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 Years of

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 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 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 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 Coupe

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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 and

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

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 of

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
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