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  JOYCE's.


  C6.17) ISA card. 08/04/2001

  The layout to make an Industry Standard Adapter for the PCW is
  available on http://user.tninet.se/~psr810p/


  C6.18) Various DIY layouts. 08/04/2001

  A number of layouts for diy expansions to the PCW can be found on:
  http://www.euronet.nl/users/fvempel/diy.html
  Amongst others they contain serial and parallel interfaces plus
  some applications for these and small modifications to the system.



  C7) Fanzines 08/04/2001

  No magazines are now produced, the last two PCWPlus and Amstrad PCW
  User ceased production in 1998 though the information they contained
  is still valid. Two Fanzines exist The Disc Dive produced by The
  British Amstrad Group, see above for details of membership or receive
  copies. The other is PCWtoday, though issue has become intermittent of
  late. Their web site www.pcwtoday.co.uk
  gives details and subscription rates.

  Joyce Bulletin, in Dutch, is the quarterly magazine of the Joyce
  Computer Club Amsterdam. It often includes 3" Disks.



  D) PcW 16

  D0) PcW 16 presentation

  This presentation comes from a csa8 article by Cliff Lawson.

  Unlike all previous 4MHz Amstrad Z80 machines this has a 16MHz Z80
  core (hence the 16 in PcW16). I know a lot of people "hate" us for not
  making it binary compatible with the previous PCWs but the fact is
  that we couldn't do it and design the architecture optimised for
  graphic word processing software (which means that it is optimised for
  BitBlt type graphics). The screen is actually kind of VGA compatible
  in that it is 640x480x2 with a straight raster mapping rather than the
  character scan raster map and roller RAM of previous PCW (in fact a
  lot like the 640x200 mode on the CPC I suppose).

  The main thing that makes this machine such a dream to develop for is
  the graphic OS (windows, icons, mice are all in there in the core OS).
  The OS was developed in the main by Simon Hargreaves of Creative who
  is renowned for MicroDesign on the previous PCWs.

  The Rosanne operating system that he has put together is just so
  advanced compared to the other Z80 operating systems that we have been
  responsible for in the past that it just seems a shame that any Z80
  development talent out there isn't considering writing stuff for the
  system - you'd enjoy it, believe me.

  Apart from the graphic stuff, message based event system (a la
  Windows) you've got window, menu, dialog, scroll bar, radio button,
  checkbox, etc. etc. all immediately available in the OS.

  The OS also has a rich set of disk/flash disk filing stuff. The system
  read/writes MS-DOS format files/disks and can also read (not write)
  CP/M format files/disks.

  It has fairly advanced memory alloc/dealloc routines and OS support
  for 24 bit banked addressing.

  There's an RTC in there so functions exist for that.

  Even the spell checker in the WP is exposed as an OS callable
  function.

  Perhaps best of all is the huge support for variable typefaces for
  output to both the screen and printer using Swiss and Times in 6, 8,
  10, 11, 12, 14, 18, 24, 36, 72 point.

  The machine has an unused RS232 on the back so there's a possibility
  for developing email/news software - perhaps even a web browser!

  There's a help engine in the OS so adding Help support to your apps is
  also very easy.

  For doing maths there's a 5 byte floating point system in the OS so
  sin/cos/tan/log/exp are all provided.

  If you want to read more about this operating system then get:

  http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cliff.lawson/bin/rosandoc.zip

  or email me direct and chat about it.


  D1) Emulators 08/08/2000

  D1.1) CP/M v2.2 and 3.1 for the PCW16 08/04/2001

  Get this CP/M emulator for PcW16 by John Elliott at
  http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Cpm/pcw16.html
  or get directly ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/amstrad/cpm/cpm_101.zip


  D1.2) M.E.S.S. 08/04/2001

  See above



  D2) Support 08/04/2001

  The PcW16 is still supported by Comsoft, Creative technology and
  Locomotive.

  If you know a PcW16 owner who can't download the operating system
  upgrades from Cliff Lawson's Web site, Brian Watson will supply a free
  upgrade for a DS/HD disk, return postage, and an address label. Send
  disk in a reusable padded bag to the address at 8.1.3.4). Or download
  the boot disc of a PcW 16 (rescue disk) at :
  http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cliff.lawson/files/pcwos.zip

  For more frequently asked questions and other support information, go to
  http://www.pcw16ers.fsnet.co.uk




  E - PDA600 10/10/2000

  E0) PDA600 presentation 10/10/2000



  The Amstrad PDA-600 Pen Pad created in 1993 has a weight of 400
  grams (14 ounces, 0.87 pound), size is 115mm x 160mm x 27mm
  (6.3" x 4.3" x 1.0"). The CPU is a Zilog Z8S180 at 14.3 Mhz.  There
  is a reflective LCD screen by Kyorcera is 240 x 320 pixels, 70mm
  x 93mm (3.5" x 2.75"). The screen is pressure sensitive for Letter
  based printed handwriting recognition.  It uses 3 batteries and a
  lithium pile. It has 128 Ko memory, 32 Ko for display, 32 Ko for
  recogniser software. It can also use PCMCIA type 1 SRAM cards upto
  2 Mo. It features address list, telephone list, diary, time manager,
  todo list, note-taker, world time, multiple alarms, calculator,
  calendar, OS by the Eden Group, Mini serial RS232, Speaker, RTC.
  Optional Extras : PC-Organiser for Windows, Forms Software, memory.
  Probably the first PDA on the market.




* F - CP/M 04/21/2002

  CP/M is an operating system widely used with computers before ms-dos
  existed. It is available on Amstrad CPC, PCW and the NC with ZCN. For
  more information, read the newsgroup comp.os.cpm and its FAQ at
  ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.os.cpm
+ The Unofficial CP/M Web site : http://www.cpm.z80.de

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