general • Re: Interesting YouTube videos
(probably the wrong place for this, but I found the code on eBay - and have uploaded the game here).Statistics: Posted by OneSwitch — Mon Dec 23, 2024 12:21 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Cub 653 No Picture
It failed to start up again yesterday, so I have been inside the cave of death again this morning.I had a good look at the board and there is evidence of previous re-work. One of the ICs towards the...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • A440/1 (a week in, what have I learned?)
TLDR; a lotSo it's been a while since I bought my A440 (upgraded to an A440/1) with a Watford Electronics 25Mhz ARM3 upgrade and Seagate 20GB HDD. It also has one of the A300 keyboards, with the red...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Unipod and ADF10 or AEH52
Alan, thank you for your detailed response, which gives a bit more detail to the general approach I had in my head. I am a little confused by this comment though: -All of which we can ignore as having...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: JASPP to release The Fourth...
I've released ADFFS 2.85 and the next batch of Fourth Dimension games both via PackMan and on the JASPP forum.Fourth Dimension releases to dateApocalypse (1990) (The Fourth Dimension)Black Angel...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Creator II
Does anybody rememberCreator II by Alpine Software? I never used the first version but bought the second in the late 90s, I had always wanted to make platform games after being a mad Sonic fan, and...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Electron IC18 & IC17
I've tried Mark's circuit and it works just fine. If, however, you have one of Phill's (Prime) MRBs then you can have up to 8 different languages installed and just select the one you'd like with...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Was the Amstrad CPC 464 a better games machine?
With the CPC 464 as the "base" machine, most games did not take as much advantage of the extra memory or the disk drive of the CPC 6128 that a lot of owners would have liked. Most software houses...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Season's Greetings
Thank you!Just after the Christmas Celebrations is the time to play retro games!Statistics: Posted by Anobium — Tue Dec 24, 2024 1:59 pm
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: MASTER 128 Startup issues
Thanks, I've run out of time today with visitors coming, but I will get back on it on 27th and let you know how I got on. The original battery was completly depleted, so no suprises there on the...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: Issus with the E01
I think this has been continued in other threads now, but the explanation is that plugging a Pi1MHz into a FileStore E01 is like plugging an Acorn Winchester Disc 130 into the E01, instead of the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Merry Christmas 2024 🎅🏼🎄
I know its not a tech post, so please forgive me. . . but I just wanted to say a very merry christmas to all and I hope wherever you are and whatever your are doing you are able to make this time...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Adventure Party Creator
Sorry I've moved this project onto BeebEm installed on a Windows laptop and a BBC Basic Editor for Linux on a Linux laptop.You are right I will run out of memory but I'm using Turbo MMC so hopefully I...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Today I received.....
Modding is quite complex, you need an old computer with a CD-ROM and an ide hard drive connector, a memory card with the SID installer file on it as well as a suitable IDE hard drive and the XboxHDM...
View Articleoff-topic • Got an Xbox (original) for Xmas!
Modding is quite complex, you need an old computer with a CD-ROM and an ide hard drive connector, a memory card with the SID installer file on it as well as a suitable IDE hard drive and the XboxHDM...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Got an Xbox (original) for Xmas!
I am currently using this with composite which is actually surprisingly good however I would like to use component as my retro TV supports this. I saw a component cable on eBay which said this:May...
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new projects in development: games • Re: Possible new DigDug version for the...
And fun it is, until it isn't Added last monster speeds up, runs away and level ends if they get away.They should probably get a chance to rethink their direction when they become the last man...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Disconnecting Vcc Spade Bits Without Breaking Them
I've found that you can only get them off without breaking tham if you first carefully try to push the spade connectors on further with long nose pliers before you try to pull them off.Statistics:...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: Filestore E01 and Pi1MHZ
Hello just an update of the test I have been done:Test setup:- Dealer disk from from the repo from Mark : https://github.com/mark-usher/Pi1MHzFS/ ... eaved).adl- Pi Zero 2W- Acorn Master 128- 1 Mhz...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S24 -...
Already not liking this.....sigh.....I'm feeling it too, Ed. Now that I understand the game a bit better, I think the concept is great and I kind of enjoy how it really wrings your brain out. The way...
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