Soldered up a serial and parallel interface for #amstrad #pcw - have put the chips in yet but smoke test plugging it in to the machine seems fine and booted to cpm.
Tomorrow, the ICs.... 😬
#retrocomputing #pcw9256 #z80 #cpm #cp/m

It lives!
#amstrad #pcw 9256 resurrected!
Having got it working then shorted the psu on the floppy housing (🤬), converted to USB-C PD.

Lots of capacitors replaced and the image is almost stable (a few ~100v caps still need doing as I don't have anything above 50v in stock).

Pleased :)

Now just need to make a #cp/m boot disk!

(Back connector on #thingiverse if anyone ever needs)

#retrocomputing #amstradpcw #pcw9256 #USBPD

ooh, the #amstrad #pcw #9256 is getting closer - mainboard working (bad floppy controller chip replaced) and now crt deflection issues almost sorted (bad capacitors on the analogue board). Just need to test keyboard, make some adjustments to the pots on the analogue board and reassemble. Hopefully 😬😬

#retrocomputing #pcw9256