Enterprise 64/128 TOSEC

[Gryzor]

Not sure where I found the link, but I'm sure if there are any other owners of an Enterprise machine (sweeeet!) this will come in handy:
Enterprise 64 & 128 - Games - [BAS] (TOSEC-v2011-10-15)
Enterprise 64 & 128 - Games - [COM] (TOSEC-v2011-10-15)
Enterprise 64 & 128 - Games - [DTF] (TOSEC-v2011-10-15)
Enterprise 64 & 128 - Games - [IMG] (TOSEC-v2011-10-15)
Enterprise 64 & 128 - Games - [Multipart] (TOSEC-v2011-10-16)

Get it here!

[fatbob]

Very useful Thanks - I think its time to get my Enterprise out of the attic.

[MacDeath]

A computer with in-built Joystick can't be wrong, alos provided Half the game on it are straight CPC-port...
which is far less lame as straight speccy ports...

While considered shity on CPC, Airwolf was a big thing on this...

[TFM]

A computer with in-built Joystick can't be wrong, alos provided Half the game on it are straight CPC-port...
which is far less lame as straight speccy ports...

While considered shity on CPC, Airwolf was a big thing on this...

When I saw the Enterprise first I liked it, but then I thought "Let me play with that thing, and in less than 24 hours the joystick is done!". And that's a weak point, the idea is good, but it's not an Arcade Joystick, it will break (rather sooner than later) and how can you replace it?

[MacDeath]

The point is, while we see a gaming joystick, it was more some sort of pointing device than a game controler...

But give it ot children and it will be a broken game controler.

[Gryzor]

@fatbob: ooh, there's two of us?
@TFM: true, it's not really hard to break it, but if the company had lived to properly market it this wouldn't have been a real problem: the stick can actually be unscrewed and replaced very easily.

[khisanth]

keep seeing boxed Enterprises on ebay from the middle east , going for £300-500 !

[Gryzor]

Middle East? Seriously? Wow...

[Gryzor]

A, here's one: [ebay]290576686558[/ebay] . UK only though. What a beaut...

[steve]

"A Vintage Computer That Will Only Appreciate In Value"
I'm not sure that that is true, once we lose interest or die, no-one else will pay the insane prices we paid for these machines.

Sorry, I could not deselect "bold".

[Bryce]

I doubt it will ever be worth more than (or even as much as) the 549 quid he's looking for. I always wanted one of these (the 128K version of course), but I certainly wouldn't pay that for one.

Bryce.

[Gryzor]

Got mine (boxed!) for GBP[nb]how do you produce the pound symbof if you got no numeric keypad to ALT it in?[/nb]200. 300 pounds would be the top I guess.
However, I don't think retro stuff will end with, erm, us. Collectors come in all the time...
PS I edited your post to remove the formatting. You could "edit" it and remove the bbcodes

[Ygdrazil]

I agree...


The Enterprise is a nice piece of kit! I was lucky to acquire one cheap in boxed and pristine condition while being on holiday in Hungary 8 years ago.. (The language barrier seemed almost impossible to gab) apparently  the enterprise was really popular there in the 80's/90's.


Back in the day the Enterprise was on display at the local computerstore and was a close competitor to the CPC. I obviously went for the CPC464, which I don't regret for a moment... 


However while playing around with the Enterprise I was stunned. The 464 is an absolute brick compared to the Enterprise, amazing how much the design differs for two contemporary machines!


Also I think there is little doubt that the Enterprise is superior to the CPC technically! Sadly it was met with such commercial disaster!


There is a Hungarian community for the Enterprise at:


http://enterpriseforever.com/


/Ygdrazil


PS. Funny to see all the CPC conversions on the Enterprise!

I doubt it will ever be worth more than (or even as much as) the 549 quid he's looking for. I always wanted one of these (the 128K version of course), but I certainly wouldn't pay that for one.

Bryce.

[steve]

Actually, I think my post looked better in bold

[steve]

The 464 is an absolute brick compared to the Enterprise, amazing how much the design differs for two contemporary machines!


Also I think there is little doubt that the Enterprise is superior to the CPC technically! Sadly it was met with such commercial disaster!

Let's hope someone somewhere is busy recreating an Enterprise in an FPGA which could be incorporated into a CPC, or made CPC compatible.

[Bryce]

@Gryzor: Chr$(163)

Bryce.

[deepfb]

Sssssh, don't spread it too much, it's a secret! :-D

It was easy to find, some time ago, disk controllers and RAM upgrades for the Enteprise on vatera.hu:
http://www.vatera.hu/listings/index.php?q=enterprise&c=0

Doesn't seem there are too much items now, thought.

I managed to find there this beautiful disk controller, and the joystick adapters:



After that, I also found another disk controller that included 512k memory expansion:



I also bought to some Hungarian seller the original disk controller, the one in this picture (over the light blue one):



Besides, one or two years ago it was easy to buy Enteprise computers, and also Videoton TVCs on Vatera. TVC was a Hungarian computer also designed by Intelligent Software; it was almost an Enterprise, except for the graphics IC, which was... a Motorola 6845 :-)  Some of the peripherals available for Videoton were adapted to Enterprise, and thus you could find Videoton disk drives that work on homemade or official Enterprise disk controllers.

Have a little patience and you could find some EP hardware & software, and quite cheaply. Good luck! :-D

[Bryce]

Hé, nem rossz! The company I was working for back in 1999 bought up 3 Videoton factories including staff back then. I spent two years living down in Székesfehérvár. One of the factories had produced TVC equipment. The storeroom was piled to the ceiling with old TVs, which were obviously outdated and heading for the scrap heap. I wasn't there when they were loaded onto the trucks, but afterwards, one of the other guys (who has no interest in retro computers) told me that there were also 100's of boxes of 8-bit computers, but by then they were already in some landfill. Boy was I pissed off!

Not sure what they were, as I said, I didn't actually see them.

Bryce.

[deepfb]

AFAIK, all Videoton computers were TVC models (32k, 64k and 64k+) -I've never seen PC clones, or any other kind of computers, made by Videoton. The story of those equipments ending in the landfill is very sad! :-(

Btw, this is the 32k model (picture taken at a meeting held in cpcmaniaco's home :-)


This is the disk drive -since it's shugart compliant, you can connect it either to an Enterprise with disk controller, or to an Acorn/BBC, etc


And this is the disk controller:

[Bryce]

Hmmm, it's not the prettiest 8-bit I've ever seen, but it would have been nice to have one, just because of it's rarity. I still have quite a few friends in Hungary, maybe I'll send a few E-Mails and see if anyone down there still has one.

Bryce.

[TFM]

Btw, this is the 32k model (picture taken at a meeting held in cpcmaniaco's home :-)

Oh, wow, I love that design!

A long time ago I heart about that landfill action, but I never 100% believed it. I mean - how stupid can humans be?

[Gryzor]

My heart weeps.

[steve]

Anyone up for an archeological expedition next year?

[TFM]

Come to USA, here you can even find 25.000 years old computers from Atlantis, buried in the deserts here.

[MacDeath]

Or just tons of Atari VCS2600's E.T cartridges under piles of nuclear wastes and cheap dead hookers/Hobbos/crack'hoes.