off-topic • Re: Extracting subtitles
There are various tools for subtitle extraction but if you want them as a text file you’ll need optical character recognition (OCR) software as well.The best tool I’ve used for both extraction and OCR...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Beeb that likes a Ctrl Break or 100 before it boots
Hi Dave,Thanks, data.bin attached. Connections used:Tube Connector -> Logic Analyzer------------- --------------Pin 1 (0V) -> GNDPin 2 (RnW) -> PD0Pin 4 (2MHzE) -> PD3Pin 6 (NIRQ) ->...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: RESOLVED : WIN and LOSE Tunes ?
And the result is???Statistics: Posted by vexorg — Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:02 am
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC master fault finding guide
Not had much time to look at it after getting it back up and running. Mode 7 isn't working, so will need to check the SA5050 chip next.Statistics: Posted by vexorg — Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:04 am
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: Porting BASIC2 to a homebrew system
The buffer should be CR-terminated. As for how it's filled, see https://beebwiki.mdfs.net/OSWORD_%2600So when it's "empty", should it contain one CR at location $700?OSWORD &00 is a blocking...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: !HForm for RiscOS 3.0 on A4000
I got in my hands an a4000 with RiscOS 3.0 ROMsAre you sure about that? 3.0 was very short-lived and broken and only distributed in 8bit ROMs for the first release of A5000 in 1991, not 16bit ROMs as...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: WiFi Modems - any recommendations?
I think that Richard Bettridge - aka The Old Net - is having some unexpected life turbulence right now. He's fairly local to me, and he runs a tiny little outfit. I suspect he doesn't have the...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3000 restoration possibility
Thanks guys, I wont try to remove it, maybe just try to mask it somehow as you suggest Statistics: Posted by nicf82 — Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:33 am
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Trying to test my Hybrid Music 500 (and...
From the user guide:If on starting from the system disc, you get the '! Bad module' message, you entered the wrong passcode for your ROM. Remake the system disc, checking the passcode carefully.If you...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic adventure games • Re: 'Good' adventure games
But have been really disappointed by how basic and poor the few adventure games I've played so far have been. They mostly make the Scott Adams stuff look advanced.What have you played so far?Well, I...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Who else is building a Beeb from scratch?
I have used the wrong resitors but its working so far. Nou if i got it here i have to test the ports. And disk interface and build the econet. Then i can say its finished. Statistics: Posted by...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: How do I format a floppy disk in a BBC Master 128?
You can put anything which is 6502 machine code in the library and it will be available using *<filename> if the library has been set. The limitation is 47 files per directory in (8-bit)...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Sending Teletext over Serial
How does the Teletext frame then get from the "server" screen to the remote machine?Is it easier in fact to just load the frame file straight into screen memory (ie. *LOAD FRAME 7C00) rather than...
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new ideas wishlist & general chat • Re: More Boulder Dash!
Still a bit hooked on this game! I thought I'd take a look at the graphic characters next.Each element / graphic tile consumes 32 bytes and many of these have multiple tiles for their animationBelow...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: Modern development environment for Archimedes
It's a super-fast assembler and I've been enjoying using it with Arculator as my dev environment. I've had to get used to the 'GNU as standard' syntax but I'm sure I could write a BBC BASIC assembler...
View Articlenew projects and releases: text and graphic adventures • Re: The Hobbit :...
Excellent project! I also didn’t play this BITD but have recently read The Hobbit with my son. I mentioned that there was a game of the book on one of my ‘old computers’ which we played but he found...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: HOWTO: An alternative tripler for Microvitec CUB...
I've got a moderately decent LCR meter (ET4510 - Chinese but well respected and can test at 1kHz intervals up to about 100kHZ). However I don't know how valid an impedance test on different triplers...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Cover Disc Game: Defender Clone, what...
Hi,There was a game I played excessively on my A3000 but I cannot remember the name.It was a cover disc game, a defender clone and in between each level there was a block of text that told a...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Risc PC, PC Card and Ethernet - Solved!
It's useful to know about EtherH's weirdness. I thought 4.33 was the latest module available.I've got EtherH v4.59 on ROM on the Design IT Etherlan 600 NIC in my Risc PC. I can share a copy if anyone...
View Articlesoftware & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Re: Xfer in C
sure, it may say COM1 in the text but is hard coded to COM12.Also you may need to set WIndows 98 compatibility mode at some point. Oh that's good!If you can give me a few days, ill have a go with...
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