Radio : What could we do with this ? appart from a numeric setting of the frequency ? perhaps some wireless control/Data transmition ?

=Speaker : i suppose this thing is not even stereo ?

=Power supply : not even sure...Could this actually power a diskdrive ?


Perhaps the casing may be re-used for a virtual disk drive...after all...

Got any idea ? do you own one ?

[Ynot.zer0]

Got any idea ? do you own one ?

I have a few (including the MP-3 TV ones too).  I've often wondered if it could be re-purposed.  I was thinking of using one of them to house the HxC SDCard reader (instead of inside my 6128).


It'd be 'nice' to perhaps use the casing for the new MegaFlash?....

[Gryzor]

Doesn't it have enough empty space inside it to house the HxC as well?

If you got several, care selling me one?

[Bryce]

The HxC would probably fit inside one of the two rear "legs", they're hollow, but the display would have to be at the side, because the entire front is used.

To use it as an RTC would mean connecting it to the expansion port, which is a little impractical running a 50way flat cable to the CT-1, but there are a few other things you could do with it. You could feed the radio sound signal into the CPC and then record / sample the music digitally.

Bryce.