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Almost found the Oric Microdisc [sort of] Almost found the Oric Microdisc [sort of] In case anybody stumbles across my ancient thread also looking for an Oric Microdisc, there is an interesting project called "Cumulus" here: http://retromaster.wordpress.com/cumulus/ to interface an SD card...

Don't forget DKBTrace, which was also rendering glossy "futuristic" cars back in the 1990's... It was properly geeky too :), no fancy GUI front end, only text file input. Follow this link for more: http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C47ae6a7a@news.povray.org%3E/ I think...

...and Irfanview also supports ILBM IFF images :)

Speaking with the folks at A-EON (of X1000 fame) at VCF recently, I mentioned that the new beast is going to have to launch with some really impressive demonstrations of "software defined silicon", or risk "my PC can do that, but cheaper". I think it really must have a "wow!" factor to encourage...

I thought so too (Speccy online yes, tweeting? lost on me)- but here it is anyway! :D

thanks! Here's part 2... The Original A1000 showing off (with only minor mods) Whilst here in the UK we still had ZX80's, 81's, 64's etc (many of the machines had SD or CF cards acting as pseudo-tapes/disks, this was in a C64 but I spotted Amigas, Dragons and BBCs with similar add-ons)...

Fitzsteve beat me to it and posted some snaps, but it was a great day out and as promised, here are some of mine... (High res available on request - lowres freely donated to the community). The beer tent lacked... err beer, but it did have lots of Amigas :) Inside... An advert for...

I've used the "...but it is Father's day* and we are still looking for my Birthday present... plus you've never been to Bletchley Park" excuse to take the whole family there. Bagsy any Picasso IV's + a flicker fixer please! :) How will I recognise the Amibay Crowd? Hopefully you'll put your...

Done (There's no option to include "other" computers in Q1 - if you can repair 1980-2000 home computers you might have some more customers here!)

Thanks - useful to know. I think I'll try it in standalone mode to see if two TAB-completion tools work together or I end up with some bizzare mix. Yup, it's just that I was using *nix machines a lot (the last time I used this in earnest) and CSH was just what I needed, particularly...

OK Ta - the reason for "nothing more" was to ensure that I didn't have two programs fighting each other trying to do history buffers, filename completion etc. Has anybody run KingCON and CSH together, and are they happy housemates? dibs

I used to have a nifty extension that added a scrollbar to any CLI or Shell window, which would let you review things that "fell off" of the top of the screen (directory listings, text files etc). Can't remember what it was called or I wouldn't be asking :) I already use CSH as my preferred...

My folks were clearing out the junk and found some old snaps - this little gem amongst them. OK, It's a little late to post the project, but in my defence the Internet hadn't even been invented when I was hacking a 6581 SID chip into my Oric Atmos! The project was successful (after the...

Assuming you also have a good old VGA input, I use and would recommend one of these... a Gadmei XGA/VGA LCD TV BOX which takes composite and S-VIDEO up to VGA. Spec is like this... Highest resolution: 1280 X 1024 /75Hz Resolution rate up to 800*600, 1024*768 or 1280*1024...

There's a PS2>Amiga package on Aminet with converter PCB schematics... http://aminet.net/package/docs/hard/ps2m dibs (sorry I haven't built it, I am tempted by the USB to Amiga mouse converters on the other bay at the moment). PS: If you really meant serial RS232 mouse to PS2, look here and...