8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Info please! Acorn's in-house large-memory 6502...
If Acorn had created something similar with a Ula for the logic, that could have made such a large memory 6502+ a useful upgrade in the wilderness years till the Arm?Quite possibly!There is more on...
View Articleprogramming • Re: BeebASM building query
Thanks for the suggestion.I did consider splitting the assembler source into common code, swram specific code, and non swram specific code, and then using INCUDE to pull in the separate pieces of code...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Time & Config.
OK, I've pushed version 0.03.This has minute timezones as shown in my last screenshot, and I'm going to call it stable.It doesn't have either alarms or user-defined timezone names.Statistics: Posted...
View Articlenew ideas wishlist & general chat • Re: Dino
Started implemented the map tile extractor, but logic is a bit wrong, so needs some rewriting, but its getting lateScreenshot 2025-01-28 at 00.40.21.pngStatistics: Posted by fizgog — Tue Jan 28, 2025...
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Atom Emulator that lets you save to tape?
Is there an emulator that can run on Windows 10 that can save to tape image?Also, is there an Atom emulator that can run as fast as the computers processor will allow, instead of being limited to 500%...
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: SAVE THE DATE :: ABUG...
Thank you both. I read both.Thanks. Looks interesting. I've forgotten most of what I knew back in the day. I don't think I have any unusual kit, except maybe this wobbly daughterboard (can't figure...
View Articleprogramming • Re: can i read disk sectors in basic?
Great to hear you found the DIsk Editor and 8271 articles in The Micro User of use.The example code was there to be pulled apart and re-worked in any possible way to make it useful to the reader.40...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S24 -...
I've played about 8 or 9 games since my last score submission but I can get anywhere close to that score of 1647280 I think the best I managed was around 1430000Statistics: Posted by lovebug — Tue Jan...
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general • Re: Interesting YouTube videos
Hello rasto,Was just coming in here to post the same link Interesting lunch time viewing.Sorry for beating you to it Interesting video indeed, and delightful to see Sophie is still on itStatistics:...
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general • Re: Needed info: How are GND and data lines pared in parallel I/O...
Hello 0010 all,On an old PC both serial and parallel ports were DB25, but you could typically distinguish them; the serial port was male and the parallel port was female. Later PCs just had the serial...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A420/1 Schematics available ?
OK, I now have an A420/1, and yes, it's not working. Actually it was working for all of 10 seconds before the PSU gave up the ghost. looking at the bottom of the PSU, it seems there has been...
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acorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Atom Software Archive
He uploaded the source codes on Github but I can't compile them ...... https://github.com/charlierobson/atom-toolsGreetingsKeesI was able to compile most of them, please test these out if you can....
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Fixing up an A420/1
I'm pretty sure it's just the PSU. Everything seemed to spin up (Fan, HDD etc), the keyboard lights flashed, and the OSSC had locked on to the video output. Then it all went quiet. I'll need +12V for...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: 27-series ROM emulator
Can’t answer all your questions, but ROM emulators are not new.Some EPROM programmers could use an adapter to provide a ROM during development by using their built-in RAM to hold the data. Similarly...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Exile - Unprotected Disc Images
Ok, after a bit of messing around to make sure I retained the mode 7 splash screen, I've now got the files off the disc, and I've packaged up both encrypted and decrypted versions.The !BOOT file is a...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: PunyInform and Ozmoo
Excellent. I'll have a look at that when I get a spare minute.Statistics: Posted by KenLowe — Thu Jan 30, 2025 1:45 am
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32-bit acorn software: other • Re: RISC OS 3 1/2 Floppies Discs
Buy a greaseweazle: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126182450561Attach a PC floppy drive. Hook it up to your PC. Archive disk images to your heart's content d.Statistics: Posted by danielj — Thu Jan 30,...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Unreleased games
And Gary Johnson who was Finance Director at Acorn went to be Finance Director at Psygnosis which made getting through the door relatively easy.Statistics: Posted by kevinlingley — Thu Jan 30, 2025...
View Article32-bit acorn emulators • Re: ArcEm for Nintendo DS - prerelease
I will try this out this weekend. It looks very interesting indeed. Have you tried this on a New 3DS XL with its native DS support? Or even in maybe DS emulators on other handheld devices?Statistics:...
View Article32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • Re: Adventures in A680 RiscIx
Might be worth running the unsqueeze command on the A680 vmunix kernel you have and seeing what happens?SteveStatistics: Posted by SteveBagley — Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:43 pm
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