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stephen_usher wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2023 8:32 pm $58 isn't half bad and given the time and cost of the materials you could probably not do it yourself for much less.
Yeah but double it for postage and then import VAT. Getting the whole thing made would total about £250 :(
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How much do the Amiga fellows charge for their repro cases? (admittedly injection moldings)
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stephen_usher wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2023 8:51 pm How much do the Amiga fellows charge for their repro cases? (admittedly injection moldings)
No idea. But the actual cost of getting the case made by injection moulding was really cheap. Like £20 for both parts. So with packaging and shipping, it still would end up being like £100 really.
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stephen_usher wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2023 7:20 pm
rubber_jonnie wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2023 7:08 pm Video quality looks really nice.
Yeah, it's the MFX emulating the TI VDP chip (snooping the bus for reads/writes to the original chip) and outputting to a VGA port at normal VGA refresh rates. The MFX can also emulate the original 80 column card for use with CP/M.

My MTX500 now has a board under the VDP which outputs to RGB, which looks just as good.
Very nice indeed. Are you able to give CP/M a go on it? Would be cool to see.

First time I saw CP/M was on my Apple IIe, using my Analog v2 in Z80 Applicard mode.
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Yeah, I'll take a picture or two tomorrow night.
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stephen_usher wrote: Wed Oct 11, 2023 10:10 pm Yeah, I'll take a picture or two tomorrow night.
Splendid.
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Here are the pictures:


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Very nice, you get colour CPM, I don't on the Apple+Applicard combo, but hey, it's CP/M right :)

Reminds me, I need to try and make CP/M work on my Amstrad NC200...
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Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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stephen_usher wrote: Thu Oct 12, 2023 7:06 pm Here are the pictures:



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You have a lot more apps than me, I need to have a search and see what Applicard CP/M stuff is about:

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It's funny though, when it's busy you have an apple cursor appear:

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Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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All that stuff came on the card supplied with the MFX. It includes a basic web server and ftp server for network file copy, oh and games.
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ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.
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