software & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Re: Disc Image Manager
Taking shape...Screenshot 2025-01-05 at 22.16.41.pngStatistics: Posted by geraldholdsworth — Sun Jan 05, 2025 10:17 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Electron owners survey...
I have two Electrons, but I have voted based on the more expanded one, which has an MRB plus an AP6. I can't recall how much sideways ram is in it, but its probably 32K. There isn't much point having...
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: py8dis - a programmable static tracing 6502...
I don't think you are doing anything wrong. This looks to be a bug in beebasm.py, line 107. Once the copyblock is done, we need to be smarter about the clear command. The ranges of memory involved:...
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8-bit acorn hardware • New Electron Pro
As Dave has spilled the beans... Am I going to spill the beans . . . . . ?I've put together a New Electron Specifications document. However, It's still in the melting pot!Mark Hillier has done some...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S24 -...
Ha, yeah it's in BASIC. I had a quick poke about (now the competition is over) Wow! Thomas, that's a score I'd eat me hat for I fiddled about in the guts and removed the keypress/speed dependency by...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S24 -...
It looks like Mr Ee, but this isn't nearly as good a version. My starter score ... 6150mrwiz.jpgStatistics: Posted by chrisn — Mon Jan 06, 2025 10:41 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: New Electron Pro
That looks and sounds awesome Mark, I will definitely be interested in one of these - I treat my (only) Electron very carefully so having something more modern allowing more frequent use would be a...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Model B installed ROM not recognised
Oh yes. 2.24 does bizarre things, changing the Econet station number, increasing PAGE to nearly as high as ARM BASIC and able to be...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: RiscPC VRAM - DIY
In a surprise to nobody, after fitting appropriate inductors to both boards, absolutely no change in behaviour.It had to be done, just to know.Both continue to work flawlessly with anything less than...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Dead RiscPC #3 - no sound
I tested two boards one after the other, and now I can't remember which was which! But certainly one of them did indeed continue to boot after POST, and what's more I found that by moving the board...
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: Rubber-keyed wonder
Is it an ARM board running an emulator?In a comment on this overview, someone claims that it is an Allwinner H3, which is plausible. Apparently, previous products from the same company use ARM-based...
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acorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: NOW FULL! Booking...
We've about 4" of snow on the ground here in Livingston - rock solid due to being frozen and re-frozen and added-to since Dec 31. Miserable. And it's forecast to be -9 on Thursday night... so I might...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Bitstik software
Try this - I think most of the disk images originally came from the BBC Lives site but I've joined the two sides of the library disk into a DSD. It also includes the multi-plotter driver which was...
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: ABUG Online #96 with...
That was good! Had to duck out, a bit late for me. Thanks to the organisers, to Colin, and everyone.Statistics: Posted by BigEd — Tue Jan 07, 2025 10:11 pm
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Bugs in MAME System3/5 emulation
The ktest routine is entered because if I set a breakpoint at $4381, the program stops so the code is executed.Code: 004381 2 ktest:004381 2 85 rr sta tmp004383 2 2C 21 0E bit PORT_A004386 2 10 07 bpl...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: E01S HDD error codes
Great news!In other great news, all my FileStores are working too (except the E40S that is, which is permanently Norwegian Blue).And they've kept the time pretty well. The E01s which was so...
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: py8dis - a programmable static tracing 6502...
Thanks very much for the fix Toby, and thanks Ken for testing.You're not kidding about the fix not being all that easy! That's quite an impressive piece of work.I've merged this to master. When I try...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Electron owners survey...
I have an Electron (just one!) with ElkSD64, so 2 x 16k SWR banks, although one bank is used for MMFS.Statistics: Posted by chrisn — Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:57 pm
View Articlegeneral • Re: Blasted StarDot cookies
I mentioned before that I've always used a bookmark to jump straight to the forum. This bookmark has always been the 32bit hardware section - https://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewforum.php?f=16 - but...
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: ABUG Scotland #11 : Mon...
I'm interested in seeing what you have for Technocad as it's not yet archived. Maybe you could add to the topic at viewtopic.php?t=16298.I think I'm going to disappoint, I just looked out the software...
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