32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn A4 Laptop Repair
Isn't the small LCD for battery level?Ah, that's cool! I didn't realise that, it makes sense it's only showing the "20" segment as the battery is removed. Thanks!IMG_2819.JPGStatistics: Posted by...
View Articlegeneral • Re: BeebRoom 2024
I can't remember a time when all the FileStores were at home at the same time:BeebGarageJune2024-34.jpgTop one is the E01S which worked for a couple of hours and then stopped responding again. On the...
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Econet in all its guises • Re: Econet Clock / Termination
Ok, so here's the latest revision. After a bit of discussion with @ukwebb regarding the case design I decided to start again with the PCB layout, so that the OLED and rotary encoder are on the top of...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Shugart SA465 "goes to sleep"
Each drive or device uses one of the possible two (for Acorn systems, but the Shugart floppy standard allows for a possible four) select lines (denoted as DS0 through DS3 or DS1 through DS4). Some...
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off-topic • Re: Acorn Art Thread
Happy Summer / Winter Solstice!Greate pic! Winter Soltice for us, my favourite day of Winter as the days start getting longer again Statistics: Posted by FourthStone — Sat Jun 22, 2024 5:52 am
View Articleoff-topic • This forum image attachment
I now find that any image I upload to the forum turns into a texturePlease help !!!!Statistics: Posted by lovebug — Sat Jun 22, 2024 7:27 am
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Diagnostic/testing utilities for BBC?
The keyboard issue (for the keys) is normally dirty or tarnished contacts in the keyboard switches. Repeatably pressing and releasing each affected key fifty odd times often helps. Spraying contact...
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other vintage hardware, software and languages • BBC Basic on Junior Computer
hi all,After 40+ years I revived my Electors Junior Computer and now I'm running BBC Basic on it To achieve this I did some "minor" changes to the board: I added a small piggyback board with a 128K...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Meshtastic
You can still pick up signals from ionica.But only if the wind is blowing in the right direction. I almost went for a job there in the mid 90s, that was until I saw what they were doing, taking a...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
you're the winner! I've got no intentions of playing this again Something that I just noticed is the title of the whole thread is incorrect, somehow it's called "Boris in The Underground" and not...
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other events + general event chat • Re: Retro Computing Expo '24
Here are some pictures from the Retro Computing Expo '24. The most popular items were Concept Keyboard Podd (!) and the Valiant Turtle....
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: BBC Basic on Junior...
That's splendid!Statistics: Posted by BigEd — Sun Jun 23, 2024 6:42 am
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: How do you use ROM expansion boards?
That done, I would try poking 0-7 to any address in the utility ROM memory spaceThanks for the suggest it worked but not quite in the way I expected. Each socket is selected by writing 1 to a complete...
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Atom screen corruption
If the keyboard is resting on your desk then it may be that the Break key is getting pressed by accident, which resets the computer.D'oh!One thing you can try is to enlarge C11 or applying a decent...
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Timedata MZ163
Excellent news. I might swap the chips for 4116 since they are more readily available and change it to a 64k board.There does seem to be a fault on the card related to reset and screen corruption....
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn Archimedes 310 hard drive issues
Did you get a hard disc icon on the icon bar. can you post a picture of the output of *status?Statistics: Posted by IanS — Sun Jun 23, 2024 11:18 pm
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS *UPDATE*
There's not been much interest overall but been glad ofthe friendly enthusiastic callers Night Owl has had, unfortunatelymost don't return often enough to make this project worth continuing long...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Viewdata Service
Sorry to bump an old thread, but since I was looking at the Night Owl BBS earlier this evening and was perusing its list of other BBSs, I had to try Telstar as well.As previously noted in the Night...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: FujiNet design ideas
Does anyone have a suggestion on an emulator that can build on both Windows and Linux, that we can potentially start doing our initial bootstrap work on?One of the unique aspects of FujiNet is that it...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: [SOLVED] This forum image attachment
I just found thishttps://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#why-am- ... ped-imageswell that talks about a display issue but its got to be related to the upload issue somehowStatistics: Posted by lovebug — Mon...
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