March 2019 - e3-hacking

Re: [E3-hacking] Just got an e3 - where do I start
by Antony Stone 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

On Wednesday 27 June 2012 at 00:17, Edward Robbins wrote: > Sorry for 3rd email... > > Using a 9V supply the emailer appears to start - email and voice lights > flash, then after some time the power light comes on when I press power, > and camera light comes on when I then press video, but the LCD does not > come on. So I suspect that amstrad were being cheap in choosing such a high > voltage PSU - because they didn't want to include a backlight inverter to > boost the voltage for the LCD backlight. I thus further suspect that I can > still talk to the serial port without the full voltage input... so if I > build a cable, is there a way I can tell which PBL I have from the serial > output? See the first line of http://www.earth.li/%7Enoodles/files/delta.boot (linked from http://www.earth.li/~noodles/hardware-e3.html) Hope this helps, Antony. -- All generalisations are inaccurate. -- I'm not impossible, just highly implausible. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.

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HI I have a Amstrad E3 Emailer that's deactivated and I was wondering..
by Nick Griffin 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

Is there anyway of activating it, I still have it connected to my phone line because I can still make calls on it.. 😉 If you pick up the Handset then hold down [EMAIL] button for about 3 to 4 secs or until it says “Dialling for Mail” comes up, then it will abort it and say ”Aborting email call.. Please Wait...” it will take about 18 seconds then the phone will come on and you will hear a dial tone.. 😊 Handsfree works too so you can press the HANDSFREE button if you need too, but you have to dial the number you want, Address book still don’t work. Anyone know of away of activating the E3 without there service or Amserve serve, how did they test the E3 at the factory, they had to get into it to test the E3s features and test the firmware make sure it works properly, I wonder if there is a set of keys you need to press to activate it while you power it on, probably not.. :( ??? I was thinking anyone know how the firmware works, like how the E3 connected to the Amserve server, I know it used 0909 numbers for each server it would connect to, do the E3 use normal dialup protocol, would there be a way of using a 56 modem on a PC and get the E3 to connect to it through its modem and make are own server in a way, so like pc to pc connection but through a dial in server so if you wanted to connect a 90s PC that has win 95/98 on and no network and connect it to WinXP through its dialup 65k modem.

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I made a Facebook group for the Amstrad Emailer called Amstrad E-Mailer Info Group
by Nick Griffin 14 Mar '19

14 Mar '19

I through we need to go with the times and needed a FB group, I made it mainly to warn people to becareful when buying them from eBay,cos a lot of them are deactivated and don’t work, and as good as a brick. Hope to see people that hacked the Amstrad E3/E2 Plus there soon.. 😊 and anyone else who needs it. https://www.facebook.com/groups/AMSEmailer/

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