First impressions.

[Martin Ling]

Nothing much yet, but thought I'd check in.

On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:54:43PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> 
> Ok, picked one up from Toys 'R Us in Luton for £19.99 today with a
> leaflet to get a £10 voucher back - I need to sign up with the Bush
> Internet 0845 ISP to do this it seems.

Jon (on the list yet?) and I obtained one also, from Toys'R Us in
Manchester. Then whilst finding it we saw the WTC news on a store TV, so
we were mostly otherwise occupied for the day. We do have the thing laid
out open here, but we haven't hooked it up yet (priorities, eh...).

> Got into command mode ok but everything is off the left side of the
> screen by about 7 or 8 characters.

Hmm. Looking at the lighter coloured board on which the SCART connector
is, I suspect there's something that can be tweaked there to shift the
image - will check up SCART pinout and trace back.

> Discovered *BASIC drops into BBC Basic. Neat. Same problem with
> characters though. Then a thought occured to me - you can do modes with
> BBC Basic. One "MODE 7" later and I can see what I type properly. Cool.

Ooooh, childhood memories.

As soon as we're done signing keys, and drinking beer, and watching
Spaceballs, I may see about doing useful stuff with this.


Martin