The "theme" for this year's Memofest was Turbo!
We started with a game competition that has been promised at previous events, but finally happened this time. The prize being a brand new car.
The Winner was Jim and unfortunately I don't have a picture of him being presented with his prize but hopefully one of the others will post a picture.
The next posting will have some details of the highlight of the event, which was some seriously clever software from Andy.
However before I get to that some details of the hardware on show.
We had a look at the CFX3 and Micro CFX for which there are threads elsewhere on these forums.
What Andy has written is a webserver! Using HTTP is possible to send files to and receive pages from the drive on the NFX.
at the PC end is a very normal looking web page.
Technical details were, well VERY technical! Andy did try to explain it all but it's seems he's basically written a whole new system that sits on top of CPM and does all the work, all in less than 13k of code. Expect to see some details and the source code on his site sometime soon.
Since I had some "advance" warning of Andy's masterwork, I was able to prepare a new I/O board for the MTXplus that includes a version if the Wiz811 interface. That showed a substantial speed improvement when serving pages at the full 16mhz possible with the MTXplus.
Also visible on new board is the USB keyboard interface from the MTX tweaked a little to run on the plus..
Thanks to Martin for hosting Memofest again this year. An enjoyable day was had.
While Martin's collection of original MTX doesn't quite match Dave's, the amount of new stuff he has built, and to a very high standard, was staggering.
Equally impressive was the spread of food laid on downstairs, enough for twice as many people.
Thanks again Martin and family.
And there were other things I forgot to mention in last night's hasty write up.
Skype managing to keep Dave more or less connected for 6 hours or so excluding lunch and cake breaks.
Bill's portable MTX emulator - Raspberry Pi, Custom Memu build. 3" screen, Bluetooth keyboard and powerbank.
The new forum MEMOFEST 2019 already created. I previous think I saw a UK Computer museum was interested to HOST a Memofest ?
I havent touch a Memotech computer for a YEAR or so but I have a new game ready to be converted over. But I have to wait until get my Memotech hardware back from Storage.
Looks like you all had a good time and, as usual, lots being done with the Memotech.
Really sorry to have missed it this year but unfortunately I was in Ghent celebrating my wifes Birthday. Hardly on a par I know.
Roll on next year's get together.