4 Aug
2004
4 Aug
'04
11:52 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Dave Brown
Sent: 05 August 2004 09:35
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Sord M5
Anyone else have one of these? Seems to need a cartridge to
run. I have a basic language cartridge for it- (labelled
Falcon) and a Sord Basic G cart manual. So I'm looking for
any info, software, other carts, etc. If anyone's interested,
there's pix of the M5 on a few web sites and summary data as well.
I've got the european version which was badged by CGL and made in a blue
case instead of brown. You need either the BASIC-I (integer) or BASIC-G
(graphics) cart before you can do anything else. I've only got a small
amount of s/w for it though, maybe 3 tapes and a single lonely 'tank
battle' cart that was given to me at the Classic Gaming Expo the other
week.
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/Sord/sord.php
Cheers
--
adrian/witchy
owner & curator, Binary Dinosaurs - the UK's biggest online home
computer collection?
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the Museum
www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - former gothic shenanigans
www.aaghverts.co.uk - the place to whinge at adverts!
5 Aug
5 Aug
12:51 a.m.
OK Adrian
Well this M5 came in a plastic 'briefcase' (with Sord M5 logo on it) that
holds all the bits and pieces- it came with a mains power pack, the FALC
basic cart (not Falcon as I said in previoius post), the book and a demo
audio cassette for Basic G, and just one 'controller'. So I suspect that it
did originally have the Basic G cart but that has been 'upgraded'/replaced
with this FALC cart, and along the way it has been lost/tossed out, along
with the second 'controller'. Whether the 'briefcase' held an audio
cassette as well I'm not sure-it would have been a tight squeeze.
Be interested in tracking down samples of software for it. A single basic
cart is rather boring!
Dave Brown
Christchurch, NZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Graham" <Adrian(a)beovax.co.uk>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 8:52 PM
Subject: RE: Sord M5
-----Original
Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Dave Brown
Sent: 05 August 2004 09:35
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Sord M5
Anyone else have one of these? Seems to need a cartridge to
run. I have a basic language cartridge for it- (labelled
Falcon) and a Sord Basic G cart manual. So I'm looking for
any info, software, other carts, etc. If anyone's interested,
there's pix of the M5 on a few web sites and summary data as well.
I've got the european version which was badged by CGL and made in a blue
case instead of brown. You need either the BASIC-I (integer) or BASIC-G
(graphics) cart before you can do anything else. I've only got a small
amount of s/w for it though, maybe 3 tapes and a single lonely 'tank
battle' cart that was given to me at the Classic Gaming Expo the other
week.
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/Sord/sord.php
Cheers
--
adrian/witchy
owner & curator, Binary Dinosaurs - the UK's biggest online home
computer collection?
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the Museum
www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - former gothic shenanigans
www.aaghverts.co.uk - the place to whinge at adverts!
9:51 a.m.
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Dave Brown wrote:
Be interested in tracking down samples of software for
it. A single basic
cart is rather boring!
You have the best cart of all! Write some games, man! ;)
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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1:11 a.m.
Adrian
Have just done what I should have initially- web search shows FALC is a
spreadsheet!
No idea why I thought was a basic cart!
So I guess I'm in the market for a basic cart as well.
I see a few ROM images are at
http://emul8.xlabs.sk/emulators/sord/
so I may be able to brew some up carts myself.
DaveB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Graham" <Adrian(a)beovax.co.uk>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 8:52 PM
Subject: RE: Sord M5
-----Original
Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Dave Brown
Sent: 05 August 2004 09:35
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Sord M5
Anyone else have one of these? Seems to need a cartridge to
run. I have a basic language cartridge for it- (labelled
Falcon) and a Sord Basic G cart manual. So I'm looking for
any info, software, other carts, etc. If anyone's interested,
there's pix of the M5 on a few web sites and summary data as well.
I've got the european version which was badged by CGL and made in a blue
case instead of brown. You need either the BASIC-I (integer) or BASIC-G
(graphics) cart before you can do anything else. I've only got a small
amount of s/w for it though, maybe 3 tapes and a single lonely 'tank
battle' cart that was given to me at the Classic Gaming Expo the other
week.
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/Sord/sord.php
Cheers
--
adrian/witchy
owner & curator, Binary Dinosaurs - the UK's biggest online home
computer collection?
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the Museum
www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - former gothic shenanigans
www.aaghverts.co.uk - the place to whinge at adverts!
9:52 a.m.
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Dave Brown wrote:
Have just done what I should have initially- web
search shows FALC is a
spreadsheet!
Ok, so do some accounting, man!
:)
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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