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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: New Plus 1 Digital Joystick Misbehaviour
Have tested the 3 games on a Plus 1+, the 3 games do show the same results. Mind you for Crazy Rider rotate the controller in the hand 180Degrees and the games works no problem as long as the address...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: What is the view on using AI assistance in...
But computers are never wrong.... Except that that has always been subject to conditions even before anyone had heard of a LLM... Mark Well, Mark, that was in the days when computing was...
View Articlegeneral • Re: The great AI discussion (PLAY THE BALL, NOT THE PLAYER!)
Which is contradicting itself. Okay, scratch that. I have two Epson printers. I don't normally use either using their RS232 interfaces. I've tested their RS232 ports with a RS232 LED tester. This...
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8-bit acorn emulators • Re: Beebium
I have been following the various posts on Beebium, and I find it very impressive project. It nice to see the Mac platform showcasing the recent software developments rather than being several steps...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Conway's Game of Life for Atom, Beeb, Elk?
That's great! Thanks! What's the best time for running the r-pentomino to 1100 generations now? I have a prototype with a double-sized grid (144x132) than can do it in 62 seconds on the standard 2Mhz...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: [HELP NEEDED] - FLOPPY ISSUE
A part from getting a scematic, I'm still trying to repair the Solidisk interface. I can now select from 8271/1770 with the correct display when using Solidisk 2.2K DFS. I can format *F40 when using...
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Combat
This looks great. A game I had as a kid. Don't suppose there's any chance of an Electron port, pretty please? Sorry it's not something I considered, especially with the limited time I have to code...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: The BBC Micro ROM Library
These recent improvements are excellent. Thank you!Statistics: Posted by robert_smallshire — Wed Sep 30, 2026 12:50 pm
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S28 -...
I'm not getting on with this game. It feels very random. I can get further on the electron, but it is slower, and not quite so impossible to dodge the ghosts when they change just as you approach...
View Articlearchive submissions • Re: 30th Anniversary BBC and Electron Collection
Hi, Just when I thought it was safe... I have taken another more in-depth look into a few of my discs - starting at the beginning. The instructions for Free Fall on Disc004 in Section 1 are quite...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: [HELP NEEDED] - FLOPPY ISSUE SOLIDISK 1770/8271 BOARD
Hi, Keep forwarding in my repair. I replaced all 74LS157 (x3) that were faulty and also 74LS174 that was dead too. I replaced also the 74LS136 wich appears to be ok. I changed the underside ic support...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Watford Electronics Office Mate &...
Does anyone have a link to Office Mate which has the complete set of 4 modules, the one missing from the link above doesn't contain the word processor function?Statistics: Posted by RonT — Tue Sep 29,...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Found: Office Software
Standard 40 track disks Just exploring these SSD images and noticed that whilst the Office Master appears to be complete, the SSD for Office Mate doesn't have the word processor option. A look at the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Internal 32016 Coprocessor
At the risk of asking the blindingly obvious, have you also put the FPU in, if you’re now running 2.0!Statistics: Posted by Boydie — Mon Sep 28, 2026 2:14 pm
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new projects in development: games • Re: New port of Missile Command to the...
I tried to write down the colours and use them, but think I started at the wrong offset and so it goes off the end and gets rubbish! Maybe I'll go back and check Statistics: Posted by tricky — Mon Sep...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Help needed to fix a Beeb with the continuous tone...
Remember the 6845 (IC2) is a very flexible devices and its behaviour depends very much on what has been programmed into it by the OS. If that programming hasn't happened you may see some random stuff...
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: oaknut-disc : DFS, ADFS and AFS0 (L3FS) tools for the...
It seems there is more than one variant to the Level 3 file server code. I haven't looked at the MMBeeb 1.26 variant in detail but the one I am currently using is a slightly modified variant of...
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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Can the Electron disk version of...
The tape version won't load on any emulator I use, is there an .SSD or .ADF version anywhere? I don't want to buy an entire DVD for one file Statistics: Posted by SuperFella — Sun Sep 27, 2026 2:09 pm
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: Microvitec Cub Monitor:...
Sorry to hear about the magic smoke. After a few hours of use, my cub seems to have calmed down. I'd recapped from stock that I'd had on the shelf for about 18months, so I should really have reformed...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3020 battery and mods
I think i could remove the turn pins, off the board or try to remove off the ram chip - i am super worried about damaging the board and/or the ram chip at this point. Am I being to paranoid as usual?...
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