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Hellraiseruk wrote: 22 Mar 2025 19:35 Really need to have a play with my A500, but house moves and redundancy have played havoc with my free time! I did get that exact same Gotek kit off ebay and it works like a charm, but really want a Pistorm, and come to think of it i have a spare pi zero for rgb2hdmi....

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OK, so I now have WHDLoad installed on both the A500 and A1200, next I need to try some installs and see if I did it right :)
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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ST,STf,STfm,STe,MegaST,MegaSTe,Falcon060
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Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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Some people have a cool WHDLoad launcher app which also has game artwork etc. I could never get it to work though, it needed some special system app installed, which I did, but then it still failed to work.

So I just launch my games from folders on my hard disk...
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Steve wrote: 24 Mar 2025 11:23 Some people have a cool WHDLoad launcher app which also has game artwork etc. I could never get it to work though, it needed some special system app installed, which I did, but then it still failed to work.

So I just launch my games from folders on my hard disk...
Unfortunately no time to do it right now, work is super busy and I have a lot of stuff going on in the evenings too. May just try one see how it goes :)
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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A500+,A600,A4000/060,CD32,CDTV
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Nearly forgot to post this:

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It's the switch that allows me to enable/disable HDD booting from the IDE adapter. I'll put a spot of hot glue on there to keep things together before I button it up.

However over lunch time when I was looking at this, I kept getting the flashing green screen that says it can't find at least 256KB of RAM, and it seems to be the keyboard that is the problem...

Much more success when it's unplugged, weird.

Back to work now though...
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Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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Thanks @alexh
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Re: The latest member of the family

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Maybe resolder the on-board ram chips/data path, and reseat the Agnus..

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