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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
Oh no! It just crashed while I was on my best score. Only one life left though...Second time it's crashed on me, actually.5750.PNGIt did that to me last time, when we played it in Season 16...
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: Apps that are good at producing annotated documentation?
Some word processors can have comments added. With Microsoft Word for example, these appear in a separate column on the right. They are linked with whatever text you highlighted and the users name...
View Articlesoftware preservation • Re: preserving old discs
I am sure there are other ways but I have always used PlayUEF to convert UEF to WAV http://playuef.8bitkick.cc/?&turbo=1&ba ... LOCAL=truegreat. I'll use it. thank you. :)I don't know if...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Valiant Turtle owners
I struggled to find suitable tyres so ended up making my own.I used some rubber strip of the correct thickness, cut a long enough length and then cut it to the correct width. I secured one end with...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Citadel Item Randomiser 0.4 (updated)
The radiation is emitted from the crystals, so surely carrying the things about should incur a radiation penalty.Statistics: Posted by 6502 — Thu Jul 11, 2024 9:39 am
View Articlearchive submissions • Re: 30th Anniversary BBC and Electron Collection
Hi all,Just re-posted Disc101 in Section 6 due to amendments to Strawberry Fields allowing you to save your scores to disc. You must insert a blank disc into Drive 0/2 as the game is on side 2 of this...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em
I just pulled the latest changes from github for the fix of elite music/graphics issueI compiled b-em but there is a problem, the emulator is running at normal speed but the screen is only updating at...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Another FPGA Atom techy question
So I got the T65 core and set the mode to 6502. Then I put this into my VHDL in place of the Free6502 core.It was far easier than expected, but there is a very weird issue.With the old Free6502 core...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: b2 - new emulator
If you still get a message about unsupported gamepad on startup, please post the log here and I'll try to figure out what's going on.Still an error.Interestingly, I did a manual grep for some of the...
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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: *** HELP THE EDUCATIONAL ARCHIVE ***
ok, maybe not then The menu builder gui does allow various categories to be added and removed as well as individual titles, but that might not be practical BBC micro.co.uk is manageable and the whole...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
A fun, nicely written game. It is the play-tested version of Star Swarm - notable differences, the swarm doesn't fire precisely at you all the time, the walls now bounce your bullets and the ESCAPE...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Model B memory corruption
What is the config of the Beeb? i.e. tape, disc, roms etc. Maybe post a hires shot of the entire innards.When you tried to type in memtest and you stalled at line 270, was that just a one-off attempt...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Hong Kong PSU
This is a very old thread so probably not being watched?I discovered one of my machines has the Hong Kong PSU in it when I came to recap and nothing matched.It is second hand but doesn't ever seem to...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
No pillars would make a great game mod, probably make the game slightly easier but more fun, the game difficulty then would be avoiding the ever increasing snake speed instead of repeatedly running...
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development tools • Re: Apps that are good at producing annotated documentation?
I thought about the text selection process, realised that I could probably replicate the generated HTML for a given text string, tokenising and formatting the text string again in isolation using the...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: Econet Level 4
You might find them implemented in awsever too. https://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/downl ... p?id=99999I don't think doing a remote type peek on the client to work out what you can send it started with...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: A new MENU system for MMC/Gotek
Updated the .zips in the top post again, fixed a bug where MMFS and SmartSPI disc numbers were being partially counted in hex and partly in decimal mean that some times it would try to load disc 13;...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS
Ah, that would explain why I couldn't get on, yeah. (After I made that post, I went to bed.)Good to know about the extended hours! That's really useful to know - I'll make sure I keep trying. I had...
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: Atari 520ST with thermal...
Was this model equipped with the built in floppy drive?I am currently running a 520ST wedge with external floppy and a 520ST+ wedge. The non-plus one has a built in modulator and composite video out...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Can a BBC B 6502 CPU crash?
As a side note I recently fixed an Electron, and the CPU was showing signs of being frozen, but the cause was a bad OS/BASIC ROM that was causing the CPU to 'lock up'.If you can it may be worth...
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