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new projects in development: games • Re: Star Trail for the BBC Micro and...

Secondly the display of the stats. I'm not sure the lines give enough detail to make decisions. (Do I have enough energy for the next jump for example). As such I think they may need to revert to...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Master pi tube and graphics speed

See also this thread:- 100MHz drop in replacement 6502Statistics: Posted by hoglet — Tue Dec 03, 2024 7:50 am

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: WE BBC EPROM Programmer not copying all data

You need the 200V DC range, as EPROMs run on DC.Ah thank you!If you get sensible voltage readings this time around, try programming an EPROM with the meter set to 200V DV and connected to pins 28 (+)...

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new projects in development: games • Re: Slot Machine in Basic

Interesting project Are you calculating the chances of the win based on (price per play * payout percentage) / win value ?Or is the win percentage just a factor of the number of symbol types on each...

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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Demo / Attract modes

Acornsoft Maze has a demo mode if you stay on the high score table screen for a while. It shows the player following the left wall for about a minute.Statistics: Posted by barbarossa69 — Tue Dec 03,...

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Introduce Yourself • Re: Hello from a new user

Welcome, t0nyt. Statistics: Posted by flaxcottage — Tue Dec 03, 2024 9:34 am

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8-bit acorn hardware • ROM Order?

Hi. As a new user I guess this is a pretty basic question but was wondering if anyone had any opinion on the order for the ROMs in my Model B please?Having read various threads I'm thinking of...

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8-bit acorn emulators • Re: 6850 ACIA transmit write timing

(Currently, everything in B-Em-TOH looks embarrassingly like 1200 baud, which is why Pro Boxing Simulator pukes.)Is the reference to Pro Boxing Simulator a kind of tape protection system?Yes -- short...

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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: PiEconetBridge and A3000 copy errors

Morning. I’m trying various settings but no luck yet. Is there a way to dump the settings from the Econet HAT ? I know I’ve set the clock speed to -p 8 -m 1 but it’s not better so I wanted to check...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: SCART - HDMI

A bit late, but FWIW, here's a summary of compatibility after my adventures with a faulty HDMI-to-SCART converter.Anyway there was a good deal on an RGB2HDMI on Black Friday Don't suppose you have a...

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general • Re: Today I received.....

Maybe the buyer will be lucky. The batteries were still in place in both of my Communicators but hadn't done any real damage. (Although there were plenty of other problems with the second...

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off-topic • Music 10000

HiI thought I'd show you something I'm working on.It's very exciting.I created it with A.I in javascript. It outputs Ample! So amazing.Maybe I can turn this into a VR synth!The synth works now in 2d....

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off-topic • Re: Music 10000

Looks great.How have you found generating AMPLE? I always struggled with it BITD.Are you generating tunes or designing sounds? Or both?Statistics: Posted by james — Wed Dec 04, 2024 10:06 am

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32-bit acorn software: other • Getting software on to my RiscPC HDD, help...

Hey All,I've been making steady progress with my RiscPC 600.It's now up and running with a 1GB Compact Flash card, I've setup a Gotek Drive in place of the Floppy with Flash Floppy 3.42 and everything...

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32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: WTD: Theo van der Boogaert's...

While there aren't many that it's archived, the Wayback Machine did manage to get some of those patches, at least:* https://web.archive.org/web/20030403180 ... Armdeb.zip*...

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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: a3010 mouse problem

replaced the ls241 and got partial mouse back, found that the x2 and rb didnt go to the keyboard controller, turned out that the traces were broken right at the via's, small jumper wire and now full...

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

Well, no further but a little better score. I'm starting to get through levels that I thought were hard, fairly easily now......Elementum-19.pngStatistics: Posted by KarateEd — Thu Dec 05, 2024 8:21 am

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general • Re: Beeb Spotting

I went to Bury Arcade Club last Friday and they've gained a BBC B, a Commodore 64 and a Spectrum from the North West Computer Museum in a new section on the ground floor.Statistics: Posted by...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Beeb FPGA port to Spectrum Next

Great! I’ll try it tomorrow when the links go live.The links are live now.https://www.specnext.com/latestdistro/https://www.specnext.com/distro/24.11/s ... -24.11.zipFull instructions for downloading,...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Advice sought - Daisy-chaining Cumana Drive &...

Cables will be custom. I'm not sure if he does them, but my first port of call would be Mark at Retroclinic.Statistics: Posted by KenLowe — Thu Dec 05, 2024 8:35 am

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