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Fantastic, thank you so much for taking the time and elaborate. I found a good offer for a Psion 3 256k in reasonably well condition, plus a connection cable and a flash SSD with 256k. Now for the USB to serial-adapter and I'm ready to go. :)

It feels like a new world opening up to me which is really exciting. I like such closed and technically limited systems very much, they are like reminiscences of the golden age of computing in the early 80ies where every last bit of memory was important and where clever use of the limited resources allowed for some of the most creative and fun games

A funny thing by the way: Your game's graphics immediately reminded me a bit of the TI-84 classic Joltima. Joltima was my gateway game in the world of programmable calculators - and Dragonfell is my gateway in the realm of Psion Series 3.

Cyningstan38 days ago

Joltima looks like so much fun! I hope you enjoy playing with the Series 3 as much as I do.

Athanasius38 days ago(+1)

You should definitely check out TI-calculator gaming and programming if you don't know it already. There are dozens and dozens of great games and applications for these devices, especially for the TI-84 Plus (the classic monochrome one, not the later rebrandings TI-84 Plus CSE and CE) and TI-89 Titanium, ticalc.org's archives are choke-full of great stuff: https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/.

I'm sure I'll have great fun with the Series 3 - I look forward to dive in this new ocean of possibilities. Thank you again for your help.

Cyningstan19 days ago

I've looked into it before and I'm very tempted by the TI-92 models, but having got back into the Psion S3 recently I probably wouldn't have time to give it the attention it deserves. I'm not even sure when I'll fit in a port of Dragonfell to the 3a/c/mx and the 32-bit Psion machines, especially since I'm still heavily into DOS development too.

Athanasius20 days ago (1 edit)

I have everything ready - a working Psion Series 3, the 3Link, an adapter. Unfortunately PsiWin doesn't seem to install under 64bit Windows anymore. How do you transfer data to the device? Thank you!

Cyningstan19 days ago(+1)

I'm using Linux, but one of my solution should work for you. First, get yourself a serial terminal emulator (I don't know what the current ones are for 64-bit Windows). Set the comms parameters to 9600 bps, 8bit, no parity. You can then talk to the Psion via the Psion Comms application (remote link switched OFF on the Psion). Psion Comms supports Y-modem protocol, so while you need to transfer the files directly into the right folders on the Psion, you can do it a directory at a time.

The second option involves setting up DOSBox if you haven't already. Get it talking to your serial port, preferably as COM1 within DOSBox. Get a copy of the MCLINK software for DOS. Connect the Psion to the PC with remote link ON, and load MCLINK within DOSBox. You should then be able to transfer files to and fro using the commands in MCLINK (it has a TXT file) or using the Psion user interface.

There's a helpful and friendly Psion Discord if you get stuck, you can find the link on the Psion community web site https://psion.community/

Athanasius19 days ago(+1)

Thank you very much for your assistance. I'll try that. :)

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