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There are many variations of flash (or EEPROM / E2PROM ) memory. The different types have different speed and rewrite characteristics. As Dave says, early types had a relatively small number of write cycles before rewriting failed. More modern types are a lot better. The bigger problem is that when ...

I'm no good at any pac man version

But keep up the good work Claus

Mark

Edit: change incorrect "any" to correct "at"

Good to hear about your progress

Mark

Mark

Welcome David :D IIRC printer cables intended for the Acorn BBC Micro are suitable if you wish to directly connect to a printer with a Centronics port. These cables sometimes come up on eBay. They are made up of a 34 way 0.1" IDC header socket, 34 way ribbon cable and a 36 way IDC type Centroni...

...the only difficulty is that Memotech used a BNC connection on the back of the MTX. You should be able to pick up a BNC-to-phono adapter quite easily. Err, the use of a BNC connector is not the difficult part, the difficult part is fitting it (plugging in) to the MTX, or worse, trying to unplug i...

lezanderson wrote:THere's also a rumour that I'm going to the Moon with Wallace and Gromit !

Don't forget to take your own cheese, we don't want any enviromental damage you know

Mark

Ahh! But I think it is because they either have suplus 4:3 VGA LCD VDU's or want to use the same VGA LCD VDU with their retro computer(s) and a modern PC to save space... I use a Sharp Aquos TV and that works with all the 8 bit and 16 bit retro computers that I have tried (once I worked out the corr...

Hmm, rather niche sums it up. I have: N8VEM (preparing for construction, still in the process of getting some parts) Jupiter ACE Kit (bought from eBay - built and working :D) see here ZX80 Core (ZX80 "remake")(bought directly from producer) (under construction) see here Harlequin (ZX Spect...

Yes, yes, yes, no!!! :shock: RAM :? That is the thing. Lots of fast RAM was expensive. Add to that the costly video chips... To enable easy, fast access, video RAM that was in part of the CPU's memory map was preferred. But that caused problems. Now a CPU was not something that could be left out, an...