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Introduce Yourself • Re: Hello fellow Vintage computer enthusiasts
Welcome, cyberwebspace. Statistics: Posted by flaxcottage — Tue Apr 22, 2025 8:13 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Asking for help to identify a bbc...
Pretty positive you're thinking about Block Blitz.https://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=1226You’re a legend- that’s it. Thank you very much.Statistics: Posted by Hirsty — Tue Apr 22, 2025 8:42 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Help with Solidisk 256k and floppy disk drives
I do have a cheap oscilloscope but it's not fast enough to properly record a 4Meg signal. Do you know what the Solidisk board doesn't like about the pick-up points that don't work properly?No idea,...
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miscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Elite Compendium (BBC Micro +...
Ok. Tried the latest 2 elite images you suggested - no difference I’m running MMFS 1.53 (socket 13), with Watford DDFS 1.54T in socket 2.Statistics: Posted by SgtPepper — Tue Apr 22, 2025 9:21 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: My A3000 is dead
I've set it for Vsync and Csync with no inversion.Those are two separate settings you've tried? Because it's EITHER VSync (and then also fit the HSync link) OR CSync you set. The default is CSync.I've...
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8-bit acorn hardware • CUB 1441 Monitor vertical collapse issue
Hi all,I have just picked up a faulty CUB monitor which I am hoping to repair. It was suffering from vertical collapse, so I downloaded the schematics and found one of the capacitors to be a likely...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: CUB 1441 Monitor vertical collapse issue
Are you using the correct wattage resistor?viewtopic.php?p=441438#p441438Statistics: Posted by KenLowe — Wed Apr 23, 2025 8:03 pm
View ArticleIntroduce Yourself • Re: Hello from Rutland (a retro county)
Welcome to the Forum, Dave . . . Enjoy . . . Dave H.Statistics: Posted by daveejhitchins — Wed Apr 23, 2025 8:18 pm
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS *RECAP*
It's been a bit quiet of late on the BBS so here belowis a reminder of what Night Owl has to offer the Acorn and widerretro community if you value an almost 1980's period Viewdataexperience.The Night...
View Articlestardot FORUM • Re: Website crash and duplicate postings
Hi,I changed my Board preferences to Prosilver (Dark Edition), looks really good.Well done to the people who run this forum.Statistics: Posted by derek — Thu Apr 24, 2025 6:33 pm
View Articleprogramming • Reverse engineering "Taipei" Micro User listing?
I want to try and make a Mahjong game for the BBC Micro - proper Mahjong, not the tile matching variant. Despite the game's complexity I think it's definitely possible on this platform as my research...
View Articleprogramming • Parsing web address (http(s)://) in 6502 getting extra /
Hey all,I've almost moved my pretty slow Beeb web browser (basic) over to assembly. But I'm struggling to get it to split some hyperlink addresses correctly. For example some local links on a page...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Reverse engineering "Taipei" Micro User listing?
With the game loaded and in memory, there appears to be a block of machine code starting at &1c08 which you can dump from within an emulator. Here's the binary, which can be fed to a...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Disassemblies of BBC Micro Games
Level 7 has disassembled Star Wars (1987) by Daniel Gallagher, published by Atari:http://level7.org.uk/miscellany/star-wa ... sembly.txtStatistics: Posted by TobyLobster — Thu Apr 24, 2025 9:08 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S25 -...
Should have had 30k, just missed the mark........GF-5.pngStatistics: Posted by KarateEd — Thu Apr 24, 2025 10:14 pm
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programming • Re: Parsing web address (http(s)://) in 6502 getting extra /
Hi Greg thanks for the ideasBeing sensitive to the last character of the link suggests that the bug occurs only when the end of the link is reached, so I'm ignoring calls to HyperlinkDIRAddSlash...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • BeebEm crashing on linux wine
In the past I ran BeebEm under wine without issue. However for some reason it now crashes when switching model. It starts up as a regular model B but throws an error when switching to any other model...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS *FRI*
Night Owl is now up for this Friday evening..Thanks again to those who called last nightBrianStatistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Fri Apr 25, 2025 7:26 pm
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • B-Em ARM7TDMI very slow
I was pleasantly surprised that the ARM7TDMI emulation made it into B-Em as I can compile natively to linux (ubuntu)However, when I tried my old UMB scheme demo https://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewt...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: HFE and Index Pulses
Hopefully a quick question for someone who knows. With the HFE image file format, where should the index pulse be relative to the start of each set of track data from the file? If at the start, is the...
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