communications • Re: the Night Owl BBS *NOW*
Great to see some traffic again.Thanks to those that have called in recently.Host will be up until 5amIMG_20250108_223503.jpgStatistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:00 pm
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: NOW FULL! Booking...
Does the Burnhamdom of Manchester still take cash? I am going to bring my wallet but I might also bring that old hard drive I found in a council tip in Newport.Statistics: Posted by BeebMaster — Thu...
View ArticleClik here to view.
8-bit acorn hardware • Re: UPURSFS on Elk with AP5
@origami_camera - Are you using a USB Serial adaptor or a direct RS232 port connection? The errors do sound like a lack of hardware serial handshaking because it has to be said, UPURS just works and...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: I2C 4 U
I think I’ll have to say lost (certainly not accessible in the short term) but tbh, looking at the program on the video, I should think that there was nothing ‘technical’ in the first three lines, it...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: BlueSCSI/RaSCSI and Filestore
I haven't tried. I was going to order some at some point, just haven't got around to that particular job yet.There's no obvious reason why it shouldn't work... famous last words..Famous last words...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: FPGA advice
Really I’d just like a board with an FPGA meaty enough to support an early 80s-style computer, with some SRAM on the side, a VGA port, a PS/2 port and some other general-purpose / uncommitted I/O for...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: A5000 or Risc PC only games
Most 3D games will run a lot faster on an A5000 (or other ARM3 machine) than on slower systems.Wolfenstein 3D not only runs much faster on an ARM3 than previous machines, but also has (bad) ingame...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Sporadic crashing during basic soak testing
And a basic integer increment loop failed at around the three hour mark from a cold start.20250111_112708.jpgStatistics: Posted by geords71 — Fri Jan 10, 2025 10:32 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Running Exile from Econet
Right, I've part disassembled the ExileL loader file (using the excellent py8dis utility), and created a BeebASM file that allows me to modify and re-assemble.A lot of the code is similar / identical...
View ArticleIntroduce Yourself • Re: Elite-A Researcher
How odd … I was just reading the Elite III manual and wanted to find out what the ‘“Soiscear” bug of Elite I/II’ was, and you appear the same day! What is this ‘“Soiscear” bug’ of which you speak?...
View Articleother events + general event chat • ABUG CANADA CENTRAL
We had a pleasant impromptu ABUG Central Canada meeting today at my house. Stewart and I messed around with all sorts of Acorn computers. :0). RISC-OS 3.6 and 5.30 on a pi! The silver box with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
8-bit acorn hardware • Re: The Valiant Turtle 2
Baggsiesed!Awesome! Thank you Statistics: Posted by thecellartroll — Fri Jan 10, 2025 11:04 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: The New Electron - BIG Decision - Old Standard or...
I’d go for something more flexible and based on modern chips with modern monitor support. I don’t really see the advantage of it being electrically expandable, if it had lots of flexibility built in -...
View Articlegeneral • Re: An unusual BBC micro project from the early 1990s
I did some work for Marconi, indirectly, in the early ‘90s and remember the back of a cornflake packet taped to a desk with “The Marconi High Tech Mouse Mat” scribbled on...
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Ghouls: Revenge
The level "No Treasure 4U" (in the 'Get Me Out Of Here!' set) in time attack mode is not completable. When you get to the top of the screen you need to jump left from one platform to another but you...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Apache Valley - possible new...
Very nice! I haven't really tried for a good score yet though.I am and always will be a classic Acorn key layout #2 guy! Keyboard problems in Electroniq are definitely possible but I don't have a UK...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Econet in all its guises • Re: BlueSCSI/RaSCSI and Filestore (now working)
That's great to hear and fantastic progress. It's strange that the correct geometry is not being written. I know FServInit is targeted very specifically at the RODIME drives as you've found out....
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Was the Amstrad CPC 464 a better games machine?
...In the 1980s if you did want your Z80A system to run the processor at 4 MHz with no pausing for a video system to share the bus, the answer at the time was to use a video display processor that had...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Replacement 16 mhz oscillator?
Thanks Dave.Are you the Dave 'Elk Guru' Hitchins of Retro Hardware, that ive been stumbling across on various YouTube videos and general Electron interwebbing?? Pleasure to meet, sir!Ill bare that in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
acorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: NOW FULL! Booking...
Had a great time, as always Good to see everybody and thanks to all who helped organise the event. I actually managed to get some work done I think I've got your power lead here!? If you're coming to...
View Article