other vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: DEC VT-101 Flyback...
Heard back from Lotharek. They said that they cannot guarantee that Medussa will work but that it likely will given that the Sony PVM does and that normal composite video devices display a shifted...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Will changing VC1 fix my colour problem?
I think I'll just forget about that idea and get a Scart splitter. It's £50, but will split the RGB for me. That should work well.I assume you mean £5? Do you have a device for recording that takes an...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Econet: Line jammed!
I just had a freshly made Beeb with "Line jammed" and found I had inadvertently bent pin#3 on the 68B54 underneath the IC. I checked all over the analogue circuitry and couldn't find the problem, then...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Storing data without using RAM
Clever stuff!I can't think of anything that good, but on a Master (but not a B/B+), could you use &FE30 to store data? I don't know how wide it is, but I suppose it must be at least 4 bits.If you...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: New Raspberry Pi to 1MHz bus interface
I wondered if the M500x emulation used the PWM outputs for audio? The PiZero can be made to output analogue stereo audio by adding the parts the Pi Foundation decided not to install....
View Articleprogramming • Re: Timers and interrupts problem in BBC assembler
If you set the load and run addresses to be in the beeb's memory space, you can probably leave it on.&FFaaaa, or if writing from beebasm &30000 + &aaaa.Statistics: Posted by tricky — Fri...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Yet another partly dead A5000
My experience trying to overclock Alphas is to the negative - they don't, at all. YMMV, but I'd put the 66Mhz back in if you do still have it - at least for testing - you want the most basic standard...
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introduce yourself • Re: Hi from London
Hi,welcome to this great Forum... "Everything"? , but no Atom... Greetings from my little Dutch Atomic Attic, Wim... Statistics: Posted by Multiwizard — Sat May 11, 2024 6:16 am
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off-topic • Re: a forum game for members
That first question is a perfect one but I'll let someone else answerStatistics: Posted by lovebug — Sat May 11, 2024 6:43 am
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: PiBridge 2.1-dev pushed to github
On the plus side, authenticated TRUNK works. Yey. I've noticed what appears to be rather a shortcoming of the trunking though. And it wasn't obvious until I stumbled on the following comment in the...
View Articlenew projects and releases: demoscene • Re: Voxel Landscape
I've updated the Github repository and the ssd images above. The High resolution versions have the improved line logic which adds speed to them. All versions have one of the calculations moved outside...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: PunyInform and Ozmoo
I have also fixed some glitches with the ReCo6502 (at least as emulated in b-em), which would fail to run games built with turbo support and would report nonsense times for the benchmark because Acorn...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Obsolete, but not gone: The people who won't give...
I don't think the majority of people want physical media. Yes, there is some nostalgia in picking up a tangible object As said in that article, it's not just nostalgia, some very expensive older bits...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Apache Valley - possible new...
In particular, I would like to be able to modify memory contents via the debugger but the help list doesn't show any commands for this?b-em has the "writem" command for this. If you are building your...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Time to cut my losses?
I've just opened it up, pulled S22 out and back in (I've previously cleaned all the switches), as it's to do with the ROMs. I switched it on, and "BBC Computer 32K BASIC". Seriously? It's got nothing...
View Articlecommunications • Re: Buzzbox Modem Ebay
I should still have mine somewhere, didn't get a lot of use, upgraded to something faster very quickly.IIRC it could also run from two 9V batteries that fitted inside.Statistics: Posted by IanS — Mon...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S22 -...
I'll try it on my BBC after work.Have you noticed anything in the code about the joystick being backwards? I still don't know if it's just me, or everyone.I almost to to the level that was corrupt a...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Faulty Issue 7 Model B
I've got a beeb here that's not working. I've worked my way through the Service Manual, and all the bits I can check seem to be working ok. The various clocks are all working, RnW is working, reset is...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Piconet: an Econet interface for Mac/Linux/Windows
At the risk of 'please do it and submit a pull request' responses ... has anyone looked in to adding network-level support to ecoclient? Currently it can only talk to the local network, not via any...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: DFS 2.45 ROM layout
Thank you, I think that is probably what started me thinking about it initially, but no conclusions came out of that thread on the differences between the MOS and EPROM versions of DFS 2.45. But I was...
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