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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3000 networking card by Atomwide (1993) - problem!

I am guessing that the EPROM on the card has become corrupted. I don't know whether the black electrical tape on top of it is a sign that an original sticker fell off and the ROM was corrupted by UV...

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programming • Re: Weekend coding challenge: Turing's tricky tape teaser

I hope I haven't quite done the thing where I think for 4 days and then conclude the answer is obvious...Statistics: Posted by BigEd — Thu May 08, 2025 5:00 pm

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general • Re: Today I received.....

Wizardry I and II for the Apple II. I use to play these round my mates house BITD and have been looking for reasonably priced UK copies (mostly to reduce postage) for a few years now. Finally got...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: AtoMMC wont boot on my atom

HiI have tried it before with a 6522 via chip I borrowed from a commodore disc drive I have but made no difference.Statistics: Posted by traindriver69 — Thu May 08, 2025 5:57 pm

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: cassette relay

Just the ticket.Do you have a link to the BOM - the one I found had a blank space for the relay - I think mine was from the replica board thread.DStatistics: Posted by dominicbeesley — Thu May 08,...

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8-bit acorn emulators • Re: i8271 Writing Deleted Data

I can't verify directly, but my understanding is that the controller overwrites the entire sector data area on every write - it has no choice.Consider that the sector headers are written once at...

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econet and other acorn specific networking • Re: A new home for my Pi Bridge.

We'll see. Just ordered a 15cm cable and should have time over the weekend to change the design. I think it should work quite nicely.Statistics: Posted by dhoggan — Thu May 08, 2025 6:53 pm

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Reading from a Philip Harris "Easy Memory...

the timing looks to be around 20us or so20uS is doable (UPURS manages 8->9uS through some clever code unwrapping and cycle counting; MartinB and hoglet get the kudos for that!).It's easy enough to...

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