Robert Posted January 30, 2007 Posted January 30, 2007 I should be able to find a free weekend in February. Good luck with the baby!
Peter Posted February 5, 2007 Posted February 5, 2007 I should be able to find a free weekend in February. Good luck with the baby! Thanks. It's due any day now. Peter.
z80 Posted April 11, 2007 Posted April 11, 2007 (edited) Pheww...had a Lo-o-o-o-o-ng look in my shed last month and found my Super-80 stuff. Got the original Technical construction manual, circuit diagram....It's Electronics Australia October 1981. I also have the original documentation for the Dick Smith character generator...with circuit diagram.Also atech bulletin to fix random chars on screen (u76 mod). Would you believe it, an original Cassette still in its case of the debuger/disassembler by DS? LOL A good find is a heap of Super-80 Users group newsletters from the heathmont club. I used to live across the road, one night as I recall a manager of DSE came along and got an absolute caneing by the group for lack of support....those were the days. Will scan all the documents and commit to CD, and make available for all. If anyone has a completely stuffed S80, I have the professional equipment to clean it up and copy the PCB, in any event if not, a mate can plug the circuit diagram into Protel and generate anew pcb. 50 pieces ex China would be cheap as chips. Edited April 11, 2007 by z80
Robert Posted April 11, 2007 Posted April 11, 2007 Good to hear from you again. Peter is (as you'd expect) caught up with a new family member but I think he still wants to get back to fixing his Super-80. Good luck reading that tape, I expect it would be completely unreadable by now! The newsletters would be handy, I have some copies of various newsletters but being photocopied, they've mostly faded away. I have Melbourne, Brisbane, Dick Smith, Sutherland users groups. Plus all kinds of other paperwork. What I don't have is a scanner or a camera. Or the time. Do you have a Super-80? I can't remember.
z80 Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 Good to hear from you again. Peter is (as you'd expect) caught up with a new family member but I think he still wants to get back to fixing his Super-80. Good luck reading that tape, I expect it would be completely unreadable by now! The newsletters would be handy, I have some copies of various newsletters but being photocopied, they've mostly faded away. I have Melbourne, Brisbane, Dick Smith, Sutherland users groups. Plus all kinds of other paperwork. What I don't have is a scanner or a camera. Or the time. Do you have a Super-80? I can't remember. I wish i still had it, but alas I have no idea where it got to...lost in a move somewhere. All I need is some time....but got the bios rom now so will have a go at it soon.They are sooo easy to get going if they are broken..as longa s you have a good scope. If someone has a board I have a pro desoldering machine to remove everything and copy the artwork. then that would add a new dimension to the "genuineness"
z80 Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 as for the tape I will feed it into a sound card and make an wav file out of it....
Peter Posted April 26, 2007 Posted April 26, 2007 Hi All, Good to see more talk about the Super-80. I'll get back to mine soon. I'm not sure I'd donate mine to use as a pattern for the artwork although I would be in reproducing and aquiring another! Cheers,Peter.
staticmem Posted November 17, 2007 Posted November 17, 2007 Are there any emulators around for this machine, if so what ones and how good are they ? Cheersstaticmem
Robert Posted November 17, 2007 Posted November 17, 2007 I had written an emulator at one time for it, called RMESS You may still be able to download it at Emu#dreams, just type RMESS into the search field. Next year, I will try to get it added into MESS, a multi-console emulator. As to what worked, everything except for the cassette interface. And the natural keyboard has some issues. But, all the games worked fine.
z80 Posted March 12, 2008 Posted March 12, 2008 I am a current advertiser with Silicon Chip magazine in australia. They were formerly known as Electronics Australia I have emailed the editor Leo Simpson, who was involved with the Super-80 initiially as a junior. Have sent him everything and requested that the magazine investigate the idea of a redesign etc of the product as it seems to have been anbandoned by the original copyright owners. I will forward the results of my interaction with him here. cheers john
Robert Posted March 12, 2008 Posted March 12, 2008 Good luck, the magazine seems to be dedicated to picaxes these days... For my post earlier, I've recently become a MESSdev, and the Super80 will be emulated in MESS 0.124. The Microbee has had a number of fixes applied as well.
z80 Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 Good luck, the magazine seems to be dedicated to picaxes these days... For my post earlier, I've recently become a MESSdev, and the Super80 will be emulated in MESS 0.124. The Microbee has had a number of fixes applied as well. You were absolutely correct. He is not in the least bit interested whatsoever. there is no danger of copyright with this design, it's all forgotten.
z80 Posted July 22, 2009 Posted July 22, 2009 Let us know what you want to do... or not. Am a bit slow in getting back to this thread...( a bit like the computer mentioned here...LOL) Does anyone have a main board or broken super 80 that i could use as a master to have it remade? I believe Cherry can still supply the keyboard bits. Have found the guy George who wrote the Crazy maze game, he still has a copy...somewhere...
Robert Posted July 22, 2009 Posted July 22, 2009 I have been reading the yahoo postings... It would be good to get a copy of whatever George G. has.
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