acorn atom and acorn system series • Re: ATOM DVI-D video and SID Audio adapter
That's brilliant. Does it not require any colour board inside the Atom or anything else to work?Statistics: Posted by matalog — Fri Feb 14, 2025 11:00 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: ADFS for multiple SCSI drives
Now let's see if I can get *BYE to function correctly. For this command, I don't want to generate the 'Drive not found' error for a non existent drive. Instead, it should just skip over that drive,...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Today I received.....
...and the School Bully eventually became the Saint!Statistics: Posted by BeebMaster — Fri Feb 14, 2025 11:18 pm
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8-bit acorn hardware • Why it is best to take it apart and NOT turn it on..
I bought a brand-new, in box, never used Master 128 from eBay. I haven't seen a brand new M128 in a box since my father bought one home and asked me what I thought of it - getting on 40 years ago. I'm...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Why it is best to take it apart and NOT turn it on..
Once I start something, I always finish it (otherwise it will join the huge pile of "tend to it directly" stuff) A - These PSUs are a PITA to work on.jpgB - To re-cap the low-side rectifiers need...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: RO 3 issue at boot...
!New_Look in your "Apps" folder is changing the icons and desktop background. If you don;t want that move/delete it. Description of newlook here - http://www.riscos.com/ftp_space/310/index.htm So it...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Interesting YouTube videos
A shout out for the Beeb Astro Blaster conversion!Statistics: Posted by paulb — Sat Feb 15, 2025 10:39 pm
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new projects in development: games • Re: Apache Valley - possible new...
v1.0-beta-1 now available with a few tweaks and additions since last time. I've still got ~100 bytes free but I think it's time to stop now as I would like to get on with something new....
View Articlenew projects and releases: demoscene • Re: Ray Caster Demo
I don't think I understand your question here - however - I'm largely following a tutorial for the algorithm (https://permadi.com/1996/05/ray-casting ... -contents/). My worst case count is 5...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: UMI 4M
If anyone does make a replica PCB for this put me down for 2 please Also wouldn't mind one! A UMI 2B sold on eBay today - I bid on it, with the intention of doing some reverse engineering, but didn't...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • DRAM row/column address and strobe timings
Apologies in advance. I suspect either I’m asking a question that’s already been very much answered before, or I’m opening a can of worms.I’ve been doing a belated deep dive into the Beeb’s core ICs...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Master Compact speaker spec?
You're more diligent than I am! If it was me, I'd just be looking in my junk drawer and robbing any old speaker about the right size out of an old pocket transistor radio, noise-making toy, pair of...
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new projects in development: games • Re: Zezito and the Lost Stars - Electron...
This is a beautiful looking game and great fun too, congratulations I would be very happy to volunteer to convert the code to run on the BBC B/B+/Master/Compact systems If you wish Statistics: Posted...
View Article32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • Re: Adventures in A680 RiscIx
I've got copies of the User Guide and Programmer's Guide. I keep them next to the chocolate fireguard. Nothing in there about partitioning/sectioning a new disk? That's a shame!If we view the A680...
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miscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Inufuto BBC games compilation
...Did you even understand what this project is, or did you just skip to the video? I did watch the video and thought I understood that this was a game building tool that allowed for a lot of...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: RiscPC motherboard video issue
my hot air tool had a nozzle on it that was wider than the diameter of the caps. I found that lowering the tool over the cap and gently tapping the cap with the nozzle until it was free to move out of...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Possible Pinball game for the BBC Micro
The score is increasing when things that should increase it happen like going through the left and right lanes at the top and hitting the pop bumpers, I just forgot that I added that bit!!!There is...
View Articleeconet in all its guises • Re: *DATE PiEconet bridge
The date on the Pi Bridge will most likely be correct (although it does have an option not to support years after 1997 for compatibility with the original "short Acorn era" date range of 1981 to 1996)...
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scanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • Re: BBC Master Compact...
Thanks - except its not really a PDF - despite what it says ( try it you'll see what i mean ! )that caught me out tooi guess technically it is a pdf , but not what you'd think of as a PDF scan of the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: DRAM row/column address and strobe timings
Is there a step by step description somewhere of the Beeb’s strategy, inclusive of which component does what, at a given 8MHz clock phase plus the (analogue?) delay it was chosen to create?I don't...
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