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News & Events / TNMoC - Retro Jumble Sale

Last post by Vee - Yesterday at 22:55

Thought this may be interesting for some on the forum -

The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park (near Milton Keynes in the UK) is having a "Retro Jumble" sale.
"a fantastic selection of 1980s Retro PCs & Equipment on offer, featuring iconic brands like Amstrad, Commodore, and Dragon"

Details and tickets on the EventBrite page -
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/retro-electro-jumble-tickets-1084147687919

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Classifieds / Re: [London] Looking to borrow...

Last post by Rabs - Yesterday at 21:55

I can buy one too (only the keyboard)!

What do you want 464, 6128? Message me.

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Programming / Re: Crash on a conversion from...

Last post by iXien - Yesterday at 21:52

Hi iXien,
The crack you are using doesn't use just files because it reads the data from sectors on the disk and the sectors are not data format.

Could you adapt the crack from Black Mission which just uses files?

Many thanks for this information. 

I suppose that it isn't possible to modify our current DSK so the game would be 100% standard files? We'll see if the BMC version can be patched. Hope this crack isn't too much compressed

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Amstrad CPC hardware / Re: Which chip for internal ro...

Last post by Rabs - Yesterday at 20:13

What about flash chips like  AT29C256 ? they are not easily sourced, but still a lot more recent than amstrad-period ROMs. They are 5v and the pinout seems ok... ?

I guess that's the problem, sourcing them.

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Classifieds / Re: [London] Looking to borrow...

Last post by m_dr_m - Yesterday at 18:19

I can buy one too (only the keyboard)!

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Classifieds / [London] Looking to borrow a C...

Last post by m_dr_m - Yesterday at 18:04

The CPC at my first isn't working properly (random crashes), and I need my daily dose!

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Amstrad CPC hardware / Re: Which chip for internal ro...

Last post by orzel - Yesterday at 17:27

What about flash chips like  AT29C256 ? they are not easily sourced, but still a lot more recent than amstrad-period ROMs. They are 5v and the pinout seems ok... ?

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Games / Re: Turrican (128K)

Last post by Jean-Marie - Yesterday at 17:05

The spikes are working too. Now, I'll see if I can tidy up the code, and next week I'll try to write the changes in the Level A file, which should be very challenging.

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Technical support - Hardware related / Making a SCART cable for 6128

Last post by wcameron2005 - Yesterday at 15:40

I've made a cable based on the "Amstrad CPC to SCART" diagram from the below site:

https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/TV_SCART_cable

The cable works fine on my Philips CM8832 monitor (albeit a little noisy), but not on my Akura AHLTV15 (cheap 15" LCD tv): the TV displays a "SCART (AUTO)" message, but nothing but a black screen. I'm using a12v power supply to provide power for pins 8 and (via a 470 ohm resistor) 16. I've tried various things, but the screen flatly refuses to display a picture.

Any help greatly appreciated.

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Programming / Re: Newbie assembler CPC quest...

Last post by andycadley - Yesterday at 15:26

https://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/e/ef/S968ap05.pdf

This lists the default colours.

You can always change them with SCR SET INK and SCR SET BORDER as you have done already.

Ahhhh!!!!

I didn't realise the pen's were already assigned a colour.  I thought the pens were all empty and I had to set the ink's I wanted to them.

This makes much more sense! 

The relationship between PENs and INKs is one of those things that's a lot more intuitive if you've played around with BASIC a lot. I think the firmware guide sort of assumes that you're familiar with BASIC in many ways, so it's worth skimming through the BASIC manual to be honest.