I basically have a board without anything else, no keyboard or drive. The board works i just can't use it without a keyboard ofcourse. I'm trying to make my own keyboard for it with modern keys and a custom pcp which doesn't seem to difficult as i just need to get the pinout right but i've been having difficulty with actually understanding the way the keys are connected. It's difficult to figure out without having an actual membrane. Would anyone know where i could get the schematics for the membrane?

I have kept this from my uncles computer store for nearly 40 years.

P.S. Have you tried your goggles on yet?

Hi,

I'm trying to import a BAS file in my DSK with the help of idsk.

However when I open the dsk in RVM2, i'm getting a file of 1Ko without anything inside.

I mean a run"test" give just the system prompt without any cls action

a load"test" and list give also only the system promp without any list.

Have you already managed to import a BASIC file into a dsk with idsk?

For information it is totally ok with a generated BIN file.

Hope somebody could find something meaningfull to do so, I'm totally stuck for now.

Regards,

D.

test.bas contains:
10 CLS

Command used to create the dsk & import test.bas

idsk hello.dsk -n -i test.bas -t 0

Hi all, I have a GX4000 brand new in box that I have had in storage for the last 10 years and today I decided I should sell it as it’s not doing anything and I could do with some money! Any how, like I say it is brand new in box, only opened to test it when I first bought it. It has a euro plug and the guarantee card is in Spanish. Everything is in perfect condition, the manuals, tv cable and one controller are still sealed, one controller and the power brick has been opened to test but still retains the original packaging ( a cardboard box and bubble wrap but still original😀). The box and polystyrene inlays are all intact with some slight fading on the outer box. My question is how much is this worth or how much should I put it on eBay for? I am in the uk. I have got to say, having scrolled through this sub I am having second thoughts, the sonic game looks amazing for the hardware! If anyone is interested, I bought this as I have been collecting old games and consoles for about 12 years but prices have put most out of my price bracket and now I only concentrate on sega, in particular mega drive games. I think I paid around £90 for the GX4000 originally which was one of my most expensive purchases. I see one was bought on FB marketplace place for £30 but surely that’s an anomaly????

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.