8-bit acorn hardware • Re: I2C 4 U
Oooops! I completely forgot about that Dave, how embarrassing Can you email me and elaborate a little on that question please….. Statistics: Posted by MartinB — Sun Jan 12, 2025 11:45 pm
View Articleprogramming • Re: Service Roms?
A simple way to see if the ROM is being called is to create a service that just prints a character each time it's called.eg have &8003 JMP to code that codes something likeCode: PHPPHAADC #64JSR...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn Colour Musings: Minimising screen memory in...
I don't know about all analogue video systems, but certainly PAL and the NTSC colour systems are lower bandwidth systems (less detail in the picture) compared to the same video signal that contains...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S24 -...
Got myself on some sort of a roll tonight Score: 33810wiz4.jpgStatistics: Posted by Cybershark — Mon Jan 13, 2025 11:35 pm
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Apache Valley - possible new...
How far did you get, the later levels are much more frantic - I find I'm moving almost instinctively and not entirely sure how I survive sometimes The aliens appear more frequently, fire more...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Xmas Screensaver?
Oh goodness, it'd been so long since I saw the show... and the mention of watching it on ITVx really threw me. That's Gareth flippin' Thomas right there! Statistics: Posted by Cybershark — Mon Jan 13,...
View Articleprogramming • Scarab (BBC BASIC) without "Accuracy Lost"
Richard Russell's Scarab demo produces some fairly intricate output for a small program: see this thread for example output.The code is quite simple:Code: MODE 0VDU29,640;200;FOR Z% = 0 TO 200000z =...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Updated Econet Hub
Hi Ken, I would be very keen to get a Pi Econet Bridge - are they still available? And are you able to ship to anew Zealand? Kind regards AdrianStatistics: Posted by ask_nz — Tue Jan 14, 2025 12:13 am
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: SAVE THE DATE :: ABUG...
Should be good for the weekend.Statistics: Posted by z0m8ied0g — Tue Jan 14, 2025 12:25 am
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Incoming Acorn Atom Issue 5 Replica
I'm hoping either the option to buy boards, or board design files will be made available. Keep up the good work, a very exciting project indeed. Your hope will become reality. Statistics: Posted by...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS **Host UP**
First I connected in from Linux using telnet, although didn't get the ViewData interface that way, so switched to using http://fish.ccl4.org/js-nightowl/ -- just logged in again, and tried to leave a...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Doom didn't kill the Amiga...Wolfenstein 3D did
.....It was a bit off-topic, though. The context is that ..Sorry, it seemed relevant to me, but it seems lots of other people will/did buy a PC for action arcade games which is a surprise to me....
View Articlegeneral • Re: Blasted StarDot cookies
Ian, please can you try the following. Clear your cookies for Stardot. Visit Stardot via any method you like and accept the cookies using the footer banner. Close that tab. Visit Stardot via your...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • BBC Master .. displaying at boot Terminal =
Hi all, I've eventually sorted out mending a PSU for a BBC Master I was given, along with dual disk drives. On powering up I'm not getting the BBC prompt I remember from my youth ... But a message...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: BBC Master .. displaying at boot Terminal =
I suspect that if you do "*STATUS" then it will say "Language 15". You can change this with "*CONFIGURE LANG 12" (or "*CO. LANG 12" for short).It's likely other settings may also be misconfigured if...
View ArticleIntroduce Yourself • Re: Hi from Bedfordshire, UK
Welcome, good luck with the machines.Statistics: Posted by tricky — Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:18 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Updated Master MOS versions
I have a feeling what may be causing ROMs to vanish. MOS 3.50 writes to sockets 4-7 during a power on reset (actual or simulated) to clear them, an annoying feature that I removed in my Multi OS. If...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: Amiga BBC Micro Emulator
I wouldn't have thought it was fast enough, but maybe with some assembler.Statistics: Posted by tricky — Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:21 pm
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Ghouls: Revenge (and Ghouls...
Thanks Tom et al for the big update, I'll give a whirl this weekend when back home!Statistics: Posted by Arcadian — Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:33 pm
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Inufuto BBC games compilation
As pointed out on the atom thread, Inufuto has released BBC and Electron versions of Mieyen which appears to be a maze game with the same catchy tune as some of their other productions.Interestingly...
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