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Mark Hayesman (Retroclinic) is probably your best bet for that one? He should have what you need!

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Excellent.

On a master, so long as your cmos RAM has a battery that's working, you can store the interlace config with *config. tv 0,1

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daveejhitchins wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 25, 2021 10:27 pm

Hmmmm! Not good - have you had time to test it yet? I think that may be what people are waiting for!

First one opened up appeared on Facebook... No ULA. I strongly recommend people don't buy these if they're after a working machine.

At a guess it's the interlace -*TV0,1 to turn off iirc... I wonder if the menu's turning it on, and it's off by default? Someone who knows better than me about how the MMC menu system is set up should be able to confirm or deny?

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I think there's no duty on components, and as far as I know, duty would only kick in on an order valued over £135?

Oops, sorry Robin, I meant to stick that in a PM! - I think I was really just pondering that I don't consider a gotek to really be an MMC system (unless you decide to use it with Tricky's menu) - it's sort of like comparing apples/oranges in my mind. So some things that are perceptibly drawbacks whe...

This post is work in progress so please PM me if you spot any errors or omissions. Probably worth noting that there's a distinct difference between using the gotek as a floppy emulator (which is its primary function) and using it as an mmc-alike. DUTILS etc are really only relevant for the later, w...

flaxcottage wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 20, 2021 10:37 am

Coolink SWiF2-800.

Really hard to hear in my A5000.

I have the same one - combined with a solid state drive you'd be forgiven for thinking you'd not turned the thing on...

Hello You really need to take the battery out and treat that motherboard with some vinegar (then wash it well) to stop the corrosion getting any worse!

Be warned, IDE-patched ADFS can misbehave with the 80186 (I'm not sure why) - I've certainly had it corrupting files when unzipping things etc

Personally I'd not use acetone, it does like to munch some plastics (notably ABS).

RobC wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 16, 2021 9:18 am

Does anyone know what happened to the copy kjendal was planning to sell? That might be another avenue...

He still has it as far as I know?

Same here. You must have bought from the same ebay seller as me! The ones I've got are 48TPI and I'm trying to use them on an 80 track drive, so I wonder if that's the problem? There's no difference between 48TPI and 96TPI media. It's just high density media that's different. edit: he says not havi...

Check the continuity to the buffers and the resistor packs. There are very fine traces from those vias, and they often get eaten by battery goop. Also make sure you've really well neutralised everything!

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If it has vram in it, have you tried without? Most sparkly rubbish with the display seems to be ram connection related

Preaching to the converted here!

I don't know where this fascination with blindly recapping everything in the world came from. Don't. It comes from the bad batch of SMT electrolytics used in the A1200 (and possibly some other amigas?), which led to a cottage industry for the amiga community which spilled over into everything else....

Check to see if they look like they've leaked. I've looked at my Risc PC PCBs and seen no evidence of it (I'm just looking at one now, and all the solder joints around the capacitors are bright and shiny), but that's not to say they won't. There's certainly not a plague of leaky one in the way there...

1024MAK wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:15 am

Confused dot com...

The combined sync is via a 74LS86 on both the Beeb and the Elk...

Ooopsy - my bad. I didn't go back and look at the circuit! I just know the levels coming out of the ULA were rather lower than out of the beeb.

As you were

Battery Always get a picture of the battery situation with these - they can take out the SIMM sockets, sound, CMOS and VRAM socket. And more if the leaky stuff goes further.

I've had an ESP8266 dangling off the RS423 as per: viewtopic.php?t=15211
I know cmorley has had the serial running rather faster than 19200..!

I'm still minded to think it's more likely to be the cable than the beeb - the Elk has a slightly different output on its RGB, so if the resistors are wrong then you may well find the sync is holding with the elk, but not the beeb...

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Ignore me!

For beginners? The Usborne one
https://usborne.com/gb/coding-for-begin ... 1409599340

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shakesc wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 10, 2021 9:13 pm

I did contact him
He doesnt do paypal, just bank accounts

Caveat emptor. Personally, I wouldn't touch 'em at that price. A tenner if there's evidence of an intact board inside it might be reasonable...

e668ecp wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 09, 2021 11:20 am

Nothing inside

There's nothing inside them?!

I finally got around to finishing my video after all the testing on the NTSC Coco 3. You can see the results here https://youtu.be/pJgq_Wc5DgI. Feel free to skip the upgrade stuff if you are not interested. :) Also, check out the overscan at 43:28. Do I just need to change the resolution setting to...

So the system isn't saving properly? First thing - update the gotek firmware to the latest version (https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/wiki/Downloads), and secondly, make sure your ff.cfg file just has: interface=shugart index-suppression=no host=acorn d. edit: also, that ssd is tiny? I forget whe...

Hi Chris,
So I assume you've mounted a disk image on the gotek, and you're running the flashfloppy firmware?

Can you upload the disk image that you've saved the PROM image to? Can you load it back in on the System machine?

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