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First job of the day: Videowall MTX with apparantly no ram opened up, and there just to the right of centre in the photo, was a patch wire off! 1667645368763.jpg A new bit of solder and a larger stripped area on the wire and everything is back together as it should be, and will hopefully stay that w...

gunrock wrote: ↑05 Nov 2022 08:17 Not sure I approve of the early consumption of mince pies. It's not even December yet man!

The best before date was early November, we couldn't let them go off could we...

So we got off to an early start wading through the boxes of bits while we partook of a late lunch. another shot of the pile.jpg Pictures from Jim's phone. The easy bit was a ROM update to Jim's MFX which is fitted in the gorgoues red MTX. mystery rom board.jpg The 4 rom, rom Board was confirmed to b...

When you see the amount Jim brough it's a wonder the car's suspension didn't collapse!

So having offered to try and fix some of Jim's kit over the weekend, I thought I'd better at pretend to tidy the "operating theater", so there's at least -some- space to work... Now to await the patients!

Parhaps he should have tried a few miles further west, I understand there's a fair sized place a bit further out, with all mod cons, that's just had a chnage of owner. For those that didn't get the reference, the Royal residence at Balmoral Castle is in Aberdeenshire, and that is also west of Aberd...

Poor Dave, he was lamenting in an e-mail the other day about that because of the pitch of the roof, the prospective MTXcave over the garage wasn't 40 foot by 30, but "only" has a workable footprint of 40 x 18 Alas, he's going to be stuck trying to fit his 194 MTX's and all the other comput...

And sadly the BT/openreach issue will likely prevent Dave from joining in for a chat on Saturday

Whereas VDP.COM Martin wrote because he's to lazy to write the full fledeged launcher!

In theory it should work well enough in a 2 line xxxx.SUB file ie but I never needed to test it as Bill did his "proper" launcher

The original version that Andy did is HTSD.COM I thought Dave had included that on the image.

If not it's in the hextrain archive from Andy's site, which is where I pulled it from for the original testing.