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The Memotech MTX Series |
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Memotech Related Tools
This page contains tools that may be useful for users of the
Memotech MTX range, if
you know of anything else that might be useful to others, please
let me know and I will post it here.
The Software
Development page contains details of the use of the Z88
Development Kit (Z88DK) with the MTX.
Tools on this page are divided into three main categories:-
Hardware
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PAL14L4 Reader
Memotech computers and expansion boards,
including ROM/RAM memory cards, disk controllers,
the RS232 interface and the
Speculator,
all make extensive use of PAL14L4s to implement custom
designed logic. The PAL equations for the more
common boards are shown in the
User and Maintenance
manuals. Although Memotech probably did not
"blow" the security fuses, making it
technically possible to read back the fuse maps for
the other PAL, tools for reading the
configuration of these devices are not common today.
Tony Brewer made a PAL14L4 Reader and wrote the
Z80 code to control it. With Tony's help, I have drawn up a schematic for
the PAL reader interfaced to the MTX User I/O Port.
You can see the details of my prototype
on this page |
Tony Brewer |
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EPROM Programmer
Bill Brendling brought along this EPROM
programmer to
Memofest 2013, Bill created this in the 1980s to help with
his other electronic projects, giving him the ability to
program EPROM
devices using his MTX via the parallel port.
Bill has kindly provided a sketch of the original design,
I have taken the sketch and drawn up a schematic using
KiCAD. You can see the details of the programmer,
along with the schematic,
on this page |
Bill Brendling |
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PIC Programmer
Another of Bill's tools that he brought along to
Memofest 2013, Bill created this in the 1990s to help with
his other electronic projects, giving him the ability to
program
PIC
devices using his MTX via the parallel port.
Again,
Bill has kindly provided a sketch of the original design,
I have taken the sketch and drawn up a schematic using
KiCAD. You can see the details of the programmer,
along with the schematic,
on this page |
Bill Brendling |
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MTX Diagnostic Board
Originally designed as part of my
MTXPlus
Project, using a simple adapter, the Diagnostic
Board can be connected to a standard MTX to display
the values on the address and data buses, as well as
the status of the control bus and other signals.
For full details, go to the
MTXPlus Diagnostics Page |
Dave Stevenson |
Software
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MTX2BAS -
a program to convert .mtx, .sdx and .run files to text
Version 0.4, 28/06/2013 (See Readme.txt
in the zip file for revision history) |
by Paul
Daniels |
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MTX2BAS - a program to convert .mtx, .sdx and .run files to text
- Version 0.3 |
by Paul
Daniels |
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TapeClean
- a program to clean up tape (.wav) files on a PC
Version 1 05/11/2016 (See Readme.txt
in the zip file for instructions)
The Zip file
contains the source code, it must be compiled before use |
By Bill
Brendling |
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TapeView
- a program to recover programs from MTX audio tapes
Version 200815 See this
page or the
Memotech forum for some usage tips
TapeView is an enhanced version of
TapeClean with visualisation of the
input data to aid in diagnosing problems during the
conversion process. |
By Bill
Brendling |
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VGMPlayer - Paul Daniels has written a
VGM Player for the MTX and created a set of .mtx
files for the Lemmings tunes. All the files are included
to reassemble. If you want to drive someone nuts,
leave this running at full volume!
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by Paul
Daniels |
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Lemmings Demo - Paul has also put together a .mtx that plays the
two samples extracted from the SMS version of Lemmings.
The attached file includes all the files to reassemble.
"Note it doesn't work on Memu unfortunately
but does on Mess 0.122 and probably 0.118. I'd be
interested if anyone runs it on a real MTX to know how
it sounds." |
by Paul
Daniels |
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HABit Version 3 - Wordstar Document
Conversion Tool from the
wordstar.org site Works on NewWord Documents too,
converting them to formatted text. |
Tony Brewer |
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A "Mickey Mouse" Microsoft
Word 2010 Macro to replace German "special" characters
with their UK keyboard equivalent.
(I use it with the MTX User Club Germany PD Library
to make text files readable.) |
anon :-) |
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Various Disk Formatting & Imaging
Utilities (DOS) |
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22Disk utility by
Sydex (Shareware) -
Version 1.44 This utility allows the display and
manipulation of CP/M diskettes of many different systems
on a PC, including MTX/FDX Type 03 & 07 disks. |
gabby.de |
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22Disk utility by
Sydex (Shareware) -
Version 1.42 This utility allows the display and
manipulation of CP/M diskettes of many different systems
on a PC. |
gabby.de |
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memotech.def |
22Disk - Additional Disk Definition files for
Memotech From the MTX User Club in
Germany |
Courtesy of
Peter Kretzschmar |
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newdisks.def |
22Disk - Additional Disk Definition files,
mainly for European Systems |
gabby.de |
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Diskinfo - A program to analyze
disk formats - Version 1.73 By Gaby Chaudry (Freeware)
- See Gaby's Diskinfo home page
for details |
gabby.de |
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Anadisk utility by
Sydex (Shareware) -
Version 2.07 A utility to "examine, edit, repair,
format and copy almost any diskette." |
z80.eu |
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Cpmtools - Command line
utility to access CP/M files - Windows Version By
Michael Haardt
and John
Elliott . |
cpm8680.com |
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diskdefs |
Cpmtools - Additional Disk
Definition files for Memotech Types 03 & 07 |
Andy Key |
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Cpmcbfs - As described by Andy, "cpmcbfs is
the use of the EldoS Callback Filesystem library, combined with
the cpmtools project by Michael Haardt, to allow Windows to
mount CP/M file systems. This project is essentially the Windows
equivalent to
cpmfuse." The first port of call should be
to the
download on Andy's website, where the latest version will
always be posted, should Andy's site not be available, you
can download a copy here. NB, this may not always be the latest
version of cpmcbfs.
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Andy Key |
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Teledisk - Disk imaging / copying program by
Sydex (Shareware) -
Version 2.16 This utility can be used to format disks
in custom formats (but not FDX) |
Dave's Old Computers |
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Teledisk - Disk imaging / copying program by
Sydex (Shareware) -
Version 2.15 Direct I/O in this release
has been shown to be able to create disks in FDX format |
Dave's Old Computers |
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Teledisk - Version 2.11 It has been reported that some
later versions of Teledisk do not work reliably with 40
Track drives, this version has no such issues. |
From F.J. Kraan |
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ImageDisk - Disk imaging program by
Dave
Duffield (Freeware) - Version 1.18 |
Dave's Old Computers |
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The programs in the green cells are utilities that I
have used myself and know to work with Memotech disks
and/or images. The other programs are ones that I think
should be useful, but have not gotten around to trying
them - yet! |
* * * A word about
the Sydex downloads on this page * * *
Sydex
Inc. created many of these disk tools in the late 1980s, at
that time, they were available as
Shareware,
that is, you could download the products, try them out, then if
you continued to use them, you paid the registration fee. Often
, paying the fee released additional features, for example,
extra disk definition files were provided with the registered
version of Teledisk.
Sydex subsequently sold the rights to their
software to New Technologies Inc. (NTI), although a company
called New Technologies
Inc. still exists, it looks like they are unrelated to the
original NTI. I am not sure of the licensing position of these
programs, but I am sure that they are still the "intellectual
property" of NTI and/or Sydex. Given
the age of the material here and the limited interest in the
subject matter, I believe
that the software here can be distributed without restriction.
However, if you believe that you have rights to this software
and are unhappy at its presence here, please get in touch.
The ImageDisk program by Dave Duffield is
functionally equivalent to Teledisk and is
Freeware.
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