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communications • Re: the Night Owl BBS
No problem... there have been several bot attacks of late so I was wary of let's sayquestionable behaviour. I saw you were reading the About section and then went quiet.The system will disconnect if...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Micro NMI spamming
Yup. I picked up a stray capacitor (rather than stray capacitance) I had changed all the ICs three times - the resistors, each removed and tested. I measured the traces from all points to all other...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Micro B horizontal sync bounce judder video
ive always used these oscilator modules [ https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/crystal- ... rs/7675336 ] in project and im guessing it could be used to replace the oscilator circuit in the beeb tooYes,...
View Articlearchive submissions • Re: Z80 Winchester Utilities
…So the image works at least.... not sure what drive the floppy is now mapped toThe floppy drive is mapped to G:Statistics: Posted by DutchAcorn — Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:04 pm
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: New: fully documented source code...
Yeah, those videos have been interesting for this disassembly. But I'm not sure I'm up for modernising Lander so much as documenting how it works.There's a few bugs in the Zarch code, such as an STM^...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Running binaries on a Communicator
Thanks for all this Andrew, I wish I'd known you were so involved with the development of the Communicator - I'd have pestered you more when I was starting the disassembly. That's a really nice...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: Copying large files with RISC OS 3.70
[Is this utility available?You don't need a Utility, just run the BASIC live-patcher in !Boot or use it to create a pre-patched ADFS by removing the END to save it to RAM:Statistics: Posted by sirbod...
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8-bit acorn software: classic adventure games • Re: 'Good' adventure games
I was never a fan of unnecessarily-complicated parsers. They eat up precious bytes that could have been used for rooms, objects or puzzle logic. For me, distilling a command down to one, two (or...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Genuine Acorn Joystick Adaptor for RiscPC
I just presumed analogue had been dropped from RO3.5 as the hardware wasn't there.Nope, it's there. Also worth noting the Podule module messages, showing that the Joystick 'nic' is explicitly...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Reviving another A3020
Hi, i would check those traces in the back of the board carefully , seems some of them are broken. Top side too. Check the connection between the vias and the traces. They can all be replaced with a...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC ADVANCED TELETEXT RECEIVER
That would be quite amazing especially if it could feed Richard Russell's CEEFAX emulator RSS stuff (BBC Basic for SDL)into my BBS Host. I have Pi 1Mhz emulated HDD which will be storing my host prog...
View Articleintroduce yourself • Re: Hello from East Kilbride
Welcome to this forum keep us posted with your experiencesStatistics: Posted by TimoHartong — Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:28 pm
View Articleoff-topic • Re: LOLPRICE
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186309938496 ... media=MORETwo rather pricey sticky labels!Statistics: Posted by thecellartroll — Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:32 pm
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other events + general event chat • Re: 2024 Econet LAN party 18 & 19th May
I'll be there too, albeit over 5 stone lighter than last year, so carrying kit will be much easier for me Statistics: Posted by jbredcar — Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:41 pm
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BeebWifi: Page &FD on a Master Compact
I'll read the topic you refer to. But just to answer a first question: what can it be at page &FD when the Mertic is not connected. Should it behave like a BBC B, like this:WhatsApp Image...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A4 econet - opensource project
Well, I did what I said I wouldn't. I cut a cover. I realised I had a spare. It's tough stuff!Ok, so, with care, this may be a justifiable case hack I guess. Particularly as the upper cut edge faces...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Setting a real-time clock to centi-second accuracy
Just FYI... A quick try on my old mac laptop, which should be nicely network time-synced, and I find time.gov reckons it is 89ms adrift.That site says I'm 0.1s adrift, though I'm supposed to be...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: RP2040/Pico beeb emulator
From the readme.md on https://github.com/kilograham/b-emThe sole reason for this project's existence was to get a BBC B/Master 128 emulator running on the Raspberry Pi Pico. It supports building on...
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: Porting BASIC2 to a homebrew system
Hmm. Looks like I am processing Esc twice - once to stop the program and also sending it on the command line. I wonder how I'll distinguish between those 2 cases..What happens if you press and hold...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Co-processor Menu
How difficult would it be, to have a toggleable option, to load the appropriate BBC Basic into sideways RAM/ROM prior to selecting the CoPro and resetting?Statistics: Posted by mbernardi — Fri Feb 23,...
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