32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Slather everything in vinegar! (Don't...)
No one should mess about with sulfuric acid.When I was a teenager and hanging out on my mate’s farm an incident with a tractor battery led to one of the farm hands’ crotch getting generously doused in...
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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: A superfast 3D maze shooter for the PDP-11
This is what I thought, and coded my PDP11 emulator to do this, and I was initially worried that I'd be hitting signed/unsigned ambiguities. But the divide10 code *always* works with unambiguously...
View Articlescanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • Scan & OCR of Dabhand...
Although there's a scan of "Master Operating System : A Dabhand Guide" at bbcdocs mirror, having bought a copy in nice condition I thought I'd have a go at making a scan too.So for a limited time only...
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new projects in development: games • Re: Lady Bug
What I did for pacman was add code to record the movement keys pressed and then changed the code to play it back. I got the timing a bit off but it worked well enough in about 100 byes but don't quote...
View ArticleIntroduce Yourself • Re: Greetings from Philadelphia (USA)
Welcome! There are a few of us in North America with BeebsStatistics: Posted by scruss — Fri Nov 01, 2024 1:18 am
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Soldering help.
Iron is set to 350C. Isn't that a little hot for leaded? I solder lead-free SAC305 at 350.Iron temperatures are often a great work of fiction. The Hakko temperature gauge (or its much cheaper...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: best hardware for Acorn demos
I’ll have to download them again...I didn’t keep them.Your scripts look okay, although all those WimpSlot look odd, it just needs the one at the top. Just a thought, try running AnyMode to see if you...
View ArticleIntroduce Yourself • Re: Hello from Australia!
Welcome, how common were arcs down underI've never come across one before. Most of our schools had Apple IIe and early Mac computers in the late 80s and early 90's. I'm not sure how my Acorns ended up...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Micro Club 32K Shadow Ram Board for BBC B
So to close the loop, based on the detective work kindly undertaken by Pernod.....I have found some suitable documentation.ThanksStatistics: Posted by RonT — Fri Nov 01, 2024 8:11 am
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: [FULL - WAITLIST OPEN]...
Would anyone attending have available a monitor, keyboard and mouse suitable for an Apple Mini?My youngest daughter, Suzi the web-designer, has given me one she found during a recent house move. It...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Sim City 2000
It's on my list of things to try to find a workaround, or at least improve.I had a quick look at the StrongARM cache clean code last night and noticed it’s in a tight loop, that might fall within one...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Help ID'ing a game
I’ve not come across anything published by Utopia, that could be the developer as mentioned above.Sideways space shooters I’m aware of include:Deeva (video)Technodream (video)Nevryon (video)Provocator...
View Articleprogramming • vbcc code conflicting with mode 2
Sorry everyone, I am a noob on the bbc.I am the author of Cross-Lib (https://github.com/Fabrizio-Caruso/CROSS-LIB). I am adding support for the bbc to my framework.I am coding in C with vbcc.I am...
View Articleprogramming • Re: vbcc code conflicting with mode 2
Screen memory in Mode 2 (and Mode 1) starts at &3000, there isn't much free memory so you could be running into this. What happens if you try Mode 5 (screen memory starts at &5800) or do you...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
Starter score.....almost forgot how tough this game was, good game but I see some have posted some possible issues with it......One problem I have is my spider doesn't stop on the letters so I can't...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Writing disks from .ssd files for the Electron
Tomorrow I'll be attending a retro game day and I found my good old Electron with Plus 3 expansion.But I don't have any disks. I want to make them. I've got a working Greazeweazle setup, but no matter...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Writing disks from .ssd files for the Electron
Aren’t SSDs in DFS format but the Plus 3 is ADFS?Statistics: Posted by james — Sat Nov 02, 2024 8:51 am
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Is there any need to re-cap a second processor PSU?
I'm currently going down this road too. Got a couple of model B machines out of the garage, ejected the smoke, and then re-capped them.When I powered up my second processor box however, I was getting...
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Introduce Yourself • It’s a bit early, but Hello from a newbie on here
Good Morning All Statistics: Posted by XPhil — Sun Nov 03, 2024 6:43 am
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: best hardware for Acorn demos
I took a closer look at what Icon is doing. It goes into a 16bit mode, but the mode request block sets NColours to the Wrong value for a 16bit mode. That appears to work on a RiscPC, but even if I...
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