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General Discussion - Introductions / Re: CPCRadio module

Last post by GUNHED - Today at 20:52

Whaaaat? What's this?!

nothing spectacular. It's a FM module that is controlled by the CPC. I would expect a simple address decoding logic activates the FM IC which gets the data from the data bus. The IC does all the radio logic including sound output.

In short: your CPC controls a radio IC but you won't listen to a radio with your CPC.

No, I wouldn't do that either.

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Games / Re: Fruity Frank Steve Wallis

Last post by Jean-Marie - Today at 20:46

I discovered lately that he had made another great game called Buster Block, which is a kind of Pengo-like, spread on 400 rooms.
Although the CPC version looks a bit ugly with garish colors, the MSX version looks stunning :

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General Discussion - Introductions / Re: CPCRadio module

Last post by HAL6128 - Today at 20:46

All the functions of the radio are also included in the RSF3 (analog & digital) which works easy and great.

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General Discussion - Introductions / Re: Like to do a X-Twitter lis...

Last post by GUNHED - Today at 20:43

Well, imho quality is more important compared to quantity. We will see what future brings...

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Games / Re: Fruity Frank Steve Wallis

Last post by Prodatron - Today at 20:29

Steve Wallis was a hardcore left-wing extremist, conspiracy theorist etc etc - somehow the full program. But I always respected him, he created Fruity Frank for both the CPC and the MSX (the only two platforms for this great game), and Fruity Frank was probably the CPC game which I played most. I even played it during my MS-DOS time after leaving the CPC scene in the mid 90ies on PC demo parties.

Here you can visit his website from 2008:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080623094507/http://www.socialiststeve.me.uk/games.htm

15 years ago I recognized, that he did Fruity Frank for the MSX as well, which was very special, as the MSX wasn't popular at all in the UK.

R.I.P. Steve, thanks do you I had countless of great hours with my CPC!

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Games / Re: Fruity Frank Steve Wallis

Last post by Misel982001 - Today at 20:22

He suddenly passed away while he appeared to be well.

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Technical support - Hardware related / Re: CPC 6128 - white screen, b...

Last post by mmldrm - Today at 20:21

Ok first We must short IORQ and READY , and turn on CPC.

pin 20 Z80 should be 0

First instruction is:

LD BC,#7F89
OUT (c),c

Our Z80 is stopped at write to GA

next we add RED connect and check if Pin1 244 is 0. If not, RED to reconnect.

GA is stopped.

now 244 is open and Left and Right side should be 89h 1000 1001.

I'm back! Sadly no MacGyver here, but a few kind family members are better than nothing.

Left and right sides were:

Code Select Expand

    Left  Right
D0  1.5  5
D1  0    0
D2  0    0
D3  0    0
D4  5    5
D5  0    0
D6  5    1.5
D7  0    0
Maybe that is right and left? Left=pin2-17. Right=pin3-18.

Anyway, 10001010 I think. 8Ah? 🤔 Not quite right.

I will try again when my helpers are home, to get two sets of data .

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Games / Bar War

Last post by XeNoMoRPH - Today at 19:48

In Bar War, the player will enter the character launched in 1983 by Bally Midway where he must serve beer to eager and thirsty customers, collect empty pitchers and accept tips.

https://fitosoft.itch.io/bar-war

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Other retro / Re: Most expensive "vintage co...

Last post by cwpab - Today at 18:39

I just learned the Nuon gamepad by Logitech costs almost 400 dollars.

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Games / Re: Fruity Frank Steve Wallis

Last post by Gryzor - Today at 18:29

Oh that's sad indeed... And even sadder that he passed and nobody noticed, this was such a gem of a game and a really loved memory of mine.