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introduce yourself • Re: Hello from Surrey
Welcome, I'm sure there will be people here who would love to know if you have any unusual software, or even to see some glamour shots of the arcs Statistics: Posted by tricky — Sat Feb 03, 2024 4:56 am
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scanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • Re: 6522 Data sheet with...
Thanks Kevin, I seem to remember Gil stating to write an emulator on the beeb to decrypt probably your code My goal isn't to be the most accurate been emulator, but to sort the hardware that I make...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn A3000 badges
Thanks. And oh, I never throw anything Acorn away Statistics: Posted by HigashiJun — Sat Feb 03, 2024 5:10 am
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Did the BBC try commissioning Microsoft to...
Although the Commodore 128 did make it to market eventually.I think you are missing my original pointI get your original point. Yes, that could have been done. But I'm not sure you are getting my...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: "A very nice, compact SWRAM/Flash board"
The sector size of the SST39SF010 and AM29F010 is different (4kB and 16kB respectively). So I wouldn't expect programming software intended for one to work with the other without some tweaks.Thanks...
View Articlearchive submissions • Re: ALPS Adventure Language Programming System
It's not that short. Seems worth a go!Statistics: Posted by iamaran — Sun Feb 04, 2024 1:21 am
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Building a monster A3000
Wow. That's quite a beast. Thanks for sharingStatistics: Posted by a1exh — Sun Feb 04, 2024 1:31 am
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general • Re: X filter goes bang
There was a 13A fuse in the plug (it's a 2kW model) I cut the wire off, cleaned the blast area, replaced the capacitor and crimped the connections - all good and it's working again. The cable is...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A4 next steps
It sounds like they need to come up to check underneath - or at least that area of the board needs a very good clean to make sure there's no capacitor grot hanging around. Looks like it's been...
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new ideas wishlist & general chat • Re: More Boulder Dash!
Luckily the bonus caves are numbered sequentially from the main caves, so I just needed to add Q, R, S and TThey're the same sized caves from the program's storage perspective. I had to modify the...
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8-bit acorn hardware • IC88, IC100 and the Tube issues
I'm struggling to give enough information to be useful without telling you my entire life story, but here goes ...Short version: I have a BBC model B with two issues - it won't recognise any ROMS in...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Elite over Econet (BBC Master, 6502SP)
If I'm right about the difference in changing discs between FileStore and MDFS, then it would work on the FileStore, because *DIR will put you in a $.<username> on the current disc (ie. Disc2 in...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S22 -...
Broke 60k....man it gets rough up at those levels....I almost got through level 3, had one umbrella and brick to open up.....Statistics: Posted by KarateEd — Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:13 pm
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: Beta update for BeebAsm VSCode extension
Hi Tom,To re-iterate what others have already said: Thanks for driving Beeb-related VSCode extension development forward!I currently use Simon's BeebVSC extension and I thought I would take a look to...
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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: The Greatest BBC Micro Programmers
They may not have got your teenage time, but there are some more recent authors that have done some great work too Statistics: Posted by tricky — Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:37 pm
View Articlesoftware & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Re: Xfer in C
Does it work if you set the COM port as \\.\COM12 or \\.\COM13? The Windows CreateFile function needs the \\.\ prefix to use COM ports above 9.Statistics: Posted by chrisn — Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:35 am
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: py8dis - a programmable static tracing 6502...
I don't have access to a PC right now to test this, but I suspect you can define your own hook function which is a lightly tweaked copy of the existing stringhi_hook:Code: def my_stringhi_hook(target,...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: 128Kx8-bit DIP28 system ROM for the Master Compact
Hi, the PCB is still on its way to my house, but I was thinking that it might be worth trying to swap the two ROMs in the sockets, so the system ROM goes in the extra ROM socket and vice...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC crashing randomly but works fine 30 minutes...
I hope you have fixed it, as its intensely irritating, I have had 'Incredible HULK' moments before trying to fix these old Beeb's ...It's not just Beebs - I've a C64S which is basically Trigger's...
View Articlemodern implementations of classic programming languages • Re: Matrix Brandy...
I've been busy in the shadows.Some new fixes since my last post include- PRINT now handles exponent format better, with padding akin to Acorn BASICs- Subtraction now works in "long double" space (80...
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