A5000 - diving in at the deep end!

[stephen_usher]

People say that Arch Elite is the best but I'm not that impressed. Feels a bit like the Amiga/ST version bit with dubious mouse control.

@rubber_jonnie If you had a Gotek fitted then I could send over a set of ADF files for you.

[mrbombermillzy]

People say that Arch Elite is the best but I'm not that impressed. Feels a bit like the Amiga/ST version bit with dubious mouse control.

So is that with the steel ball or the gobstopper?

[rubber_jonnie]

People say that Arch Elite is the best but I'm not that impressed. Feels a bit like the Amiga/ST version bit with dubious mouse control.

So is that with the steel ball or the gobstopper?

For me, it would be steel ball!

[rubber_jonnie]

The monitor is an LCD, an NEC 1990Fxp, great monitor and I also have an NEC 1970NX which is equally good.

I have two 1990Fxp's (one has what I believe to be a shot PSU where a postman decided it wasn't his job to be careful and broke it).

I always thought that the 1970NX had better/more adjustment options (like a v-size at least!)

EDIT: Games? If I had of got this machine working, the first game to have run would have been David Braben's original masterpiece, Elite!

The Archie version is meant to be among the very best.

Given I have Elite for BBC, Electron and Apple, having it for the Archie makes a lot of sense. May even have it for the Speccy too.

[rubber_jonnie]

People say that Arch Elite is the best but I'm not that impressed. Feels a bit like the Amiga/ST version bit with dubious mouse control.

@rubber_jonnie If you had a Gotek fitted then I could send over a set of ADF files for you.

I do have a Gotek I could use, even if only temporarily to get stuff onto the hard drive, I'd be very interested in any ADFs you might have please.

[alexh]

I do have a Gotek I could use, even if only temporarily to get stuff onto the hard drive, I'd be very interested in any ADFs you might have please.

https://forums.jaspp.org.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=25
https://archive.org/details/tosec-2021-02-14-safe

[rubber_jonnie]

I do have a Gotek I could use, even if only temporarily to get stuff onto the hard drive, I'd be very interested in any ADFs you might have please.

https://forums.jaspp.org.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=25
https://archive.org/details/tosec-2021-02-14-safe

Ahh yes, you did say earlier

[rubber_jonnie]

I know I said I was done, but I've decided to pursue the IDE thing a bit further. I've replaced the 2nd 74HCT245 and can now detect CF cards

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Previously the drive details were garbled, so for me that is progress.

Formatting fails, but definitely a good sign

[alexh]

Nice to know as I'll probably have to go through this with mine.

[rubber_jonnie]

Nice to know as I'll probably have to go through this with mine.

Still having issues formatting them, even with Wizzo softloaded, but I think that it is highly likely that the IDE interface is now working, I just don't have any drives it likes