Recent content by willinliv

Hi Kyodai, I have been following your posts on here and the new location for Tankraider. I have a Sharp PC3000 with no contact to outside world. Do you have still your Winimage image of your 2MB SRAM created by your Pocquet? Many thanks, Will (restricted chars)

Thanks for that I wondered what that feature was for!

And obviously I will answer in part my own question. Looking at the specs and comparing to other specimens online it looks like I have a 11.3" DSTN panel as opposed to better TFT varients, which wikipedia tells me: "DSTN display quality is poor compared to TFT, with visible noise, smearing, much...

Video taken of a Gateway 2000 Solo 2100 120MHz laptop, I just got this yesterday. Loading Windows 98 you can't really see the cursor moving only in it's start and end locations, or a flashing cursor in dos in barely discernable as flashing. Any ideas, or is this what screens were like back in...

@FreddyV Looks interesting, lots of functionality! I'm UK based, have you any left? Thanks, Will

And one more upgrade! A network card for accessing BBS and sharing files from other computers (along with updating DOS time). Here's a vid. I have got very good success with a 3Com 3C509B-TPO despite this being a 16-bit card in an 8-bit slot. There is enough space for the unused portion of the...

I did a bit of a further upgrade around the external PSU on one of my Amstrad PC1640. The 14-pin DIN is available on ebay but pre-soldered in only short lengths, so I had the external PSU (ReActiveMicro Universal PSU) contain in a mini ATX power case stuffed down the back of the computer at the...

Thanks John! I had not spotted that on your excellent website, I'm glad you have the rom dump

I'll put up some higher res ones, got a bit trigger happy with Photoshop. I'm selling it because it came with one PC1640, but I wanted an original keyboard which I now have. But the layout is lush!

Hi All, I bought this keyboard with a PC1640 and it's now back on ebay, but I thought I would share a few pics as I found it quite interesting. The Amstrad has it's own keyboard specification (I do not believe compatible with other XTs), things like mouse commands go through it. However here is...

Greetings, Here is a video I have made documenting the upgrade of a 1987 Amstrad PC1640. I grew up with these machines, have had a long absense but a very happy rediscovery, finding them to be very amenable to being upgraded. So here I fit an XTIDE and CompactFlash card, a Gotek, and...

Thanks @hackneygolish for your suggestions Just to give a bit of an update. I came to this again today for the third and probably final time. I again checked the connections from the mouse, and the signals, arriving nicely as described in the technical service manual with regard to 90degrees...

Thanks for your responses guys. Having said that, I have done a bit more testing on the PSU this am and this alone is the source of the fault, I think otherwise the PC was healthy so I might not bother with the cap. Otherwise I will try to remove from the board with hot air, and possibly do the...

Hi Folks, I am looking to get an old IBM 2168 back on it's feet. It was operational and then it's PSU started to need 'pump' for 30secs or so to build up enough head of steam to completely power on the machine. Disassembling everything I came across what looks like a dodgy capacitor on the...

I've had a prod around with the oscilloscope and the signal from the mouse seems to be working from both inputs on both axis, presenting a square tooth wave when the mouse is moved, and looks like same voltage/amplitude, nothing off on either of the four channels. I have followed the signal back...