programming • Re: Adventure Party Creator
I am getting an "EOF at line 980" error when I try to load a character list. The save seems to work? When I "*." the file is listed. The load procedure is almost the same as the save procedure. I have...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: WE BBC EPROM Programmer not copying all data
Too small or just right? (The top option labelled bolt on) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285081761321That'll be fine. You'll need an M3 bolt and nut to attach it to the regulator, but you will be able to...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: SCART - HDMI
OSSC was the best thing I’ve bought for a long while.Works great for Beeb/Elk/Communicator (seems to cope with Mode 7 on this)/9-pin and 15-pin Arcs and RiscPCs.Also copes with Sun Ultra 5/60, Amiga,...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Rechargeable Batteries: Are They Worth It?
Smoke alarms! That's another thing! The ones here are mains powered but with PP3 battery backup. And of course they both ran out in the middle of the night and started bleepingI don't see why the...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Unipod and ADF10 or AEH52
No problem. I looked for documentation for the Econet slot when I got a Unipod, so remembered seeing it mentioned somewhere. In this case the starting point was this Usenet post found by doing a...
View Articlesoftware & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Re: Assistance for a...
Hi Dave HIf you can figure out a rough timeline of when things stopped working and do a spot of investigation using other online reports regarding the major update being the problem, we might be able...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: ROM Order?
I've settled on this order for now: (low to high)BASIC 2MMCDFSViglenTook a while to get my Gotek working with the 1772 Disk controller I've just fitted, but in the end the solution was to clean the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: December 1980, the Proton, Chris Turner's notes
Also in one of the notebook pages attached to that transcript is discussion of the Econet NMI circuit (giving a disableable NMI driven from what's supposed to be an IRQ output on the 6854). The...
View Articlegeneral • Re: HP1702 Monitor on the Blink
Well, it doesn't work at all now.I got the metal frame off the LCD panel so I could see the membrane connectors better. Like this, if I squeezed the one directly above the blue line, I could get the...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Today I received.....
I've also dug out a nice CUB 1451MS4, which came in the same bundle, that I'll power up and test a little bit later, but I'll need to see if I've got a suitable 6 pin DIN / 6 pin DIN RGB cable...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Slot Machine in Basic
I like the look of this game.For some time (probably more than 20 years) I've thought about the possibility of using MODE 7 for a slot machine game. I think I even started designing some of the fruits...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: Econet to AUN bridge on Raspberry Pi - released
I once tried valgrind - but couldn't make head nor tail of it!!C.Statistics: Posted by cr12925 — Sun Dec 08, 2024 1:29 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Model B wont boot
I have tried the machine now with the following config:Code: REMOVED - IC69 - User 6522 VIAREMOVED - IC78 - 8271 chip or 1770/2 disk interface moduleOS ROM - IC51 - ROM/EPROMBASIC - IC52 -...
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Atom Video to HDMI Adapter
So now that dreamerxb supplied me with a Hoglet 2019 board, I finally could assamble it and connect it to my Acorn ATOM.But (as expected) it did not work on my first try.I get the following screen and...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S24 -...
It's definitely doable. I completed level 32 last time, via the password system. You only get 9 lives to do it though.viewtopic.php?p=302543#p302543Oh cool, thanks. I guess that's it, there's no game+...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Watford Electronics external Co-Pro adapter
A final desperate ask, no one got any links?Statistics: Posted by RonT — Sun Dec 08, 2024 4:54 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Have I broken my 1772 controller or beeb?
Hi All,I had my 1772 controller working fine, but after faffing around with the beeb (trying to fit an Aries B12) it no longer worksThe Acorn DFS ROM only appears intermittently, and even when it does...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: PunyInform and Ozmoo
Hi Steve,That's fixed the build error. HH Benchmark is not included in my script to be copied over to the PiFS. However, the DFS & ADFS disc images do get built, so I've given the DFS version a...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Watford Electronics Co-Pro adapter - Repair...
Is this the board:link?MarkStatistics: Posted by 1024MAK — Mon Dec 09, 2024 4:52 pm
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: PS/2 interface for the Joystick port
... Conventionally, your interception is fine to also use &EF/&F0/&F1 for the same purpose, plus also PHP/SEI....PLP. Saves you two zero page locations for the control block pointer....
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