Amstrad CPC 464 with DDI1 + FD1
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- The Amstrad CPC is completely new to me, so it's been rather interesting learning more about it.
In this video, with give the machine the mother of all cleans and perform some reversible modifications to the DDI and FD1 to allow the use of a Gotek.
Music: Komputo by Francis Preve
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Now this is my youth. My parents bought me for this in 1983 i think it was...... Chucky egg, Elite, Scorcerer, Manic Miner, all the others...I loved it, I learned basic on this and mine didnt go wrong at all. I wrote a football prediction program on this thing that i loved haha keying in vital things, wished i still had that. My dad won some cash on some predictions i remember. Had it for some years, but i cannot remember what exactly happened to it.
Ah, one of my favorite machines! Sold them in Adelaide in the late 80's. Fav game - Macrocosmica! still play through emulation!
I'll have to add that to my list of games to check out :)
Weird - YT didn't suggest this video to me. Glad I've finally found it!
Lovely. I have always liked the form factor of the 464 -- I have never actually seen or touched one. The motherboard design and layout looks to be well thought out. This 464 has definitely seen better days but has received an excellent refurbishing in your capable hands. I really enjoyed this. Nice work!
I have always thought that model was super nice. Yet another one I have never had the pleasure of seeing in person since I am here in the states. Thanks for that up close look.
Glad to see you back :)
Great to see you back Mr. Lurch. Thanks for the upload. My first computer was the Amstrad CPC 464 and I sometimes consider whether or not i should invest in one again (emulators are pretty good though).
Welcome back.
Nice job with the disk drive. I am currently exploring the 464 myself. Not a bad little machine.
I'm pretty impressed actually. I thinks colour palette give it a really crisp look. Just a shame so many games were poor Speccy ports that didnt make use of it.
@@MrLurchsThings Having done the floppy mod for an Amstrad PCW, I was a bit embarrassed the effort i went to in order to rewire the power cable... never even thought to use dupont wires the way you did.. that would have been much easier 🙂
Brian V Hah! The only reason I did it this way was because I worked out the reverse voltage the hard way, swore (a lot), and then the DuPont cables were the first thing I found digging thru a drawer. Necessity is the mother... etc.
So nice to see you back.
Nicely done sir!
High on my list of "I want" computers, alongside a Microbee. (On the Microbee forums they're teasing that there'll be a new kit released soon, at which point I am SO there).
I think I'll try and get the 6128 for easier conversion to gotek.
Mind you I can't complain. I just got a Creativision / Dick Smith Wizzard after many years of hunting one.
Yup - Ewan mentioned to me a while back there *may* be a new run of boards.
Love the music
These are one of my favorite looking computers that I have no nostalgia for (didn't have them in the states). I did have a bit of PTSD watching you clean the membrane keyboard since that has never gone well for me (flashback to IBM M2 keyboard) 🙂
After the MicroByte fiasco, did you notice how gentle/careful I was?
Man, wish you were in W.A to help set a gotek up in my DD-1 and 464. Would love to gotek it and not load tapes for most things.
hello great video . i need to get a Amstrad DDI-1 drive
Still have my 464 in pride of place since it was bought new I shudder to think how long ago. I too have the floppy and 64K memory expansion. In addition it also sports a DMP-1 printer (noisy, slow but I would never part with it). Still coding on it to this day (literally, I was coding on it today). Something about these retro 8-bits, I sit in front of one and all I want to do is code, happy days.
Word of advice about the official Amstrad joysticks (JY2) with the pass-thru for the second joystick - AVOID - honestly they are just ... just NO. Yes I have one, yes it broke, no I never got around to fixing it.
garry adamson Of they’re anything like the ones Amstrad made for the Sinclair +2 - yup. Agreed.
do you wanna purchase the Amstrad colour screen and optional TV tuner for that PC I'm in Melbourne so could organise shipping. CTM644 and MP3 tuner.
You tempt me so bad... Flip me a msg on FB or Twitter.
Which one on the floppy connector of the FD-1 is pin 1?
Awesome work, and maybe it's just me as an American, but everytime I see a video on YT about the CPC 464 with footage of games, I end up going What were they thinking with the sound?!?! Too me of all the 8-Bit lines it seems Commodore got it right from the VIc-20, and never stopped improving, or at least keeping roughly the same quality on the sound hardware on all their 8-Bit machines, even into the 16-bit Amigas.
I think that because C= had the benefit of having their own fab (MOS) they could do custom chips so much easier than other manufacturers that had to rely on off-the-shelf parts.
Forgetting the sound (Hey, it's gotta be better than the apple ii), im actually surprised how good the graphics are.
2:01 "Incredibly filthy".
*Mark Fixes Stuff would like to know your location*
Hah - Ive seen that vid. The cassette deck made of pure rust.
i think this was the first PC on pornhub
I like your videos of course I have to ask you what about computers that are mini like raspberry Pi and other retro Computers
Ive done them. There is an Amiga 600 Pi project on my videos and my very first one was on a Commodore 64 Pi project.
@@MrLurchsThings I have a question for you what are your next videos or projects are going to be ?
@@williama29 Good question, well asked. And I'll be able to tell you about 5min before I start the next one :)
@@MrLurchsThings well obviously your videos I like so much to watch I already could tell you are Australian anyway as a wild guess and I ask have you ever used electronics with amber tinted screens often and what do you think about large CRT monitors ?
Although I only own one Amber monochrome monitor, I do like them. Something a little bit different. I have a small collection of CRT's; but they take up sooo much room.
Since you were making the floppy cable from scratch anyway, why didn’t you just remove the pins from the connector?
Not sure what you mean?
Didn't Lurch state that he hoped to get a proper replacement drive in the future and would replace the gotek with that? And that would require the pins being there.
If you're referring to the DDI end of the connector; I did it this way to have the cable easily replaceable, should a new disk drive come available and thus a cable without the wires cut would be needed.
@@MrLurchsThings Maybe he means before you attached the cable to the cable connector, just remove the offending pins from the cables connector (not the board), or i guess alternatively just pull back the wires before you clamped the connector on. maybe be a little easier that cutting in the middle of the cable?
I can hear Alan Sugar laughing.....