32-bit acorn software: other • Re: RISC OS 3 1/2 Floppies Discs
You can create disk images that you can access via RPC emu and then zip up what you want and move them onto USB sticks via hostfs. That's how I'd do it anyway. There's a greaseweazle facebook group,...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: 21st Century BBC Micro?
I've done most of the bits needed:beeb keyboard to ps/2A BBC keyboardUsed here to make a pointless project!I'm sure it should be easy to make the pico firmware do usb hid without to much work.. the...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • AKA12 mod resistor
I've a couple of Acorn AKA12 MIDI podules. Casually noticed one has a 10K mod resistor on the back, the other doesn't.It looks bodgey, so I assumed it was a user bodge and was considering removing it,...
View Article32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • Re: Adventures in A680 RiscIx
Have you tried scsidm from within iX ?That’s how I’m trying it.Ok how about the opposite then - from RISC OS?Statistics: Posted by IanJeffray — Sat Feb 01, 2025 6:18 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: RiscPC motherboard video issue
Yes I now perform this as routine on all my Risc PC's as I posted last week https://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30396Statistics: Posted by RetroMacintosh — Sat Feb 01, 2025 6:24 pm
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS **Host UP**
bit late but now up for Sat eveningthanksBrianStatistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Sat Feb 01, 2025 8:13 pm
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: BBC Sound Demo / Bananarama
I hand it, and it was amazing! You could scrub through the audio with the cursor keys, and it blew my mind at the time. I think it was a demo from a hardware supplier (Clares? CC?)...not sure.I had it...
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miscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Crystal Castle 40th...
Nice score, very close - posted.I've gone back over all of the screens, making notes of where the 8 items are, where and how they are used, thinking that another couple of crystals might appear, but...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Exile - Unprotected Disc Images
&FE4A or &FE6AUsing EXILE9, and setting read breakpoints on these, doesn't yield any hits when you start up gameplay.Statistics: Posted by Diminished — Sun Feb 02, 2025 8:41 pm
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Utilities for decoding &...
I have it in VS and when it settles down there is an error in the Solution Explorer Window CMake Generation Failed and when I read more CMake Error at C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual...
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Atom Software Archive
You can save the listings as PNG files and use an online OCR program to convert the picture to text.Copy the textfile in Atomulators MMC folder.Then start Atomulator, and import the txt file with eg:...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: RiscPC Sound problems
I really would like to change those SMD Ceramic Caps but unfortunatelly don't know the values. Changed 3x47uf 16v, 2x10uf 16v to new ones and the result is the same.Wobblestone and wiggy made some...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Emulate an amber monitor?
Also, another reason for amber and green screen monitors was a practical one I believe.I think a nice white colour was more difficult and hence more expensive to produce.MarkI always wondered why...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Master 80186 coprocessor hanging
No, MMFS doesn't work with ADFS disks. There is the version of adfs that works with SD cards (treating them like a hard disk, I don't think it does floppies), it's in hoglet's repository:...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Zezito and the Lost Stars - Electron...
Today was the time for the game loader/presentation screen:Zezitoandtheloststars_presentation_screen_.pngStatistics: Posted by Iapetus — Mon Feb 03, 2025 7:46 pm
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Unreleased games
If the NCOS was able to run in ARM 26-bit mode, then it may well have been! But our emulation core wouldn't have run in 32-bit mode; it relied on the instructions which affected flags while writing PC...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Halfword access on RISC PC
To answer an earlier question from paulb - I suspect there actually isn't a way to trap all LDRH and patch process it - you'd need to have some kind of selective abort system to fault 'unfaulty'...
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acorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Atom and UM6502A
Right having done some fiddling, and finding that I also had a bad 74LS45 / 74LS145, I have managed to get the UM6502 worining in the Atom.However it only works if the 8255 is replaced with an 82C55,...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Using a Mains Light Switch as an Inline Switch
I honestly don't know why y'all are complaining about the colours. In the industry where I used to work, all the safety systems used black wire. Yes, for every circuit (*). And there were thousands of...
View Article32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • Re: Adventures in A680 RiscIx
Indeed. I've always thought of UnixCLI as a quirky RISCiXFS. It can read the root filesystem (if the correct offset is given/configured, otherwise it complains about it not being a super block). It...
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