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dad664npc wrote: 03 Oct 2023 07:55 [Is the disk image an HDDriver formatted image? PP formatted images are incompatible with HDDriver

Yes. I don't have PP's driver.

Well, these late 90s Harmon Kardon speakers sound a lot better than the "Genius" ones

stephen_usher wrote: 03 Oct 2023 18:42 Well, these late 90s Harmon Kardon speakers sound a lot better than the "Genius" ones

Ooh. Pictures please (and no, not the Genius ones! :lol: )

Here you go...

Thanks. :)

Very nice looking F030 BTW. Is that gear coming to Northampton?

mrbombermillzy wrote: 03 Oct 2023 19:12 Thanks. :)

Very nice looking F030 BTW. Is that gear coming to Northampton?

Yep, that's why I'm doing the testing.

To be honest, I just used a PPera drive image on its own for games on the F030.

It (the PPera HDD driver) didnt seem to work very welll with anything else.

Partly packed away stuff from Cyber Legends.

The TT is back upstairs and set up with the OSSC and "Dixons" TV. I did try the Samsung TV and it failed as I suspected.

The Samsung LCD TVs are rubbish. The HDMI inputs only support a small subset of the HDMI modes and anything unusual is not supported. The VGA upscaling is pants and the SCART upscaler is worse, with any green pixels from a ZX Spectrum+ 128K smear over the space of three pixels, red and blue are fine. Even PC output over HDMI is a bit rubbish and looks blurred even when you set the resolution to the native 1920x1080.

Anyway... The TT is back as it was, but now clean, as is the table it is on.

Tomorrow evening I'll put stuff in the loft and take the Falcon and Jaguar back to the storage and bring back the Memotech MTX512 so I can prepare for the next event in Cambridge at the beginning of November. I'm wondering if I can write a rolling demo for the "MTX at 40" display.

Good luck with the demo @stephen_usher , I must get round to using my MTX after all these years of wanting one.

I need to work out how to read the VDP registers and the video RAM so as to read/write a bitmap image... Or just learn Noddy and sprite programming, or both.