general • Re: IC leg bending tools / chip pin straighteners
Thanks for the tips and confirming that these straighteners have a fixed position for the pins.When I say the 6502 is "loose" I don't mean it falls out, just that it slides into the socket a little...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: In development: Plus 1 Mini
Going by the weather so far we'll all have drowned by time I get the P1M finished! I'm using the unexpectedly available time to play around with some Altera Max V CPLD chips, which I expect to be...
View Articleprogramming • Re: BBC Mode 2 sprites
There is a youtube video referencing "Swift Sprite Data Format.PDF" (attached screenshot) that I am interested in locating but I haven't been able find online. Does anyone have a link to, or a copy of...
View Articlemodern implementations of classic programming languages • Re: Matrix Brandy...
Also, is there an open-source basic on RiscOS, or is it still a version which Acorn produced?Which is famously non-portable, so even if the source is open, it ain't going anywhere else.Statistics:...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • RISC OS 5.30: Wifi on Raspberry Pi hardware
I'd ask on the RISC OS Open forum, but it's closed to new members.RISC OS 5.30 adds wifi support on many Raspberry Pi models. Wifi either hangs forever (on 5 GHz access point) or times out (on 2.4...
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32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Please help me find this Acorn game!
I think it was a magazine cover disc game, see page 13 here: https://archive.org/details/acorn-archi ... d_Dec_1993 that's it! Thank you so much! I haven't seen the game in so many years!And you have...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A310 unable to access FDD
I have just received a one of these VR177X FDCs to try in place of the VL1772. Will hopefully get a change to install it in the next few days Statistics: Posted by nicf82 — Thu May 23, 2024 9:46 pm
View Articlegeneral • is it loofa or loofah or loofha ??
i am "playing" the satan gamein the badroom i can get loofa , but is that good english ? in dutch luffa (e:sponge)Statistics: Posted by duikkie — Thu May 23, 2024 10:15 pm
View Articlegeneral • Re: is it loofa or loofah or loofha ??
Loofah:IMG_20240523_224644439.jpg(1955 Little Oxford Dictionary of Current English)Statistics: Posted by Diminished — Thu May 23, 2024 10:55 pm
View Articlegeneral • Re: BeebRoom 2024
Also I don't have a DFS-only Beeb with PAGE at &1900, which is a very common setup, but recently I have written a DNFS/ANFS switcher which reliably (at last) allows me to turn off filing systems...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Beeb with no V-Sync on 6845
Check IC26/74LS139 and IC24/74LS138 and IC20/74LS139 - make sure the levels are good and not contradicting other outputs - the selection of an IC at the time memory is being read creates similar...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Testers wanted for BBC BASIC (Z80) version 5
Forwarded from Richard Russell's post from from The Distillery: (Apologies if I've put this in the wrong section, I had it running on the Z80 Second Processor)Since, for various reasons, I have had to...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: Econet basics (BBC Micro, Electron & RiscPC)
There's no disk controller on it, I guess that's another upgrade I'll require. I inherited this from my wife's parents, in the original packaging. It's dusty but otherwise untouched since the early...
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: ABUG Scotland #7 : Thu...
Perfect! Thanks Brian.Add in an owl if you have a bit of time and send straight to Ken via PM. Feel free to show the result here as well.Ok here's screenshots of the original , and another with added...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: Idea for discussion: Multiport Bridge /...
The problem is there doesn't seem to be a way to have a gap in the data with Econet -- so if the target network were faster than the source, it'll have to be fully buffered. That is to say, unless the...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS
Well, the last two visits were a tale of two downloaders. For disc storage I enabled Plus 1 and Plus 3, and I used the ACP E00 DFS.The first visit made use of the Jafa Mode 7 Simulator and the...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: PiBridge 2.1-dev pushed to github
Given that you've tried without the SJ Research terminator plug, it's unlikely to be the issue. However, you shouldn't really mix the SJ Research style terminators with the Pi generated clock (or the...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Testers wanted for BBC BASIC (Z80) version 5
Yes, PRINT/VDU just sends straight to CONOUT. I haven't checked yet, but PRINT CHR$17;CHR$n; and VDU 17,n would work.Statistics: Posted by jgharston — Sat May 25, 2024 1:36 am
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: If Acorn had concentrated less on 6502 2p as...
I would have been happy with an 8 bit latch at fe30 and 250 banks of 16K ramStatistics: Posted by lovebug — Sat May 25, 2024 11:24 pm
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: RGB to HDMI using a Pi Zero and a small CPLD
Ian,I would like to try your solution on one of my RGBtoHDMI's (12 bit issue 4). As I already have analog boards in place, I probably also need your 12 bit adapter to hook things up differently.Looks...
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