off-topic • TV Aerial Splitting
Just having a last-minute think about the house move. In the front room are various TV cables terminating in RF coax connectors and the other ends of these emerge with the same connectors in different...
View Articlegeneral • Re: BeebRoom 2024
All the Beebs have been transplanted now. I'm sure Dave H will be pleased that the only Acorn still here is my latest Electron.My benches probably aren't going to be put back up for at least a couple...
View Articlegeneral • Re: UHF modulators
Not all of them are rusty.The plating on them is not that thick, hence if they are stored in an area where it gets damp, or condensation may form, because it's one of the larger metal items, that's...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Making extra space for Basic by resizing the screen
Here' a version for Mode 5 with the comment removed. Change L% to be the number of lines to remove.Code: L%=2MODE 5VDU 28,0,31,19,L%VDU 24,0;0;1279;1023-L%*32;H%=&5800+320*L%:HIMEM=H%VDU...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S22 -...
Slightly better... 2220Statistics: Posted by FourthStone — Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:52 am
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Micro NMI spamming
So my next job is to remove IC27 and test it. I've got a handy replacement in the disc interface for easy swapping. It is marked as 7438 so basic TTL, before the Schottky stuff became standard.The...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: How do I format a floppy disk in a BBC Master 128?
For some reason DFS's FORM40/80 command isn't in any of the user guides, or they're not according to the searches I just ran.Any idea where this is documented? As I appear to be missing some...
View Articlenew projects and releases: text and graphic adventures • Re: The Lords of...
This can also do the conversion to magic print statements: https://8bitkick.github.io/vdu/Statistics: Posted by TobyLobster — Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:33 am
View Articleintroduce yourself • Re: Hello from Sheffield
Welcome, when I moved to Devon, the school had an Altair with the switches and lights, but that didn't really grab me. Soon after they got one of the first mz80k machines and my fascination with...
View Articleother events + general event chat • Re: 2024 Econet LAN party 18 & 19th May
I think I can make it this time!Statistics: Posted by baz4096 — Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:24 am
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Keyboard Retrobrighting
I've retrobrite'd A3010 keys before. I used 12% cream, put them all in a single zip-lock style sealed plastic bag, and floated it in a sous vide warm water bath, occasionally manipulating the bag to...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC master fault finding guide
Progress, I replaced IC15 and now have a screen back and "this is not a language"Still a bit unsure as to why that IC would die while sorting out the other issues.Statistics: Posted by vexorg — Wed...
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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Clogger Answers
Nice work Rhys! I've been a lifelong fan of Repton, but never owned this back in the day, it always looked interesting in the magazines though.If you've got the energy you should definitely record...
View Articleintroduce yourself • Re: Hello from East Kilbride
Welcome - from this ex-Newton Mearns Canadian ...Statistics: Posted by scruss — Thu Feb 15, 2024 4:08 am
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: Model Master 128+Acorn Z80 Second Processor
Thanks for the listing, it does make things easier. I was doing a little debugging of the Z80 tube in b-em and noticed that there’s a NULL missing from the end of the register list. The debugger runs...
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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: A new MENU system for MMC/Gotek
Thanks so much for producing this I’ll give it a try. I had found that the “drive only needs to be spinning” for the &80. If you’ve changed that to a &00, then it will spin up and change disks...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: The palette converter for the Archimedes
@paulb Thank you very much. I didn't know about these Cromenco machines and the graphic cards for them. However my article is about more mainstream stuff.Statistics: Posted by litwr — Thu Feb 15, 2024...
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: New Word Game : Waffle
The dictionary is around 2600 words. I got it as a filter of the dictionary from my Wordle port as I recall. IMHO if you play the proper online version there are also repeated words that seem to come...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Micro NMI spamming
Worth checking that your network/termination is in good order before plugging in this machine - with it idle measure D+ and D- on the socket with a meter and they should be somewhere around +1.5V with...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3000 restoration possibility
I have checked each pin's continuity for each of the rom sockets (before removal) and they all trace back ok except ROM3's VPP. I will get the sockets removed, then try to find the borken...
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