First impressions.

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 04:41:54AM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
> 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?)

Nope, just us 2 so far.

> > 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.

There wasn't anything obviously variable from the look I took. I'd
imagine tweaking the video registers might achieve the same thing.
I'd hook it up to a monitor but I don't have any suitable cables handy
and my nice Miggy monitor that should do the trick is in Newry.
 
> > 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.

:)

I need some more info on what you can do with RISC OS. It'd be nice to
be able to convince it to dial up with a different ISP. I need to trace
the pinouts and see if there's any chance of getting the second serial
port hooked up or altering the connections from the modem to a serial
port so I could do PPP to another box.

J.

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