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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Atom: Speckling of red dots around the screen edges.
But doesn't the fact that the RGBtoHDMI produces no speckling or sync problems on my other ATOM suggest it isn't an RGBtoHDMI problem or is it common that it, even though two machines are the same...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Bluetooth on the BBC Micro
Has anyone added Bluetooth to the BBC?I've just added an internal Bluetooth module and loaded games through my phone Statistics: Posted by Chipsnstuff — Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:30 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Boxford TCL Lathe
The hardware looks not too dissimilar to the Raven??? Ram board. I wonder if it could easily be used as general SRAM?The Raven has 32K RAM, of which 20K is required to implement shadow RAM. This board...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Bluetooth on the BBC Micro
Beware... this is a long thread https://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3114 ("Wires? Pah.....").Statistics: Posted by sweh — Thu Mar 07, 2024 3:29 pm
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: PiBridge 2.1-dev pushed to github
Ha. I had a similar (email) query yesterday:It's an MDFS library utility...I've not tried to find it yet.Ahhhhh... That makes sense! I have had a Quick Look (in the usual places) can't find it.Thanks...
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general • Re: Today I received.....
An Acorn A4 with Econet!!!! Massive thanks to @IanJeffray and @KenLowe for meeting up, delivering and installing Econet Modules and shipping to me a fully functioning Acorn A4! One very happy boy...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • A3000 blueSCSI install with Linginuity SCSI adapter
Setting up blueSCSI with Linginuity SCSI card on A3000I've had an A3000 for a few years now, and a friend gave/traded me a SCSI adapter, so I thought it would be a good challenge to get a blueSCSI...
View Articleintroduce yourself • Re: Helloooo from Leeds
Welcome - however as many of the members here will confirm, that is a breeding pair of BBC micros and they will multiply. Two BBC micros is just about right. Statistics: Posted by julians — Fri Mar...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Ghostbusters (Activision)
I've played this through a few times now and not encountered any problems or bugs.Finally worked out how to get men past the Marshmellow man and won the game.I think its great.Thankyou for this great...
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scanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • Re: How many sold? German...
A310 1MB FD 27-AKB15-1009605 (and for once this is mine!)Statistics: Posted by a1exh — Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:56 pm
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: MAME: How to ... ?
I'm having a go at rolling my own Master MOS ROM and was wondering if it's possible to specify it (eg from the command line) rather than the one (ie mos3[2,5]0.ic24) embedded in roms/bbcm.zip...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Programming a 2764K EPROM with TL86II
It's easier to search for 2764 then see if an Intel 2764 is listed (NOT a 2764A) If that has VPP @ 21V and VCC @ 6V, try that.Oh, one thing I forget to say earlier. These older EPROMs don't actually...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: acorn system 2-5 questions :D
AFAIK, official number produced isn't known. However, since a System 3 cost in excess of £1400 back in 1980 (nearly £6k now), I doubt too many were bought. Since Acorn would have judged selling 12000...
View Articlescanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • System Technical Manuals
So far as I know, these expansion card TRMs have been MIA... CU-MEM.pdf Laboratory Interface Manual.pdf Analogue Interface.pdfStatistics: Posted by Boydie — Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:09 pm
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scanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • Re: System Technical Manuals
fascinating! great job archiving them Statistics: Posted by Cruxinc — Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:19 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Master MOS disassembly
This is excellent! I've been able to roll a new 3.20B and 3.50B based on your work that suits my machine's config (though only tested under emulation so far) and leaves a spare ROM slot. Thank...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: GAL16V8 as stopgap for dead video ULA
I would try this diagram, but there is no jed file for the gal 20v8 system Added I have been experimenting with an extra 74LS74 as a 2 bit shift registers to delay the DISEN signal and got reasonable...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: checking power supplies before use
C1, C2 should always be replaced with new parts. These Rifa capacitors are now infamous for going pop and giving an impressive smoke display (which absolutely stinks the place out).I strongly...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Setting a real-time clock to centi-second accuracy
I had a go at writing a straight division algorithm, and provided I can keep the dividend below 256 (2.56 seconds), it never needs to leave the accumulator. That keeps the whole thing down to about 40...
View Articlenew risc os games and conversions • Re: Archimedes Hypercube
Is there any possibility of posting Hypercube in a zip format? I can extract the 7z file on my PC, but all the filetypes for RISC OS are lost. On the other hand, it's easy to unpack zip files in RISC...
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