Date   : Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:24:36 +0000
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: Need Help Identifying Parts Of My BBC Catalogue (LONG)

In article <001b01c5024a$380f9d30$0500a8c0@...>, Charles
Blackburn <charlesb@...> writes

>Well thnx mike that worked.

Excellent.

>Now the question is... What can I get it to do? :D

You can run the Perfect suite which came with the card.  I don't have it
- does anyone have the disk images or know where they can be found,
please?

I think the card will also run some of the Acorn Z80 CP/M software,
though the disk formats are not compatible and I never got round to
trying it.  I also got it to run a few of the Infocom text adventures
for the Amstrad PCW8256 (remember these? - Zork, Wishbringer, Leather
Goddesses of Phobos.)  Transferring them to the Beeb was an experience
in itself; I had to use a Spectrum +3 to read the Amstrad disks and spit
the data out the serial port into a Beeb, where it was written to Torch
disc.

>The other question is, I forget how to get the video out port (the bnc
>one) into colour on the damned machine :D

Make link S39 (issue 7 boards only I think), on earlier boards you need
to solder a capacitor to a couple of components.  If you look at the BBC
circuit diagrams you have, they tell you how to do it.  The results
aren't wonderful though.

Mike