2014-07-24 21:25 GMT+02:00 Marcin <marcin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > 2) I use great Simon Owen's program SAMdisk for conversions (td0-->MGT) > as well as recoding disk images to real diskettes. > Yes, it's a great program :-) > 3) Alchemist disks... > http://www.marcin-marcin-marcin.com/Alchemist.zip > Thanks! :-) > I can see DISCiPLE was much more popular in Italy than +D interfaces. > I don't know... Here in this mailing list there are _at least_ 2 Disciple owners (me and Simone) and 1 PlusD owner (Enrico). I don't remember what the other ML members have, and I don't know if we can be assumed as a representation of the average Spectrum user... we are more like power users :-) (me being the less powered one ;-)). > In Poland 80's we didn't use DISCiPLE nor PlusD. We had very popular disk > system: > FDD 3000 or FDD3 which was designed by Portugal TIMEX and then produced > in Portugal and Poland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_FDD3000 > It was very disk interface - costed 200% of computer price but it had a > real computer inside > Interesting! And very well built, it would seem... I didn't even know it existed! And generally in Poland 80's we had much more popular Timex TC2048 > computers than real Sinclair machines. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Computer_2048 > > It had better keyboard and build-in kempston interface, composite video > good quality output, also red LED informing > that machine is working and decent off-switch > > TC2048 was produced in Portugal and sold in Portugal and Poland only. > Polish government ordered huge amount of > TC2048 also in Poland was produced official clone of TS2068 - Unipolbrit > Komputer 2086 (UK2086) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komputer_2086 > > Ok I will stop boring you now :-) > No no, you're not boring me :-). Hmmm, it would be nice to know if some of those "clones" are still available to buy (as used machines, of course) and how much they are priced... > Now I will need time to preview all disk images you sent me :-) > :-) I imaged all those disks (given to me from a friend, Sergio), but I'm not the author of those compilations, so I don't know(/remember) if they include adapted/multilevel/etc. games or not... but I remember they are not simple snapshots. > Have a good time! > You too! Max