32-bit acorn hardware • Mark 1 mouse pinout/schematic
I have an old original Arc mouse, without lead, which should work fine with my A500.Trouble is, I can’t find the pinout for the connector within the mouse itself. I’ve found a post which states the...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Mark 1 mouse pinout/schematic
Post some pictures so we know exactly which mouse and the pcb, and if nothing else we can reverse-engineer the pcb to work out the pinout.Statistics: Posted by IanS — Thu Dec 26, 2024 7:00 pm
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Was the Amstrad CPC 464 a better games machine?
Some additional angles for a gaming machine:the CPC464 used cheaper and more readily-available Atari switched joysticks;you didn't need to monopolize the family television or buy an expensive...
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: NOW FULL! Booking...
Hi, no nothing missed I'll get onto the messages this week, tomorrow hopefullyStatistics: Posted by Arcadian — Thu Dec 26, 2024 7:50 pm
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: Emulator ROM legal status
"Let sleeping dogs lie" is probably the best. At least it's better than Commodore, where there are several companies who claim ownership of some or all of the Commodore IP, and have stopped...
View Articlesoftware & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Re: Disc Image Manager
When you extract a file from a DFS image and import it to an ADFS image, you end up with a file you can't read or write (because they are not DFS attributes, so they're not set in ADFS).Not a bad...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Today I received.....
My first computer was an Acorn Electron. I had it for several years and upgraded it with a PRES Advanced Plus 1, AP34 disk interface, Slogger Plus 2 and other bits and pieces. It eventually died and...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Acorn Electron Plus 1 ROMs
Hello all.As per my post in the “Today I received…” thread, I’ve just become the owner of an Acorn Electron and Plus 1. Everything seems to be working, including the games loaded from the ElkSD Plus 1...
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programming • Re: VCCC2024: Christmas Challenge
Wow, there were a lot of very good entries. I wonder if 41 bytes is possible on the beeb? I'm giving up at 47 bytes or maybe a cheeky 45 bytes.These are awesome. Statistics: Posted by regregex — Sat...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A7000+
Hello Ian,I have changed the VIDCbandwithöimit , then it already reports an error when booting.The modes I can then still not in the colors one .If I call !boot Configtool and then the monitor option...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn teletext adapter
I completely forgot about this until this week. I restored the datastream (not perfectly, but close enough) and demonstrated it at the Teletext Block Party, but never got around to uploading it sorry....
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S24 -...
Managed new high score.Statistics: Posted by MatthewThompson — Sat Dec 28, 2024 9:16 pm
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Creating a virtualised copy of an old PC
Instead of spinriting the bad drive why not clone it onto a new(ish) 100% healthy working driveYes, would probably be the better option, but in all honestly, apart from taking a backup of it like I...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: 50 vs 60Hz for CRT
This shouldn't matter.The limitations of line frequency only affected TV's and then only the early designs.You've used VGA CRT monitors that run at a 70Hz (or higher) refresh / horizontal frequency...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Another unwell Risc PC
What's the best way of fixing the connectivity between the pads and vias ?Normally I'd use a very thin wire soldered between the device leg and via, but as I'm assuming there are vias under RP16 and...
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new projects in development: games • Re: Possible new DigDug version for the...
I tried and tried, but 196 bytes was never going to be enough to get a new game feature in with new animations and new behaviour!I got a good way through, but it only does the first two stages of the...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: Electroniq - online Acorn Electron emulator
Update: automatically saves/restores user settings, like position of windows, various options, etc. (it uses browser LocalStorage for this). https://0xc0de6502.github.io/electroniq/Statistics: Posted...
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development tools • Re: Cycle counter for the vscode plugin?
The new version with this feature added has just been released. Sorry it took a while, there were a couple of annoying bugs I wanted to squash first which are done now The first thing to do after...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Model B keyboard problem
Hi, I just got my first BBC Micro B (issue 4).IntroI bought it broken so I could learn about the hardware in this legendary machine while repairing it.The poor thing was in awful shape: A busted PSU...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Model B keyboard problem
Replacement switches are available but theyre all 2nd user now, and there are around four different types of keyswitch on a beebFirst thing I'd do (because i always like to start with as much known...
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