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  1. That should be fine, send me a pm though to confirm what email address it’s coming from so I can match to your account
  2. your donation has been received and access granted
  3. all sorted, sorry a bit behind this week
  4. Hi its a manual process so its as soon as i see it and have time to login and change it. best bet is to send me a pm as well and i'll pick that up quicker. Normally i sort it within a few hours or so
  5. Donations will be back up at the weekend as will new signups
  6. Me too, i had one back in around 1992 or so, had a 20 mb hardcard its previous owner had fitted, which was slow but good enough, used that until i got a 486 around 1995 or so. Was slow but reliable. paid around £30 for it
  7. I have recently picked up an old Amstrad 1512 PC to restore. These were the first ever PCs under £500 that came out in 1986 These had an 8086 cpu, 512kb RAM and come with 2x 360k 5 1.4 floppy drives, one of which i will replace with a Gotek I plan to upgrade the ram to 640k, install an XT IDE Compact Flash card and add a network and sound card
  8. This little DOS Handheld PC is from 1992 Specs CPU:NEC V30 (80C86) @ 4.77MHz / 7.15MHz RAM:640K system memory Display:7.0 x 2.75-inch LCD 80x25 text, 640x200 graphics Ports:mini-serial, mini-parallel Expansion:two PCMCIA card slots OS:MS-DOS 5.0 in ROM I have a working 2mb SRAM Card for it, which goes in a PCMCIA slot and a network card, which i haven't set up yet
  9. As some of you may know I collect and restore vintage laptops so thought I would share some of them here. Starting with the Zenith Supersport ZWL-184-97, this one is a British Telecom branded version from 1987 or so Original Specs 1 Floppy Drive (720kB) 1 Internal 3.5" Hard Drive (20MB) Internal 2400Baud Modem Extended battery pack (originally lasted up to 7 hours, still working) 80C88-2 CPU at 4.77/8Mhz 640kb RAM 640x200 CGA Monochrome display (Blue/White) Full Size Keyboard The HDD is dead and is a rare proprietory MFM/RLL one so i have removed it (reduced the weight quite a bit lol) I replaced the floppy drive with a Gotek Floppy Emulator, the machine works with the 2.5 Mb DD floppy images supported by the gotek so a decent substitute. I have also got a 100mb Parallel zip drive working as well ZDS SupersPort - Service Manual.pdf
  10. One of my hobbies is fixing and playing old laptops from the 80s/90s. Trying to surf the internet on these is nigh on impossible these days of course. However help is at hand. First of all we have http://www.frogfind.com - This converts a large number of todays websites to just text and images so they load quickly and tidily on old computers e.g. http://www.frogfind.com/read.php?a=https://retrogamecoders.com/mister-fpga-tutorial-getting-started-with-mister/ - not very good with forums though for obvious reasons but apart from that its very readable then we have https://theoldnet.com/ - This uses archive.org and others to do a search on whatever year you specify, including a proxy where you specify the port as a year and it will base searches on it No network card on the device but have a serial port no problem, use a raspberry pi to create a fake "dial up proxy" - https://metalbabble.wordpress.com/2020/02/08/the-final-frontier-connecting-a-macintosh-se-to-the-internet-with-a-raspberry-pi/ Other ideas, you can create a proxy server using https://github.com/tenox7/wrp - this uses the chrome engine on a server which then sends the page back to the browser as a GIF or PNG file along with image mapping so it can respond to your clicks. For slightly newer browsers there is the much better https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice - this needs a slightly newer browser (mostly windows biased) but is much faster and uses javascript on the client end so is more flexible for input. Other sites include http://68k.news/ - which is a text only version of Google News, which also converts the linked articles to text.
  11. I have just put my spare MiSTER kit on ebay for £240. Its all unused and sealed. All the latest versions of boards You can check it out here - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114943988387 1 x NE10-Nano FPGA Board 1 x USB Hub v2.1 Board 1 x 32MB SDRAM XS v2.2 Board 1 x IO Board v6.1 With Fan 1 x BliSTer Case in Neptune Blue
  12. Version 1.0.0

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    This is a Classic USA IGT Slot, which uses the IGTS2000 tech. This is one of a couple of US Slot techs, unofficially supported in MFME v20.1 This layout was created by Wizard, with a little help from a couple of people. He didn't want to have to support these techs (they are complex to setup) so it was never released during his lifetime. Now however we will let you have it for a Christmas Present, with no support of course ! RIP WIzard, we will never forget you
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    Wild Cherry (IGT)

    Version 1.0.0

    116 downloads

    This is a Classic USA IGT Slot, which uses the IGTS+ tech. This is one of a couple of US Slot techs, unofficially supported in MFME v20.1 This layout was created by Wizard, with a little help from a couple of people. He didn't want to have to support these techs (they are complex to setup) so it was never released during his lifetime. Now however we will let you have it for a Christmas Present, with no support of course ! RIP WIzard, we will never forget you
  14. This is the final version of this, thanks to Reg
  15. I've increased the limit
  16. I have just done that
  17. Ill pick this one up tomorrow. Snowed under today
  18. You forgot me - its been a long time since a did a layout though - they are probably best forgotten now anyway lol
  19. Some great work here, fab to see my converter tools are still useful all these years later
  20. I've not got round to putting it back up yet - FME Archive is planned but will take a bit of work now to update it to a modern forums version so will have to wait a while
  21. I'll get these reset for you later today and pm you on here
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