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    I wasn't aware that the 464 plus had no on board rom. I did a little poking only to find the data lines were all doing nothing.
    Turns out the rom is on the cartridges even though the system has a cassette player there is no way to use it with out there being a cartridge inserted. I got a cartridge from evil bay and found a hacked version that needed writing to an eprom. Desoldered the old eprom carefully, the chip on the top of the cartridge is the copy protection chip (acis) and is apparently very susceptible to heat.

    it now boots directly to dos, now i have a chance to try the keyboard, only one key worked no.4.
    Luckily removing and reinserting very carefully the ribbon cables brought it back to working order.

    Cleaned the tape heads and it loads games.

    Type |game and it boots straight in to Burnin' rubber.

    Nice.


    think i'm going to go for the bigger eprom and stick four 128 images on it and use switches to change the image.
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    Lots of my repairs and pictures of retro stuff on my twitter.

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    Default Re: amstrad cpc 464 plus

    Nice been a while since I touched one of these.
    Have you joined the DF discord server. https://discord.com/invite/YajVGQxDaw

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    Default Re: amstrad cpc 464 plus

    Was a spectrum man myself. But my bro had one of these with the green screen I'm sure 🤣

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    ah the memories, that was my first ever computer, you cant beat a black/green monitor combo to give you serious eye issues in later life
    You know he grew up as a little shitspark from the old shitflint and then he turned into a shitbonfire and driven by the winds of his monumental ignorance he turned into a raging shitfirestorm. If I get to be married to Barb I'll have total control of Sunnyvale and then I can unleash the shitnami tidal wave that will engulf Ricky and extinguish his shitflames forever. And with any luck he'll drown in the undershit of that wave. Shitwaves.

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    Default Re: amstrad cpc 464 plus

    Made the cart with another bigger eprom, with 4 switchable banks.
    Put the amdos/burning rubber on one, klax, pang and barbarian 2.
    Its not pretty and only just fits with the added socket on the original board .
    Too big to comfortably fit in a 3d printed cart, so had to modify it somewhat.
    https://twitter.com/Big_ted1/status/...ycHCdlbwg&s=19
    Lots of my repairs and pictures of retro stuff on my twitter.

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    Default Re: amstrad cpc 464 plus

    Quote Originally Posted by BIG-TED View Post
    Made the cart with another bigger eprom, with 4 switchable banks.
    Put the amdos/burning rubber on one, klax, pang and barbarian 2.
    Its not pretty and only just fits with the added socket on the original board .
    Too big to comfortably fit in a 3d printed cart, so had to modify it somewhat.
    https://twitter.com/Big_ted1/status/...ycHCdlbwg&s=19

    Fantastic mate, wish I had the skills knowledge etc. Love seeing retro stuff, makes me want to start collecting. If only I had the time , room or cash lol.

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    This inspired me to try and remember the games I loved when I was little (about 3-4) on this system:

    Harrier Attack (https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?...etail&num=1057)
    Spannerman (https://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?...etail&num=2019)

    i dont think they would win any awards these days but i cant think how many hours i spent on these back in the day
    You know he grew up as a little shitspark from the old shitflint and then he turned into a shitbonfire and driven by the winds of his monumental ignorance he turned into a raging shitfirestorm. If I get to be married to Barb I'll have total control of Sunnyvale and then I can unleash the shitnami tidal wave that will engulf Ricky and extinguish his shitflames forever. And with any luck he'll drown in the undershit of that wave. Shitwaves.

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