programming • Re: Ghidra reverse engineering tool
I've actually used Ghidra to disassemble, document, and label the Electron OS ROM, and found it very useful. You can easily assign labels to addresses, which then show up throughout the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Should I buy a BBC B or Master 128?
Neat storage for my BBC MasterStatistics: Posted by Distorted Vision — Sun May 11, 2025 12:19 am
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: ARM Eval PASCAL
Ah but poking around the gtoal website there is this BCPL source, which might be just the thing https://gtoal.com/acorn/arm/TutuPascal2/ATRAN/TRANSCode: // > Trans - Tutu's BL to ARM code...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3000 Purchase
It's a bit of a mess I'm not sure I like the amount of green on it. I'm not convinced it's booting properly either. Light coming on doesn't really mean anything.1) It's an auction, it probably won't...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Speed of zero page vs Electron sideways RAM
Here's Sloggers MRB circuit diagram - reversed engineered by Prime (Phill Harvey-Smith).Thanks for posting this! I recently looked into deciphering the circuit, but I think the conclusion is that the...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic adventure games • Re: Sphinx Adventure
I was trying to think of any other text adventures among the hundreds I have played down the years with no save game option included. ISTR Twin Kingdom Valley's (Electron version) save game feature...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Amiga-like demo on raspberry pico2 (RISC-V flavour)
Interesting, but not sure it serves any real purpose beyond "look what I did". That's what ALL demos are/for though. Statistics: Posted by IanJeffray — Mon May 12, 2025 12:51 am
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Game assist cartridge [idea]
Good grief, can't believe it's been almost a year since I posted about this! To give a brief status update, the project is progressing slowly and has morphed into a sound cartridge with some extra...
View Articlenew ideas wishlist & general chat • Re: More Boulder Dash!
Wow. You've been far from idle! Statistics: Posted by Cybershark — Mon May 12, 2025 10:29 pm
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Inufuto BBC games compilation
Did you ever get this into enough of a shape for a release?Back on the main topic - perhaps the Impetus part could be split off by a mod? - I see that a sequel to Mazy has been propagating across the...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Zezito in the Glittering Caves -...
Another stunner there Statistics: Posted by Cybershark — Mon May 12, 2025 10:32 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S25 -...
Couldn't wait for Hopman to be over so I could have a crack at this! Games can be quite long-winded here too but you'll never get bored. Although enemies can play some pretty unfair games of hide...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S25 -...
High Score Tables Updated for Season 25, Round 2......This is a simple, sometimes good, fun game. It's definitely not bug free as comments have suggested in the previous posts and it does get...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Chinese FPGAs
Great board Dave. Looking forward to seeing how you get on. Makes the 20K board so useful without messing with breadboards for everything. If you end up selling them I’ll be interested, blank board or...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Upgrading a BBC Master power supply with a modern...
Thank you for sharing! I recently purchased a BBC Master 128, got it shipped to Canada, and was disappointed to find that the Astec 0831,106 PSU (c) 1986 does not have the 220/110V jumper! This PSU...
View Articleeconet and other acorn specific networking • Re: Testers wanted for the...
Got in no problem this timeHooray! That's great news. MarkStatistics: Posted by MarkMoxon — Wed May 14, 2025 12:01 am
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Replacement A3000 motherboards
It whas not my board anyways. But i reader that there whas a replacement board. I got the keyboard already working on a pi with a converter. That part works. Nou i am waiting for my pi 5 module to...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3020 - Weird Error
Hi Folks, Ive been wrestling with an A3020 with significant battery damage. Im working my way through it of course but wanted to ask if anyone had seen an Archie throw up error messages :Error :...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Discbeast, new disc and archival utility --...
Should I be posting this elsewhere? Has the time past for these scans?Thank you so much! It's never too late to do more archiving of original discs I've added Revs 4 Tracks and ISO Pascal to the...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Sensible value of PAGE to assume when developing on Electron
This is more explicit. From the AP3 manual.Any idea what the disc protect bug is?IMG_7195.jpegStatistics: Posted by piersw — Wed May 14, 2025 10:44 pm
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