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Subject: First impressions on the Pyuuta Mark II
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Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 06:47:00 -0800 (PST)
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From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@...>
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I finally got the Pyuuta Mark II up for testing on the workbench. The Mac's
TV tuner required a little coaxing to accept Japanese NTSC cable frequency
(it has no composite out ... ?!) and the Mac was still spitting out tonnes
of RFI, but I could see enough of the picture.
Good news: the machine (mostly) works (see Bad news). The ROMs are identical
to the American Tutor firmware, version 2.3, which jives with my original
information on the PM2. It accepts all of my American cartridges, although I
haven't plugged a Japanese one in it yet to test its character support. I'll
do that tonight.
The keyboard is *soooo* much better. MOD and MON are in logical places, even.
The only downer is that the cursor controls are still weirdly located
although it is a definite improvement. It feels like a shallow CoCo keyboard
to me, but that's not really a bad thing.
Bad news: the BASIC ROM seems to be farked. I can't get into BASIC from the
MONitor or from the MENU; I get the green screen, and then it unexpectedly
cold-reboots itself. This might be repairable though because since it
looks like the firmware is identical, I should be able to cannibalize a
BASIC ROM from a working (or at least a partially working one ... would hate
to do this to a fully functional Tutor) Tutor and get this in 100% working
order.
Power supply and connectors seem fully operational.
Whee, now all I need is a Grandstand Tutor and a Pyuuta Jr :-) does anyone
else out there have a Pyuuta Mark II? Or a Grandstand or a Junior?
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