Hi all. I've just got the RS232C interface without power supply and having trouble determining whether it actually works.

I think I've got the correct power supply (also tried the output from the modulator and monitor - both should be 5v right?)

It looks like I've attached it correctly to my CPC (bottom blue plug, oriented as pictured) though it's a very tight fit to get off.

How can I determine if it works ok? The CPC boots fine but none of the |blow |suck |parallel commands work.

I have a floppy interface which works when connected it on its own but the back port took a lot of cleaning.

I've not smelled anything bad or smoked, so I don't think I've cooked the interface. I also couldn't see anything wrong with the circuit board.

Any hints?

I got this from an estate sale for 20 dollars so wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t work, but I checked the manuals and all that and can’t find any good explanation for why all this does is show a green line. Sometimes when (i think) it’s reading the disk it makes some sounds and the line gets a little shorter on both ends, but then it just goes back to being a green line. Keyboard buttons don’t seem to do much but sometimes the space bar will make it read the disk. Anybody know if this is fixable?

Was watching a documentary on the TV and this lady living in Dublin was going through her things

I had it as a kid, but couldn't make heads or tails of how to play it. I'd love to give it another go.

I have vaige mamories of playing a game where you are a vicar or a priest and you go into have haunted house.

There was a timer that made the game pretty hard and I believe some classical music played in the background.

Anyone know of it?

Does anyone know what the piece of music is used on the title screen🤔 I suspect it's dated from anywhere between the late 1800s or early 1900s judging by the structure but that is all I can guess at and I don't know anything else. It has always seemed familiar to me. Tried looking online to no avail and also tried Shazam which failed miserably. Anyone know the coder John Line? Thanks in advance Reddit

Before I get in to the main meat of the request, please allow an old fart some nostalgic meandering. Skip to the bottom if you want the TL:DR.

I, like many, owned an Amstrad CPC464 when I was a kid.

I had asked my parents for 'a computer' for Christmas after playing on my neighbours Acorn Archimedes complete with it's slick graphical interface and super cool mouse, I remember playing Lander on it & thinking it was probably the most incredible thing I'd ever seen. I had no idea there were other types of 'computer' out there. The CPC464 was what I unwrapped that Christmas and, I have to guiltily admit, I was crushingly disappointed at the time.

Tapes, not disks? Where is that slick user interface? Is that all the colours it can do? I have to type to get it to do things? Where the hell is the mouse!?

I shouldn't have been especially surprised, we never had much money when I was growing up, but as a kid I just didn't appreciate how much things cost. It would've been a huge outlay to my parents (I guess I would've had it in the late 80's to early 90's so it would've been being phased out even then) and that would've been all they could've afforded.

I grew to love it, of course. I remember going into a shop in our town centre called Game Tron to pick out titles, technology had moved on past the CPC even then so the games were pretty cheap.

Sadly, and regrettably, I no longer own my CPC, or any CPC for that matter. The hardware and a huge library of games are long, long since gone (I did find a few recently while having a bit of a house clear out, though).

Now to my request (finally, huh?).

One of my favourite games used to be an isometric shooter 'type thing' where you would fly from room to room in a little red space ship, or perhaps robot? Things would shoot at you from the walls...you'd push the joystick in the direction you wanted to go and the ship/robot/thing would go from...well...print to italic? I to I in moving.

I found it once, thinking I would absolutely never forget what it was ever again...then did exactly that and have been unable to source it since.

Sorry the details are sketchy but that's all I remember about it. That and it would drive my dad up the wall with the pew pew pew, the CPC was set up in our living room at the time so I wasn't allowed to spend too much time on it.

Finally got the radio module to go with the Schneider. (Cable management wasn’t a thing back then it seems.) Love the clock.

Hello there,

Maybe you folks can help me. I'm desesperatly looking for a game title that I used to play on CPC6128 when I was a child.

It was a platform game where you control a guy and you have to avoid traps. Traps were including laser gates and spikes if I remember well. There was some pixelizated blood when you died. The environment was kind of grey/futuristic. I can't describe it more precisely...

If you can get me to the title it would be amazing !

Hi, hoping someone can help.

I am looking for 3" disk storage cases much like the 3.5" ones that were available for Amiga ST etc.

Firstly, was there such a thing?

IHello I never found a playthrough of the Amstrad version of this game, although there is a successful run of the c4 conversion on youtube. According to a website, "

Big bugs depending on how we make our tank stop from the start of the game (go to the right, stop, return to the left and arrange for the tank to force the scrolling to return to the right = visual carnage). no longer look for the fort, the scrolling continued to the right and therefore disappeared.

The game is impossible to finish, once you have destroyed one of the 2 missiles, the game will be bugged and certain bridges will be impassable.
The ending sequence is also buggy"

I am wondering if there has ever been any attempt to fix the game, knowing that Robocop  was fixed on c64.

Hello. I have a newer type cpc 464 with the version 4 main board. After a long time i decided to have some fun with it again and after dealing with a corroded cpu holder I noticed that the delete key doesn't work. After disassembling the keyboard everything looks OK, it's a membrane keyboard.

Pressing the delete key changes the resistance on the corresponding pins. I think it's something to do with the common pin as two arrows and some numbers also don't work. It's pin 10 that connects to the sound chip pin7.

Does anyone have an knowledge of what could cause those keys to not work? Is it the sound chip orrr. It's quite hard to find anything on the version 4 main board online.

I retrieved my CPC464 with GT64 monitor from the attic and it is showing this strange shift in the horizontal lines. It happens more often when I turn the CPC itself off and on, and less when I turn the monitor (and thus the CPC) off and on. Once working correctly it stays working without issue until the next cold reset. Any idea how to solve this? I know how to solder and how to use a multimeter but I don’t know what to look for. Thanks!

Hey I've been trying to build a connection to ChatGPT from the Amstrad.

https://github.com/markburns/amstrad_gpt

I think I'm most of the way done. It runs in ruby on my mac and forwards messages back and forth through an RS232 serial port.

I don't have an RS232 adapter. I wonder if anyone here does?

I've been writing software to try and simulate the testing but nothing beats the real thing for end to end testing.

Any technically minded folks on here with an RS232 adapter and USB connection interested in trying it out?