A new arrival - Amstrad PPC512

[HigashiJun]

Me too. I got a very similar display to his so I'm hoping it'll work out just as well.

:crossed1:

[rubber_jonnie]

Woo hoo, my display is now in the UK, fingers crossed arriving on Wednesday :)

Fingers crossed I ordered the right thing!!!

[HigashiJun]

Good news.

8-)

[rubber_jonnie]

Good news.

8-)

Even better news, it's out for delivery today :)

Should be here by 12:30.

[rubber_jonnie]

It's here!!!

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Looks like a good fit sizewise, just a case of how I get the adapter board in there, plus the control board.

Need to have a good look at the video on Noel's Retro Lab for advice on all of that.

It's a shame, Noel doesn't seem to have posted for a year, I know he got busy with life/work but I did enjoy his vids.

Works lovely too:

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Though that is HDMI out of my Intellivision Sprint :)

[mrbombermillzy]

Looks like I logged in just as your Amstrad is starting to come together nicely. Looking good Jon. :)

[rubber_jonnie]

Looks like I logged in just as your Amstrad is starting to come together nicely. Looking good Jon. :)

It runs great, the colour display should the cherry on top 😁

[HigashiJun]

Should look really gorgeous once the mod is done !

:D

[rubber_jonnie]

Should look really gorgeous once the mod is done !

:D

Yes, I agree, decent little screen for the price and the adapter will take HDMI, VGA and composite, so quite useful.

[rubber_jonnie]

OK, So not moved very far forwards with the screen upgrade, other than watch everything that Noel did to upgrade his. I'm waiting on an RGB2HDMI adapter now to convert the CGA input into HDMI since going direct from CGA to VGA isn't possible.

This is what Noel did and it seems to be the best pricewise and also sizewise for actually fitting inside the PPC512.

Hopefully won't be too long coming and I can crack on with things. Might even bring it up to CL5 and I can show off the display and also the ISA expansion board :)