DivIDE and new Kempston Joystick interfaces!

edited September 2012 in Sales
I've got some DivIDE and new Kempston Joystick interfaces ready:

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DivIDE including 1GB card:
- WoS price: 39,99 GBP (eBay price: 41,99 GBP)
- Postage: 7,99 GBP

(edit) Updated manual: http://www.benophetinternet.nl/hobby/vanmezelf/DivIDE%20Manual.pdf

New small Kempston Joystick interface (see info underneath):
- WoS price: 13,99 GBP (eBay price: 15,99 GBP)
- Postage: 2,99 GBP

DivIDE + 1GB + Kempston Joystick combi set:
- more discount! 51,99 GBP
- Postage: 7,99 GBP

These postage rates are within EU only; ask me for worldwide rates.


The new Kempston Joystick interface:
- Single chip
- Passthrough connector
- Full databus coverage and data separation
- Best adress decoding
- Reset button
- Read more here!

Ordering is open!
PM me or place an order by using: paypal@benophetinternet.nl.

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  • edited May 2012
    I'd like a DivIDE please :smile: PM sent
  • edited May 2012
    Think I sent the PM twice there - sorry! :-)
  • edited May 2012
    I would like a DivIDE too.

    Now, I have a silly question...but that's what you get for not really following things too closely, so I may be confusing the question with something that relates to another product. ;)
      Can you SAVE to the card from the Spectrum, or can you only LOAD from it?
    Website: Tardis Remakes / Mostly remakes of Arcade and ZX Spectrum games.
    My games for the Spectrum: Dingo, The Speccies, The Speccies 2, Vallation, SQIJ.
    Twitter: Sokurah
  • edited May 2012
    Sokurah wrote: »
    Now, I have a silly question...

    Can you SAVE to the card from the Spectrum, or can you only LOAD from it?

    That's a fine question.
    My updated manual awnsers it all: http://www.benophetinternet.nl/hobby/vanmezelf/DivIDE%20Manual.pdf

    I decided to keep on using FATware as default, because that support long filenames. It's a readonly firmware however.
    The manual describes how to install Esxdos which supports writing to CF card.

    More info on firmwares on my website: http://www.benophetinternet.nl/hobby/ (click on DivIDE page).
    It's a bit outdated though, as it does not describe the recent release of the new Esxdos version.



    Ben
  • edited May 2012
    PM sent!
  • edited May 2012
    PM sent.
  • edited May 2012
    bverstee wrote: »
    That's a fine question.
    My updated manual awnsers it all: http://www.benophetinternet.nl/hobby/vanmezelf/DivIDE%20Manual.pdf

    Okay, thanks. In other words - 'No', it won't let me save onto the card from the Spectrum...with the firmware it's shipped with.
    bverstee wrote: »
    I decided to keep on using FATware as default, because that support long filenames. It's a readonly firmware however.
    The manual describes how to install Esxdos which supports writing to CF card.

    So to be able to save onto the card from the Spectrum I need to install Esxdos instead of FATware, right?

    But..."it's a readonly firmware...but you can still flash it"? Eh?
    ...which is it? (or do our definition of 'readonly' differ?)...or is the firmware the OS two separate things?
    Website: Tardis Remakes / Mostly remakes of Arcade and ZX Spectrum games.
    My games for the Spectrum: Dingo, The Speccies, The Speccies 2, Vallation, SQIJ.
    Twitter: Sokurah
  • edited June 2012
    Sokurah wrote: »
    Okay, thanks. In other words - 'No', it won't let me save onto the card from the Spectrum...with the firmware it's shipped with.



    So to be able to save onto the card from the Spectrum I need to install Esxdos instead of FATware, right?

    But..."it's a readonly firmware...but you can still flash it"? Eh?
    ...which is it? (or do our definition of 'readonly' differ?)...or is the firmware the OS two separate things?

    Haha, didn't think of that 'readonly firmware' could be read that way.
    So yes, the firmware is always upgradeable.

    If you want I can flash the DivIDE to Esxdos before sending it to you.


