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Seems to be one of these; https://www.ebay.ca/itm/254154458131?ul_noapp=true Not sure, but there looks to be another Internal SCSI header on the Podule itself, so it may be possible to attach a more 'standard' SCSI drive. Can you remove the drive and/or cable so we can see more of the podule? Edited...

Bit confused, SCSI and IDE are two different standards and aren't interchangeable.
Are you sure it's not a 50 pin scsi drive you have?

I have done some experimenting and have attached three files here: 1) The original logo as a PNG. 2) The logo with a transparent background instead of black. As I thought, this doesn't look great. 3) As above, but with a black outline around the edges. This is better but still not ideal. 4) A rearr...

Coulod you put me down for a couple if kits if there's any left? Cheers!

As a matter of interest, have you reset the CMOS?
It could be a corrupt CMOS setting that's sending out something your monitor doesn't understand.

Could you put me down for 2 please Ian?

You could put all the older connectors on an optional board to maintain backwards compatibility.

Maybe post a few pictures of the board and how you've connected things up?

Yep, you're probably better off with a glue gun and insulating the side of the Gotek board facing the main board with something non-conductive.

Is there any difference between using the external power connector and the internal via connectors with both male and female parts? I don't know! Does anyone know? I presumed there is which is why I'm going to route the external power inside. Does anyone have any suggestions for mounting the gotek ...

Silly question.
Have you *unplugged the modules on the Etherlan? They could be comflicting with the podule.

And possibly on the two pins next to U1, it's a bit blurred so hard to tell.

If there is no interest I'll be trying to borrow a master from someone so that I can demonstrate some of the great stuff that has been released lately such as Stunt Car Racer and Prince of Persia. Also possibly try to get Double Phantom up and running. Did you manage to sort a Master? If not I can ...

I was hoping to use a VFS board to fit one internally, but it would mean someone has to modify ADFS.

If there is no interest I'll be trying to borrow a master from someone so that I can demonstrate some of the great stuff that has been released lately such as Stunt Car Racer and Prince of Persia. Also possibly try to get Double Phantom up and running. Did you manage to sort a Master? If not I can ...

IanS wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:02 pm

JonC wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2019 7:59 pm

Are you putting the spade power connector on this Dave so it doesn't need a backplane?

It's a RISC PC/A7000 only device, it would need a whole different connector (card edge) to work without a backplane.

Of course it is! Must have killed too many grey cells over the weeked.

Are you putting the spade power connector on this Dave so it doesn't need a backplane?

I did at the top. Their use is very limited at the moment, they let the beebscsi operate as the vfs portion of an lvrom player on the master's internal connector (and issue the laser disc control codes from its serial output). It's read only and hence probably more of a curiousity at the moment tha...

Could I have 1 with VFS adaptor please?

Cheers!

Looks good, may be worth showing how much free memory there is as well.

I'd be interested in one please Rob.

I think hosting utilities associated with the hardware would be usefult too. e.g. Formatting utils for disc interface cards that don't use the standard hform.

RobC wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 09, 2019 4:27 pm

This is great

I have several spare A5000 8MB upgrades and I'd love to fit one to my A3000.

Umm, wouldn't that require an extra MEMC1a? or did I miss something.

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Another option would be to see if I can allow the host machine to switch banks, so it can access the whole 16MB (maybe with a fixed 1-2MB and a paging area above that). I don’t think the fast serial port option I was talking about will work, but paging might. If you've got 16Mb to play with, that p...

If you wanted to add hard drive support you'd have to pick something to remove so that it would fit. The ADFS ROM is full Full FULL!!!! Or maybe split it accross two ROMs? (I think I read this somewhere, probably in this forum). Having both an AP5&6 gives me plenty of SWROM\RAM sockets. Doesn't the...

AndyMc1280 looks to have the latest f/w. Maybe drop him a PM if Dave can't locate;
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=15205&hilit=V6C&start=60#p217574

You could try reversing step 4 on this upgrade tutorial;
http://www.8bit-homecomputermuseum.at/r ... grade.html

Edit: There's also this on Chris' Acorns;
http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org ... grades.pdf

Not had chance to test mine yet, but looks good!

Hi all Its finally beaten I have tried to repair any damage IMG_20181127_202016.jpg also a couple of the pads on the otherside won't solder anymore I have spent a lot of time on it and it is now beyond my limited knowledge so if anyone would like to take this project on for themselves pm me with an...