Amstrad CPC DDI3 - Disk Interface, USB Disk Drive Emulator, PARADOS & 512K RAM Upgrade 

Sell My Retro (To buy a DDI3) - www.sellmyretro.com/ Novabug's channel - ru-vid.com Zaxon's video - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t9Urw-b7118.html

It would be good if hardware manufacturers of kit like this could put the edge socket on a ribbon cable, rather than directly on the hardware (as Romantic Robot did with their Multiface II). That would solve your problem of not being able to see the screen as well as save on the wear on the connector on the CPC caused by pressing the top buttons.

My friend who died in 2000 was the inventor of the Amstrad CPC ramdrive for Amstrad funny enough he was Polish - he had a CPC 464 with 640K and could use and access any form of disk drive 3", 3 1/2 ect and formats I had an Einstein and he could write files directly to any system's disk format.. he was ahead of his time - selecting the files ... the de-bounce coding stops the keys from being too sensitive :D --- PCW 8256/8512/9512 :D loved programming them back in the day! my first database for the YMCA was written on a PCW 8512!!

Aaaand he's back! Fantastic news!

Another great Gadget Amstrad CPC video, worth waiting for! :)

Love the video review as always

Excellent video sir, as I got mine early I never got to talk about the upgrades. Also, some demos to struggle to load for some reason.

It's really cool how old systems are supported by modern storage devices like this one!

Allways liked the cpc pallet

Oh also the SD2IEC and DivMMC is a total joy to use.

Nice piece of kit for the CPC, hopefully the bugs in the firmware get ironed out.

I love Zaxon's boards. For the Amstrad I've got a "CPC 6128 USB Lite" that connects at the rear port like yours but without screen and works great, and I've got also a floppy drive replacement with HxC software and Led screen (so a Gotek but with the face 3D printed to fit and also has floppy drive sound). BTW I don't need/use this last, you if you want it I've got an Amstrad PC board that needs to be repaired...

Yeah those displays. I use them for the odd Arduino project, and they are a bit shitty. This looks to have some form of IC2 conversion board on the back of the display to make it compatible with the boards output. It may be possible to get a better display if you looked into it?

Hi everyone, just bought the dd13 and I'm old school , no nothing about loading files /roms , can anyone help how do I load files onto the ddi 3 to play the games on the amstrad 464 , can anyone please help , I need a list of a to z how to do it it please, thank you john

It’s a cool bit of kit, really temp for my 464 however looks like a few bugs still need working out first

Personally I'm not a big fan of those small displays connected to pcbs. As with the 1541Ultimate for the c64, I'm not sure they're actually necessary. Looks like a well built piece of hardware and useful for the Amstrad. On another note Chris, does the traffic ever let up where you live? It's usually pretty busy when you're recording.

Pretty close to 10k.

Great video. Where's the best place to get the disk images where I've been using is hit and miss if the work or not. Thanks

I read the firmware upgrade issues, and choose not to upgrade as I like the bootee and I have my hxc convertor setup to convert all my dsk quickly. I wonder how you would roll back. To avoid issues I stick with using converted hfe files. Nice built in memory upgrade in this version thought, perfect if you can't get hold of the d'troniks module

No pen/pencil to tap this time... sorta miss it already lol (yes dripping with sarcasm) but I hope you get it working properly. should find some way to upgrade it to a 4line display might help

Only thing I've struggled with is the Gotek in the Atari ST. The Seller said "Oh yeah it works with the ST without any issue".......Bullshit!, I had to change the software, the jumpers and disk images to get it to work after almost tearing my hair out.

What are the perfect tape images. Id rather have it load like it was intended. What file extension are they in

i have this with FF it has some bugs sometimes crashes but its great value for money. It didnt work with 64gb flashdrive

also have you tried renaming the HXCSDCFG.cfg to HXCUSBCFG.cfg?

Interesting video, Dont think i'll be getting one purly cos I've got a 6128 and I'm going to get a goteck drive to replace my current external 3.5 disk drive. But if i only had a 464 I'd definetely consider getting one. Also reminds me I've an origional DDI1 and drive in storage somewhere that i must get out and get going.

Was that a mist FPGA I saw?

This worked for me: My autoboot initially returned an error#31#. To boot from the screen (Autoboot) with the latest flashfloppy, you need to download the latest files from here and place in the root of your USB drive: norecess.cpcscene.net/news/hxc-floppy-emulator-manager-v35-released

The shitty USB stick thing is how they get em so cheap and disposable. Crap chipsets as well. And the keyring tags break off. I go for the Kingston ones all made of metal.

Computers don't have sticks. We can thank bloody Sony for that and their "Memory Stick" series of media cards.

renaming a lot of files. Open a command promp in the dir then use "ren b:sal*.* sal*.txt"

30 mins - a "short" video... FFS...