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? :lol: :hide:

[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? :lol: :hide:

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 :)

PXL_20220623_102359429.jpg

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 :)