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Post by Pyrofer on Jul 9, 2023 15:16:06 GMT
OH My. Um yeah, I know the guy that wrote it. I think he made it public? I will ask if he minds me sharing it. Also, very rare lucky few that got those boards! I still have some to make up and test to sell, but not many.
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Post by Pyrofer on Jun 6, 2023 16:31:03 GMT
So I got a nice DAC to convert my VDC to RGB, I got a nice VGA monitor that syncs down to 15khz and I get a great picture. Sadly, I can't see the 40 col output on that same monitor though.
Does anybody have experience of a Composite or S-Video to VGA adapter that WORKS? or how to make the C128 Composite output work on the cheap ones? I have tried three now. one gave a picture so bad it was unrecognisable. One was just awful with flickering missing colours and a total mess. The last just gave a blue "no signal" screen and didn't even try.
I dont want to spend a lot, I have already bought three adapters. Please help!
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Post by Pyrofer on Sept 1, 2021 8:14:32 GMT
That's really interesting. Does that mean half the read/writes fail in fast mode? That would be a problem. Also, can I just mod the NeoRam to remove the clock and fix it?
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Post by Pyrofer on Aug 30, 2021 2:18:18 GMT
I have built 5 NeoRam boards, the ram chips I used were all SMT but the logic was DIL. I didn't know about the clock/phi0 thing. Can you explain what this means for the 128 in Fast mode? There is a ramdisk tool for the 128mode and if that didn't work in fast mode I would be sad.
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Post by Pyrofer on Aug 23, 2021 12:24:34 GMT
How is this different from the existing open-source "NeoRam" board?
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Post by Pyrofer on Jul 26, 2021 15:38:13 GMT
Thanks for more great work Of course this mainly reminds me how poor the graphics on the Spectrum were compared to C64 games but it also frustrates me again at the lack of multicolour text mode on the VDC. Anyway, nice work. More proof of how amazing the C128 was at the time and how everybody overlooked all the things it could do.
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Post by Pyrofer on May 2, 2021 18:18:44 GMT
I did it, it's a pain but you have to cut out the plastic. I super glued the retainer clip that holds the ball in place shut, then using a dremel I removed all the plastic I could while not going through it. Once the bottom of the mouse was mostly flat the optical assembly was close enough to work fine. I put the Mouse to 1351 adapter inside the tank shell too so you could use the original wire and not have a dongle on the end. If you use an Amiga mouse cable to do this one of the POT lines is missing. I opened the plug up and removed a joystick direction wire and moved it to the missing POT line. Sadly you now can't use it in joystick emulation mode but that is hardly a loss as it's a mouse!
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Post by Pyrofer on Apr 30, 2021 14:57:18 GMT
When I say "lost" I mean, physically. Stolen by my ex-wife and disposed of. Many thousands of £ worth of physical gear as well as 20 years worth of data AND their backups are gone. Imagine you lost everything in a house fire, only that fire was a vindictive ex who was out to destroy your life... This is not the only one of my projects now lost, so sadly I can't see much happening any time soon.
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Post by Pyrofer on Apr 18, 2021 14:35:26 GMT
There are a few kits that (I am assuming what you actually want here as I was slightly confused by your wording) will take a modern PS/2 or USB mouse and make it work on the C64 and C128. Your best bet is to get one of those. Things such as this www.breadbox64.com/blog/the-tom-rev2-review/ appear to work. What I did was take a dead Amiga Tank mouse for the shell. I filed out all the excess plastic inside and put a modern optical mouse inside the tank shell. I glued two buttons in place and ran wires to their connections on the PCB of the mouse. Then I connected the adapter INSIDE the tank shell directly to the mouse PCB. I used the original Amiga mouse cable to connect up the pins on the 9pin output of the adapter. WARNING- the tank mouse has a wire missing. I opened the plug (carefully) and relocated one of the direction pins from the joystick not needed for the C64 mouse to replace the missing one. THIS IS HARD, but you get an "original" mouse cable then! The final effect is the exact original look of the Tank mouse along with it's original plug. However it's optical and plugs directly into my C64/128. Just don't mix it up with your actual Amiga mice! (write in sharpie on the bottom or something).
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Post by Pyrofer on Apr 18, 2021 14:25:44 GMT
I have had some major personal issues over the last 2 years. These have lead me to the loss of a lot of stuff, including most of my sanity. Basically all projects are "on hold" while I resolve these serious issues. It's a very long story and not one that you guys need to hear. Just simply to say due to circumstances outside of my control I am unable to do much that I want right now.
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