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off-topic • Re: Acorn Art Thread
You got anymore fonts planned ?Possibly, if you have any particular font sheets you would like to use in bitmap or png format I can try to import them to the Telepaint format. I usually have to do a...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Beta testers wanted for I2C 4 U Rom for Electron AP6
Ever since I upgraded my Electron Plus 1 with Dave Hitchens AP6 expansion the unused RTC and I2C features he had included on the board had been niggling me. After a lot of help from Dave and the kind...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Reading/Writing from the RTC in the Electron Plus...
Ok, I tested the year handling code and it appears to be working. As discussed earlier in this thread the next step is to embed this ROM into the AP6 mega ROM and add yet more features. However since...
View Articlenew ideas wishlist & general chat • Re: what should i write next?
The scrolling is a problem and would be a pain to do with a reasonable screen size and still slow the bike to move slowly. <snip>Another option would be a top down view with the houses leaning...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em
There is one thing that bothers me about b-em and that is the weird missing pixels in a single columnI know its something to do with scaling but I have been unable to find what exactly is causing...
View Article32-bit acorn emulators • Re: Do any Archimedes emulators have debug tools?
It's worth noting that in the years since this thread started, Arculator has in fact gained an integrated debugger! It's in the latest Arculator version, 2.2, and you access it through the Debugger...
View Articlegeneral • Re: What Power Lead Do I Need For This?
Either way, just chop it and put a 13A plug on it.I had to bin the ones I had in the end as the plastic inside went brittle with age, so after a few broke changing devices on them it was all binned...
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general • Re: Not today I received.....
Yesterday I picked up pretty locally (21km) a generous giftfrom a retired PTT (old Dutch communication company) employeehe bought all this in 1988 from a Philips shop... According to him he barely...
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new bbc and electron games from 'retro software' • Re: New Release: Castle...
I blown away by the quality of the game Statistics: Posted by lovebug — Fri Jul 05, 2024 11:43 pm
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Beta testers wanted for I2C 4 U Rom for Electron AP6
I always thought that the time and date should be on the top line at the right hand side - then doesn't clog-up the display !!Thoughts . . . Dave H.Thats a very good idea! Also there are a few bits...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: BeebEm Mac - Info
Yep. Welcome to the wonderful world of PPPC (or Privacy Preferences Policy Controls).Basically anything that does file operations has to be approved by the end user. (or in some, but not all cases...
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introduce yourself • Re: Hello from North Somerset
Welcome Statistics: Posted by lovebug — Sat Jul 06, 2024 4:00 am
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off-topic • Re: Online Banking on PC vs Telephone
I had a password manager plugin for firefox so I could handle the 400+ websites, emails and other things online and everything was fine until one day I decided to reinstall my operating systemAs soon...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Keys only work when others pressed
So you like this this schematic correct? (Clicking the “up” arrow below)I noticed there were several errors in the Advanced User Guide version of the keyboard layout. Some of these have been...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC B Problem
I have a working stock of new 6522s. Not Chinese sourced either. Pm me if you want oneStatistics: Posted by e668ecp — Sat Jul 06, 2024 8:05 am
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32-bit acorn software: other • Re: Working RISC iX IDE driver, "ecide"
As a side note, I've also added support for HCCS A3000 IDE cards to ecide, with a pull request at https://github.com/evansm7/riscix_ide/pull/2. Some quirks of the HCCS IDEFS make it a little bit less...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic adventure games • Re: Aural Quest
Cool, I had no idea this even existed! (I bought the album secondhand on CD in about 2002.) I died on my very first move, which I guess is probably expected.I can't even answer the phone - is that a...
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: DEC VT-101 Flyback...
I finally bit the bullet and removed most of the CRT related electronics. I decided I wanted a decent metal front plate to provide structural support and additional shielding / ground plane. I do not...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Econet: Not Listening (I broke it again)
ADFS 1.33 as most of my Beeb stuff is stored on a CF card formatted for IDE and used with Retroclinic Datacentre on my Master. This Beeb will hopefully be suitably equipped soon also.Understood....
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Spooksville
Thanks @scarybeasts, this is mainly @necronom 's effort and I believe they are now working on a full playthrough on real hardware recorded for YouTube. I just rolled in at the end and worked out how...
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