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Technical support - Hardware related / Re: WIP: internal 512K expansi...

Last post by eto - Yesterday at 22:45

Getting closer to the 1MB version (with C3) for the 464/664. It was quite a battle but finally today, I found my bug... And here it runs SymbOS on a 464 with the maximum amount of memory supported and both Pac-Man and Future OS with C3 support.

EDIT: all 3 variations work

- 1x 512K SRAM, total 576K RAM, no C3
- 2x 512K SRAM, total 1024K RAM, C3 support
- 1x 512K SRAM + 1x 128K SRAM, total 640K RAM, C3 support

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Games / Re: Turrican (128K)

Last post by jackic - Yesterday at 21:51

Yes, I can do that for version 2. In the meantime, if you can poke your memory, try :
POKE &DE5D,9
POKE &DE5E,&20

Thanks, just in case this can be of help to someone, you can achieve this on original hardware extracting "turrican.scr" and changing the offset 12A0 from "02 04" to "09 20", I did this by basically by brute forcing, couldn't have done it without the pokes.

I'm rather a member of the team : Button 1 fire, Button 2 jump.
And by the way, how would the game be playable on the GX with only 2 buttons ? I guess it's not, and only playable on a PLUS.

Well, you can use both buttons for attack and "special attack" and jump pushing up or, alternatively, map button 2 for jumps and the up direction for "special attack". but then you will not be able to do the spin attack, achieved by crouching+"special attack".

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GFX + Tunes / Re: Amstrad music

Last post by dal - Yesterday at 20:21

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Technical support - Hardware related / Re: USIfAC drive activity LED ...

Last post by Mark_wllms - Yesterday at 19:28

It doesn't really emulate a drive in that way. When you use it in floppy emulator mode, by loading a disk image and then |FDC, it will flash the normal disk access light, even if the drive is not powered!

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Emulators / Re: CPCEmu v3.0 (April 2025)

Last post by Prodatron - Yesterday at 19:10

Thanks a lot to @Emu for all the crazy hard work and @HAL6128 for all the testing! I am currently very occupied with another project, but it's really good to see, that everything is working!

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Classifieds / Re: 464 Spacebar needed !

Last post by hercules230 - Yesterday at 17:57

Anyone yet have a spacebar then can supply us with ?

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Emulators / Re: Mame and other distributio...

Last post by Retrodanuart - Yesterday at 17:33

MAME 0.277 32bit and derived distributions avaliable (Xp compatibles). Download from RETRODANUART MAME XP

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Emulators / Re: CPCEmu v3.0 (April 2025)

Last post by HAL6128 - Yesterday at 14:29

Ok, you are right. It seems I totally missed the files from that "Completion" ZIP-container, which differs from the previous SymbOS versions. That was easy (...hm, not so for me  ).
Now, each version works perfectly (also the V9990 supported one). 
Again, very cool and thanks that you enhanced this emulator. 

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Technical Support - Software related / Re: Faulty "Disks" - is it pos...

Last post by Johnny Olsen - Yesterday at 14:24

In PC Amstrad Internatinal 3-89 was a type-ins "Diskrepair"
It is a very nice program where you also have the option to
isolate the bad sectors.

https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=6952

Sometimes it helps to use a deformatting program first.

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Technical Support - Software related / Re: Faulty "Disks" - is it pos...

Last post by eto - Yesterday at 11:04

I didn't do any checking as to what format the disks were already in.

And it doesn't matter what they were before. You can also try to format a few times. I had disks that had errors the first time but could be formatted the second time. 

One thing I did on the ST is to. demagnetize the disks with a strong magnet before formatting. That also revived disks that otherwise could not be formatted. But I never tried that with 3" disks. 

I assume Device Disk is a bootable disk, and Data will not be bootable, but gives more space.

Almost. Device Disk is a disk that reserves some space and can then be turned into a (CP/M) boot disk. 

If you don't plan to boot CP/M from that disk, there is no point in using that format.  It's just a waste of space.