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#1
Quote from: Narkhos on Today at 15:51Are there any special accented characters in Italian compared to French?
Accents in the Italian language are quite common, I'll give you the most classic example ("ò", "à", "è", "ù" for words in common use, while for the use of truncated words we always use a "e" with an acute accent "é"). Bearing in mind that apostrophes, exclamation marks and question marks are used for practically the same reasons, I don't think you need anything else!;)
#2
NC100, NC200, PCW, PDA600 - the rest of the Family! / Re: PCWwiki
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Quote from: GUNHED on Today at 20:04Quote from: abalore on Today at 16:42As a complement for AMSTEAM, for people who doesn't have any ROM Box hardware (M4, XMEM, etc), I made a small ROM BOX card, with MX connector. It has 6 free usable slots, plus selectable boot replacement (Firmware + BASIC) and all this multiplied by 4 different selectable banks (total 32 ROMs). The banks and the boot option are selected by jumpers in the board.Very interesting. Well, I assume that your new Flash-ROM is not compatible to any existing solution (due to the exchange features). Or is it nevertheless compatible to something?
The idea is to have quickly exchangeable configurations without having to rewrite everything or having to initialize all the bunch of ROMs every time, like: Games, SymbOS, Development, Word processing, and so on...
Lastly a jumper allows to map the 6 free ROMs to numbers 9-14 instead of 1-6 if you have a 6128 and want to connect two cards in parallel (a very pro usage)
Well, I would like to support your card with my software too. So can you give the information how to write ROMs into it please?
Theoretically it is compatible with the X-MEM software with little adjust, just before and after writting, commands for unprotect and protect the flash must be issued via OUT (operation which is done by moving a switch in the X-MEM if I'm not wrong). Anyway, I can send you the source code. Right now I'm working in a |FLASH,"filename.rom",slot command which is installed by running a program from disk and has same parameters than the one used by the X-MEM, so from BASIC there is no difference. I'll send you a PM with the sources when they are finished and tested.
#5
I would be interested in one also, should you find time to continue development.
#6
Applications (CPC and CPC-related) / Re: HDCPM - boot and run CP/M ...
Last post by HAL6128 - Today at 20:26Interesting! I don't know, but has been CP/M prepared in the past for such kind of things (mounting activities) or did you change something?
#7
True this, for Atari ST and Amiga mice it's enough to provide 5 V for the mouse. Anything else can be done by software. And it even stays proportional. 
#8
Quote from: abalore on Today at 16:42As a complement for AMSTEAM, for people who doesn't have any ROM Box hardware (M4, XMEM, etc), I made a small ROM BOX card, with MX connector. It has 6 free usable slots, plus selectable boot replacement (Firmware + BASIC) and all this multiplied by 4 different selectable banks (total 32 ROMs). The banks and the boot option are selected by jumpers in the board.Very interesting. Well, I assume that your new Flash-ROM is not compatible to any existing solution (due to the exchange features). Or is it nevertheless compatible to something?
The idea is to have quickly exchangeable configurations without having to rewrite everything or having to initialize all the bunch of ROMs every time, like: Games, SymbOS, Development, Word processing, and so on...
Lastly a jumper allows to map the 6 free ROMs to numbers 9-14 instead of 1-6 if you have a 6128 and want to connect two cards in parallel (a very pro usage
Well, I would like to support your card with my software too. So can you give the information how to write ROMs into it please?
#9
Quote from: PulkoMandy on Today at 11:25Even on a normal CPC I have no idea what people do with that much RAMWell, I use the 2 MB version with pleasure and I'm happy to have 2 MB and not only 1 MB.
But, more seriously, yes, it doesn't seem very useful on the GX4000 to me. When you can have 512K cartridges, the 64K of RAM are already quite a lot, in fact.
#10
Thanks! Return works (B doesn't - on WinCPC, need to test on real CPC).