8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC aux power plugs/sockets
Try dropping Mark at RetroClinic.com a message, this is the kind of thing he usually has available.Statistics: Posted by baz4096 — Sat Feb 03, 2024 7:40 am
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Master Compact 128k MOS
I’ve started a new thread from this one as the subject has changed…viewtopic.php?t=28091 Time now to upgrade the MOS IC to a larger one to use the other rom spaces available.I need to find or build a...
View Articlenew ideas wishlist & general chat • Re: More Boulder Dash!
If no-one else is doing so, I started making a disassembly (using the the version from http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=669)https://github.com/TobyLobster/Boulderd ... __1___.asmI've not got far with...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Master Compact 128k MOS
I'm happy that someone in the world wanted to replicate my experiment, a desire I had since I was a child in 1986 to see all those full ROMs I updated my old article by inserting direct links from...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: ADJI Testing and Results
FireTrack (BBC Master) working! Thanks to the amazing disassembly of the game (https://www.level7.org.uk/miscellany/fi ... sembly.txt) I was able to leverage a nice configuration easter egg from...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: FileStore E01S & E60S - Lost SYST password
Thanks everyone, will try with the floppy and see how we get on Beebmaster!Philipem, completely agree with data. I was meaning programme files in case there was something that was interesting to the...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Model B Issue 7 "40th Anniversary...
Yesterday evening I had a great break-through with this Beeb ... it's almost working I did check the R85 3k3 resistor (which is all right) but I discovered that the IRQ level was about 1V. And that's...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Dead BBC B - Blank Screen, constant Beeeeeee
So, I'm rapidly getting to the point where the issue is beyond my available equipment (I can't really justify buying a scope for this project!). Notice I'm not blaming any gaps in my particular skill...
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32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • Re: Hard disc image of RISCiX backup on...
I appear to be completely and inexplicably delusional. It seems I have no actual fact to sustain any previous comments here about clock speeds.I pulled the CPU out of my A540 (AKB50 SN 985) , which I...
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other vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: UK101 - "DOS"...
cool, I had a go at running it ("DOS") yesterday but I think it crashed after loading. I using the Tim Baldwin emulator from when I was doing UK101 stuff in 2014. I still have on my PC, the files from...
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: UK101 Hardware...
Hi,I have still my original audio computers 32k card from the 80s. When I installed it back then I had to change the CPU socket as the pins on the memory card where to large for the original socket...
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8-bit acorn hardware • BBC Master 128 Battery Pack
Having revised my Master 128 I took a look at the battery pack. This has been in the machine for at least 12 years, probably more, and I suspect it's actually the original unit.Having said that - it...
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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: The Greatest BBC Micro Programmers
Plus unreleased games 'Pink' and 'Cosmic Debris', which I have on a disk somewhere.13 years since the last activity in this thread... that, sir, is quite the necropost! Presuming you to be the author...
View Articlesoftware & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Re: Xfer in C
Does it work if you set the COM port as \\.\COM12 or \\.\COM13? The Windows CreateFile function needs the \\.\ prefix to use COM ports above 9.Statistics: Posted by chrisn — Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:35 am
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: py8dis - a programmable static tracing 6502...
I don't have access to a PC right now to test this, but I suspect you can define your own hook function which is a lightly tweaked copy of the existing stringhi_hook:Code: def my_stringhi_hook(target,...
View Articlenew ideas wishlist & general chat • Re: More Boulder Dash!
I've added level wipe.I've compiled a list of memory locations within the editor and think amoeba growth / magic wall time would be at 4C54Since there's only one or the other (or neither) on a level,...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: Archimedes Software Preservation Project
Tried that version, and everything seemed to go OK. Was able to actually create the JFD, but when I try to open it I get the error: "FileCore does not understand this disc".Did you image it from a...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • High Score Challenge - S22 -...
Stardot high score challengeSeason Twenty Two: Round ThreeCookie chosen by MatthewThompson=====================================================================================RULES Round Three starts...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: "A very nice, compact SWRAM/Flash board"
There is also a problem with the code that I uploaded to github, which makes it inclined to say NO quite a lot more than it should.I will see about updating it or maybe just paste the fixed version...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: A new MENU system for MMC/Gotek
The DFS and 8271 know that it’s been asked to write a single 512 byte sector - that what the &41 OSWORD parameter byte does - the top three bits indicate the sector size, the rest indicate the...
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