Just rescued one of these units from Craig's List.
It's waiting for me a a friends house in
Richmond, VA. Anyone know much about these? I think they're just a rebadged Northstar
Advantage.
It has a bunch of software and a manual or two.
There doesn't seem to be a lot of information on these on the web. I did see the
information at Dave
Dunfield's site, and the disk archive there. Any manuals that have been scanned? I
didn't see the
Advantage line at bitsavers.
This is timely - I've just put up a number of Advantage disk images within the past
few weeks.
I do have a complete set of Advantage documentation which I will be scanning over time,
but it's going to take a while.
The GDOS/GBASIC, MBASIC and Fortran manuals are ring bound which makes them fairly
easy to scan - they may be a bit too tattered for my auto-feeder, but I have a manual
sheet
fed scanner which goes fairly quickly if needed - but it's still going to take a fair
bit of effort.
The Advantage user manual is staple bound and not too thick, so I can unbind it and scan
it - since it's double wide pages I'll need to do it on the flatbed, but since
it's small it also
shouldn't be too bad...
Unfortunately both the System Software manual and the Technical/Service manuals are
perfect bound - and both quite thick. This is where I really wish I had a book scanner.
The System Software manual is just the N* DOS/BASIC manual - I have an older version
of this already on my site which will probably do you fine. The technical/service manual
is just going to have to wait a while.
Assuming the GBC is a rebadged Advantage, I'd be interested in software/documentation
that you have as well.
Regards.
Dave
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