off-topic • Re: Grouping and Counting & Sizing Files In Linux
Back on this as a new problem has emerged. Last month's picture sets, unusually, contain an apostrophe, and it can't cope with sizing the files. Counting is OK though:Code: BM Picture Set Counter...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S22 -...
So this is some kind of game compiler thing called "Cate" feels very choppy after "Missile Command" I've played it for a couple of hours today, I got within a whisker of Venger's score my hands stop...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Micro keyboard PCB
After playing "Aerial", I thought I'd get back onto the keyboard problem again. I think I've made some decent progress. Learning KiCAD and then upgrading from v5 to v8 and then learning all over again...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Source for the dark brown BBC Micro keyboard surround
And they’re very good too! I recently bought a set and you’d be really hard pressed to tell the difference.Statistics: Posted by dhoggan — Sun Jun 02, 2024 12:53 am
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Fault finding index
BBC Micro Model B, tape - continuous tone. Tricky's Test ROM, one relay click and continuous tone. Checked System 6522 and it was duff. Replaced the 6522 and now the test ROM works, putting back OS1.2...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Another Bush internet.tv mod thread
I wonder what carnage removing that bodge resistor would cause Probably make the modem detection intermittent (it's a Podule).Maybe. It does nothing heehaw to anything else.I thought that the modem...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: RISC OS 3.20 ROMs?
I moved things around and being mindful of everything I changed from when it was working ok to not, checked connections and put the podules back where they were originally. Problem seemed to go away....
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Beeb with no V-Sync on 6845
Sometimes I've had untraceable shorts on pcb's and had to resort to applying isopropyl alcohol to the pcb and a low(ish) voltage/high current to the two pins and see where the alcohol evaporates to...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Econet podule for RISCPC & A7000
Still need to produce a backplate and brackets for this, though.Are the bracket dimensions for this podule the same as the bracket dimensions for the A3010 podule? In other words, can I use this 3010...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: The Microvitec Series 13 / M1438 monitor: AKF50,...
Bit of a necro post but I thought I'd add this in here instead of making another thread...I found this strange oddity on US eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/183940779566Seller threw me a $75 BIN offer,...
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general • Re: JLC Component Assembly
Aha, a volunteer! That's the Dunkirk spirit, well done! 500 blank Pi Bridge boards on the way to you no doubt! Fortunately I've managed to get another batch ordered, so no need for volunteers quite...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A5000 Repeating Key Issue / Repairs in the UK
Thank for the reply. Just checking it now.Statistics: Posted by Mari0Bother — Wed Jun 05, 2024 10:27 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Using Treecopy with ROM filing system
RFS is treated as a Tape rather than a disk so tree copy wont work correctly. which is why typing CH."" will try to load and run the first program in the listSo, you'd actually need a tape to disc...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Shimmering Teletext on BBC/Master
As you may be aware, I've just recently repaired a faulty beeb. This involved removing a significant number of ICs, including the two ICs I needed to remove as part of this little project. Details in...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: RGB to HDMI using a Pi Zero and a small CPLD
Following on from my last post, here's a couple of traces from my scope showing two different power ups, along with a successful calibration associated with each waveform.Blue trace is the 1MHz signal...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A4000 floppy issues
I notice that none of the analogue components around this area are fitted on this machine, nor on any other photos I can find online. This is weird, because the schematic doesn't say "not fitted", and...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Game assist cartridge [idea]
Now if the Raspberry Pi Foundation could put a nice set of serial links onto the silicon that would accept code to boot from, we could finally have our cheap Transputer...I have recently built a board...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Who else is building a Beeb from scratch?
Delighted to say my new board is up and running! Just one minor panic at first switch on with the continuous low beep, but that turned out to be caused by a few jumpers I'd missed.Congratulations!...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: L@@K Amazing Super Rare Acorn A3005!!!!
Is there any date-code on the keyboard which would identify it as considerably later (ie. A3010 era) than the motherboard?The normal A3000 keyboard has different coloured special keys, they are much...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Adding a Switch to Aux Power Cable
Well, technically you only need a DPST. But DPDT toggle switches are more common.With a DPDT, each output wire (one +5V and one +12V) goes to each of the centre pins. Each input wire (one +5V and one...
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