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I'm in a most excellent mood! A long long time ago, I got a fancy #MiSTer #FPGA. For those unaware, this device emulates everything from old #Zilog #Z80 systems to low end PCs and arcade machine - or rather, it doesn't exactly emulate them - it sort of becomes the old legacy hardware itself, meaning you'll have nearly clock cycle perfect emulation.

Anyhoo, I also got a #MT32pi for it, which is a thing that emulates old #Roland #MIDI hardware that nobody back in the day could afford. Many of the early DOS titles support this, and it's an absolute joy to listen to. There's a whole sad story to the MT32-Pi project, but that's for another day.

Sadly, it never worked in my setup - until today! I had it for years and years but finally I put in the effort - a lot of measuring and some soldering and now it actually works! Delicious music in old #DOS games! I thought the thing was for sure fried, so I couldn't be happier!

Have an excellent weekend everyone! 🙂

#retrogaming #pcgaming

Episódio 154 – MSX 3 e além e avante, Tomo II – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/07/17/episodio-154-msx-3-e-alem-e-avante-tomo-ii-parte-b/

#Podcast #ACE001 #AdemirCarchano #AndrDelavy #Brasil #Braslia #Dartagnan #EdisonPires #fico #HospitalSarahKubitschek #ideias #Japo #KazuhikoNishi #MMU #MSX #MSX3 #MSX180 #MSXRio #OmegaProject #podcast #Retrocomputao #Retrpolis #Z180 #Z280 #Z380 #zilog #ZilogicMSXClub

Episódio 153 – MSX 3 e além e avante, Tomo I – Parte A

https://retropolis.com.br/2024/06/05/episodio-153-msx-3-e-alem-e-avante-tomo-i-parte-a/

#Podcast #ACE001 #AdemirCarchano #AndrDelavy #Braslia #Dartagnan #EdisonPires #fico #HospitalSarahKubitschek #ideias #KazuhikoNishi #MMU #MSX #MSX3 #MSX180 #MSXRio #OmegaProject #podcast #Retrocomputao #Retrpolis #Z180 #Z280 #Z380 #zilog #ZilogicMSXClub

As previously mentioned, I managed to get my hands on another #Enterprise64 from the mid 80s. I disassembled it yesterday and made sure it was in working order. Nothing noteworthy, apart from cleaning it up and snipping a couple of mm's of the super thin wire tape for the keyboard, which is notorious for breaking. Also, a 1MB memory expansion was added, which is is insane for a system that was born with 64K. It's now technically an #Enterprise1088 :-)

Developed in the UK, it comes with IS-BASIC, a word processor, has 256 colors, stereo sound, runs CP/M and reads FAT floppy disks. Pretty cool for a 40 year old system, eh?

This is my third Enterprise machine. Currently two are working - my original (S/N 000828) which was gifted to me back when my dad started importing them, and this latest one (S/N 030490). The third one is unfortunately dead at the moment.

#Enterprise #Z80 #Zilog #Enterprise128 #microcomputer #vintagecomputing