Introduce Yourself • Hello and thank you!
Based in Newcastle Upon Tyne UK I have not been able to get to any Abug/Shows due to the distances to travel.This forum is amazing. Thanks to everyone who has been so helpful over the last few weeks...
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acorn atom and acorn system series • Re: System 1
Did it sell, it says Ended, which usually means it didn’t sell, although it does say sold on the picture. Statistics: Posted by Drobell — Thu Jan 23, 2025 7:26 pm
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Introduce Yourself • Re: Hello and thank you!
Welcome, hope you enjoy this forum as much as I do. Statistics: Posted by Drobell — Thu Jan 23, 2025 7:40 pm
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communications • Re: the Night Owl BBS **Host UP**
Night Owl is Up ! Statistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Thu Jan 23, 2025 7:42 pm
View Articleprogramming • BBC Assembly Questions
Hi all!I have some questions re. assembly on the BBC Micro, these will probably seem silly to many of you but I'm new to the system and to be honest, I think a lot of the documentation is pretty...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Exile - Unprotected Disc Images
I've attached a file that contains a number of different disc image variants of Exile. These disc images are derived directly from four different disc release versions of the game. The different...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Zezito and the Lost Stars - Electron...
With this and Crystal Castle are we starting a golden age of 8-bit acorn platformers? I very much hope so!Statistics: Posted by tnash — Fri Jan 24, 2025 5:10 pm
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new ideas wishlist & general chat • Re: Dino
You have to clear on the side going off screen and draw on the side coming on PS I have added a post to the Moon Patrol thread with roughly what I do in that game (or what I could remember - may be...
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new projects in development: games • Re: unnamed shoot-em-up....
The game looks amazing what an interesting game concept!Statistics: Posted by Iapetus — Fri Jan 24, 2025 5:45 pm
View Articleprogramming • Re: never knew
Using a VDU call to re-program the 6845 in a way that requires the user to specify the register and the value to set it to seems an odd choice. It does provide a mechanism to be able to do this from a...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Time & Config.
The obvious thing is to implement a new event. It's a great pity that BASIC doesn't have an ON EVENT GOSUB command similar to ON ERROR GOTO, but even without this, I think events are the most useful...
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32-bit acorn software: other • Re: Question about RISC 3.11 app icons
Sure. You can have the 'orrible app name !7zk91_xfk or whatever then. The number of useful/desirable app names is considerrrrably less than that figure. It's surprising how few clashes occurred...
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new projects in development: games • Re: Moon Patrol for the beeb (New port,...
I was sure that I had already posted this, but maybe it was in another thread colour_map.pngI seem to remember shrinking the screen to try to fit the game into the basic model B.I have since moved to...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: quite failing to do WAV → UEF (linux)
… The Quadbike update remains unfinished so far.Is software ever finished? You're doing great work, and Quadbike's doing some pretty deep digging into (potentially manky) tape signals to recover all...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS* Friday*
The Night Owl Host is now up this very blowy Friday evening.Seeing as you are all stuck at home, what could be better to dothan login to a Retro Viewdata BBS on your Beebs and connect withanother...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: New Electron Pro
Little update, working on a replacement keyboard for the Elk, think i have figured out a replacement solution for current Elks and new Elks, uses a single PCB which will pick up on the current...
View Articlesoftware & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Re: Quadbike 2: Tape...
Thanks to scruss for pointing out the bug discussed here. There's a patch now posted there too, although it's a hack rather than a proper fix.Statistics: Posted by Diminished — Sat Jan 25, 2025 7:06 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Modding an ARAII cartridge
Many thanks both. I’ll do this.Is it as simple as connect pin 27 to middle pin of switch, 28 to other side and 14 to other side- based on Dave’s schematic? No need to add resistors? Thanks in...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn A3000 4MB memory upgrade best option?
Yes it looks like it doesn’t appear in a search for a3000 memory…Any spare boards Ian? Statistics: Posted by sammoj — Sat Jan 25, 2025 7:09 pm
View Article32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • Re: Adventures in A680 RiscIx
I’m not sure how much of ADFS is actually implemented. Dropping out of the Boot CLI, to the command prompt, allows ADFS to be selected, but attempting to access a floppy just makes FileCore barf.From...
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