8-bit acorn software: other • Re: C development for FujiNet and cc65 bbc target
Our production units are built on WROVER-E chips. These have 8MB of PSRAM, as well as 8 or 16MB of Flash memory.E.g. some of our targets are built on the DevkitC-VE unit, while some of the Commodore...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: DFS 2.45 ROM layout
I just tried OSWORD &7E on a DFS disc, using Master 128 with MOS 3.50 and DFS 2.45 in the system ROM, but the call works, and reports the disc size as 204800. So I'm not sure what the bug is...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Micro keyboard PCB
OK, an hour of frustration and I've gone from thisbefore.jpg to this after.jpg oooooh! It's so shiny!I've scanned it in and made a layered view for all tracks, source and destination, all components,...
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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Minor Bug in *Copy in DFS 2.24 and possibly...
Bearing in mind you'd also have to make it use main memory, the keyboard links and the different SWRAM layouts of the B+, it'd be easier to mark up a disassembly of 2.26 and import the features you...
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Econet in all its guises • HOWTO: Quick guide to setting up a shared...
This is one of those quick "I had to look all this up and I'm going to forget if I don't write it down" threads If anyone has any suggestions for additions or improvements, please drop a reply below...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Faulty master mainboards
Have you put in Trickys test rom?yes, same thing - single relay click on power on, then nothingI have notice AA14 and AA15 never have any activity on them, but every other address line looks...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Stupid question re battery backed RAM
Hi allI've got one of Steve/IFEL's RAM/ROM boards in my Beeb. It's been in there for a couple of years now, and due to infrequent use, I'm thinking that it will soon be time to change the battery for...
View Articlestardot FORUM • Re: Saving a copy of a stardot thread
Sometimes when I want to generate a list of URLs for a multi-page webpage, I use a spreadsheet and have the base URL say in cell B1 and then column A is a concatenate formula with B1 plus the row...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Yet another partly dead A5000
Ordered a donor disk to swap the board to see if I can restore it that way.In shocking (at least to me) news the donor drive arrived (it was toast, defects far outrun the defect list) but using the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Stupid question re battery backed RAM
yes, change the battery whilst the machine is powered onbut I'd measure the voltage first, no point changing it for the sake of it.Statistics: Posted by Ukwebb — Sun May 26, 2024 11:04 pm
View Articleoff-topic • Re: VR
Abduction in Gillingham Part 1....done with VR .....and teletext!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFEx9l-4ldAStatistics: Posted by pixelblip — Sun May 26, 2024 11:10 pm
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em
Would it be a bad idea or even possible to allow b-em to ignore the case of the file extension when loading disk images ?I see (for example) some archives have .ssd others .SSD or any case...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Replacement A3000 motherboards
Unless AW11Ghost means something like this? For fixing minor alignment on the pins?https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spiratronics-T ... B0093Z7JH0I do echo what Ian says... if you've bent the pins, you could...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Faulty Issue 7 Model B
Have you confirmed the address bus connections between the 6502 and the IC12/13, particularly A5 and A12?Yes, those have all been checked. I'll post up a marked up schematic showing everything I've...
View Articlesoftware & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Re: Quadbike 2: Tape...
Updated tibetuef.php (0.8) to support work on B-Em:- new +112 command-line option encodes silence using chunk &112 instead of &116 (multiple chunks may be needed);- updated TIBET versioning...
View Articlesoftware preservation • Re: preserving old discs
Although we have a decent number of the Beebug magazine cassettes, I don't think any of the discs have been preserved. Now, it's likely that much of the software that's on them exists in other places,...
View Article32-bit acorn emulators • Clock Signal is an easy-to-use Archimedes emulator
Bumping to a less obtuse post subject, Clock Signal is an emulator of the Archimedes. Here's the first-run setup instructions as an animated GIF:Archimedes first.gifmacOS builds are here, on its...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Reading/Writing from the RTC in the Electron Plus...
Beta Release of AP6 RTC *TIME, *DATE etc Support I have shared all the code (thank you Martin again) and a beta compiled AP6 version of the I2CBeeb ROM with rather long README file. This repository...
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32-bit acorn hardware • A3000 serial issues with Intersil CDP65C51 (with fix)
While trying to setup PPP networking on my A3000, I noticed some odd behaviour from the serial port - it was sending a very short (one character-time) break before each transmission, which, depending...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em
I've been unable to work out how to save the memory to examine it on linux so I have no idea why this is happeningIndeed there is no command to do this from within the b-em debugger at the moment....
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