32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn A500 repairs
That's some pretty manky-looking soldering, too...Just hypothesising from there being three of them (and this having an RGB-missing-a-colour problem), Is this trying to botch original TTL video levels...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: UMI 4M
My apologies Nigel, I took the photo, but forgot to upload it.IMG_20240320_171640016_HDR~2.jpg4 ACIAs and supporting circuitry and luckily no electrolytic caps to go bad.I'll dig out my EPROM burner...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS
Many thanks John, Great talking last night, my pleasure.Night Owl is up again now for any callers.BrianStatistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:16 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Any consequences of fitting an Econet module?
Use one or more 28 pin sockets to raise the multios carrier board up a bit.Statistics: Posted by growntree — Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:54 pm
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general • Re: BBC micro in new ghostbusters film.
That must be there paying homage to ChrisB’s awesome BBC version of the game! Chris - your influence reaches far indeed Statistics: Posted by Rob_hawk — Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:56 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: PiBridge 2.1-dev pushed to github
Ok, stumped with something.There is a "not for regular use" branch v2.1-dev-dt in which there is a kernel module which does not write directly to the hardware. It appears to be happy on 64 bit, too,...
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Matchbox sized 6502 / Z80 / 6809 Co Pro
The latest firmware is from 2017?It is suitable for my model B, batch 4 green board?Edit: Updated my response.As far as I'm aware, the latest firmware (20171007_0719) works on all revisions of the...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn A500 repairs
What picture do you get if you press the green button on the monitor (IIRC it works by killing the blue and red channels, so it might give a clue as the problem is with the green signal).Also, SCART...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Music 500 -> Music 5000 and Music 500 -> Music 3000
I am at a loss as to how to test a pair of M500 that I did the resistor mod to and another I did the resistor mod to, added the two capacitors and a wire mod to the other M500 to make it into a M3000....
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC SCSI help
It seems this requires the SCSI2SD card to be connected to a PC.I don't have a way to do that.I can only work with the SD card in a USB adapter.RayStatistics: Posted by rharper — Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:24...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Music 500 -> Music 5000 and Music 500 ->...
Are you looking for specific M5000/M3000 tests or a way to check if they are working at all? If it is the latter you can use an M500 disc image that I posted here.Statistics: Posted by DutchAcorn —...
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acorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Atom Software Archive
I have never seen these games but I did find an article in Acorn User where Ricochet is mentioned ...GreetingsKeesStatistics: Posted by oss003 — Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:35 pm
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Viglen BBC B - first impressions
I've just acquired a beeb with one of these keyboards. It is truly awful. The plastic is so thin an flexible. The black surround is paper thin. The mounting arrangement for the keyboard is dreadful,...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS *NOW*
Night Owl is up again now Sat 23rd for any callers.BrianStatistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:48 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: HOWTO: An alternative tripler for Microvitec CUB...
As someone bloody insane enough to have a Cub shipped over to the USA that ended up needing a new tripler, I've been following this thread in the shadows... You know they actually sold some cubs over...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Midwich dual floppy drive good?
I've got the single-floppy version of that enclosure - it's a good sturdy well-designed case that will probably look like new after a good scrub, and the switches are a standard size. How reliable it...
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acorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Atom Colour Board Thread
Thanks - I'll post that shortly, That explains why I couldn't find the pinouts anywhere! Statistics: Posted by digidave — Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:47 pm
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: b2 - new emulator
Thanks for the link.. I got it running..I don`t see any keys to joystick option...So maybe I misread the detail ..Unfortunately you can currently only map PC keys to BBC keys, and PC joystick/gamepad...
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acorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Matchbox sized 6502 / Z80 / 6809 Co Pro
This is my board.Statistics: Posted by bakoulis — Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:20 pm
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general • Atom keycaps on my BBC B?
I noticed summat off about my issue 3's keyboard today; it looks like some Atom keycaps have snuck in!The apostrophe above number 7 is the giveaway. Also, 8 and 9 look too low compared to 1 - 6....
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