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Hi ian! great news, I found the weak point in the chain - my ide>sd adaptor. the little swine no longer works. I am sure I used it in an amiga and I used the same model in an a3020 but here, with the SD cards and Micro-SD cards I have now, its not playing ball. I posted in the 'how to format on a ri...

a ha!. I may have it working I found a different adaptor, a CF shaped adaptor that takes amicro sd, plugged into the ide>CF adaptor... works! thus far, drive 4, then free show 148480 bytes free. right, back to the pi to copy stuff over and see for sure it works. thanks for guidance. So, my ide>sd ad...

hi I'm using the exact same heads, cylinders, no long file names as per the 1st post. hopefully that lot adds up to under 512mb - can you suggest an alternative set of numbers that are also known to work? tried 3 sd and micro sd cards and adaptors, and also a compact flash card. i had suspected the ...

hello, old thread:) using a recent version of risc os on pi, I am having trouble initialising SD cards for use in an a3010, under ZIDEFS. The A3010 thinks the cards are not initialised (even though under risc os on the pi, they show fine and i can copy to and from) the guide here mentions using !HFo...

hello if there was a printed sheet I must have lost it, I've had the board for some time. I've attached pictures of the IDE>SDcard adaptor. I think I bought this after recommendation in another thread but I've never used it. Certainly it could be the issue. I dug out a Compact flash adaptor and usin...

hi! thanks for help :) I therefore dont know where I got the DOM from, I'm presently back to using a short IDE cable and the CD card adaptor. I didn't know the !configure tool woudn't work in this case. When I middled clicked on drive 4, i got the same error. So I removed the drives from the "config...

Hi ian Sorry (SORRY!) for the months in-between my random questions about the V2 ide board. My a3010 has been in Corfu with the Corfiot fixing it for a few weeks. But now its here! it works! .. and only now am I getting the v2 ide podule up and running. I hope its still ok I post here. Again, sorry ...

thank you boydie

we're not in the middle of nowhere but thanks to BT's not-spot (we surrounded by fibre cabinets for miles, but they took our local cabinet away!) I get about 900kb ps max, and I think we're stuck at that level. would you mind sharing the model numbers of the modem/ aeriel bits you ended up with so I...

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Mon Mar 11, 2019 7:46 pm

If anyone has the 3rd of June 1982 (page 7) Personal Computer World, I'd love a scan of it for a book I'm writing.

I believe this is the cover for that magazine:

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PCW or Popular Computing weekly as per pic?

i got some of those sockets. They were pointless. Bas reported he had to file them down and they shattered so was a waste of time - he did it by trad soldering as you described above and reports the board works nicely. thank you. he also mentioned the boards had an open circuit on one of the address...

maybe I misread flux for paste or vice versa.

ok thanks for the tips.. I think i may just have to order the ones from the US and see what happens.

thanks!

Hello A public beg here, does anyone please have any spare sockets for the ram; SOJ-42P-400 ? Need four, happy to pay of course! I need send them over thecorfiot In Corfu.. I found a supplier but only in the USA. Bas doesn’t have flux or heat gun etc so sockets seem safest considering the size. Andy...

Advmame and its emulation of a system such as bbc /electron are launched from within emulationstation. And when you exit advmame, you return to emulationstation. So I think it works as you ask. It's cool.

Hello Just look for advmame, install that. That comes with a compiled advmess executable that runs quite nicely for BBC B and Electron. Once the B is booted, usually *exec !boot runs the disk you've mounted and *chain works everytime for electron. It works really nicely. IMHO dont bother with beebem...

thanks Daniel

I ordered the parts stevetuc, thanks also

could someone ps confirm the part numbers for crystals? I'll get an 80mhz, and a few slower ones to help find the best speed. ive read right through this thread and vectorlights site, no idea exactrly which type crystal/ part i need.

thanks

Beyond the ram, and the pcb, what are the other parts? Daniel pointed me to the layout files but stupid me I’ve just not worked those out yet! Don’t know what I’m looking for at all in the .png’s etc. When you have all the part numbers would you mind sharing?

Tia:)

Hi Ian i'd bought one of the 8 bit ide adaptors some time ago, but only recently found an A3010. Yay! Previously with archimedes I'd transferred software onto SD, using a pi and risc OS, so I dont think i can use a dom for that.. My question. If I want to use an IDE<>SD card adaptor (so can be writt...

thanks stevetuc for the boards, ram arrived from poland, last bits to order... build ahoy!

thanks guys

Hi I’ve ordered two sets of ram, but haven’t yet ordered boards Tbh I couldn’t quite work out how to order and knew I had to go back to work it through... I was recommended pcbway. Unless anyone suggests an easier alternative! This was using Daniels 4 layer.. all I want to do, I thought, was to uplo...

stevetuc, ive ordered myself some ram, did your boards arrive ok? If you are still unable to send PM's, ive emailed you my email address.

Dear mods, please can PM priviledges be granted to stevetuc ?

cheers:)

Hi, thats an overclock level i'd be more than happy with !

Daniel said he wasnt sure if the 4 layer would overlcock more reliably i think.I'd love to have both options tbh especially if that helps you do a small run.

I'll pm you in a sec

hi stevetuc, I'd like 2 of those boards if you dont mind

assuming they work! (not that i'm not trusting daniels work :))

My ambition is definitely to overclock my a3010. what are your speed plans? I then need source some suitable crystals.

when do you expect the boards to arrive?

TIA iain

THanks daniel. I thought those were the rams... I’ll get those faster parts on order. Will report back!

I'm about to order a couple boards and will likely ask Bas the corfiot to make a few up with faster rams. please could someone point me to the exact post with the BOM/parts I need collate? Daniel could you please check your PM's? :) I was about to order some of your last 4-layer design (if thats OK?...

Hi, you might also want to check in with thecorfiot as he’s engineered a new solution for jailbars and rotten svideo output. He’s got one of my c64’s at the moment. That’s got a lumafix already but it’s sharpened up quite a lot now! If you search archive.org tosec c64 and have some time to spare the...

Hi Andy

I have just acquired an a3010, I understand it's only 1mb.

When it shows up, if it IS only 1mb, may I please have this if it's still available?

Tia

Iain

great news!

I can recommend "adtpro" to send disk images (even a bootable image of itself) over serial or audio to the apple. Runs on windows or mac.Do you have a serial card or better, a super serial?