8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Booting the Electron into different languages
The idea of the second language replacing the BASIC ROM is: it doesn't take-up any other ROM banks! - it actually switches out BASIC to use the same decoded Bank.I miss judged the way the MRB works,...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: The New Electron - BIG Decision - Old Standard or...
I'd favour as close to the original electron as possible but with a few deviations for extra optional features/quality of life improvements. For example, reasonable size FPGA for the ULA since the...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Orion Patrol - January update
Afternoon,A lull in-between chores, so thought I'd post an update.A core set of ground-based graphics are pretty much done, and I fixed the plotting routines (was a combination of simple code...
View Articleother events + general event chat • Re: ABUG CANADA CENTRAL
Fair enough, I usually end up in pain for at least a week after I have taken my crts and boxes of beebs to a show.Statistics: Posted by tricky — Sat Jan 11, 2025 4:05 pm
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new projects in development: games • Re: Apache Valley - possible new...
Plays really nicely, maybe a tad difficult to start with.Wait till the later levels, I'm reliably assured that all new 8bit retro games should be very difficult : maps to # when I use the link, which...
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acorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: ABUG Scotland #11 : Mon...
Many thanks for all the hard work you've put in organising the meetings, Paul. I do hope they can continue in some form.I'm only sightly jealous of you going somewhere a bit less cold and wet compared...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Doom didn't kill the Amiga...Wolfenstein 3D did
Wolf3D feels slightly "off" as it's Eddie Edward's own engine, rather than actually being a direct port of the PC version. Performance wise, on an ARM3 it's similar to original Wolf on a fast 386...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: BlueSCSI/RaSCSI and Filestore
Attached is the bluescsi.ini file, and four (formatted and initialised) E60S drive images. I can confirm that the E01S sees all four as separate E60Ss.Other drive sizes will be possible, but you'll...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: 6845 question.
From memory (hopefully I’m remembering correctly):Two of the DRAM chips provide the main memory (32K) and the shadow memory (20K) plus the extra workspace area (12K).The remaining two DRAM chips...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Replacement 16 mhz oscillator?
Thanks for the good info - I appreciate it.As I say, I don't have a scope, so can't do the detailed checks.Ive had the ULA out for IPA cleaning, surface chip check and socket clean and checks. The...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: LOLPRICE
May I throw these into the mix? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/405451681002https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156613656596Statistics: Posted by julians — Sun Jan 12, 2025 4:42 pm
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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Classic Elite Hints & Tips
By scouring this esteemed forum I can find lots of references dotted around to Elite with respect to hints, tips, cheats tactics etc etc. It can be a bit of an overhead managing where they all are...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: 6809/6309 SBC running BBC Basic
I think it's on my repo at https://github.com/dominicbeesley/beeb6 ... warn-errorIt will be quite out of date with respect to the proper asm6809 though.Statistics: Posted by dominicbeesley — Sun Jan...
View Articlegeneral • Re: An unusual BBC micro project from the early 1990s
Assistive technology is very much user OneSwitch's jam.Eye-tracking is a pretty well-accepted technology now. It's built into recent cellphone cameras, so they can have a pointer that (depending on...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Lady Bug
argh ! I think this is a bug that will possibly cause a problem, the basic program CheckFs (checkFs.bas)Code: ON ERROR B%=FALSE:CHAIN "Menu"OSCLI("ACCESS Menu LR"):B%=TRUE:CHAIN "Menu"this program is...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Palettemate / enhanced video ULA with 4096 colours
I was reading the spectrum ula book and wondered, if Acorn had gone from atom to an super-atom home computer before any proton/beeb, and like Mr Altwasser decided on reduced colour resolution in one...
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: ABUG Dev night #88,...
Thanks Chris!Statistics: Posted by BigEd — Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:16 pm
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Was the Amstrad CPC 464 a better games machine?
When you start digging into these old 8 bit machines, it always makes me think how amazing the atari 2600 was for the time for a gaming machine, with 128 colours and only 128 bytes of ram.Statistics:...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Doom didn't kill the Amiga...Wolfenstein 3D did
Sadly, Sarah's benchmarks don't tell us how the A7000+ fared with Quake.Would be pretty bad, noticeably worse than the StrongARM even with hardware FP. 48 MHz of ARM7 simply isn't enough on the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Advice on various cabling please?
See the IC2 4 U mega-topic for the easiest way of getting a RTC for a Beeb...Although do set aside plenty of time to read it...MarkStatistics: Posted by 1024MAK — Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:33 pm
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