programming • Re: Reading / Writing to RTC from BASIC
Thanks folks. I was aware that I couldn't write to FRED directly from the second processor and that is one of the reasons I was looking for a more official way of doing this.From what I understand the...
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programming • Re: Simple Word Wrap procedure
Hey All,I'd cobbled together a word wrap procedure for the beebs message editor, which up until yesterday I though was working pretty well; but I've noticed if you press enter to move on to a new line...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Mirco Dual Disk Drive 40/80 track selection issue
When you say it's not switching to 40 track, what is it doing?Most 40/80 switches is an extra double pulse circuit. And some 80 track drives won't read 40 track disk properly.Statistics: Posted by...
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communications • Re: the Night Owl BBS 20th
Night Owl Host is up for this Tuesday evening.Thanks to Rick P for calling in last night. How to Connectviewtopic.php?p=421919#p421919Statistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Tue Aug 20, 2024 8:02 pm
View Articlenew projects and releases: text and graphic adventures • Re: Exploring...
Have you looked at text compression? The Quill usually stores messages completely uncompressed - even a very simple compression scheme (e.g. using packed 6-bit rather than 8-bit ASCII, or having codes...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Advice from PCB Creators
Thanks all - that's definitely not how I did it. In Mark's photo, pin 1 bottom left - I (somehow) understood it to be top left. So all the pins are wrong!Looks like v2 is about to be designed - all...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS Wed 21st
The Night Owl Host is now waiting for calls.thanksBrianStatistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Wed Aug 21, 2024 7:48 pm
View Articleprogramming • Re: CPLD Coding - Boolean vs Bitwise Operations
Quick update on a couple of fronts...Firstly (and a bit off topic), the PSU:A few weeks ago when starting to rework my V2 boards, there was an almighty flash from within the PSU of my beeb as I turned...
View Articlearchive submissions • Re: 30th Anniversary BBC and Electron Collection
Hi all,Just re-posted Disc158 in Section 23 due to amendments to the specially made loaders for both Star Trek and Code Breaker from Micro Power.It says "please wait while the main program is being...
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introduce yourself • Re: Hi from Ayrshire & quick question
Hi,welcome to this great Forum... Greetings from my little Dutch Atomic Attic, Wim... Statistics: Posted by Multiwizard — Thu Aug 22, 2024 5:53 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: RGB video converter
Right. After finding the box and a set of cables and joiners which actually will work under normal circumstances to give me a picture from RGB of Station 201 to a SCART input, I've now got it so that...
View Article32-bit acorn emulators • Re: Preparing a CF card to use in a Risc PC
I have a Risc PC 700 with nothing on it at all, the CD ROM drive doesn't work with Risc OS 4.02, but does with 3.70, trouble is I need to format the 8GB CF in 4.02 for the updates/fixes.With RISC OS...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS *Host Up*
Night Owl Host Up for the evening .Will shut down early if no calls before 10pm.CheersBrianStatistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Thu Aug 22, 2024 8:09 pm
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introduce yourself • Re: Greetings from Sweden
Hi Jemy,welcome to this great Forum... Greetings from my little Dutch Atomic Attic, Wim... Statistics: Posted by Multiwizard — Fri Aug 23, 2024 5:56 pm
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: Building B-Em in Windows 10 - a few questions.
Contrary to the instructions you don't need to download allegro manually from github. I used the libraries delivered by the msys2 package system with no trouble and without the menu glitches mentioned...
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Flappy Bird for Acorn Electron...
That thought (that a tiny tweak might make it too easy) did occur to me. Obviously the game would be pointless if it were easy. I'm still hopeless at it though!Statistics: Posted by jms2 — Fri Aug 23,...
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32-bit acorn software: other • Ethernet Networking on A7000 Risc OS 3.6
I think I've got all the hardware sorted on my A7000, and have just added an i-cubed Etherlan 600 card to it, hoping to get it on my LAN. The card seems to be working correctly, but the Net...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: Ethernet Networking on A7000 Risc OS 3.6
Some more information. Running *Podules shows : Network expansion: Design IT E600R Access+ (00:C0:32:00:CB:F3)I assume that's a MAC address displayed there.Statistics: Posted by cjed — Fri Aug 23,...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: RGB connectors for a Display Electronics Monitor
I have very little faith in scart, been let down with it a few times as often all pins are not wired.Statistics: Posted by vexorg — Sat Aug 24, 2024 7:21 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: 8271 Disc interface problem
I also saw a beeb with this problem about 30 years ago and it too was IC87And another if my memory hasn't failed me was caused by a missing NMI interrupt from IC27Statistics: Posted by lovebug — Sat...
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