I got a card from kdehl. Delivery was very fast. I didn't manage to take pictures or test the card, yet, but everything looks good. Thank you, David!

Use any decent keyboard as midi controller and use synth emulations to test a few sounds on your PC with it. The Sound generation doesn't need to come from the keyboard, so you should get a cheap but touchsensitive midi controller as your best option to start with as keyboards with builtin sound …

Yes, but not around the Frankfurt area..

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Unfortunately I don’t have any other useful details, I remember two half height floppies and no hard disk, and CGA graphics but don’t think that’s particularly helpful in narrowing things down. With two half-height floppies and CGA graphics, you're on the right …

appiah4 wrote on 2021-11-16, 08:33: I believe that is a rebranded CMI8830/A chipset. That's right, you can see the chip on the photo. I read some good (and some not so good) things about those cards here on vogons. I will soon try myself in a 486-build.

Why the MSX1 initially instead of a 2? Im not very familiar with the platform other then the Konami games on it. Isn't 2 /2+/Turbo R a straight upgrade or are there some particular compatibility issues? They are upgrades yes, 2 is better than 1, 2+ can be better than 2 and Turbo R (some …

imi wrote on 2021-11-13, 18:17: I didn't know they also made "topless" graphics cards ^^ It says "topless dies made in Germany" 😀 It has QC "bestanden"!

I found this cl5426 card, german but unknown to me: Filename IMG_20211113_190819.jpg File size 1.66 MiB Views 1436 views

Unfortunately, I already ordered the resistors, perhaps I will do a v2 of my build in the future. Just nicely asking: Would you mind to share the Files for the PCB? Since I'm no legal expert and it's based on someone else's work (albeit on a MIT license) I'd rather not post them here (since I only …

There is one thing I wasn't fully ok with: The 75 Ohm SMD pull-downs, even as 1/2W (as listed in the manual) do get rather hot - things were working and they did hold up, but changing them for higher values (>150 Ohm) seemed like a better choice in the end. Unfortunately, I already ordered the …

So it it actually possible to run one of these machines without the monitor? Everywhere I look online it says nope, you need the original monitor. I recently bought a PPC512 and i'm developing a love for the Amstrad asthetic lol yes, the 1512 works without monitor if you use a psu with adapter, but …

Good evening I've found a 1512 but no monitor and no keyboard, as i can see a vga adapter can be made but what about the keyboard? Maybe we should start a converter project I'm actually restoring a 1512 myself at the moment. I will post some pictures soon, but in a new thread. A few things helped …