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Dave wrote: ↑26 Jan 2022 15:29 I never thought of advertising it here . . .

I couldn't get it to fit into my MTX's expansion socket

Hmm.. a 486 co-processor add-on for the Memotech. That would be fun.

Dave wrote: ↑26 Jan 2022 15:27 Give it time !

That might be his next post

Nah... I gave a good review.

I just bought a 486DX2-66 "Overdrive" processor off eBay and when it arrived the From: address seemed very familiar...

Dave Stevenson and the address included a road name containing "Primrosebank".

Could this be one of those "it's a small World" events?

Funnily enough the DE10 went out of stock soon after the MMS pre-orders went live. The first batch was 500 boards and that wiped out the global supply of the Terasic product.

Oh dear. And the other kit is prices at LOLpricing too.

Welcome to the board.

Given your Acorn background I would have thought that you'd have recognised the BNC composite port from the back of the Beeb.

This weekend was the Retro Computer Festival in Cambridge and my Saturday set-up included my MTX500 + CFX, as can be seen here: IMG_2430.jpg If the table had been a little longer I would have had the MTX512 sitting open to show the insides. It was quite surprising how many visitors hadn't even heard...

Oh well, no Memofest, but if anyone's going to the Retro Computer Festival at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge on the 9th/10 October I'll be taking my two machines for display on the Saturday. So, if you want to say hello that'd be nice. I'll have my CFXs there and will probably have th...

https://youtu.be/BUulMLVWIIo

The TI 99/4A has essentially the same graphics chip as the MTX so we all know its limitations. I'd just like to know how the heck this person got smooth parallax sideways scrolling, multi-coloured sprites and more than 4 sprites on a scan line! Amazing.

The technique to refresh edge connectors on other machines is to put on lots of flux and then a reasonable amount of solder on each finger and make sure that the new solder covers the whole thing, then use desoldering braid to suck off the excess solder, pulling the braid with soldering iron on top ...