new projects in development: games • Re: Zezito and the Lost Stars - Electron...
It only works in mode 2 but thats fine for this game, it's quite simple to setup, you just set mode 0 instead of 2 and put the ascii values H, D, M and I going across the row, followed by the 2 times...
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32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • Re: Adventures in A680 RiscIx
We could always lend Beebmaster one and check… :lol:Sorry, I only normally set 8-bit machines on fire.Though a cap on the Hawk video podule in my A5000 did explode once, burning the PCB where the bits...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Weird MODE 7 issue on Master Compact
It seems that my problem might be the 6Mhz clock. It seems to be missing every third peak, making it a sort of lumpy 4Mhz (see attachment).Statistics: Posted by SevernWolf — Sat Feb 22, 2025 1:12 am
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Acornsoft Maze v2 (BBC Master...
Ahh...seems like it needs all 4 SRAM banks 4-7. If I load ROM images into them all, they have been overwritten after running the game. Maybe that's the problem?Statistics: Posted by BeebMaster — Sat...
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new projects in development: games • Re: Dino
Been working on a zero page sprite plotter, to improve performance At the moment it not working Screenshot 2025-02-22 at 23.11.05.pngVideo herehttps://youtu.be/KFQ5vlby5JQStatistics: Posted by fizgog...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Another BBC Master 128 Bad-Boot
As in:Set Station number = 10FS 0.254PS 0.235Am I missing something?Best Regards,Stewart.OK so you have the station ID, fileserver and printserver set in the CMOS? *STATUS and see what you've got.If...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Fault finding index
BBC Model B Issue 4 - continuous tone. A note from 1990 inside the machine stated "stopped working after thunderstorm" (I have the PSU repair separately from the BBC mainboard) I wasn't expecting...
View Articlescanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • Re: Acorn Unix A680...
That's not been my experience -- several PDFs I've downloaded from the Internet Archive have been shockingly bad (to the point of unreadable). Downloading the raw images and recreating the PDFs...
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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Exile - Unprotected Disc Images
Oh wow, fantastic Kevin! One of either EXILE6, 7 or 8 was 210 <Return>. Interpolating, we might guess that the in-between disks are 208 and 209 Looking forward to seeing what you've got...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Why didn't Acorn use rigid LED mounts on the BBC...
My keyboard does have tubes... Or are you saying these aren't sufficiently rigid?Yes, those are "weak", search for "PCB mount LED spacer" to see what they should have used.MarkStatistics: Posted by...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Caps & Shift Lock LEDs stop working..?
Take voltage measurements at the relevant pins (11 for CAPS LOCK and 12 for SHIFT LOCK, if I read the diagram properly) of IC32. You should see a high-ish reading (up to 5V) when the LED is off, and a...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Weekend coding challenge: Squares, cubes, and differences
My first thought was "Literally anything I can do to avoid having to extract a cube root will be worth it", and that's what I ran with.I suppose I should have extended the array to 1290, which is as...
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new projects in development: games • Re: Possible Pinball game for the BBC Micro
I'm struggling to find a decent paint or conversion program that does everything I want. Im most familiar with MS paint or degas elite but thats on the atari ST as a side quest I had a go at...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: STB20 - CD!
I'm dubbing this the "STB20 CD" in absence of any other identifier. The only sticker on the machine itself is of little use...Sticker on PCB below ROMs says STB21. The blurb at...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: 01-A680B-0000156 - investigating an A680 !
Well, boo. Disc spin up. Disc spin down. Disc spin up. Disc spin down. Disc spin up. Disc spin down. That's it.The head never moves or even attempts to, as far as I can determine - with the IDE...
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: [WAITLIST OPEN] BOOKING...
Please can you put me on the waitlist thanks.Statistics: Posted by z0m8ied0g — Mon Feb 24, 2025 11:27 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Another Bush internet.tv mod thread
I wonder whether anyone has the ROMs from an Acorn Stork? Looks like that supported floppy over parallel. Could be interesting to try on an IBX box and see if anything works.It would depend on if that...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Available ram with disk loading ?
When I wrote ladybug everything was loaded once and then used all available memory but now I am thinking of another game which will be large and require that each stage be loaded from the diskThe only...
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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Available ram with disk loading ?
I guess I could do what sarah walker did with white light and just zero out the disk workspace when I need to load but that would annoy everyone with a MMC Statistics: Posted by lovebug — Tue Feb 25,...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Mouse intermittant issues
Have you ruled out the A3000 or cable being at fault? "Shaking" can often mean that one of the pair of signals is disconnected - this often happens when the cable is damaged, plug/socket is damaged or...
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