8-bit acorn software: other • Re: C development for FujiNet and cc65 bbc target
Thanks @dominicbeesley for the update. Some interesting ideas around the clib ROM for applications. Certainly something I hadn't thought of before for writing C apps.The fujinet device will require a...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • What hardware is needed to run Trickysoft games like...
I'm running BBC games on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Retropie using a MESS fork (lr-mess-system-bbcb). Some Trickysoft games work fine (like Space Invaders and Centipede) work perfectly, but others (eg...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: file won't run in ADFS (BeebFAX)
Hi Brian,!Boot always loads to &4000.Re at line error.You get that kind of error after a CALL to ‘bad’ code.Probably the CALL &40E6 which is to part of the original !Boot code.Try peeking to...
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development tools • Re: Beta update for BeebAsm VSCode extension
Thanks! You've got the right version for the new functionality, so it's a bit strange it isn't showing up. One guess is if you are clicking in the command palette instead of using the shortcut...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Unusual 6502 programming techniques
FWIW this "BIT trick" is mentioned somewhat in passing on 6502.org's opcode list with an interesting note about the possibility of the memory access accidentally triggering a read from a memory-mapped...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: What hardware is needed to run Trickysoft games...
I think you need a plain Beeb, but probably MAME/MESS hasn't got the video emulation at quite the right level of accuracy. Someone else can probably be more definitive.Statistics: Posted by BigEd —...
View Articlearchive submissions • Re: Morley Ramdisc 1.04 rom
So is this your own ROM? I don't believe there are many of these Ramdiscs out there, we don't hear much about them and clearly only 1.01 had been found previously. Any idea when it was originally...
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programming • Re: 11-character filenames?
Dropping by to observe that CP/M (at the API level) doesn't place any restrictions on filenames except they can't contain question marks. MBASIC 5.21, for example, doesn't do any validation on the...
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Keycaps (again)
Can do the stem no problem (presumably the springs are still in the socket and intact?)Sadly, no Issue 4 keycaps to go with it.Statistics: Posted by Boydie — Wed Aug 28, 2024 9:59 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: BeebWiFi for the Acorn System 5
A thing of beauty - great work.Statistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Wed Aug 28, 2024 10:07 pm
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new ideas wishlist & general chat • 3.5 inch disk drive to Arculator
High guys I've been using the latest release of Arculator and it's brilliant, I'm able to play all the old games ect.So what it is is one has to use the window menu to load adf's, well I have an...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: RGB video converter
Hmm. Inside the VGA cable I am cannibalising, 4 wires are individually screened with a separate drain wire. So I was hoping the unused one, the other 3 being R, G, B, would be pin 9 for the 5V. But...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Strange? Result from Tricky's test rom
Hi Mark, Thanks for your guidance, after much beeping and an instance of not beeping it turned out to be a missing connection between IC65 pin 7 and the trace on the back of the board running...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Help on The Dungeon or Acorn...
I still have all my old copies of Archimedes World in my garage in a box - if you can tell me which issues to look through - I can see if there is a Dungeon solution. I can't say I remember one - they...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: file won't run in ADFS (BeebFAX)
Thanks Martin ,seems closer now but getting this error. The file is there in the same directory so I dunno how this is coming up. It the defaults back to the Host menu whereas before the prog crashed...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS *Host up*
Host is UP if anyone wants to check in.Would have been up earlier but I had a Host prog issue I was working onSome new Blog is up if anyone's interested.cheersStatistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 —...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Model B issue 4 video fault
That is increasingly sounding like the circuit that generates the 6MHz clock is slightly unstable. This in turn is derived from the master 16MHz clock. I recommend you replace the 16MHz crystal with a...
View Articleintroduce yourself • Re: Hello from Derbyshire!
I do have new sealed 10-boxes of Athana branded 5.25" DSDD floppy discs available, but they weren't from that website, they were from a UK supplier who sourced them for me when I was actually after...
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programming • Re: What memory below &E02 Can I use for sprites/code?
"Even better is the block from &400 to &7FF, which is completely free for you to use with no risk, as it’s only used by the current language, and as you are in machine code, there is no...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Apache Valley - possible new...
I often use the bottom left of the sprite as the origin, but always have 0 at the top and 255 at the bottom or closer to that if I've trimmed the screen or possibly have a status bar. On the beeb I...
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