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If Bill makes it to Memofest 2015, I think that he will be looking for raspberry pie

Hi Bill, thanks a lot for taking the bait :-) I have a B+ that I could use for this. As you said, the space in the MTX case is pretty tight, I need to measure it, but with no MTX computer board in there, or at the RHS where there would not normally be a board installed, there will probably be enough...

Hi guys, another one of my interminable MTX projects is a plan to put a Raspberry PI inside an original MTX case and use the MTX keyboard to drive the Pi running MEMU. I had a brief discussion with Bill on this a while ago, but it never really progressed as I couldn't get hold of an MTX keyboard tha...

You could try run.com as described on this page

http://www.nyangau.org/memu/formats.htm#run

regards
Dave

Unscrewing the pins is easy, and **might** work, depending on the fault. At least one of mine had damage to the leaf spring inside the switch though, it is supposed to be possible to strip them down and reassemble, but if the spring is damaged, it's nearly impossible, at least it was for me anyway. ...

The full list of control codes used by the FDX/MTX 80 column boards under CP/M are included in the FDX Technical Manual that can be found on this page :-

http://www.primrosebank.net/computers/m ... anuals.htm

e.g., Clear Screen and Home Cursor is <ctrl><L>

regards
Dave

Hi Mark,

yes, thanks, I had seen that.

It does of course, require that you have an ultrasonic cleaner & solvent, and is "only" 80% effective

regards
Dave

I think that it's highly unlikely that it is a video daughter board problem if you are not even getting sound, but, you can eliminate it by taking mono composite video straight off the VDP by removing the video board and connecting to the plug pins as mentioned on this page http://www.primrosebank.n...

Hi folks, Just a request for you all to bear in mind for the future, either as your own Electron fails or you come across one on your travels . . . . . I wouldn't normally consider breaking up a vintage home computer, even a toy :-) but . . . As we know, a common problem with the MTX is bad or stick...

Hi guys, There hasn't been any updates to the Memofest 2015 thread since October last year, so, let's see if we can kick start it! Paul is hosting the 2015 event at his home in South Cheshire, but there are few other details available at the moment. To help Paul plan, I suggest that we start to put ...