    Ben
  • edited June 2012
    My DivIDE arrived today - thank you :smile:
  • edited June 2012
    Got my Kempston interface on Saturday...very nice compact design and works great with the Divide+.

    Thanks.
  • edited June 2012
    Sokurah wrote: »
    But..."it's a readonly firmware...but you can still flash it"? Eh?
    ...which is it? (or do our definition of 'readonly' differ?)...or is the firmware the OS two separate things?

    Fatware manages the CF card as if it was a read only device. The interface (the DivIDE) itself can read and write to the CF. It's just that the firmware (Fatware) doesn't include any support for writting to the CF card.

    If you use DivIDE along with a +3E enabled computer (yes, I mean E, not A), you can use the CF as a big disk, reading and writting to it. Other choices are ESXDOS as well (could be *the* choice if it could support LFN names).
  • edited June 2012
    I've got my Kempston interface. It might have arrived a few days ago but have been away.
  • edited June 2012
    Hi, can I just clarify... is the reason why this Kempston Interface is such a rave (as opposed to the millions of Kempston interfaces from the '80s) is because it fully decodes the address bus and subsequently doesn't conflict with the divIDE? Just want to check really. Cheers.
  • edited June 2012
    BloodBaz wrote: »
    Hi, can I just clarify... is the reason why this Kempston Interface is such a rave (as opposed to the millions of Kempston interfaces from the '80s) is because it fully decodes the address bus and subsequently doesn't conflict with the divIDE? Just want to check really. Cheers.

    It doesn't fully decode the adress bus actually. Only A7, A6 and A5, enough for e.g. DivIDE compatibility.
    This is enough for compatibility with most addons and games.

    I think there is such an interest because joystick interface are getting rarer.
    If I want to get one from eBay, it's more expensive than this new one, because I have to pay for a small parcel. This new one fits in an envelope.

    Someone featured it on his weblog:
    http://flashback-computing.com/
  • edited June 2012
    DivIDE's are sold out on eBay; I have a couple left for sales outside eBay:
    - WoS price: 36 GBP / 45 EUR / 57 USD
    - Postage: 8 GBP / 10 EUR / 12.50 USD within Europe
    - Postage: 14 GBP / 17.50 EUR / 22 USD worldwide

    RWAP will be selling 25 more DivIDE interfaces on SellMyRetro.com soon.

    Kempston Joystick interfaces are also still available plenty!
    - WoS price: 14 GBP / 17.50 EUR / 22 USD (eBay price: 16 GBP)
    - Postage: 2 GBP / 2.5 EUR / 3 USD within Europe
    - Postage: 3 GBP / 4 EUR / 5 USD worldwide
  • edited June 2012
    Got my Divide but am a bit puzzled. I know this question has cropped up a lot so a few of you may groan at it being asked again (apologies :razz:).

    I've just recieved one of these 57c divide with CF card adapter. I followed the instructions but they don't mention anything about the fact you need to modify the thing yourself to get power to the CF card reader. Is this what I need to do? There is also a 4 pin plug on the card that can also be used but I have nothing this can plug into, or should the other end be soldered to something on the divide?
    This is the simple mod you have to perform in order to supply +5V to your CF adapter:

    divide_cf_mod1.jpg

    divide_cf_mod2.jpg

    The one pictured here looks slightly different to the 57c, what have people done in this thread to make theirs work?

    The divide is not for duffers like me it seems!
  • edited June 2012
    What you did is common: many (mostly larger) CF cards don't work without additional power on pin 20.
    It's unfortunate you have to find out that yourself, I had lot's of problems with it too in the past.
    The divide is not for duffers like me it seems!
    Yes it is, but this is why I include the CF card, so end-users won't have the trouble at home.

    The last batch of 1GB CF cards I received also needed the extra power.
    So my last batch of 25 DivIDE interfaces (available next week on SellMyRetro.com) all have CF adapters with the mod: pin 20 -> pin 38.

