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First post, by Badscrew

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Got it from ebay, listed as MDA/Hercules. Would like to know more like brand or make?

Will be pairing it with my amber monochrome monitor, hope this works 😀

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Last edited by Badscrew on 2021-09-18, 08:42. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 3 of 8, by Grzyb

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Yes, looks like Winbond, a ubiquitous Hercules clone.

One of the jumpers selects the external character generator ROM, the other disables the LPT.

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Reply 5 of 8, by Badscrew

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The wires you see on the first photo were connected to an external switch to select between the character ROMs.

Good to know that the LPT could be disabled: I already have one on my multi-io card. Is it closed disabled or open disable, do you know?

Reply 6 of 8, by mkarcher

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Badscrew wrote on 2021-09-18, 11:31:

Good to know that the LPT could be disabled: I already have one on my multi-io card.

Remember that the parallel port on MDA/Hercules cards is at port 3BC, and thus won't conflict with a parallel port on a multi-I/O card at 378. You might still want to disable the video card parallel port to avoid the multi I/O port becoming LPT2.

Reply 7 of 8, by weedeewee

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with two parallel ports you could do a stereo 8bit R2R DAC !

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Reply 8 of 8, by Grzyb

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Badscrew wrote on 2021-09-18, 11:31:

Good to know that the LPT could be disabled: I already have one on my multi-io card. Is it closed disabled or open disable, do you know?

In the card I have, closed = disabled.
But indeed, it probably won't conflict with the I/O card.

Żywotwór planetarny, jego gnijące błoto, jest świtem egzystencji, fazą wstępną, i wyłoni się z krwawych ciastomózgowych miedź miłująca...