Denial

I remember in the early 90's the price of RAM was just plain outrageous at something like 50$ per Mbytes no matter that you'd buy a simple little 1MB 30 pin SIMM or larger 16Mybtes 72 pin SIMMs. In 1993 the going rate (in Canada) was $60 per MB A 250mb IDE hard drive was about same cost as 4mb of r...

Is there still a 10-12 week lead time on the Megacart? I have sent 2 emails asking about this but have received no reply.. makes me extra nervous about ordering one when there's no response. Sorry, super busy with day job currently and reply will follow shortly. There is little risk for you placing...

macc wrote:Thats about as yellowed as Ive ever seen, who can beat that?

How about this for a Vic-20 cart? (it started out worse than this)

http://www.6502dude.com/cbm/vic20/image ... 0_cart.jpg

If you have a multimeter, check for short between pins 3 & 6 of CN2 drive.
http://www.devili.iki.fi/Computers/Comm ... #Schematic

If there is no short, problem may be with VIA1 (6522) in Vic-20 or with cassette motor control circuit in Vic-20.

Schema wrote:Road trip?

Sadly, no time for trips.
Will need to do this via mail.

I had one package returned twice from Germany, before it was finally delivered on 3rd trip.

I sent E-mail to Syd (the guy which runs Personal Computer Museum) to ask if he is interested in having ROM from this cart dumped.

I'm looking for Vic-20 carts (working or not) to be used as cases for MegaCarts. Please send me a PM if interested.

orion70 wrote:I must practice with DOS commands, disk switching, and so on, but it can be a fun time . Can't wait to play some Infocom adventures without the real 1541.

With File Bowser on MegaCart, there are none of these DOS commands to remember. It is pretty slick with Jim's uIEC hardware.

About SJLOAD, maybe Brian forgot to load the SJLOAD08 PAL or NTSC on NVRAM but as you discovered you may download the installer from the mega-cart.com site. This is a special version that resides on Mega-Cart's NVRAM and it's required for fast access on sd2iec based drives for EasyLoad and FileBrow...

Cool!

Cool!
Good collection of info.

Boray wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_monitor

I have a pair of JBL 4311 studio monitors.
They are one of my favourite pairs of speakers.

I am attempting to achieve a better work/life balance for 2011 and wish to get back on track with MegaCart production.

My apologies to those have placed orders and been faced with delays.

Solder wick will also produce good results to remove chips from PCBs without damaging them.