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- Short: Test equipment projects, Disk 5.
- Author: wisecracker@tesco.net (Barry Walker).
- Uploader: wisecracker@tesco.net (Barry Walker).
- Type: hard/hack
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- Requires: A 1MB AMIGA A500 or better.
- WorkBench 1.3x or better.
- OCS, (ECS or AGA modes optional).
- NTSC/PAL television, (NTSC/PAL monitor optional).
- An external floppy disk drive IS required.
- The mouse IS required.
- A hard disk drive is optional.
- The archived file length is 127464 Bytes.
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- Version: 1.00.00.
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- Distribution: PD, (Freeware).
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- Project13) An Eight Channel Logic Analyser.
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- The running software is (C)1990 Stephen L Childress.
- All other software is (C)2002 B.Walker.
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- The Criteria for the TestGear? Projects.
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- In 1998 my (then 7 year old) daughter's friend's brother was (is)
- interested in tinkering with simple electrical and electronic projects.
- When I asked him if he had any basic Test Gear to check and calibrate his
- projects he replied "No none at all, but I have got my own ~Commodore
- AMIGA~". On inspection I found he had an old A500 with 1MB of memory,
- a Television set, an extra floppy drive and it was MISSING the mouse.
- I then asked him if he would like his AMIGA to become his Test Gear, his
- face showed much surprise and he said "Yes Please", he was at that time
- 8 years old. He has successfully built many of the projects.
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- This set the criteria for all of the projects as shown below:-
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- 1) The projects MUST run on a standard A500 WITH an extra floppy drive.
- Some projects may NOT be calibrated for this machine however as all
- the developement work was/is done on an AMIGA A1200.
- 2) The projects MUST be Operating System friendly.
- 3) A 0.5MB memory expansion for the A500 is optional.
- 4) The initial projects MUST NOT require a mouse to work, this is
- optional. The keyboard IS the required minimum.
- 5) The OCS graphics modes MUST be the required minimum display modes.
- 6) A Television Set MUST be the required minimum display medium.
- 7) Workbench 1.3x MUST be the required minimum Operating System.
- 8) The projects MUST work on both NTSC and PAL. This is so that everyone
- in the world can use the software without modification.
- 9) The projects MUST be simple enough for a young child to build in a
- VERY SHORT period of time, possibly under supervision. This is so as
- to be able to keep the attention span of that young child.
- 10) All of the required components MUST be available to the general public
- from any or a known source.
- 11) The projects MUST be VERY cheap to build in relation to their
- commercial/professional cousins.
- 12) All external power supplies required for any of the projects MUST be
- batteries. A young child should NOT have access to MAINS voltage
- facilities or power sockets.
- 13) All Calibration Equipment MUST be batteries or cells also.
- A young child has NOT got access to Professional Calibration Equipment
- so therefore he/she has to start from somewhere.
- 14) The projects MUST NOT require special printed circuit boards to be made.
- 15) The projects MUST NOT require any special tools, the standard tools
- should always be sufficient.
- 16) IF a special tool is required then a supplier MUST be available to
- purchase that tool.
- 17) As a multimeter/multitester is virtually impossible on any computer
- this MUST be a purchased item.
- 18) If MAINS IS required to power up a unit to be tested, then a MAINS
- ISOLATING transformer WILL be required and MUST be used. This MUST be
- under the supervision of an adult.
- 19) Any books required SHOULD be available from your local library.
- 20) NO special knowledge of electronics is needed or required to build
- any of the projects.
- 21) Read the ~Warning~ file for SAFETY reasons.
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- This is Emailware:-
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- If you like these projects or have any comments to make then Email me
- (Barry Walker) on:-
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- wisecracker@tesco.net
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- This will give me the incentive to carry on.
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- IMPORTANT:-
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- The Legal Stuff:-
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- These programs are the copyright of (C)1998-2001 Barry Walker with all
- rights reserved.
- They are freeware and no profit will be made from them, also all of
- the files must remain unaltered and intact including this one.
- The author is not responsible for any damage to, or loss of, or
- failure of equipment or data caused in any way by the use of these
- programs.
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- Any other software is the Copyright (C) of the respective authors and
- is subject to their ~Terms and Conditions~.
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- Projects list so far in order of issue.
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- (These are in the ~hard/hack~ drawer.)
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- A) TestGear1.lha & TestGear1.readme:-
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- 1) TestCard Generator.
- 2) Signal Injector.
- 3) Sine/Square Generator.
- 4) Pulse Generator.
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- B) TestGear2.lha & TestGear2.readme:-
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- 5) Stereo LF Audio Function Generator.
- 6) Analogue to Digital Converter.
- 7) Audio Power Meter.
- 8) RF Probe, (Sniffer).
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- C) TestGear3.lha & TestGear3.readme:-
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- 9) Logic Probe.
- 9A) Experimental version of Project9.
- 10) An RF Absorption Wattmeter.
- 11) An Oscilloscope Calibrator.
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- D1) TestGear4A.lha & TestGear4A.readme:-
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- D2) TestGear4B.lha & TestGear4B.readme:-
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- D3) TestGear4C.lha & TestGear4C.readme:-
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- D4) TestGear4D.lha & TestGear4D.readme:-
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- 12) A DC-100KHz Digital (Storage) Oscilloscope.
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- E) TestGear5.lha & TestGear5.readme:-
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- 13) An Eight Channel Logic Analyser.
- 14) The START of a Single Channel Data Logger/Transient Recorder.
- 15) Empty at the moment.
- 16) Empty at the moment.
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