Re: [E3-hacking] previous amstrad emailer

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:53 +0000, paul@e3.sbrk.co.uk wrote: [...]

What I did was configure the emailer to dial another modem instead of the premium rate number by using a cheap 4 port pbx.

That's rather interesting; it opens up the possibility for an alternative mechanism for reflashing it by pretending to be an official Amstrad firmware update...

Incidentally, while I was poking about on Usenet, I found a number of reports that if you prevent the e-mailer from calling the 0800 advert retrieval number for more than a few weeks, it'll stop working completely. How long have you had it set up like that?

(This isn't a problem with *my* E2, because I long since accidentally erased a chunk of the firmware I hadn't backed up...)