Those are nice! I’m looking for a Breadbin at a reasonable price!
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Got a Sid chip from my brother in law, would like to make a synth voice module eventually but it’s a little out of my ability at the moment
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I would have done the dual Sid chip mod on my C64, but the better of the 2 C64’s Sid chip is soldered straight to the board and I’m not ready to embark on that.
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Yeah same I’ve been looking into that, I’ve ordered the kit, I’ll let everyone know how it is!
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I’ve got a Spectrum 128k - with built-in tape recorder [and a bust power supply]. This had a cool FM chip - AY-3-8910 - which I remember programming in Basic / Z80 assembler back in the day (early 90’s). Can’t remember a thing about it now. Thankfully the internet exists.
I also have 2 Acorn Archimedes machines - an A3010 [with a bust power supply - there’s a theme going on here…] and an A7000 that still works (at least before I moved to Leatherhead). I’ve not turned it on since the move.
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128 with built in tape recorder??? Not a +2?
Archi’s … Yikes sadly I probably skipped 70+ A4000’s … Perhaps if i had had the storage space I would have had the foresight to mothball them…
Very few people appreciate the BBC Micro, its offspring the Archimedes, the ARM processor, and actualy how much we depend on ARM today from those humble beginnings… Our little uk Education computer rules the world…
Rob
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Yup - It was actually a +2A
As for ARM chips. I did a lot of playing with ARM assembly on the Acorn during school - and I used that knowledge much later on, when working at my previous company, when trying to reverse engineer the some bluetooth API’s on a Windows Mobile 5/6 device.
And what do today’s smartphones use (at least, most of them) - that’s right ARM. Using the same instruction set (with a bit more instructions, and now 64 bit support) as the original Acorn Archimedes.
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Nice, my +2A was kind of inherited from my dad about two years ago. I had some issues with trying to get it booted at the start, but after that it was a very usable computer!
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I’m waiting on this doohicky in the mail…
I think it might be a bit underrated… 8 voice 4 operator fm synth… Dove in head first into the vintage computer market… I’m going to be upgrading the EPROM in it… 
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Are you getting the compatible keyboard and software… It’s a real nice MSX that one.
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no, I’m upgrading to the sfg-05 eprom so regular midi in (and midi sequencers) will work. I’ve got a pile of cartridges lined up. but for now, just going to use the loaded software in it…
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Did you do the composite mod yet?
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All I’ve done so far is open it up to see if anything needed attention, so no I haven’t, these were designed for 240p right? I’m just planning on using this as an FM synth… is there really any benefit? I’ve seen some things that say new stuff won’t even recognize 240… I also thought a cool vintage tv would be neat. I’d love to find that weird red round tv DR Mix has…
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I think so, TVs with analogue demodulators on are not as common. A composite signal can be decoded by a wider range of displays. Besides, I think you could add the composite mod as an additional port. Useful in a pinch when that vintage telly fails and you need to see the picture for some reason?
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very good point… I think the best thing to do would be just to bite the bullet and do either SVGA or HDMI really… I bet there’s a daughter board somewhere out there in the interwebs…
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True, but the composite mod is really easy, the signal that goes into the modulator is usually composite. However, I found this on youtube… VGA!
Also, our friend has been playing with an MSX.
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also to clarify this isn’t RF out, I keep getting component and composite out confused composite = yellow, red and white, component = RGB yeah?
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I was just referring to composite, the yellow socket. The red and white are audio left and right.
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after a month of playing with this thing… oh man! I absolutely love it… with the editor this thing is awesome! I’m gonna say its like a dx-7 but with a usable interface 
with the eprom mod, this things an animal… stock voices are the 80’s finest… there’s a couple of usable stock sounds, and oh yeah bells!
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My first computer was a commodore vc20 that I swapped quickly for a 64 that i still have today.
Chocolate Milk Moustache Me back in the mid 80ies at my first job using a Commodore CBM for automated testing.
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