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hi Fabrice i don't want to develop too much that point because this seller will be one or another day here or on the german schachcomputer forum. he will learn fromhis mistakes. i would only said that i follow that seller and some others for two years. one way is to look at the evaluations of the se...

hi all the same seller is playing with this auction he sells under the ketty3 pseudo and bids with its other account to rise the price the fantom_76 https://feedback.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=123heikosdeal&ftab=AllFeedback&myworld=true&rt=nc auction: https://www.e...

hi Fabrice the same seller has a new ID : https://www.ebay.fr/sch/hanclause2/m.html?item=143219249959&hash=item2158885327%3Ag%3Ae1wAAOSw3XZct31f&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 https://www.ebay.fr/itm/Mephisto-Exclusive-Schachcomputer-mit-Rebell5-0-komplett/143219249959?_trkparms=aid%3D2220...

hi fabrice i suggest you be refunded (even if it seems that it is already on th eway) did you pay also shipping and taxes for USA or was it delivered somewhere in Europe (France ?). i suppose that is this board : https://www.ebay.fr/itm/Mephisto-Exclusive-Schachcomputer-mit-68020-Lyon-Modulset-und-L...

HI SteveUK is really a hardware man only. I tried many times to discuss with him to share our respective knowledges and he never replied positivly. i say it is a 'hardware only man' because he pushes the board till the speed the software support it. his work is very clean and robust. myself i have a...

hi Larry in MAME/CB-EMU there are chessboard that are 'dumpable' as said Sasha. Berger dumped most of them and I have also dumped many but only with CPU from 68000 , 6502 and Z80 families those you are speaking of are undumped, primary because we don't know how to dump them even if they might dumpab...

hi Larry a bit out of topic but a small trick to glued boards i have a soldering/unsoldering station i use the CMS iron at about 220 °C to make the glue liquid and open the glued boxes (chess boards or other things) i carefully warm the glued part until it can be removed i can that way also unglue t...

Hi ferribaci thak you for you info. opening the Quelle Stratos i saw all is made by Saitek. so Quelle just labelled the board as you said i investigate today and repaired the Stratos. in fact the CPU was dead and the most probable reason is that overclock. the CPU is a 4 Mhz 65c02 and the clock is r...

i bought on Ebay a defect Saitek Stratos that i received today. in fact it has a Quelle label not a Saitek one. does somebody knows what is this brand ? when opening it i was surprised to discover a 6 Mhz crystal (that is correct according to schach computer info) but a 4 Mhz 65C02 Rockwell only !! ...

Hi Nick i understand it is annoying and stressfull to open working bairds. one simple and non intrusive test. in MAME these are most of the boards, which are corectly identified. so you could compare what you see in MAME just to confirm which ROM version behaves as your real boards. MAME emulate is ...

hi nick one another way to have more valuable results would be to open most of your boards. as the program was in ROM till late years, you will find the reference of the ROMs in the following way : 101.1077A01 for a par excellence may be you have two par excellence with a small variation in the ID, ...

hi nick could you add to your tests ? designer 2000 and/or designer 2100 (non display). as they have similar program as par excellence i think they must behave exactly as your par excellence. i have sure that my designer 2000 and 2100 share the same exact program, only the clock differs. (i dumped t...

hi spacious mind your tests are very interesting i think you could improve your sheet by adding the supposed year of shipping according to the serail number and the roadmap we established. and ordering by year of shipping, the progression would be more seeable some results seems 'normal' to me: ther...

hi i expect that that info can really help. the binary of the playmatic S is the twin of the SC9A binary. i put the disassemblies side by side (SC9A, SC9B , playmatic) and i have no doubt of the link between SC9A and playmatic they differ by the hardware handling but all the rest seems exactly the s...

i don't know it that will help , anyway : SC9A and SC9B binaries are similar but not the same. the differences are : in the IRQ the handling of the hardware is different because there is one new component in SC9B that replaced the one in SC9A. but that doesn't change anything to the brain, the engin...