Microstyle RAMROM online...

[zhulien]

http://cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Microstyle_RAMROM

feel free to reformat if you don't like my formatting (or lack of).  although I had formatted everything exactly as per the original manual within the Wiki page, it lost all formatting, so given my lack of knowledge and dislike of Wiki in general, I don't think I'll bother attempting again...

Julian

[zhulien]

hi all, back again.  I unregistered myself hoping my CPCWiki account would vanished, but it only deleted the forum account.  Anyway, anyone know how to fix my username in the CPCWiki so it does NOT have a capital first letter?

[Gryzor]

Hello mate,

First of all, welcome - and thanks for your contribution

About the article: formatting in the txt appears fine to me, although it'd be better in the article itself - I'll copy the manual into the article myself if you allow me I wouldn't know what formatting you had made and vanished - from the article's history I don't see any formatting going on...

Mediawiki is not the easiest thing to handle, but it's not difficult either; for a total computer newbie I guess it's something of a bummer, but then again a computer-related wiki hardly addresses any computer newbies... In any case, you also get a WYSIWYG editor you can choose from your profile options, which though a bit buggy when it comes to complex stuff, works fine with normal editing

Now, about your username; the forum is a separate module from the wiki, two completely different apps. When you registered on the wiki you capitalised the first letter or not? I don't know whether the software automatically does that, that's why I'm asking...

Cheers
Gryzor

[zhulien]

actually initially I had put it in the body of the article and although the wiki formatting allowed me to format it 100% identical to the original paper instructions I have here, when saving the result, all the formatting vanished - this really annoyed me, why let me format it only to lose it?  anyway, it's important everything lines up.  I specifically mis-spelt words too which is because they are like that on the printed instructions.   the formatting that was lost was the fixed width spacing, the alignment of the diagrams, the italics, the bold etc... I was using the WYSIWYG editor.

I did not capitalise the first letter when registering with cpcwiki.  must be a bug with the software, sadly I cannot edit it either

[Gryzor]

Mmmmm then maybe the WYSIWYG editor removed spacing etc - you can always revert to the mediawiki built-in editor through your options. I'll try and fix the text within the article myself, check it out later to see if it's like what it should be!

About the first letter now... never had something like this before, can you try creating another, random account with a lowercase first letter and see what happens?

Unfortunately, the mediawiki software does not support account deletion, and I cannot change the database manually because it's a relational db and it'll screw other things up...

[Gryzor]

Ok, take a look now

All you needed was some use of the

 tag that allows you to pre-format text, like when you type in code.

By the way, it doesn't need to look *exactly* like the manual (except for the spacing when needed, of course), in that case you're always better off with a scan or a pdf 

Thanks again - nice article..

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[zhulien]

No need to worry about the formatting, I guess it's more important the info is available.  I'm surprised some stuff wasn't there especially since they are from the UK to start with and the CPC is most popular there.  I have a Fleet EPROM programmer too, will stick info on there as I find time (and the instructions )

[zhulien]

I made a minor edit of the page, and oddly the formatting all vanished again - of the diagrams.  Why is that?  This is a serious issue if the wiki pages are to be edited by different people...

[Gryzor]

Hmmmm if you used the WYSIWYG editor, this might be it - as I said, it's only there for simple edits and for people not familiar with wiki syntax... But it's really easy to revert to the old version - just click on the history tab! Anyhow, I'll fix it now

Nothing is "serious" - we've had more serious problems in the past... this is just a hicup!

Cheers
Gryzor

[zhulien]

I didn't try use the WYSIWYG editor, that's just how it comes up by default.  It means anyone editing where this editor comes up by default, causes a problem.

[Gryzor]

Not really, I just edited it myself, it kept formatting quite neatly. I'll check the history, but maybe you deleted something by mistake....

[Edit] I see that there are some edits in the <pre > tags, maybe that was it...?

[zhulien]

I did no editing of anything other than the very first sentence, not even by mistake.  It truely did it by itself when I changed the first line only.

offtopic, VICROADS has the following number plate available...

[Gryzor]

Ok, maybe some bug, but it hasn't ever happened to me...

As for the plate, darn, I wish this was possible in Greece.... niiiiiice!!!!!

[zhulien]

you don't have personalised plates there?

[Gryzor]

Ahhh no, otherwise, believe me, I'd have the CPC464 on my car and a few extras in a drawer (let's see, CPC6128, AMSTRAD, GRYZOR, CPC664...)

As a matter of fact, I don't think there's any european country with customised plates

[zhulien]

seems we have talked before, in this thread
http://www.cpczone.net/boards/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=271&p=6695

btw, I'm still a semi-active CPCer.  I've been programming memory management and kernel functions for the last 10 years (although most actively in the last year).  Hopefully will have this stuff available soon.  Had issues with sourceforge - cause they insist I have a licence and I want mine "copyright free" as is common in Japan.  sourceforge wouldn't budge on the idea - which sucks, cause I really would have loved to use it.

hey, anyone (including yourself) use icq/msn?

my details are:

icq: 41140253
msn: zhulien@dodo.com.au  [note: this isn't my email address, you cannot change this in msn since I changed email addresses]

[Gryzor]

my id is <redacted> though at work I'm still struggling with the proxy...

Yeah, just read the thread, imagine that

And, again, your modded 664 is about as impressive as your pontiac! Can I sent you mine to modify?

[zhulien]

actually most of that is easy to do, when I get to it (find my docs) I'll add some notes to the wiki, but I'm sure some of it might already be there?

ABBA switch, ROM piggybacking with switch, or 32kb ROM with switchable 16kb halves? 

That 664 is in the photo is still my main machine, I had to setup a 6128 though cause backtro doesn't like the CRTC in my 664 - sucks...  I've started collecting CPCs again recently too, cause when I got my spare 664 out of it's storage, the motherboard had died even though it was never used other than checking - it was brand new!!! so I had to find a used 664 (which I did) and swap motherboards, but sadly the replacement although works 100% doesn't look nice and clean and new.

[zhulien]

(just taken 5 minutes ago)



a couple more here: http://zhulien.kicks-ass.net/pics/cpc/

only thing, is I had to take my multiface out of the 664 to use it on the 6128 cause the 464 memory expansions don't physically fit directly onto the 6128, so the multiface has to go between the memory and the computer.

[zhulien]

btw, if you burn the AMSDOS80.ROM on my website, then use the SUPER.ROM to format 80 track discs (I can supply a non-ROMed version of SUPER if you want), then you can have 704kb on B: drive with 99% compatability.  almost every deprotected game will run from B:

xform, which is by a friend at Dragonbreed Wetware wrote this which allows you to store 820kb on an 80 track disc for CP/M+ use.  However, it does also support the AMSDOS80 format too from within CP/M+ which is handy for using nsweep - hense the two accessory ROMs, one with nsweep and one with xform.

to use xform, to format type "xform b:format 8" for 820kb format on b: drive, or "xform b:format 6" for 704kb
to register the format for CP/M use, then just "xform b:8" or "xform b:6" (from memory)

Discology 6 is well known, but I bet you didn't know that it was originally coded with the ability to make multiple copies of a disc?  I just enabled it as the code was never actually called - perhaps they thought it was too much of a piracy facility?

Finally, I didn't put it online, but I made a CDROM for CPC in 1994, called "CPC Decade", do you have this yet?  It isn't up to date, it's as it was in 1994.