off-topic • Re: Blood types
Yeah, but I think it would attract more people to do it if there was some small financial incentive.Statistics: Posted by vexorg — Tue Nov 12, 2024 9:13 am
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • No Disk
I am unable to mount any disks in BeebEm. The ssd disk file is shown in the menu as mounted in Disc 1 and can be ejected but typing *DRIVE 1 <ret> *. <ret> gives an error "No Disk"I have...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: No Disk
hi there,are you sure it’s referring to drive 1 or 0? the first drive (and the auto one) is labled drive 0, so perhaps try *drive 0hope this helps!Statistics: Posted by Cruxinc — Tue Nov 12, 2024...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: SD2BBC Won't let me SHIFT BREAK into menu
keyboard is okenext stop swap the 6522 via with 6522 user portThanks and yep. Tried this as well without any changes to Mode 0 with both the new and old 6845Statistics: Posted by Beebygeeby — Tue Nov...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: what are the best platform games?
Probably worth mentioning platform games that are type-ins. Two that come to mind are Gordon Key's Hunkie Egg, and Peter Azzopardi's Ghouls of Azzod. The latter is a clone of Ghouls, but uses Mode 2...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Acorn SCSI Expansion
Hey Guys,I'm playing around with SCSI again on various machines with varying degrees of success.In the Acorn SCSI Expansion manual it states;Archimedes 305, 310 and 440 owners: You must return your...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Another Bush internet.tv mod thread
A copy of the ROM image probably won't help you all that much. Mainly because my RO3.71 bush port has a bunch of missing components and flaws:* No IR keyboard and mouse driver (needs PS/2 mouse and...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Bizarre ROM socket behaviour
This one is weird...I have an Issue 4 Model B, OS 1.20. Econet is currently not working - reports "Line Jammed", but that's a luxury niggle that I can't start investigating yet.When I started...
View Articleprogramming • whats wrong with this simple code?
Hi , I am tentatively getting into programming via my Dad's old Beeb.I did other stuff at school like Visual Basic, some PythonWas playing with a bit of simple code that has a stored file oflines of...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn SCSI Expansion
It might be covered by an FCO, see http://www.riscos.com/the_archive/acorn/fco/index.htmFCO 2008 sounds like a likely candidate:Code: A310, A440 2008 6th September 1989 FPA and SCSI MEMC1a...
View Articleother events + general event chat • Re: North East BBC Users get together?
How far North and How far East? It's a big place...Although I don't live there, I travel to (Northish) Newcastle regularly.... Might be interested...-GordonStatistics: Posted by gordonDrogon — Wed Nov...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Unipod and ADF10 or AEH52
I'm not sure I'd come to that conclusion. UniPod was originally sold per-feature, though all the UniPods I've got/seen don't even have the "key" EEprom on the board that controls suchlike - everything...
View Articlearchive submissions • Re: DOSPlus with Econet
In fact the user free space on FileStore is exactly right as I have 2 files of &100 bytes in that user and the Drive_D directory of &200 bytes. Looks like FileStore allocates &40400 bytes...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: MMFS for the Master Compact's edge connector user...
If possible, it would be great to have a official MMFS release made for this hardware design. It would allow Compact users to have their Joystick port free for the mouse even when using MMFS...That's...
View Articleprogramming • Re: whats wrong with this simple code?
OPENIN opens a file for reading only. You need to use OPENUP if you want both to read from a file and write to it (and you'd better finish reading from it, or set its PTR#, before you write anything...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - Season 23
Thanks, all! Season 24 has started, jump in at any time and enjoy, first game is Frenzy:viewtopic.php?t=30016Woohoo! I'm just back from holiday, so missed out on submitting nominations, but very happy...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Beeb PSU - Low voltage under load
I did the recap on the PSU for my Master and in the retroclinic instructions it said to set the voltage while not under load, so I tweaked it down to 5v as it was reading about 5.2v (I hadn't tested...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: Decoding Podule IDs
Earlier versions can, of course, be found among the Export Headers of the various "escaped" versions of the OS source.Here's another one;https://github.com/barryc-ro/RiscOS_200 ......
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Combined VGA / Tube interface board...
My preference would be to keep the audio socket and VGA socket on the same face to make it easier to route the vga and audio cables.Statistics: Posted by cjm — Thu Nov 14, 2024 11:15 am
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em
I've just downloaded the Windows Binaries from https://github.com/stardot/b-em for both 32 and 64 bit systems, unzipped them to a folder, and tried to run b-em.exe, which fails with a popup error...
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