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I've a 1GB one I bought for use in a camera back in 2004. Unfortunately I've not found a IDE-CF adapter which is will work with as it has a high power draw when spinning up. Interesting. I'm awaiting the arrival of my IDE-CF adapter. I did see this video below where the same adapter I'm getting wor...

My new microdrive arrived today


One inch form-factor hard disk. One of my side interest is mechanical miniaturizations -- I also do N-scale railroading...I'd do Z-scale but I'm too old to see it too clearly I could probably never get the train back on the tracks.

I really would love to have one of these, but 7 for over $100 is a bit too much.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/364413139332

Saw a few of these pop up on eBay (3 or 4 listings). Only 64K RAM upgrade and the board looks huge. Looks to be from 1984...I guess any amount of extra memory was considered a plus.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/185634773667

Andrew wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 3:16 pm Merry Christmas!
Same old Santa, same owl, different gifts and a bit of bling!

I just came across Speccy game called Log Cabin Dizzy.

Welcome to the forum from the US!

I tend not to use vDrive's built-in utilities for formatting or bank mapping. vDrive is nicely set up with a text-based config file where you can do all the drive management under Windows. All you need is one good formatted MDV file and you can duplicate it and add it to the bank. Likely, the MDV fi...

- line 150: device should end with an underscore Oops, typo. - add a speed variable and add line 545 Pause speed (otherwise it is too fast to run in QPC or even on GC/SGC) GC sholdn't be a problem as that's what I'm sort of running it on (i.e. 4x). Don't these have a slowdown mechansim? - line 1390...

Ok, here is the final version. It has a bunch of random things happening. You have Christmas lights, you have window lights, and you have window shades. Also, the Grinch doesn't always launch all bombs. I also got rid of the weird mouth on the Grinch since it looked bad. When running it, it will ask...

Made some progress. Can you see the blinking Christmas lights?

Small GIF.

So a few more things to tinker with...maybe a shade closing, a room light going on or off inside a building. Then I'll include the zip file with the BASIC and all the sprites.