[Bulk] Re: [GEM Development] Wanted: GST Publisher [WAS: (no subject)]

[Davey]

veganalex wrote:

> hehehe yeh i'll donate....if i could! - this must be my first post for
> ages, and i'm not particularly into anything gem at the moment, just
> been too busy. Once the weather gets cooler (it's extremely hot
> compared to the winter here in the UK at the moment!), I will try and
> bring back to life an old 8086, which happens to be an amstrad pc5086
> (i think), any ideas whether modern opengem would run well on this
> machine? i'd love to use this computer, just as it would have been
> used 20years ago (when it was manufactured in 1986 :D (i think!)), and
> also get my psion II XP organiser to work, just as it would have done
> then and everything else...all that i ask myself to do...is get it to
> work on today's internet! - i know it's possible....just hard! - we
> also have an old dot-matrix, which may end up tagging along-side the
> 5086 to make it even more useful :D. and as for much older software, i
> thought that after a number of years (10 or so) the company had to
> re-copyright the software....might be wrong (and probably am), but i'm
> fairly sure any old software that is being copyed for personal use
> will not be brought up as a legal issue (except old versions of m$
> windows ;) lol
> 
> veganalex
> 

Hi,
It's got tpo be the Amstrad PC1512; see 
<http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?c=183> for a picture:

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The Amstrad PC 1512 was launched in 1986. After the Amstrad CPC 464, the CPC 664 
and the CPC 6128 (three home computers based on the Z80) and the PCW 8256 and 
the PCW 9512 (both dedicated word processing computers based on the Z80 as 
well), Amstrad decided to make its first low-cost PC clone. It was a great 
European success, capturing more than 25% of the European computer market 
(impressive now and phenomenal then).

This cheap computer was, however, complete and offered more than some others 
did. The small power supply (57 W) was integrated into the monitor.

Eight models were offered: The PC 1512 SD/DD (with one or two 5.25" floppy disk 
drives) and two models with hard disk (HD10 with 10 MB hard disk and HD20 with 
20 MB hard disk). FD and HD versions could be acquired with a monochrome or 
colour monitor.

The Amstrad used an "enhanced" CGA graphic mode, which could display 640x200 
pixels with 16 colors (or grayscale). It was sold with MS-DOS 3.2, DR-DOS plus 
1.2 (an operating system from Digital Research), GEM (a graphic interface, also 
used in the Atari ST, TT & Falcon), GEMPAINT and GEM BASIC.

The mouse port, although using 9 pins like a COM port, is proprietary to Amstrad 
... The port is female and is only for use with an Amstrad mouse.
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This was the first IBM compatible my father had & the first I used hence my 
unreasonable love for GEM and especially for GEM (Locomotive) BASIC 2. It was 
sold in the USA under the Sinclair name so my father had a "Sinclair" PC512.

Sincerely,
WarpDavey
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