23 Aug
2012
23 Aug
'12
1:17 p.m.
On 23 Aug 2012 at 13:32, Michael Kerpan wrote:
The non-standard connectors are a bit of a problem,
however, the
expansion interfaces do appear to have been available (at least for
those willing to import from the UK and Europe)
I did find that tinkering with a byte in the boot sector of the 40-
track floppy Joyce, I could get it to boot and recognize a 720K 3.5"
drive as such.
One interesting thing is that the Joyce has *no* native text mode.
Until you boot a system that can generate characters, there is no
text display.
Some of the Japanese Z80 boxes boasted dual CPUs and 640x400 16-color
displays. It's a shame that more hasn't been written on them. Or
for that matter, the 6809-based Japanese PCs.
--Chuck