Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-11 Thread Colin Piggot
James wrote: > > > I spent good money on mine. > > > > And what did you think of it when you got it? :) > > "Is it doing anything?". Hehehe! Good answer! Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe 1995-2008 - Celebrating 14 Years of developing for the Sam Co

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-11 Thread Colin Piggot
David wrote: > About the only software I ever saw to support it was Nigel > Kettlewell's KPALETTE routine in SAM PRIME disk mag Yeap, likewise when I went hunting around. SAM PRIME issue 3 I think it was, one of the first disk mags I ever bought all those years ago when I first got a SAM! Colin

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-11 Thread david
Quoting James R Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I spent good money on mine. And what did you think of it when you got it? :) "Is it doing anything?". About the only software I ever saw to support it was Nigel Kettlewell's KPALETTE routine in SAM PRIME disk mag

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-11 Thread James R Curry
> > I spent good money on mine. > > And what did you think of it when you got it? :) "Is it doing anything?".

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-11 Thread Colin Piggot
James Curry wrote: > > > Is that really all that it is meant to do? > > > > Yes useless isn't it? :) > > I spent good money on mine. And what did you think of it when you got it? :) Colin = Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe 1995-2008 - Celebrating 14 Y

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-10 Thread James R Curry
> > Is that really all that it is meant to do? > > Yes useless isn't it? :) I spent good money on mine. It was a lot, back then, as a broke student!

RE: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-09 Thread Stefan Drissen
Oops - you are of course totally correct... Half a day now sounds very overrated... ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Piggot Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 23:05 To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no Subject: Re: Kaleidoscope questions

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-09 Thread Colin Piggot
Stefan wrote: > Be sure to try out the SAM MOD player 2.0 with the Blue Alpha > VoiceBox... 6 bits of mono goodness per channel a big improvement over > the 3 bits of stereo goodness coming out of the internal soundchip > SAA-1099 :-) The BA VoiceBox is the SP0256 based Speech Synthesisor. You're

RE: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-09 Thread Stefan Drissen
Thomas wrote: > After a bit more experimentation, the green seems to come and go. To > be honest, I'm finding the Blue Alpha VoiceBox much more entertaining, > and I expect to be bored of that within half a day. Be sure to try out the SAM MOD player 2.0 with the Blue Alpha VoiceBox... 6 bits o

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-09 Thread Thomas Harte
After a bit more experimentation, the green seems to come and go. To be honest, I'm finding the Blue Alpha VoiceBox much more entertaining, and I expect to be bored of that within half a day. I don't think that I have at any point in my life managed to touch anything with a soldering iron a

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-09 Thread Colin Piggot
Thomas Harte wrote: > Actually, now that I'm looking really, really closely, I can see some > extremely minor variations on the red and blue channels. I definitely > can't see the difference on green, though it may well be the less-than- > brilliant signal I'm getting. Looks about right on blue an

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-09 Thread Thomas Harte
Actually, now that I'm looking really, really closely, I can see some extremely minor variations on the red and blue channels. I definitely can't see the difference on green, though it may well be the less-than- brilliant signal I'm getting. If you can be bothered taking the time, this is wh

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-09 Thread Colin Piggot
> > Dan Doore wrote: > Well, you lean something new every day - I thought the Hardware > Development Kit was the whole caboodle and the Kaleidoscope was the > sample application (so to speak). > > Fancy updating the WoS node with you knowledge? Yeah, no problem. I've just added a bit to both the K

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-09 Thread Dan Dooré
Colin Piggot wrote: Dan Doore wrote: I think there should be more stuff on it - have a look at the scans in here: http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/download/HardwareDevKit.zip The full hardware dev kit has more parts in to give the user a couple of parallel ports that can be controlled. The s

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-09 Thread Colin Piggot
Dan Doore wrote: > I think there should be more stuff on it - have a look at the scans in > here: http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk/download/HardwareDevKit.zip The full hardware dev kit has more parts in to give the user a couple of parallel ports that can be controlled. The standalone Kaleidosco

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-09 Thread Dan Dooré
Colin Piggot wrote: Thomas Harte wrote: 1) should the Kaleidoscope be a box that contains four ICs (t74ls20b1, gd74ls374, gd74ls14, t74ls133b1), some resistors and capacitors and about half a board of empty space with gaps for other chips and stuff? Yes, that's the Kaleidoscope. It's a half bu

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-09 Thread Dan Dooré
Thomas Harte wrote: I've recently acquired a Sam from eBay (correction to my earlier comments: not from Colin — that was a misunderstanding on my part of the actual seller's advert) and it was advertised as coming with a Kaleidoscope. My problem is that having identified which box must be the

Re: Kaleidoscope questions

2008-04-09 Thread Colin Piggot
Thomas Harte wrote: > 1) should the Kaleidoscope be a box that contains four ICs (t74ls20b1, > gd74ls374, gd74ls14, t74ls133b1), some resistors and capacitors and > about half a board of empty space with gaps for other chips and stuff? Yes, that's the Kaleidoscope. It's a half built 'hardware deve