This website is an archived copy of "Chris's Acorns", now hosted by The Centre for Computing History as part of The Chris Whytehead collection.
To view the page in it's original forms without this header, append "?cfch-archive=orig" to the URL.

  Irlam Instruments Acorn Replay DIY capture system

[Index by function]  [Index by Company] 

Irlam Instruments Acorn Replay DIY card (top) 

Irlam Instruments Acorn Replay DIY card (top)

Irlam Instruments Acorn Replay DIY card without daughterboard 

Irlam Instruments Acorn Replay DIY card, without daughterboard 

 Irlam Instruments Acorn replay DIY card daughterboard

Irlam Instruments Acorn Replay DIY card daughterboard 

 Irlam Instruments Acorn Replay DIY card (back)

 Irlam Instruments Acorn Replay DIY card (back)

 To quote from the manual" The Acorn Replay DIY kit allows anyone to capture colour video and stereo audio at low-cost onto hard disc using standard equipment. Hardware on the expansion card reduces the video and audio bandwidth to allow capture in real-time from ordinary domestic VCRs, camcorders and videodiscs." 
 
"The hardware was designed for the A5000(with standard IDE disc drives) and A540. However the hardware may work successfully on previous Archimedes models providing you have 2MB RAM (4 MB for compression), a fast hard disc and ARM3."

The card can be fitted with an sVHS or S-Video connector fitted. This card does not have either of these connectors (see hole in the backplate between the Audio inputs and composite video connection).

Here is the Acorn Replay DIY capture system  manual.

Here is the Acorn Replay DIY capture system  application.