8-bit acorn hardware • Re: PS/2 interface for the Joystick port
I started work on a mouse driver and it seemed to be going OK until we had a power cut yesterday and afterwards, my PS2 emulation in my emulator no longer works with the code it was working with...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: Econet to AUN bridge on Raspberry Pi - released
Hmm. At present the fs.c doesn't use the malloc harness, so its malloc()s and free()s won't show up in the malloc debugging. I'll look at changing that and see if that helps us out. The scandir()...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Archimedes a3010 keyboard drive LED
Hi,Im wanting to wire the activity LED of an external device (a Raspberry Pi 4) to have the keyboard drive LED blinking when the SD card is accessed on the Pi. I was told that the pin to use is the...
View Articleprogramming • Re: VCCC2024: Christmas Challenge
Yes, and the page has been updated now with more competition information, which wasn't available initially. Plus I just had an e-mail from him as a previous entrant!Statistics: Posted by BeebMaster —...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBc computer B issue 7, sideways ROM and Language?...
Not sure if this has already been asked, but my ATPL Sidewise board has a very specific socket for the BASIC ROM to be fitted in, so wondering if the Watford board has a similar...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Master Spacebar\keyboard problem
Many years ago I discovered I had a thing which was half an Econet cable soldered on to a bit of strip board with the wires each leading to a resistor and LED. I always thought it must be some kind of...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Unipod and ADF10 or AEH52
Can anyone suggest what software and on what platform, would be recommend to modify the ROOL module or with IanB’s permission, his podule software?Your best bet for the ROOL sources is the Acorn C++...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Insert Escape Keypress into Text File
I think I will have to carry on with my workaround of starting AUTO at a high enough number to run out of lines roughly around the end of the text file.I also found that AUTO won't take any variables,...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Porting of my game GENIUS to BBC...
Thanks a lot! Moving on very quicky! Statistics: Posted by Twinspirit32 — Mon Dec 09, 2024 11:09 am
View Articleprogramming • Re: Adventure Party Creator
You need to check your adding and deleting logic really are affecting the arrays d$() and id%() the way you think.Thanks. You are absolutely correct. My original logic broke when I added saving and...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Musings on Acnean Mutoids
Yeah, nothing wrong with the concept of random encounters, that's what dungeon crawlers are all about. But there needs to be a way to improve your situation beyond luck. Different monster types could...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Bug in BBC Chuckie Egg
The bug is sort of mentioned here, although the discussion is about one of the hacks rather than the original.viewtopic.php?p=220325#p220325Statistics: Posted by bob147 — Tue Dec 10, 2024 11:04 am
View Articlescanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • Re: Personal Computer World...
I have begun indexing articles, reviews, and code listings for Personal Computer World magazine. I'm hoping to cover every issue from Feb 1978 to Dec 1999.I expect the process will take a few years...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: Poorly Filestore E01S
You'd need to measure the crystal frequency somewhere other than at the crystal - otherwise what you are testing with will change the frequency (It's a high-impedance circuit, so even a good scope...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: SOLVED:Very noisy B+
Thanks. It's my second B+ and the first one I've had with no disc interface fitted. Don't suppose it had a Prestel ROM fitted, did it?I have a theory which I have expounded before that there may have...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Blitz - Originally known, by the designer, as...
I also have the 20GB DOMs.20GB? That's a funny size. Did you mean 2GB? Might be . . . I'm annoyed I've not been able to find any 'decent' large storage that performs well here, because I've currently...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Electron Screen Flickering
Or scroll down a little, on the Post A Reply page, and use the Attachment Tab . . . - Dave H.Statistics: Posted by daveejhitchins — Wed Dec 11, 2024 7:56 am
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: 64K sideways RAM on a ATPL RAM ROM board
To try to answer the actual question though, ....Not easily. The boards are 'wired' to route any write request to the two ram chip sockets, so regardless of which socket is 'selected' in the OS, the...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Star Trail for the BBC Micro and...
Attached is a new update. This is getting quite close to what I consider "finished" for the base game. It needs some testing but any comments would be welcome. 19 bytes free. Changes in this...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Master Spacebar\keyboard problem
Unfortunately I am boring so I just ordered 100 red ones Well that's you set for another 32 BBCs!!Statistics: Posted by vexorg — Wed Dec 11, 2024 9:10 am
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