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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Conway's Game of Life for Atom, Beeb, Elk?
This is the "final" BeebLife Master 128 version. Managed to sneak under 21 seconds for the rpentomino to generation 1103. Added the ability to change the drive on the Load Menu and added a new rule...
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communications • Re: the Night Owl BBS
Thought I'd report back that the Pi1MHz serial feature is an absolute win! It worked first time for me with Commstar and was flawless in it's operation. It's quite amazing having one piece of kit that...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Another bad A5000 - no post
Had a chance to look at this again today. ROMCS0 is low (and ROMCS1 is high) as would be expected. However, there's no activity beyond LA5 out of reset. The data lines all show activity but ~IRQ and...
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Acorn SPIDER Extension ?
There's a good description of the SPIDER board with a photo in ETI 1985-09, and an overview of other stuff Paul Fray Ltd did in Beebug volume 10 issue 1.Statistics: Posted by atsampson — Fri Oct 16,...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S28 -...
Here's my initial effort... Statistics: Posted by fwibbler — Fri Oct 16, 2026 2:26 pm
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: ABUG Online #127 :...
Upcoming ABUG Online Tuesday Meetings: #127 2026-10-20 #128 2026-11-10 #129 2026-12-01Statistics: Posted by baz4096 — Fri Oct 16, 2026 12:12 pm
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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Highway Encounter (AI Spectrum port)
Just out of curiosity, I was interested on how this game rendered its zones. After initiating the binary to Z80 ASM using AI conversion in opus 5.5, the obligatory next step was to translate it to the...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: RGB to HDMI using a Pi Zero and a small CPLD
The mating connector to the above (2x8 IDC header) takes a 1.27mm (not 2.54mm) pitch IDC cable, doesn't it? The pitch is the pins, not the cable. This is the sort of thing that's needed:...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: UMI 4M
It looks like it will be four times this and 1.25 times this. Looking forward to the reverse engineering. I have been back on this project over the last few weeks and am now trying to bring the first...
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Lander on the Beeb
That's very impressive indeed!Statistics: Posted by kevinlingley — Thu Oct 15, 2026 2:23 pm
View Articleprogramming • Re: Video NuLA Detection
Here's a more minimal version of Tom's NuLA detection code: Code: 10REM>DETECTNULA 20MODE7 30VDU23,0,8,&30,0;0;0; 40*FX9 50*FX10 60*FX151,32,16 70*FX19 80E%=FNTM 90REM 34=&22,68=&44...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: !PCEm
To necro or not to necro... Anyway, I have. One thing I have within my archive for Archiology is a zipped copy of the various contents of the PC Emulator disc, but the archives are broken. IS there...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Pico-506
Are you considering doing a PCB, or would you like someone (ie me) to do that from this schematic? If the latter, could we see a photo of the stripboard too? I'd be SO keen on seeing :4 appear again...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S28 -...
A great game that we've played a few times and I'm still no good at Your score looks pretty good from where I am. Statistics: Posted by Rod C — Wed Oct 14, 2026 2:26 pm
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: Linux Install
Possibly not quite what you're looking for but BeebEm works well under Wine.Statistics: Posted by vela025 — Wed Oct 14, 2026 2:22 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Drawing a circle in BBC BASIC
This is where I found Jesko's: https://schwarzers.com/algorithms/ Which leads to this: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasterung_von_KreisenStatistics: Posted by elkrepair — Wed Oct 14, 2026 1:29 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: bbc b *EDIT equivalent of master *EDIT
There was no equivalent editor in the BBC B as this was essentially a sideways ROM in the Master. However the ISO Pascal Editor ROM was essentially the Master *EDIT program - I suspect Acornsoft used...
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: UK101 How To Test
Hi all, kind of adding to an older thread. But I have just got my uk101 semi running to some degree. It boots to a garbage screen, then the reset goes to the cmon D/w/c/m. Prompt, all good. However M...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: The Advanced Pegasus Disc Interface (APDI) and...
Any chance of an APDI and single 3.5” drive/Gotek variant? Even better, would a Plus3-style case be feasible (perhaps combo case with Plus 1 or Plus 2)? Or is that a bit big for your printer? And will...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A5000 video via a VGA switch requirements
I'd like to use my A5000 over VGA rather than through a VGA to HDMI adapter as I just can't run games like Elite via that setup, I just get a black screen. ... [*] Are these settings appropriate for...
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