8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Master pi tube and graphics speed
Interesting, I thought the tube could write direct to memory, hence why drawing would have been quicker.Statistics: Posted by vexorg — Mon Dec 02, 2024 2:03 pm
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Combined VGA / Tube interface board...
If you previously bought an AtomVGA board from me and would now like to add this new SID functionality, you should be able to do this, but please be aware you will need to replace the onboard Pico...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: LOLPRICE
Thoughts on this? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315976153906?It's not even an Alpha. It's not even 4MB. And it's probably got battery rot. So even if it's in pristine outer condition, serious "oof" on...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: Killer (antivirus) v4.003 and others - and...
Just checked and I am on !Killer 2.601 (on RISC PC 700), with the year bodges in my boot setup. There's no mention of credits though, so I think this old version must pre-date that.Aye, per the...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em
How hard would it be to add USB Floppy Disk support to B-Em so that it could read and write real beeb floppy disks ?That probably depends to the floppy drive. I have not researched it, but my...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: ROM Order?
A quick summary on ROMs in a BBC B.Many thanks for that MarkSo in my scenario I'm now thinking that I should probably leave the BASIC ROM where it is in lowest priority, as MMC/DFS ROM's aren't...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Model B wont boot
Okay, thanks.When you put either 6522 chip in, was the keyboard connected? The system will hang without a keyboard correctly connected if IC3 is present.Assuming you did have a keyboard connected, it...
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general • Re: Today I received.....
2 x Monitors. One Cub, the other is an Acorn branded Hitachi monitor that I've not seen before. I couldn't find anything online about it. I think its monochrome. Model number AFF 05. See photos...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: JASPP to release The Fourth...
Many would be very grateful if you could do an hfe release alongside the jfd one.I'd love to offer multiple formats, IPS, HFE, APD etc, but don't have the time to create them. As it is, I spend most...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: MMFS and Master 128 Multi OS IFEL
I'm going to guess you're using the mmfs turbo ROM, but you're using a non turbo mmfs boardthat makes sense, I was under the impression that the MMFS boards essentially did some level shifting of...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Optimisation
I wasn't sure if the compiler has to do some sort of lookup table for the variable to get the number before it can use it.The interpreter (not a compiler) maintains a linked list of variables so, yes,...
View Articleother events + general event chat • Re: North East BBC Users get together?
Does anyone in north east England who repairs BBC etc have a meet up. Its a long time since I used a BBC and did electronics so I am interested in chatting about how people do it (and other things 8...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Dead RiscPC #3 - CMOS unreadable
Monitor Definition files.As you said, these MDFs normally hide away on the HD.I've had this problem in the past, too. What I've now done, is extract a couple of useful files, and put them on to a...
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Combined VGA / Tube interface board...
Hello Ken, would you sent me the new VGA connector board. I appreciate it.ErikStatistics: Posted by dreamerxb — Wed Dec 04, 2024 3:24 pm
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Music 10000
Well it's taken quite a bit of work to get it to write it out.I had to coax it alot. We'll see how it does soon but looking at the code it's really accurate. It will produce a whole song with all the...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Updated BASIC Editor
TobyLobster's ROM library (https://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29831) has 5 variants of The BASIC Editor 1.32, which I went through to see if they were interesting. So, in no particular...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: The BBC Micro ROM Library
I added some notes about the various BASIC Editor variants: https://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewt ... 49#p441249 - TL;DR: variant 1 is highly questionable, variants 2 and 3 are bad, variants 4 and 5...
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Introduce Yourself • Hello from Oxford (UK)
Hi,I started my Acorn journey pretty young when my dad and I built an Acorn Atom from kit. The keyboard was always a bit wonky but i loved my first computer. He went to on run a Acorn dealership here...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Advice sought - Daisy-chaining Cumana Drive &...
The disk drive interface is a subset of the Shugart Associates system.Each drive or device has its own ID. The BBC B can control up to two drives / devices. DS0 and DS1.Inside most 5¼" drives there...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: Electroniq - online Acorn Electron emulator
Fantastic project! To comment on the one thing I might potentially help with:If it would be possible to implement autoboot for tapes that would be great - perhaps it could do the CHAIN "" for you...
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