32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3000 storage options?
Bit late, but it is possible to use high density 1.44mb disks on an A3000.No. Well, "yes", but my attempt failed. Others have had success, with modded floppy drives. And you need a special version of...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Master Compact ROM socket replace?
Wow thanks so much all of you - I love love love this community! I got the itch for a compact liking its form factor and while knowing it had its challenges - I had a feeling exploring if would be...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn Speech - Original TI development board used...
It looks like only four of the switches on SW1 are connected. The top 4 bits don't seem to have traces.Looking at both sides of the PCB, I think six of them are used. This supports my theory: it is...
View Articleprogramming • Re: BBC Master Welcome Disk Envelope program
adl will be an ADFS disk image.When you do what you've done, Beebem will probably default to DFS.So after loading Disc 0Type *ADFS at the Cursor / prompt. Then try *CAT afterwardsStatistics: Posted by...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: 01-A680B-0000156 - investigating an A680 !
With enormous thanks to Stephen for his A680 drive image, I'm pleased to confirm this A680 also boots iX, using all defaults:WIN_20250302_00_32_47_Pro.jpgAmusingly, scsidm seems to think there's no...
View Articlenew projects and releases: text and graphic adventures • Re: Text Adventure...
Hopefully the "bit of garble" isn't too distracting. Nope, not at all. I've only tested a few screens, mind, so have no idea whether more lurks ahead.Here's a screenshot of said garble, in case...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: LOLPRICE
Statistics: Posted by Highland_Squirrel — Sun Mar 02, 2025 1:25 am
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: Repair thought...
There is an emulator, but the latest OS that it will run on is Windows 2000! I'll have a read and see if any of these is particularly fast.EDIT: All the ones I could find datasheets for were the same...
View Articlenew projects and releases: demoscene • Re: Ray Caster Demo - Improved...
(I think speculatively taking offence on behalf of someone else is something which can backfire - I've done it, I'm sure, but I recommend against it. This is, in general, not a place where people...
View ArticleIntroduce Yourself • Hi, working BBC thumbnails for Retroarch
Hi, nice to be here. I was wondering about if anyone knew if the images on https://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/ were available to put into Retroarch as screenshots. I sent an email off on the contact page a...
View Articlecommunications • Re: BeeBS the BBS hosted on a Beeb is Live!
Hey All,BeeBS now has an RSS news reader so you can catchup on the latest headlines. So fire up commstar (or your Mode 7 terminal of choice) and check out BeeBS (more info at http://beebs.ddns.net)....
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3010, few questions
Shock horror, telly supports telly frequenciesStatistics: Posted by SKS1 — Sun Mar 02, 2025 9:18 pm
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Introduce Yourself • Re: Hi, working BBC thumbnails for Retroarch
Hi,welcome to this great Forum... Greetings from my little Dutch Atomic Attic, Wim... Statistics: Posted by Multiwizard — Sun Mar 02, 2025 9:23 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A5000 - 8MB Memory upgrade options
How did Simtec do theirs for the A4x0/1?I’m pretty sure there wasn’t any track-cutting shenanigans when I fitted mine.Statistics: Posted by Boydie — Sun Mar 02, 2025 9:30 pm
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8-bit acorn emulators • Re: MAME: How to ... ?
Thanks, those will do nicely! But just for future reference, is there somewhere where I should have been looking for them?The archive usually has the latest sets at...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em Tape Overhaul v3 (SAVE support, autotests)
does the saving of tapes in B-em support exotic parity formats like 8E1 and 8O1 if I create a little test program to write these data blocks it writes all garbage and does not add the 0140 chunk to...
View Articlearchive issues • Re: Advanced BASIC Editor PACK
Thank you Mick, that's much appreciated.I don't know much about the coding aspect, but apart from the glitch noted it's all been very smooth with your edits.JPStatistics: Posted by JPL — Mon Mar 03,...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Chuckie Egg 2023
Am finally looking to update the Tube emulation in MAME, so which implementation is currently considered the most mature (for reference purposes)?Statistics: Posted by Pernod — Mon Mar 03, 2025 9:58 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: VGA/RGB/PAL output with 1-bit DAC
This is all very promising! And I do like a good write-up...Statistics: Posted by BigEd — Mon Mar 03, 2025 10:06 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Pi1MHz Software
Yes, BeebEm and BeebSCSI implement the same behaviour. From memory, it always responds to ID 0, LUN 0,1,2,3. The LUN is passed in the top bits of the command, which is I think how the ACB 4000 did it...
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