PPC512

[Ruud]

I asked this in the PC thread but no reaction at all so I give it a try here.

I know I will get a PPC512 as Christmas present (I know because I bought it myself) and I'm looking for information about it. I already found Amstrad XT Pages and that covers a lot of info. But I'm more interested in not-common info like tips & tricks, special software and hardware expansions.

Thank you in advance!

 

[NeXT]

The last time I poked at a PPC512 (15 years ago?) I recall that even then the expansions were impossible to find and everyone was telling me to just pull the floppy drives for an Amiga and chuck it. Otherwise it's a PC clone that can take a buttload of C cells and gives 45 minutes (I've done this) run time.

 

[seat safety switch]

I have one, but I have yet to figure out what to do with it. My initial plan was to clone some of the expansions: I know someone did an ISA expansion riser that could do XT-IDE and a video card.

edit: http://www.enide.net/webcms/index.php?page=ppc512-640-isa-expansion I believe is the one I was thinking of

 

[Ruud]

http://www.enide.net/webcms/index.php?page=ppc512-640-isa-expansion

Thank you!

I like to tinker with 8088-era machines.So far I have only one working 8086 computer: an IBM PS2/2 mod 30. The main reason I bought this particular machine is because it has a NEC V30 on board. The V20 and V30 can run 8080 code and I'm busy to find out if I can run CP/M on a PC equipped with a V20/V30. The V20-MBC can do it, so why not a PC?

 

[cj7hawk]

They had a parallel port and I think a serial port. You can program them from BASIC. They are OK to tinker with. I had one many years ago and gave it to the neighbor's kids with a copy of QBASIC.EXE so he could learn to program with it. i wired him up a parallel port to LED adapter so he could turn LEDs on and off.