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rubber_jonnie wrote: 04 Oct 2023 14:38

alexh wrote: 04 Oct 2023 13:49 I have been trying to by the DDI-1 & FD-1 for a while now so I can connect a gotek to a CPC464 but they are always way too much money. Especially as I already have a 6128+ with a Gotek and a C4CPC

They did make a DDI-1 clone for a while in 2014 but I never bought one.

TBH I think it is likely I'll go for something like a Dadanator, I just don't have room for too many disk drives, and most of my storage is SD card these days.

DDI-5 would be the way to go. Many games came on floppy after the 664/6128 came out so few are tape images only. Having the extra RAM will help with later games

rubber_jonnie wrote: 29 Sep 2023 12:00 And wonder at the shared DNA :) If the CPC didn't have the numeric keypad and cursor key cluster, they'd look very similar.

At least old Alan knew where the delete key was meant to go (says a man who was forever breaking into programs instead of correcting text...)

BW

stephen_usher wrote: 04 Oct 2023 14:41

rubber_jonnie wrote: 04 Oct 2023 14:38

TBH I think it is likely I'll go for something like a Dadanator, I just don't have room for too many disk drives, and most of my storage is SD card these days.

DDI-5 would be the way to go. Many games came on floppy after the 664/6128 came out so few are tape images only. Having the extra RAM will help with later games

I will certainly have a look again, but it'll have to wait for next month if I do go for it, as I've nearly hit my budget...

One of the perils of being ill in bed with the internet for company.

Badwolf wrote: 04 Oct 2023 14:52

rubber_jonnie wrote: 29 Sep 2023 12:00 And wonder at the shared DNA :) If the CPC didn't have the numeric keypad and cursor key cluster, they'd look very similar.

At least old Alan knew where the delete key was meant to go (says a man who was forever breaking into programs instead of correcting text...)

BW

:lol:

If you're looking at virtual disk drives on a 464 primarily for playing games, your cheapest and best bet these days is the ulifac: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/amstrad-cp ... om-board!/ - gives you RAM, ROM, storage and a whole bunch of other features and utilities that makes gaming on a CPC much easier. It's cheap too!

Cwiiis wrote: 04 Oct 2023 15:28 If you're looking at virtual disk drives on a 464 primarily for playing games, your cheapest and best bet these days is the ulifac: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/amstrad-cp ... om-board!/ - gives you RAM, ROM, storage and a whole bunch of other features and utilities that makes gaming on a CPC much easier. It's cheap too!

Oooh interesting.

Cwiiis wrote: 04 Oct 2023 15:28 If you're looking at virtual disk drives on a 464 primarily for playing games, your cheapest and best bet these days is the ulifac: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/amstrad-cp ... om-board!/ - gives you RAM, ROM, storage and a whole bunch of other features and utilities that makes gaming on a CPC much easier. It's cheap too!

I assume that the RAM supports the special RAM addressing mode used by the 6128 rather than the simpler one from the D'Ktronics RAM expansion? Some later games won't run unless it has the special addressing mode (which requires more logic).

On a positive note my Aduitape works with CDT tapes images for the CPC, so I managed to test some games on the CPC and it works great.

I got an archive of 3500 CDT files, so that'll keep me going for the time being.

stephen_usher wrote: 04 Oct 2023 15:37

Cwiiis wrote: 04 Oct 2023 15:28 If you're looking at virtual disk drives on a 464 primarily for playing games, your cheapest and best bet these days is the ulifac: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/amstrad-cp ... om-board!/ - gives you RAM, ROM, storage and a whole bunch of other features and utilities that makes gaming on a CPC much easier. It's cheap too!

I assume that the RAM supports the special RAM addressing mode used by the 6128 rather than the simpler one from the D'Ktronics RAM expansion? Some later games won't run unless it has the special addressing mode (which requires more logic).

I believe so, yes - but best to ask over on the CPC Wiki forum to make sure. Pretty sure all the modern RAM expansions support all the common ways of accessing extended RAM. The ulifac pretty much sells itself on the "turns a 464 into a 6128" feature.

Quick question in case anyone knows the answer.

I have the CPC hooked up to my OSSC via SCART.The BASIC prompt comes up fine, but when I load some cassette games, they get to a start screen, I press a key and it's as though the video output changes and whilst the OSSC still sees the output from the CPC, the TV gives the error of HDMI mode not supported.

Has anybody else seen this at all?