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View Article8-bit acorn software: classic adventure games • Re: Write your own adventure...
Hi All, I just signed up to this forum purely to say that this book 'Write Your Own Adventure Programs' by Usbourne triggered my interest in computers and is responsible for my entire career. I must...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Looking for people with >45MHz Clocked Archimedes
Interesting, I have heard for example of people who never power down a hard drive for fear of it never spinning up again but my policy is always to turn off anything not currently being used. I was...
View Articlenew projects and releases: demoscene • Re: There is Zero G in Disco -...
So pleasant to see new stuff! And the ones not in 256 colors are evene more rare! Worked very nicely on my original SA RPC (with 4.02) Congrats! ArmOric/Arm's Tech (with many FX from 1999 on my HD,...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: VIDEONULA questions
Hello I'd be interested in buying one videonula for the bbc master 128 next time your making some please.Can you add me to the list of people wanting the nula?Can you PM me? ThanksStatistics: Posted...
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Cleo for BBC Master
Wowsers! Looks excellent!Statistics: Posted by danielj — Sun Sep 20, 2026 12:13 pm
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Cleo for BBC Master
A first release of Cleo, a J2ME game that I wrote many years ago with Nick Lee, ported to the BBC Master with some assistance from Claude. I think this is a really nice illustration of how hard you...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: [AI] Starting a Paradroid port
The light bulbs and heaters are good measures though as they draw pretty much what they say on the box. I measured an idle beeb with no peripherals and a normal switcher supply at 20W yesterday. With...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Help needed to fix a Beeb with the continuous tone...
So, I think that means that the adress line connectivity checks out OK for the OS ROM, yet ealier you had the BASIC ROM occupying address space that is supposed to be occupied by RAM. Does the OS ROM...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S28 -...
I'm gradually edging closer to @Snuggsy187 score, but Level 19 (which is Level 3 with birds) is very tough. For me, this is the most enjoyable game we've had this season... I've always liked Chuckie...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Real Time Strategy Game
Flicker Fixed! I've fixed the occasional flicker (and a couple of other bugs) - I thought this was a lost interrupt but turns out to be more subtle than that. strategy.ssd The game is using vertical...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: [AI] Tower of Rubble
Brilliant game - highly addictive. Simple but hard to master. Great flow around the animation and loved the music too!Statistics: Posted by amgdiceman — Sat Sep 19, 2026 10:35 am
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Anyone Have any Real Master Compact Welcome...
as an "aside", the Econet Welcome files from the Level3 file server installation are on this disc. They are slightly modified to work from Econet and include A belated many thanks for this. CHAINing...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Video ULA - CPLD recreation
Just been reading through all of this.. its great! Any idea when the chips will be ready for purchase? Thanks RobertStatistics: Posted by e668ecp — Sat Sep 19, 2026 10:00 am
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC b half of text missing
I've had this once and it was a defective SAA5050Statistics: Posted by e668ecp — Sat Sep 19, 2026 9:53 am
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: oaknut-disc : DFS, ADFS and AFS0 (L3FS) tools for the...
So that's a long-winded way of saying (and probably in the wrong thread!) that DIM accepting a file of 512 null bytes as a valid DFS image is "correct". Let’s make it the right thread by me...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3000 restoration
Ok... I have this out of storage and to close out, the red screen was caused by a broken via connecting RAM expansion pin 25 - R58 - IC22 pin6. Now works with RAM card mounted. Statistics: Posted by...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Master 128 Motherboard Fun Begins
So while the VideoNula is baking I started mucking about with an FPGA implementation using what I could scrounge up off the web and discovered of course that BeebFPGA has already got one :...
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: ABUG Scotland Day Event...
I’ve got a couple of BBC Micro game cassettes I’d like to test on the day — The Lord of the Rings: Game One (two cassettes), from a bargain eBay purchase. Unusually, the boxed set also includes the...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: LOLPRICE
Thanks - working out the value of rare things is hard. I know roughly what I paid for all the bits in my two Domesday systems but that doesn't cover the effort to find and repair them. I also know...
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