    It's also described here:
    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=35592&highlight=power+pin (that mod won't work on my DivIDE's where I removed pin 20 from the socket for the use of IDE cables)
    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=35622&highlight=power+pin (same: this mod is on the DivIDE itself)
    And I was looking for a topic which I thought I replied in with the CF mod, but can't find it...
  • edited June 2012
    bverstee wrote: »

    Yes it is, but this is why I include the CF card, so end-users won't have the trouble at home.

    The last batch of 1GB CF cards I received also needed the extra power.
    So my last batch of 25 DivIDE interfaces (available next week on SellMyRetro.com) all have CF adapters with the mod: pin 20 -> pin 38.

    Cool :-), a couple more things:

    Just to be clear then, I need to tell my electrician to solder a wire between pins 20 and 38 on the CF card reader (not the divide as in the links you post)? I didn't see any numbers, is there a circuit diagram I can refer him to?

    Also, the CF card provided is read only it seems, I'm not so familiar with them. Is that the intention or can it be changed to write? (no worries if that is the case, I'm sure I can get hold of another easily)
  • edited June 2012
    R-Tape wrote: »
    Cool :-), a couple more things:

    Just to be clear then, I need to tell my electrician to solder a wire between pins 20 and 38 on the CF card reader (not the divide as in the links you post)? I didn't see any numbers, is there a circuit diagram I can refer him to?

    Yes, the DivIDE's IDE connector pinout:

    DivIDE_IDE_socket.jpg
    Also, the CF card provided is read only it seems, I'm not so familiar with them. Is that the intention or can it be changed to write? (no worries if that is the case, I'm sure I can get hold of another easily)

    All CF cards are writable.
    Are you using FATware? FATware can only ready from CF.
    Use ESXDOS, it supports writing to the CF card.
  • fogfog
    edited June 2012
    is that mouse for ya BBC r-tape as it's a "micros" one ? :)
  • edited June 2012
    bverstee wrote: »
    Yes, the DivIDE's IDE connector pinout:

    Excellent, thanks, I'm going to buy the electrician at work some bottles of beer and hopefully he'll do this for me :-)
    bverstee wrote: »
    All CF cards are writable.
    Are you using FATware? FATware can only ready from CF.
    Use ESXDOS, it supports writing to the CF card.

    Ah, I thought the FATWARE was related to the DivIDE only not my PC, apologies, will try again.

    fog wrote: »
    is that mouse for ya BBC r-tape as it's a "micros" one ? :)

    Not my mouse, but I did sneak into Mcleod Ideafix's house and rub the 'SOFT' off his mouse :razz:
  • edited June 2012
    R-Tape wrote: »
    Ah, I thought the FATWARE was related to the DivIDE only not my PC, apologies, will try again.

    You were right the first time :-) bverstee's answer was on the basis that you were unable to write to the CF card from the Spectrum - if you can't write to it from the PC, then that's a different issue.

    I'm a bit lost now, though. If you haven't written anything to the card yet, then what's your basis for believing that your CF adapter needs the power line fix? (Or were you actually asking that in a more general sense of "I read that some people have had to do this fix - should I do it before going any further"?)

    At this point it would be handy if you stated your problems in the form "I'm doing action X, and it does Y when I would expect it to do Z". Right now it seems that your posts are skipping that bit and jumping straight into the "speculating about possible solutions" bit :-)
  • edited June 2012
    gasman wrote: »
    You were right the first time :-) bverstee's answer was on the basis that you were unable to write to the CF card from the Spectrum - if you can't write to it from the PC, then that's a different issue.

    I'm a bit lost now, though. If you haven't written anything to the card yet, then what's your basis for believing that your CF adapter needs the power line fix? (Or were you actually asking that in a more general sense of "I read that some people have had to do this fix - should I do it before going any further"?)

    Cheers gasman, yes I'm trying to write to the CF card from a PC.

