new projects in development: games • Re: Meteors++ (Enhanced Acornsoft...
Always thought Meteors was a solid conversion for the Elk but your update takes it to another level - it's so much smoother and more playable now. Incredible achievement, thanks and well done!Thanks...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: RP2040/Pico beeb emulator
Manged to get the project to compile and beeb.uf2 uploaded to a Pico. The Pico was then plugged into the Pimoroni VGA Demo board which was then connected via VGA cable to an LCD monitor. Upon power...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: PiBridge 2.1-dev pushed to github
Thought I'd make a quick post here to share details of some recent awesome updates that @ch12925 has made for me.I have been trying to get as many games as possible to run from the econet PiFS without...
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acorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Combined VGA / Tube interface board...
Because I find this a great project I build one for my self but I can't get it working, can someone help me to get in the right direction ?Here are some pictures I took:Statistics: Posted by dreamerxb...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Italian Master Compact - incorrect display
Looks more like the horizontal sync on the montor needs adjustedStatistics: Posted by vexorg — Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:36 pm
View Articlegeneral • Re: BeebRoom 2024
Trunking in office environments is often just above desk height.MarkStatistics: Posted by 1024MAK — Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:38 pm
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S22 -...
A small bump up during our ABUG meeting yesterday. I played this on my Pi-B-Em emulator using a keyboard that Colin Hoad recommended. It's a pretty nice keyboard, nicely mechanical and really solid....
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Citadel Item Randomiser 0.4 (updated)
Second, I tried halving the number of frames to 128 (0x80) (as in the attached SSD image). That has worked well for me. It's not impossible to win if you're careful, but it's hard and you definitely...
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general • Re: Today I received.....
PURPLEStatistics: Posted by Diminished — Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:48 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A4 new faults
Problem solved. Dismantled and discovered one patch wire to a capacitor had come adrift. Now (badly) reassembled and both problems have gone. I'll need to dismantle again and do a proper job but that...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: ROM / RAM board
If you have some pdf regarding this board, it will be kind to share.It's a Watford RAM/ROM board, details and manual can be found at https://chrisacorns.computinghistory.or ... Board.htmlStatistics:...
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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: MMFS and Pi1Mhz JIM ram disk
Sounds good .I'd like people to test the different builds since I can only test of a BBC Model B so I'd like to know it works on other systems.I'll give this a try this evening.Copy an appropriate...
View Articleprogramming • (semi-OT) Robin Green's Faster Math presentations
This is general, rather than Acorn, but lots of interesting information insideIf you like reading about math approximations and “theoretical vs. actual” algorithms, there’s a fascinating series of...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Making a co-pro non-Hi Language, Hi
....I think it would be impossible though, as it would need constant copying of different parts of the ROM code into the language area in the second processor...I don't see why that should be a...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A5000 Gone for good? :0
Aha I sat running the POSTbox tests over and over and finally it failed with this IOC fault, so I will scope the La and Bd lines and latches see if anything looks weird in that area.Code: SELFTEST...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Disassemblies of BBC Micro Games
Question on disassembling a file that contains both basic and 6502 code, how would you go about dissembling it so that it can be recompiled back to the same code, say for example superiors...
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: DaDither image converter
is Nula essential?The first screenshot is a picture for a regular BBC, the second screenshot is a picture for NuLA.Statistics: Posted by DecAns — Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:45 pm
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Updating Econet Bridge
May have to spin up another PI to test further , should have some free time this evening.Statistics: Posted by gavinlew — Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:47 pm
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programming • Re: "Auto-Hazel"
Good point about NMIs...I just spent an hour and spotted my deliberate mistake. I need the "auto" feature to enable the Hazel RAM if an instruction is running from an enabled ROM _or_ if an NMI...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Emulator for BCPL Rom Support.
Hi,I'm new to the from so excuse the ignorance.I've been thinking of getting back into 8bit coding for. bit of fun.40 years ago I had a BBC B with quite a few sideways roms, different bits and...
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