other events + general event chat • Re: London Show returns on Sat 26th Oct 2024
Reminder - it's this Saturday!Statistics: Posted by helpful — Thu Oct 24, 2024 4:43 am
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Atom Video to HDMI Adapter
Hello dreamerxb,Wonder if you would still have a PCB left for the Video to HDM Adapter for the ATOM.Could you send me a PM please?Kind regards,Paul.Hello Flowersun, I did send you a PM but I see that...
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: Beebasm problem
To trim the holes you could incbin followed by save without a disc image specified and it will just write what would have been in memory in the range you save.Statistics: Posted by tricky — Thu Oct...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Red appearing as brown on A3000 over scart
Thanks for the reply! I will give this a go and see what happens.Statistics: Posted by montythegreat10 — Thu Oct 24, 2024 10:31 pm
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Elite Compendium (BBC Micro +...
I just happened to notice this in the manual:In use, the two RAM sockets (14L and 14H - logical socket 14/&E) are only active when accesses come from on the ROM board.This matches what tricky...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Question for those with 3D Printers
Seconding OpenSCAD for people who want to try a more programmatic approach. It's kind of a weird language, though: it looks a lot like C, but it's statically evaluated like Lisp or other functional...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: FileStore E01S RTC Running Erratically
I've yet to put the usual drives back in the FileStore and seal it up again and hope it still works, and then I can perhaps look at hard drives. I did bring the box marked "SCSI discs unsuitable for...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
Good old Scramble, the logic remains the same, hug the landscape within a pixel of death and carpet bomb everything I do far, far better in Moon Raider than I do in Rocket Raid - partly because of a...
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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Elite II source discs: initial...
That's really cool! You did far better than me - I managed to get it to fail to build, then load a bit of the ship's display before hanging Statistics: Posted by iainfm — Fri Oct 25, 2024 10:26 pm
View Articlescanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • Re: New Advanced User Guide...
Is this an error? There is a discrepancy between the NAUG and BeebWiki on the assignment of the CPU Type codes in ROM type byte of the ROM header. The NUAG, on page 285, has CPU type code 3 as 6800...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Master goes "Beeeeee...." and no video...
I've never actually used it, but this might be of some help - section 7:Looks good. A lot of that I've already done though, alas - as far as the RAMs.This machine's in a physically bad way, with lots...
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other events + general event chat • Re: London Show returns on Sat 26th Oct 2024
YES! Finally a show down the road from me That was my thought, too... (about 10 mins walk in my case, so really no excuses available!)Me too lol Look forward to seeing you tomorrow! (err, nearly...
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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: A superfast 3D maze shooter for the PDP-11
Of course, you can also do:divide by 100save remainderjsr prdecimalprint "."pop remainderif <10, print "0"jsr prdecimal...which can be more efficient if you've already got a generic divide...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Master white screen
This would include handling VDU 7. I can’t remember if it still works if the configuration is not set to a language though.Yes, on the Master if the configured language isn't a language ROM, you get...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: FileStore E01S RTC Running Erratically
I've heard you all asking me (silently and telepathically) about the "ingenious solution" to the broken drive door sensor I mentioned three days ago so here it...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: 5.25 Discs - HD change to DD
I'm not sure what's going to happen if you try to write a 5.25" DD disc in an HD only drive. It's a bit more straightforward with 3.5" discs as they have an extra HD hole so the drive can detect DD vs...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Sim City 2000
The only patch I used was from the R-Comp Krisalis Gold Collection that I boughtIn that case, no need to send it as I already have it. Incidentally JASPP hold the rights to that CD, I've just never...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: best hardware for Acorn demos
The A3010 should run most if not all demos. But if you really want them running on the Pi...You could probably get some working on the Pi with ADFFS, by wrapping the !Run with "GOARM3JIT 0" /...
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new projects in development: games • Re: Star Trail for the BBC Micro and...
Added closer maze pieces. Plenty more code (and text... ) to go and ~2K free but I think the screen looks significantly better like this. More maze plot to work on then to actually draw what's on...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: Decoding Podule IDs
Well, I’ve studied the lists and had a go at writing a little application (very rusty, haven’t touched BBC BASIC for probably 25 years and all of that was on a BBC B), to decode the headers in all the...
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