    Bverstee delivered the CF card with some stuff already on it, I wanted to add to it but was unable to. I was wondering if the specific CF card was made read only by bverstee. So it looks like I will need to do the fix.
    gasman wrote: »
    At this point it would be handy if you stated your problems in the form "I'm doing action X, and it does Y when I would expect it to do Z". Right now it seems that your posts are skipping that bit and jumping straight into the "speculating about possible solutions" bit :-)


    Yep I normally end up doing things in a fairly illogical way, I should never have become a scientist :-D

    I think I've cleared up the above but just for clarity:
    Problem1-Inserted divide and CF card (with software already on it) into +2 Speccy, 128k english rom detected, lights on divide but not on card reader. Repeated on 48k rubber key, same.
    -On pressing NMI button the menu comes up showing the folder name containing the games, I can move the highlight bar up and down but it is not opened when pressing enter (nothing happens).

    -Problem2-Finding a PC with a CF card adapter, ended up putting in someone's scanner printer at work but not able to write to it, it may be due to something odd with the scanner printer or that the CF card delivered is read only (bverstee said not if I understood correctly). More work by me needed here, getting hold of a CF interface or finding someone with an older PC, and possibly a new CF card.
  • edited June 2012
    R-Tape wrote: »
    Problem1-Inserted divide and CF card (with software already on it) into +2 Speccy, 128k english rom detected, lights on divide but not on card reader. Repeated on 48k rubber key, same.
    -On pressing NMI button the menu comes up showing the folder name containing the games, I can move the highlight bar up and down but it is not opened when pressing enter (nothing happens).

    Just a thought - but you do realise that if they are .tap files, you still need to use LOAD "" on the Spectrum to load them - only the snapshot images (.sna and .z80) will automatically load.
    Supporting Sinclairs since 1986 !

    www.rwapsoftware.co.uk
    www.sellmyretro.com
  • edited June 2012
    rwap wrote: »
    Just a thought - but you do realise that if they are .tap files, you still need to use LOAD "" on the Spectrum to load them - only the snapshot images (.sna and .z80) will automatically load.

    I've not been able to get that far (but yep I expected to do LOAD""), I can see the folder the games are stored in but cannot go into it. With the Divide in I am unable to exit the fatware & get into Sinclair Basic anyway.

    Having said that I've just tried again and it's doing even less now! It's not recognising the FATWARE, crashing all the time and now the NMI button isn't doing anything. I guess I should still try the power mod? There are no lights on the card reader.

    Gahhhh!
  • edited June 2012
    It could just be an incompatible CF card - not all are compatible - Integral ones and SanDisk ones tend to be the best ones to try - although there are a lot of fake SanDisks out there using chips which may not be compatible.

    Speccy users may at least be relieved to know that it is not just the DivIDE that has these problems - I had a phone call from someone using industrial machinery a few weeks ago - they had a compact flash reader added onto the machinery as an extra module (costing around ?1500 !) - but were struggling to find compatible compact flash cards until I pointed them in the right direction!!
    Supporting Sinclairs since 1986 !

    www.rwapsoftware.co.uk
    www.sellmyretro.com
  • edited June 2012
    rwap wrote: »
    It could just be an incompatible CF card - not all are compatible - Integral ones and SanDisk ones tend to be the best ones to try - although there are a lot of fake SanDisks out there using chips which may not be compatible.

    Not in this case I think.

    It really seems that his DivIDE (I think he got it from me) has a defect, probably one of the GAL's gone corrupt.
    This happens from time to time, but fortunately only at 'first contact' ;) Not later on when the interface has been in use for months.

    He told me he would try to add power to the CF card (pin 38 -> pin 20) and try it again.
    Hmmm, let's post a picture of that mod:

    cf_adapter_5v_fix.jpg
    Be aware that other CF adapter models has the notch on this (component) side: the mod must be added on the other side than the notch side!

    But again, I really suspect the GAL chips.
    One way to make sure is to remove the CF adapter and boot up the system. If it still resets, it's one of the GAL chips.
    I've sent replacement GAL-sets in the past more often.
  • edited June 2012
    ULA chips arrived today! Thank you my friend!
  • I received today the small Kempston interface and works great! Just tested it with Target Renegade and R-Type :)

    Excellent job, Ben!
  • edited September 2012
    I am interested towards a joystick interface as my ram turbo interface has problems. Sending pm.
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