32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A5000 help
May be the cable I bought from Amazon but not sure where to look already spent £25 on 2 cablesI’ll try 0 again although I’ve tried holding numbers 0-9 already Screenshot pic is button 5Statistics:...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • BBC Case Plastic Type
Hello,Does anyone know what type of plastic the BBC case is made from please?I'm wanting to try plastic welding one that's been abused somewhat, so need to know to get the right...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Case Plastic Type
It's ABS. Be wary of melting it as the fumes it releases are toxic.Statistics: Posted by Ukwebb — Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:01 pm
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn A500
Hi to everyone and thanks for all your help and advice, YES it is working.I get an error on boot up.Configured network station is invalid, using 1 instead & net loaded on the Icon bar, this is...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: In development: Plus 1 Mini
Sounds interesting You say that the joystick port is Atari compatible which is fantastic. Does it support two fire/trigger buttons? Does it include a +5V supply pin. Is it compatible with Sega Genesis...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC B "homebrew" PSU?
I'm looking at it and wondering if it is linear. There are two very large inductors on the base board, I usually only see such sized devices when dealing with SMPS. I have seen a couple of these bodge...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Reactivity demo on A3010
HI, I'm new o the Acorn world, therefore my question will certainly look strange.I have a A3010 with a total of 4 Mb of RAM, and I'm trying to run the Reactivity demo. But when I launch it, the...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Improved Electron version of Elite
How far can sideways ram go? is it conceivable it could be adapted to add second processor type stuff too? details on planets? suns ?The two constraints are memory and CPU speed.To expand on this,...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Large haul of Acorn ROMs/EPROMs
FWIW, here's the information the ROMs contain:Code: rom_file_namebinary_versionrom_titleversion_stringcopyright_stringANFS418.rom4Acorn ANFS 4.18(C)1985 AcornEBBSData.rom2EBBS Data ROM0.01(C) O.C.S....
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32-bit acorn hardware • A310 unable to access FDD
I have an A310 machine here which I thought was working fine! Just opened it up, chucked out the old batteries and gave the contacts a clean and replaced, DEL-power on and everything else looked...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • SOUND statement query
Hi all,I am working on a graphics/sound library for macOS, Windows and Linux that implements a retro style frame buffer, sound, keyboard, mouse and game controller interface. Each platform is...
View Articleintroduce yourself • Hello - I'm writing a book on Acorn
I am a journalist, who wrote for Acorn User in the Nineties, and am writing a book on the history of Acorn Computers.So far, I have been able to interview a range of key figures from Acorn, including...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: How do you search for Acorn 'stuff' on eBay?
i tend to not search at all and just look through the complete listings under vintage computers.You'd be amazed of the number of typos , and even significantly lacking details some people put their...
View Articleintroduce yourself • Re: Hello - I'm writing a book on Acorn
I am a journalist, who wrote for Acorn User in the Nineties, and am writing a book on the history of Acorn Computers.So far, I have been able to interview a range of key figures from Acorn, including...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Master auxiliary power connector
Now £1.49+ VAT each! Unless I've got the wrong part: https://uk.farnell.com/amp-te-connectiv ... t=640545-2theyre the gold plated ones , hence the price These are the Farnells part numbers I've used...
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off-topic • Re: Acorn Art Thread
Facility 2-5Statistics: Posted by pixelblip — Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:00 pm
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acorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: BOOKING THREAD: ABUG...
hi kieran, just wondering as not sure, would it be £30 as its for me and parent or just £15 as im dragging them along (they wont be bringing anything)?thanks a lot!(also admins if you could email me...
View Articleoff-topic • Mechanical keyboards with a retro aesthetic
*edit to correct a spacing error in some keys*So Commodore fans are going to get a rather nice looking C64 themed 10 keyless mechanical keyboard courtesy of the people at 8BitDo...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Music 500 -> Music 5000 and Music 500 ->...
After watching ladies and gentlemen perilously avoiding a nasty bout of E-coli infection, I spent a bit of time figuring out why two different DACs and two different sets of op-amps would give the...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • A310 2 faults 1 Not finding SCSI drive 2 Floppy drive
I will start with the floppy drive , I did not know this was faulty till I tried to find drivers for SCSI drive.I have tried another drive & that works OK (Not the right one for A310) .The light...
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