Elan Enterprise 128 - Lest test the real hardware!

A first look at my Elan Enterprise 128 with the "SD Adapter Premium" disk emulator!
Many thanks to "Szörg" for the SD-Card Disk emulator, and the nifty Video converter!
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[@u9vata]

I grew up with this! Glad to see other people finding it out about and releasing games to it!

[@LeeGee]

I've got one of these in perfect nick. Wish I still had the cassette tapes of the programs I wrote at the time.

[@Gecoaa]

Cool :) Yes, CPC "emulator" is a modified CPC firmware :D , and works only those games which are using only firmware calls (about 10% of games) Speccy 48K "emulator" runs on EP128, Speccy 128K "emulator" runs on an EP with memory expansion, and these convert the speccy programs on the fly after loading about 50-60% of speccy programs runs on it Normally Symbos works without mouse with alt+internal joystick but there is a version where alt+int joy does not work, I do not know which version is on SD card There are so much Speccy conversion, because we did not hear about CPC in Hungary before the end of nineties, and all home made ports are Speccy ports Color 16 CPC games can be converted also to EP quite easily, the graphics has to be converted, because the colours will be different place on EP palette, and it can happen 14-15 colours will be used instead of 16 CPC colours, because of BIAS limit, over 90% i could find a palette without colour loss.

[@bubblegumgun3292]

incredible system for '85

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

The more I find out about this system the more I love it

[@pauledwards2817]

The joystick makes quite a point. A whole generation just detest the Nintendo joypad from the NES taking over as everyone else used the right hand to control the stick and left for fire. Nintendo reversed all that. People did complain at the time about the pad and having to add a jump button because the pad was so hopeless with diagonal movement. Nintendo won of course but so many games from the 8bit era need a joystick rather than a pad to play well.

[@varszegimarcell]

With one of the f keys, you can mute the inetrnal speaker. F7 maybe, if I recall correctly. If it is a secondary function, try Ctrl+F7 or Shift+F7.

[@cdoty]

Aren't those audio ports for cassette in an out?

[@TheRetroShed]

I’ve always wanted one for our collection but they are a bit pricey. Nice to see one though. Great vid!

[@ChibiAkumas]

I know the feeling... so many old machines I'd love to own... if only I had infinite money and space!

[@datamigrator9979]

I have one of the original Enterprise 128's in my attic - I worked for Elan in tech support as a kid - how much are they typically on the market for?

[@TheRetroShed]

DataMigrator depends on condition I suppose but seen them for £400-£600. Silly money and just not worth it but they are a lovely computer.

[@HiltonBenchley]

I had one briefly, but took it back and exchanged it for an Amstrad 664.

[@nexpro6985]

I wanted one of these even after I bought an Amiga. &hC9

[@JoeyRivers]

Video was quite clear other than when autofocus switched in

[@ChibiAkumas]

I've bought a proper capture device for the screen now, and a better camera as well!

[@JoeyRivers]

Thats great!. It was good to see the Elan Enterprise. In the 1980s I bought Personal Computer Weekly (and still have dozens of those issues) which always had the latest and greatest news of the day and I remember reading about the Elan in an issue. Many of the British computers like Elan, Oric Atmos, Jupiter Ace , Acorn Electron etc never made significant impact here in Australia . Of course I had the C64 for many years and kept it until now. I doubt ill ever see an Elan in the flesh : )

[@retrotronics1845]

Couldn't find the size of screen memory for this machine but the CPC used a 4mhz Z80 too and had about 16kb screen RAM (you can remove the borders just like on the VIC-20 but then you need larger screen RAM). Interesting machine but 1985 launch is too late, the two top systems had killer apps in 1983 in the UK already let alone by 1985. Be interested to see if there are any full screen 50fps arcade games on it.

[@nexpro6985]

You have to wonder why anyone would choose center negative for power.

[@nexpro6985]

woot Sorcery!

[@Neville007]

Estoy investigando un poco este sistema... ¿alguien sabe cómo se cargan los juegos desde disquete?

[@Checkmate1500]

I am really interested in getting one of the SD card emulators, I found the user guide from your link but cannot see if it is still available to order. Great video !

[@ChibiAkumas]

it was the same when I ordered mine - but there's an email address on the page - drop the guy making them an email - and I'm sure you'll get a reply.

[@Checkmate1500]

@@ChibiAkumas Struggling to get an actual email address from the page, although I can see 5 @ signs which may be email addresses by replacing : with . ?

[@Checkmate1500]

@@ChibiAkumas May I ask what you paid?

[@andyhu9542]

'I need an Enterprise power supply... and I don't have one so I use one for the Spectrum... and I don't have that so it's actually a Playstation power supply' haha...

[@ChibiAkumas]

:-D It's misappropriated power supplies all the way down! I also use a neo geo joystick on my Amstrad CPC! (yes really!)

[@SwainyAtRetroAsylum]

That was Chase H.Q 1

[@SwainyAtRetroAsylum]

keith s Yeah the second game was only ported to the Amstrad GX4000 and not to the normal CPC range and only 1 copy is known to exist anyway.

[@SwainyAtRetroAsylum]

keith s Maybe the other one is a port of the Spectrum version?

[@SwainyAtRetroAsylum]

keith s cool, thought that would be the case.

[@bangerbangerbro]

I actually don't mind you after watching a video. I was a little put off by the website because of the weab stuff and the elitist sounding "for monsters". This just outputs normal PAL? You make note of your JP TV. So you don't even have one PAL TV, or at least a 50hz accepting one? Not even a modern HDTV that would accept all signals? You live in Japan? Does it have a display list that changes registers or does the attribute mode let you have 1 line height attributes like an oric? Your game looks pretty good if slow which is to be expected with graphics like that. The machine has no hardware scrolling right? That demo has wow factor. 31:13 that's the gibberish man right? There is also a 90s cover of the riddle with a video that reminds me of that.

[@rooneye]

Do you live in Japan?

[@ChibiAkumas]

My Books cover most ASM languages and are available on Amazon stores worldwide! Now in Hardback and Large A4 size! Check them out here: amzn.to/3hgETuM My 1st book covers ASM programming on Z80, 6502, 68000, 8086 and ARM My 2nd book book covers ARM Thumb, 65816, 6809, PDP-11 and Risc-V CPUs The Large print versions can be a little hard to find... the links are here: Vol 1 A4: amzn.to/3T8WzFG Vol 2 A4: amzn.to/3WC9jaM