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Title: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: DrMoffet on 22:34, 28 May 11
This is interesting...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AMSTRAD-CPC-464-64K-PC-COMPUTER-GREEN-SCREEN-SPECTRUM-/330568277014?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item4cf7679c16 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AMSTRAD-CPC-464-64K-PC-COMPUTER-GREEN-SCREEN-SPECTRUM-/330568277014?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item4cf7679c16)

I wonder how you'd connect a tape drive. Simple mod to the board for an external tape player, like a Speccy? Can only be used with a DDI-1?
Title: Re: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: steve on 23:54, 28 May 11
If the person who buys that machine reads this post then I have a spare tape drive I could sell to him, all I have to do is saw it off the end of my 464.
Title: Re: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: MacDeath on 01:22, 29 May 11
There was already one topic on this one ? or Am I Crazy ?

http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?topic=2302.0 (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?topic=2302.0)

Title: Re: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: steve on 02:42, 29 May 11
@MacDeath, yes, you are correct, but I think it is impolite to tell new posters that a subject has been covered before.
Title: Re: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: Ynot.zer0 on 09:50, 29 May 11
Quote from: DrMoffet on 22:34, 28 May 11
This is interesting...
I wonder how you'd connect a tape drive. Simple mod to the board for an external tape player, like a Speccy? Can only be used with a DDI-1?


I'll let you know all the answers once I've won it  ;D
Title: Re: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: DrMoffet on 09:51, 29 May 11
Oops, sorry guys. I obviously hadn't seen the previous thread (hadn't looked at General Discussion). Mods, can you delete this one please?  :)
Title: Re: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: MacDeath on 14:03, 29 May 11
No problem, I wasn't meant to be rude at all... ;D

If you took it as a rude comment, I apologie then. :-[

BTW, welcome aboard, DrMoffet. :)
Title: Re: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: loco on 19:51, 30 May 11

In my opinion this is going for quite a high price considering what it is, and what normal ones go for.


Perhaps we will see a spate of 'cut & shuts' in future, depending on the outcome of this auction  :D
Title: Re: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: Ynot.zer0 on 19:54, 30 May 11
Quote from: loco on 19:51, 30 May 11
In my opinion this is going for quite a high price considering what it is, and what normal ones go for.
true.  currently at £11.50.  I could spend that on time, effort and glue hacking up on the spare one's I have in the loft.


...but....then there is the curiosity aspect.... is it just a piece of art? is it a working 464 still (minus tape drive) or does it have a speccie 48k wedged inside with the keyboard connected up?..... okay, maybe that might be worth £17.50  :o
Title: Re: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: loco on 21:56, 30 May 11
£38.77!


Right..... where's my hacksaw?!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: Gryzor on 11:49, 31 May 11
Imagine that - if you have a 464 with a faulty tape deck you can sell half the 464 and the deck separately for spares :D
Title: Re: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: loco on 20:59, 31 May 11
Yes, a 'Chopped CPC464 Restoration Kit' for chopped CPC owners who wish to restore theirs to stock  ;D



Title: Re: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: MacDeath on 11:42, 12 June 11
QuoteNice Casemod but without ANY functionality. No Monitor-Port, no Power-Jack - nothing :-) Just casemod with a chopped pcb.
WTF ? you can't even plus a monitor ?

Lol it's even worse than a "GX464old"...
Title: Re: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: robcfg on 12:27, 12 June 11
Maybe you can fit inside a cost-down CPC PCB... maybe....


I'll be waiting for the pictures!  :D
Title: Re: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: Bryce on 11:14, 13 June 11
A CPC+ PCB would fit perfectly inside it still.

Bryce.
Title: Re: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: MacDeath on 11:28, 13 June 11
Yet the problem may remains...

What can you do with a CPC464 keyboard lacking arrow keys and Functions keys ?


Debugging can become sure a pain in the @$$.

Would certainly be better with a sawn off CPC6128 casing including a 6128PLUS motherboard...
Yet you would need a solution for the Cartridge port, also the Analog port and so on...

Weren't the cost down PCB with preASIC smaller ?
Title: Re: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: robcfg on 12:22, 13 June 11
Yes (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Mainboard_Versions#CPC464_version_4_.28cost-down.29), sure (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Mainboard_Versions#CPC6128_version_3_.28cost-down.29)  ;D
Title: Re: Chopped CPC464 on eBay
Post by: Bryce on 12:23, 13 June 11
The cartridge slot is socketed, so you could make a connection lead and have it face out the top like an Atari 800XL.
Arrow keys would still be a problem though.

Bryce.
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