Amstrad.ES Forum

Thanks for porting this game, great work! I've got it running fine on CP/M Box in both 8256 & 9512 mode but can't get it to load on my real 9512 via a Gotek. I have the same problem with Spirits, Pacmania and any 9512 compatible Opera Soft 8256 game (B side of disk). Has anyone got Knight Lore o...

Many apologies, I completely forgot about Arnhem. I'll get the artwork and manual scanned but I'm not sure it's different to the CPC release. I have previously tried to copy the disk using Pyradev+ but it didn't work. Is there another program for PCW that I could use? Otherwise what is the best way ...

After a lot of research and going through my complete collection of 8000+ magazines I have completed my list of every PCW 8256 game released. The list adds many titles to that shown on the Wikipedia PCW games page and includes all officially released games (including games written in Basic) but excl...

El PCW8256 que tenía cuando era niño solo estaba adornado con algunos bits de software relacionado con juegos, pero un disco que no pude rastrear se llamaba It's Basic. Se vendió a través de la revista 8000+ y tenía algunos programas (en BASIC por supuesto). Recuerdo a Dice, un juego de carreras de ...

Oh my! Poor PCW. :( The two black ones are GND, and if I recall correctly the orange one is +5V. Also, you can check all this things with the PCW switched off: simply test continuity with a metal bracket to identify GND and with the Vcc leg of an IC to identify +5V. This way is less dangerous. :) M...

Could you tell me exactly where the 5v is on the drive's power connector (there are 2 black wires, a red and an orange). I've tried to find it with my multimeter and it sparked and killed either the power board, mother board or both. Lucky I have another PCW to use for parts. You may have guessed th...

You’re welcome. The printer power connector in the PCW is +24V, not +5V; so for a normal 20mA 5mm red or green LED we need a 1.2 Kohm resistor. So I guess it stopped working because you fried something. :D Test the output of the connector with a multimeter; if it doesn’t give the +24V output, somet...

Many thanks! I was also hoping to rig up an LED from the 5v printer output and did so earlier. It lit up the LED fine but then stopped working. I used a 220 Ohm resistor as this is what I used to put an LED in my Sega Master System 2 (which is also 5v). I had the short leg of the LED going to a meta...

I have removed the monitor from my PCW 8256 and mounted the power board, mother board and disk drive in a plastic casing. It looks great and outputs to a TV using a video digitiser. The problem is that due to the length of the cables I can only hook the 3" drive up to the drive B connectors - n...

There are power sources with a switch, or you can put your own DPST one to +5 and +12 (and leave GND connected). As you say, the power board is huge and uncomfortable to put inside a casing along with the main board. That digitiser sounds cool! Can we have some photos? We're trying to collect as ma...

I thought about removing the power board but as the 'on/off' switch runs off the board I thought I'd better keep it as otherwise I won't be able to turn the PCW on. It would be good to discard the power board as it is huge. My digitiser has output, so I can view what the PCW is outputting on a TV sc...

I have a couple of questions regarding removing the anode from an Amstrad PCW computer monitor: I am hoping to 'consolise' an Amstrad PCW 8256 by removing the power board, circuit board and 3" drive and hooking it up to a TV using a 'Rombo video digitiser' than fits onto the edge connector on t...

I have not tried it yet but an issue of 8000+ magazine shows this: Level Skip Cheat: Enter your name as Boris the Bean (case is important) on the high score table. Start a new game and press STOP to get the cheat menu. Pressing A aborts the game, press 1 to skip to next level, press 2 to get unlimit...

Babelfish 8-[ ...Hola, I'm alegre haber encontrado este foro como allí no es ningún foro dedicado de PCW en el Reino Unido. Conseguí mi primer PCW en 1988 y lo consumí hasta 2000. Ahora tengo un & 8256; 8512 y han estado cargando los vídeos del & de los juegos de PCW; software a Youtube du...

Apologies for posting in English (No PCW forums in UK)

Terracom is also on my YouTube channel as are many more PCW games.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi5OcUN6csg

I will be putting many more up in the future