32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Double keyboard trouble
OK, this continues.I actually got *both* keyboards working by trimming a couple of mm from them. Newly emboldened, I then decided to socket the ARM on the second board, so I could swap the ARM3 from...
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Introduce Yourself • Re: Hi from Australia.
Hi David,welcome to this great Forum... Greetings from my little Dutch Atomic Attic, Wim... Statistics: Posted by Multiwizard — Thu Feb 20, 2025 6:19 am
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new projects and releases: demoscene • Archimedean Echoes - RISC PC+ 256...
Hello,here is a 256 bytes intros i did for Lovebyte 2025, it require a RISC PC+ 3MB+ (it is a slideshow on Archimedes, could be fast with some adaptation)download:...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: 01-A680B-0000156 - investigating an A680 !
Hold up. Are you sure this is a RISC iX disc?Absolutely sure. It's one of flibble's iX images from R260s. Works perfectly well with !RiscIx.You've been led astray because the disc includes !PCEm and a...
View Articleeconet in all its guises • Re: *DATE PiEconet bridge
In fact it was 542 bytes previously, but now is 538 bytes. Seems to work if loaded on M128 at &DCD0 or on BBC at &8C0, so here it is so far. It's part commented, but mostly only where I needed...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Why none of the 65c02s gained a 16bit stack pointer, given...
You've already identified the 65802, a variant of the 65816, which is a continuation of the 65C02 with a 16-bit stack pointer and a direct page register, which means the advantages of zero page can be...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S24 -...
I will correct this later tonight CS. That's why I ask people to double check their score. I'm getting older, 75 almost so it's easy to miss stuff.Statistics: Posted by KarateEd — Fri Feb 21, 2025...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: PiTubeDirect troubleshooting
Yay! It works now!I hadn't blown the PCB track, but I swapped the PiTubeDirect adapter over when I found the spare.It was both the Raspberry Pi Zero W and the SD card image. When I swapped out the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Power supply connector intermittent
Assuming the same PSU works fine on another elk ( it could be a broken wire in the mains lead) ...First option, try reflowing the solder joints, second option replace the connector on the...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em Tape Overhaul v3 (SAVE support, autotests)
On automated testing, I have pushed another branch to GitHub, based on the theadfix branch, that gives a choice of paste mechanism: the current way of intercepting the OS keyboard buffer remove and...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Zezito and the Lost Stars - Electron...
It only works in mode 2 but thats fine for this game, it's quite simple to setup, you just set mode 0 instead of 2 and put the ascii values H, D, M and I going across the row, followed by the 2 times...
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32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • Re: Adventures in A680 RiscIx
We could always lend Beebmaster one and check… :lol:Sorry, I only normally set 8-bit machines on fire.Though a cap on the Hawk video podule in my A5000 did explode once, burning the PCB where the bits...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Weird MODE 7 issue on Master Compact
It seems that my problem might be the 6Mhz clock. It seems to be missing every third peak, making it a sort of lumpy 4Mhz (see attachment).Statistics: Posted by SevernWolf — Sat Feb 22, 2025 1:12 am
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S24 -...
Froze on this screen. I'm getting some kind of keyboard roll over that's freezing the game. Is that happening to anyone else?No freezing for me on BeebEm 4.19.Thanks FS, I'm at version 4.15. Perhaps...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Another BBC Master 128 Bad-Boot
As in:Set Station number = 10FS 0.254PS 0.235Am I missing something?Best Regards,Stewart.OK so you have the station ID, fileserver and printserver set in the CMOS? *STATUS and see what you've got.If...
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Acornsoft Maze v2 (BBC Master...
Thank you Mr Beebmaster! I'll give this a go tomorrow.Statistics: Posted by dhoggan — Sat Feb 22, 2025 11:29 pm
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Fault finding index
BBC Model B Issue 4 - continuous tone. A note from 1990 inside the machine stated "stopped working after thunderstorm" (I have the PSU repair separately from the BBC mainboard) I wasn't expecting...
View Articlescanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • Re: Acorn Unix A680...
That's not been my experience -- several PDFs I've downloaded from the Internet Archive have been shockingly bad (to the point of unreadable). Downloading the raw images and recreating the PDFs...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: 01-A680B-0000156 - investigating an A680 !
Well, boo. Disc spin up. Disc spin down. Disc spin up. Disc spin down. Disc spin up. Disc spin down. That's it.The head never moves or even attempts to, as far as I can determine - with the IDE...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Possible Pinball game for the BBC Micro
They don't have to be stretched to 256x504 or possibly 256x496 (not sure which yet), I'm only using that for the real table as they are almost exactly twice as high as they are wide and the maximum...
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