He said on BoringBook that his Mrs has made him put all his crap to one side, & get the dishes doneMartinB wrote:Has anyone seen or heard from Alex lately ? He's been a bit thin on the ground recently.....?

He said on BoringBook that his Mrs has made him put all his crap to one side, & get the dishes doneMartinB wrote:Has anyone seen or heard from Alex lately ? He's been a bit thin on the ground recently.....?
According to "Acorn Computer and BBC Micro Enthusiasts" on FaceBook:MartinB wrote:Has anyone seen or heard from Alex lately ? He's been a bit thin on the ground recently.....?
Dave HAlex wrote:Hi guys as you might have noticed I've been pretty quiet of late , apparently I have a life outside of the Acorn world and my old decrepit body is giving me a hard time , but don't worry , I'm just taking a back seat for a month or two while I catch up on some work and other boring stuff!
I know the feeling - it's the reason I'm taking sooooo long to do thingssixxdog_uk wrote:Sorry for the radio silence been earning brownie points with the mrs , so I can buy more mantiques![]()
Cheers, yes it wouldn't let me reply. I am holidays for a couple of weeks soon so going to see what funds are like afterwardsCMcDougall wrote:just tried to PM 'uniforix' a few post back , but has only 13 posts so no reply...
I can supply a original one made by 'Sydney' as now don't have enough Plus1s to put them all in![]()
this will inc eprom, but no FTDI cable as mine took 2wk from China & I still need it!
Awesome Mega Games cart though Dave, been loving mine since it arrived fridaydaveejhitchins wrote:I know the feeling - it's the reason I'm taking sooooo long to do thingssixxdog_uk wrote:Sorry for the radio silence been earning brownie points with the mrs , so I can buy more mantiques![]()
But hey! For a quiet life
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Dave H
Many thanks . . .uniforix wrote:Awesome Mega Games cart though Dave, been loving mine since it arrived friday
I wrote:You can’t though use EUP as the necessary ‘hidden’ ram host for any &E00 disc FS (I don’t think so anyway....)
Nice one Col - takes an idiot like me to design something and a genius like you to explain what it can do....Colin wrote:If you use a swram 256 chip (not eeprom) ACP DFS &E00 works
Derek Biddis wrote:Your original thread and sale started in April.
Do you still make this kit?
Do you still have one for sale?
Sorry to ask the obvious.
a) The EPROM fitted, Is it limited to 16kb or can a larger capacity be fitted so it appear as more than one EPROM to the Electron.
We can get 1Mbit EPROMs these days, but would it be possible to take advantage of the extra large EPROM memory?
b) This innovation sits in a cartridge slot in a PL1 plugged into the Electron(Yes)?
c) Is this plug &play - plug it in, power on the Electron and thats it(Yes)?
d) You can help me with this question, it is not about your product.
I have recently purchased a PL3 with the disc drive, but it came without a PL3 mains adapter.
Obviously the power (Current) from the original mains adapter is not enough for the
Electron, PL1+PL3. So I have to buy and use another. My confusion is over the AC voltage.
The Electron appears to be 18v. In the technical reference to the cartridge etc says the voltage is 19v
but the labeling on the PL3 says 21v. I cannot actually buy a mains adapter that meets this criteria,
so I have bought one with plenty of current and a 19v DC voltage from the regulator. My plan
is to extract and use the AC voltage in the mains adapter, before it is regulated. Your comments
would be welcome.It looks like a laptop adapter is about right.
e) I do like seeing and then owning innovations for the Acorn range. have you any other products
in the pipeline? Have you seen the BooBip.com web site. Some of the products developed for the
BBC B could perhaps be useful to owners of the Electron. Being able to fit RAM instead of EPROM
in your PCB ? or a mix of 4kb RAM and 12kb ROM, so an E00 ADFS could be fitted and not cause
PAGE to change above E00. Or a shadow RAM - where HIMEM stays high at &800.
I have ideas(+needs- would like to buy the innovation hardware) BUT no hardware skill.
All the very best.
Derek.
This sounds very like the 1MHz clock gitch issue discussed earlier in this thread:CMcDougall wrote: so, if your board does not work correctly with the 33p MMC interface and E/MMFS 1.xx
ie, works only after 10x Breaks , then Card? , or after a game for 5mins
then this IS the answer![]()
still why..?me wrote:still wonder why