[zxspectrum] Re: R: Looking for MGT images . Please help.
- From: Massimo Raffaele <massimo.raffaele@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: zxspectrum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:17:22 +0200
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
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