8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Fault finding index
BBC Model B (was a Model A) Issue 2 - serial and cassette don't work.Checked the serial ULA in another Beeb and it was fine. Checked for +5V and -5V and discovered the -5V line was missing. I did have...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Archimedes Hypercube
Thank you very much indeed, Ian.Statistics: Posted by aidanthegasman — Fri Jun 28, 2024 2:49 am
View Articleintroduce yourself • Re: Hello from West Berkshire
Let's hope they used the extra cash for packaging!Statistics: Posted by tricky — Fri Jun 28, 2024 8:47 am
View Articlearchive submissions • Re: 30th Anniversary BBC and Electron Collection
Hi Chris,Sorry, Yes I did mean Disc052 in Section 4.However. I have now re-posted Disc065 in Section 5 as I have added a "Does not work with Watford DFS" message to Treasure Hunt. I did try hard to...
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general • Re: Beeb Spotting
An Ionic Separator, although they seem to control it via a different interface!The dimensions make that look like a beeb monitor stand, but is it?Maybe someone just likes beebs I did think it was a...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Electron Plus 1 ROM emulation and SD interface...
Well it's all wired up and working with PiTubeDirect!IMG_20240628_111129_edit_485629983225889.jpgI had wired the 40 pin tube connector the wrong way, so odd pins 1-39 were swapped with even pins 2-40!...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em
I'm wondering if anyone else can reproduce this:If I use one of the January Windows builds from here, enable Music 5000 under Settings, and then start B-Em up at 500% speed usingCode: b-em -sp9I get a...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Dead Elk, repairs ongoing
Hurray!! Well done for getting it to work, so glad that's working for you now (mostly, will reply to the issue on other thread...)!Have you tried the 'turbo' mode: Ctrl + Caps Lk + 2? As you have an...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: JamSoftElectronULA: A no-frills Electron ULA...
So the display is pushed about halfway across the screen and about 2 lines up.If I remove/replug power 2 or 3 times, then it works and I get the normal Elk boot screen. Wondered if you had any...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Moving games and other software to rom
For my games, I have to compress most of them to fit in ROM but this also gives a little faster loading off gotek and floppy.They probably work in a similar way to those programs you describe but with...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: A new MENU system for MMC/Gotek
Is that using hoglet's core or the original that has known graphical issues? Also I seem to have introduced a bug into my menu build process that causes some games to not be found. If the are found...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: New Raspberry Pi to 1MHz bus interface
So far I've cleaned the 1Mhz pins on the beeb, tried 2, 8 and 16Gb sd cards formatted to FAT and FAT32, the DP11 and hoglet67 releases of the 1Mhz software, 2 different Pis.So typing P.$&FD00...
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other vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: UK101 Hardware...
Now that is very good. What OS do you use on your UK101?Statistics: Posted by flaxcottage — Sun Jun 30, 2024 8:38 am
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Lazy AtoMMC v4
OK. I bit the bullet and swapped ICs between the two boards. It turns out that the fault follows a 74LS175 IC. The turned pin sockets on both boards were hanging onto the ICs for dear life. Are they...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Fault finding index
Atom with AtoMMC v4 board.This displayed "Not found Error 161" or "No path Error 161" when attempting to load a file from SD. After the machine had ben left on for while the problem...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Spooksville - Game breaking bug?
Using the attract screen as a starting point, in BeebEM, I placed a breakpoint at &1C90, which is JSR &A89.This then allows memory locations &0D and &0E to be changed to the X:Y...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Usb keyboard for a beeb
Just sat in the garden enjoying a beer in this lovely warm weather, and got to thinking....Would it be possible to use an Arduino or a pico to interface between a USB keyboard and the Beeb &...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Puzzling over RTC year logic with PCF8583? RISC OS...
TLDR, is there any known issues with RISC OS machines and the year maintained by the clock (assuming good battery) if the machine has been off for more than 5 years? Reason for the ask is as follows....
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Reading/Writing from the RTC in the Electron Plus...
Additional Validation logic I updated the ROM (ssd in GitHub repository above) with logic that will avoid the user overwriting (with *I2CTXB or *I2CTXD) free storage used to manage the break toggle...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS
I'm connecting to my own virtual modem on my own (isolated) Asterisk install, which is then using a network connection to Telstar.I managed to talk to the author of the terminal program and he told me...
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