A rare find....

Paragon (1508)

28-06-2020, 22:24

I saw this on eBay, i didn't win it though
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MSX-Computer-Disk-Interface-with-...
Perhaps someone might want to grab the pictures, and put them somewhere useful? I never saw these advertised anywhere in the UK although Computermates was/is a UK company

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By Sylvester

Champion (492)

28-06-2020, 23:04

Thanks, added it to Generation MSX. Since computer mates almost only made software published by Philips, I wonder if this is just a clone of the Philips NMS 1200 disk interface.

By djh1697

Paragon (1508)

28-06-2020, 23:15

I don't know? I thought it was the other way round? Computermates stuff is on ROM cartridge, the word processor, database, and spreadsheet, is it similar to to NMS1200, i did notice that the boot screen contained the drive type as well? I did bid, but lost out, never mind, these things happen! or a more commonly used phrase in the UK "Shit happens"

By Manuel

Ascended (17300)

29-06-2020, 00:35

Who ever won this auction and reads this: please contact us to dump that disk ROM. It seems rare Never seen that 720K DS stuff on the boot screen.

The well known Philips Home Office software suite was written by Computer Mates, I think that's what Sylvester means.

By Scarlettkitten

Supporter (14)

29-06-2020, 00:43

I won this item, If someone lets me know how to dump the rom I'd be more than happy to help. when it arrives obvs.

By gdx

Prophet (3916)

29-06-2020, 11:44

Congratulations! You got this for a good price.

Please take more beautiful pictures even the PCB if you can.

https://www.msx.pics/

To share the dump, you can use a tempory link like that:

https://gofile.io/uploadFiles

By Manuel

Ascended (17300)

29-06-2020, 13:05

To make the ROM dump, use SAVEROM.COM from http://frs.badcoffee.info/files/MSX_machine_reverse_engineer... and save the full slot which has the interface. So start address 0, end address ffff.

By Sylvester

Champion (492)

29-06-2020, 13:28

Got some beter photo's of the seller including the mainboard: https://www.generation-msx.nl/hardware/computer-mates/msx-co... :)

By edoz

Prophet (2310)

29-06-2020, 16:44

From the outside it really looks like Philips as it font looks almost the same

By Briqunullus

Champion (262)

29-06-2020, 17:53

It could very well be a Philips interface. If Computer Mates developed software for Philips, they were apparently given a pre-release version. Hence the unique disk basic version. Later they applied their own sticker to it.

By Scarlettkitten

Supporter (14)

29-06-2020, 22:44

Cheers for the links. I will let you know how I get on.