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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Advice on various cabling please?

Or test the modem on a pc and any free terminal program, like termite. AT should get an OK in return.I'd have thought the default for a modem is 9600, 8N1Statistics: Posted by vexorg — Mon Dec 30,...

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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Dead RiscPC #3 - no sound

I'll second the mention of bad TL074 opamps. I found that a machine I fixed for a friend.I don't think the LM386 had failed, though I may have replaced it as a precautionary measure.The TL074s are...

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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3010 - Adelaide - repair

This is good news, I will try to make it fit.I didn't notice anything overheating when I was using/testing/breaking it, as far as I recall.Statistics: Posted by BeebMaster — Mon Dec 30, 2024 9:19 pm

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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A500 sound - a cautionary tale

I don't believe that. RISC OS just isn't like that. You might consider proving this to yourself on other system by rolling, say, a 3.1 remix with steve's tool, leaving out the sound modules, then...

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8-bit acorn emulators • Re: MAME: EuroBEEB

Hi @PernodThe next step is to connect it to an emulated Beeb and use the Euro-Beeb Terminal ROM to communicate with it.Did you ever connect the EuroBEEB emulator (running 1.M-S) to BeebEm (running...

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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Cumana Disk Formatter Issue B

@PernodMy hero!Statistics: Posted by topcat96 — Tue Dec 31, 2024 8:16 pm

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off-topic • Re: APC Back-UPS vs Dog

No, the case is plastic but, looking at the edge of the PCB:IMG_3020.jpegI wonder it conducted from the track on one side, via the liquid and the edge of the PCB, to the track on the other side. The...

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communications • Night Owl BBS"New Year's Eve"

Night Owl is up for New Year's Evealbeit a little late ..Happy New Year to you all and much thanks to thosethat have called into the BBS this year.Happy 2025BrianStatistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: FPGA advice

It used to be possible to buy stand-alone copies of ModelSim (or use Educational versions for small projects) but when I looked recently it seems to have been subsumed into Siemens software and be...

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off-topic • Re: Rechargeable Batteries: Are They Worth It?

Interesting, though I think I'm coming to the same conclusion as Ken. For some reason I have had to replace the 2 AA batteries in the central heating timer/thermostat 3 times already since we moved in...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Advice on various cabling please?

Inter-Word is relatively sophisticated when it comes to printing, it has a whole printer setup menu and a printer control codes sub-menu. So it may be doing something other than "VDU2:VDU ASCII codes...

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32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: RE:The Legend Of The Lost Temple

I think that'd be great to see. I remember enjoying this game when it was first released, though looking back now it looks somewhat more "flat" visually than I remember.Statistics: Posted by...

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Introduce Yourself • Re: they say a tidy desk is the sign of a sick mind

I suppose the roof opens where the light is and you are lowered into the seat from above?Statistics: Posted by BeebMaster — Wed Jan 01, 2025 5:53 pm

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Low resistance short between vcc and 0v

Sorry. Yes I was referring to ic48 pin 8. Interference makes sense.Good to know the lumpy 6 MHz on SA5050 TR6 pin is normal too.As for 15.6 kHz on those 5V pins, is there an explanation for that - or...

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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Bitstick software with beebem?

Does anyone happen to have working SSDs of the BitStik software?(For use with a real computer and bitstik)Statistics: Posted by Ukwebb — Wed Jan 01, 2025 6:49 pm

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8-bit acorn software: other • Bitstik software

Does anyone happen to have working SSDs of the BitStik software?Cracked or working normal version (For use with a real computer and bitstik)Statistics: Posted by Ukwebb — Wed Jan 01, 2025 6:51 pm

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8-bit acorn emulators • Re: MAME: EuroBEEB

SAVE Tx: &9B,&00,string,control block (data transfer),&9B,&04Thanks Jonathan, performing a SAVE, this is what I see:capture5.pngcapture6.pngAnd this is what's sniffed from the serial...

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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S24 -...

New high scoreStatistics: Posted by MatthewThompson — Wed Jan 01, 2025 8:49 pm

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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Creating ADF or ADL imgaes using the Beeb

It's indeed a Datacentre from Retroclinic using ADFS 1.53.There is an option to import and export SSD and DSD images to disc or RAM from USB.I also have a util to copy ADFS images directly to disc....

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archive requests • Re: XBASIC from A&B Computing

A&B COMPUTING JANUARY 1990, p91-93"Software Support" sectionXBASICAdd new structures and utilities to your BASIC ROMDavid Bower•Model B/B+•Master series•Electron•BASIC 2 requiredWhen Acorn...

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