introduce yourself • Re: New member from Cumbria - A3000 repair coming soon -...
Yes that should work but it is coming from Greece and you may incur import duties (take long time etc.)Why not buy one from UK? Perhaps ask https://www.retrocomputershack.com/ to make you one. Ian...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
Well, no danger of me getting to those giddy heights yet, but I've got the hang of the first several levels now.Statistics: Posted by fwibbler — Thu Aug 01, 2024 1:08 pm
View Articlecommunications • Re: ⚠️ Warning: some modems contain Ni-Cad cells
Any idea why it needs a battery? Presumably battery backed RAM for dialup settings, or is there RTC in there. A ROM dump may be interesting.Statistics: Posted by Pernod — Thu Aug 01, 2024 2:15 pm
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: quick query on ANFS?
Great , thanks very much Jonathan.Anyone else noticed NFS to be somewhat inconsistent when accessing a cloud network?I know there are only a small number who have had this set up so far. Just wondered...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em
I think beebjit handles a lower lever data description but I don't know about beebemthanks i'll check out beebjitStatistics: Posted by lovebug — Fri Aug 02, 2024 2:06 pm
View Articleoff-topic • m2 slot on my new(old) PC
I recently bagged a newer PC on Facebook marketplace. A Dell Vostro 3470 with an i3-8110 cpu which is a little better than the PC I was using but has decent upgradability so will probably last me a...
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off-topic • Re: m2 slot on my new(old) PC
It's not very clear but it _looks_ like it's physically an M key but will electrically accept B+M key devices.I'd suggest getting a B+M SATA SSD from somewhere you can return it (Amazon?) if it...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Moving games and other software to rom
A quick way to force a browser to download a fresh copy of something, and not "helpfully" use any cached version that may still be lying around, is to alter the URL ever so slightly. Click the cursor...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Disc Sector Editor
Disc Doctor is excellent for 8271 disc interfaces. It will not work with the 1770/1772 disc interfaces.To work with the 1770/1772 there is ADI2 (Advanced Disc Investigator version 2) This uses a MODE0...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Data Recorder ANF03 - Transformer
Good afternoon Ron, I am also similarly trying to fault find my own anf3 acorn Data recorder, so far I have proved the cassette motor relay is working in my beeb, the fuse is ok in Data recorder plug,...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Imogen disassembly
Storing a number in a one-byte-per-digit format is the fastest for printing, at the cost of some bytes of memory for the number storage and the arithmetic code. For reference, some nice routines for...
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Acorn Atom Books
Wake Up Your Atom!- Author(s): Brian Lloyd- ISBN : NONE- Publisher: Timedata Ltd- Scan known to existHas this scan been made available at all? I’ve just picked up a copy today, complete with errata...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Anf 03 wiring/circuit diagram
Afternoon All, is there a circuit diagram available here for the Acorn ANF 03 data recorder?Mine has mysteriously stopped working.... eg, dead... its not belts, motor doesn't run... It was fine, now...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Anf 03 wiring/circuit diagram
here is the acorn manual for the ANF03 with circuit diagram, hope it helps.Statistics: Posted by vanekp — Sun Aug 04, 2024 12:05 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Sweet combination: pi and prime numbers
I asked an LLM how I might use a list of prime numbers to compute an approximation to pi - there's surely a way - and indeed there is, it's called Euler's product formula which is an approximation to...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Trying to get an A7000 working
More questions, the CD Drive I've connected isn't recognised (it's just the CD drive, I've not added the hard disk as well on the IDE connection). No CD related Configure commands work either...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Dumping "AMX Design" rom (32k...
As promised, and with apologies to yrrah2, here's the AMX Design disc attached.DESIGN.SSDStatistics: Posted by jms2 — Sun Aug 04, 2024 1:31 pm
View Articlesoftware preservation • Re: Preserving old BBC discs and tapes
I was looking through one backup disc and I found one labelled 'terminals'. It was corrupted but I think I managed to get most of this program off it, but there are two files 'TEK' and 'TEK96' which...
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new projects in development: games • Re: Exploring the posibility of a beeb...
Cool development. Interesting that you've already created a title/instruction page for it I'm happy enough with Icarus on the Beeb though, so don't put yourself out just for the sake of giving us...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: A tale of two spigots - more digits of pi,...
It's been a while, and we've been continuing to make progress...The big news, is that we - wait for it - doubled the number of digits we can calculate, in a given amount of RAM! This is remarkable,...
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