srusher.bsky.social
Retro-computers, model railways, playing Elite: Dangerous...
What else do you need to know? :-)
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Some Nascom 1s and. couple of Acorn Atoms with a 380Z as well.
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Given its original name (A300), it was likely meant to be a cheaper, cost reduced version of the A500.
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It was too late, basically. Released just in time for the crash of '84.
Lots of delays, lots of renaming (Flan, Elan, Enterprise etc.).
Apparently a hit in Hungary where all the excess stock was sold.
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I can't choose between them. They're family.
Which generation of ST and Amiga are you comparing though?
520/1040ST vs. A1000?
Mega ST1/2/4 vs. A1000?
520/1040STFM vs. A500?
520/1040STE vs. A500+/A600?
TT vs. A3000?
It's complicated. :-)
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No. Obviously not a popular enough platform.
However, given the architectural similarity between the Tatung and the MTX it would have been a doddle to port. I think it's just a few I/O port address changes and keyboard scan as I doubt Chuckie Egg would be large enough to have to do memory paging.
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The other issue in the UK was that software was "traditionally" tape based but all the best titles for MSX were on cartridge, which would have probably been out of the price range of the average British consumer at the time anyway.
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The biggest problem, at least for MSX-1 machines, was the (by the time of release) five year old TMS display processor design with its one byte I/O interface and the limitation of four hardware sprites on a scan line.
By 1984 bit mapped graphics, with its inherent flexibility, had overtaken it.
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Bah! No Memotech port!
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Give it a wipe down and then put some furniture polish on for a nice shine.
I'd have thought that you would have also posted a retro festival picture...
Here's mine instead.
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But it can be expanded to 512K, unlike the MTX500, which can only go up to 500K.... Sort of... Unless you change the jumpers, PAL and the memory chips to 4164s... but then it's an MTX512.
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Yes, but in the end there was only one other entry, so it wasn't much of a contest. :-)
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More flashy but less tasty than the one myself and my colleague created in 2021 for a work cake competition.
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I can't remember if you tried the similar Owon 'scope/multimeter/signal generator a few years ago.
If you did, how does it compare?
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And part 2, where I find the fault, fit sockets and mix up which is the keyboard and which is the MIDI interface chips causes hilarity...
youtu.be/dV2FUKo4cZI?...
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Maybe they saw a LOLPRICE on eBay and copied it as they know nothing about old computers?
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A tad chilly! Surely not Canadian levels of chilly though?
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So... an IBM PC-XT is also an 8 bit computer... Good-oh!
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The QL is an 8, 16, 32 bit computer! :-)
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As opposed to the ship I took to Colonia, before it was called Colonia.
20Ly jump range, on a good day.
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It is worth noting that this also has sinister parallels to the burning of the Institute for Sexual Science by the nazis in 1933. Among the many books burned were some of the first texts on intersexuality and transgender studies. It's happening again.
bsky.app/profile/jere...
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Yes, by 15 years.
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In "FAST" mode? ;-)
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But that would have been very un-Sinclair!
He failed to do that with the ZX81 and failed to do that with the Spectrum too. :-)
With the Spectrum, a few "lucky" people got an Issue One three months late and half of those didn't work. People forget this.
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In 1984 that would have put the price up to well over £1000...
In '84 that would have been a Macintosh without the GUI.
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I've not seen any on BS and rarely on the "Following" stream on Twitter/X.
Maybe they don't like me. :-)
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The original MacBook Pro was voted the best Windows 7 laptop in 2008. :-)
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Just install "Snow Leopard" and then "Bootcamp" and run Windows 7. It's an excellent Windows box. ;-)
I used my Mac Pro 3,2 (Mid-2009) until 2015 as my main gaming machine.
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Very different inside to the Mac Pro 3,2 from a year later.
The 3,2 has all the CPU and memory on a slide-out board in the base of the system, which can be exchanged with different versions with differing configurations, such as single and dual processors etc. The motherboard purely handles the I/O
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Less hate for the Microdrives from the press before they'd even been able to use one in the flesh would have helped.
Not sure anything would have helped in terms of hardware with sales.
(Not having the keyboard processor do sound would have helped with games though. Even bitbanging a port better.)
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But in the eyes of those pressure groups there are no "good people", only "bad people" who have not yet been caught.
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You risk damaging your ULA as you can have a DC offset between the TV and the Spectrum making a high current draw.
The capacitor is there to isolate the two items. If you want the higher frequencies change the value of the capacitor to a larger one.
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Yeah, I refurbished it last week.
Takes up far less space!
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True, but they were a lot cheaper 10 years ago when the project started.
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The Spartan 6 was a replacement for the original FPGA which suddenly became unobtainium in 2020. It was the closest part to the original they could get in any reasonable quantity with a guaranteed lead time this decade.
As they were a small production run they were at the bottom of the list.
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Development costs or purchase price of the unit?
These are very different things.
If the purchase (manufacturing) price is high then it wouldn't sell, however good it would be. This will limit the chip count.
It's 1982, 4164 chips are expensive, far more than 4116 + support. Back 2 orig design!