Hi Tony,
>....printer port that looks to be Centronics, but in fact it has enough
>lines, and the right buffers, to be GPIB if you can get the right
>software....
Have you ever found software which will drive the Centronics port as GPIB? I've
been looking around since I first got a Sirius in '88 but have never found any.
>Sound is a CI-55516 CODEC linked to a 6852 serial chip. There's a
>built-in speaker, and a header plug for audio input (!). I've never seen
>software for that either, though.
If you mean software which drives the CODEC I've only ever came across one
program which uses it, and that was a demo disc which displayed various hi-res
graphics and played back digitised music and speech.
I was given to understand that a few games came out for the Sirius which used
the CODEC, but I don't know any details at all.
>....The hardware would be capable of DS operation, but I've
>never seen suitable drives.
The DS drives are identical to the single sided ones, with the obvious
exception of the extra head.... ;-)
ISTR they're pretty much the same as the 360K drives used in the IBM PC
(MPI-40s?) with the exception of the analogue board being removed, you could
probably press one of those into service?
TTFN - Pete.
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Received on Tue Jul 06 1999 - 11:38:22 BST