8-bit acorn hardware • Re: RGB to HDMI using a Pi Zero and a small CPLD
Is this hardware able to rotate the image by 90 degrees and then mirror it ? Or first mirror it and then rotate it by 90 degrees, the order doesn't matter.signal is almost a standard black and white...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Under the cover: the ARM250 die
The result is this cool scrollable image of the ARM250 die: https://siliconpr0n.org/map/gec-plessey ... _mz_ms10x/... and the attached 8MB low-res image as a teaser!Sadly my attempts to remove the...
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • OpenSCAD Version Atom Case
I've created an OpenSCAD version of the Atom case !This design can produce a case for an original Atom, my replica Atom or for a System Computer Keyboard and the case can be printed in 1, 2 or 4 parts...
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communications • Re: the Night Owl BBS **UP**
As above, now waiting for calls ..thanksBrian Statistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Sat Mar 08, 2025 8:57 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Why didn't Acorn use rigid LED mounts on the BBC...
It's in the closing hours of its resale on eBay - the board looked intact and all the ICs were present. I wasn't interested in negotiating a "deal" because I have several boards and PSUs but no cases...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Acorn Art Thread
Thanks for the encouragement. I'll try to describe what I'm doing musically and coding wise at some point (on a separate thread). For now I can't recommend working through 'Making Music on the BBC...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • EconetA DCI-2
Does anyone have a copy of the DCI-2 EconetA module? I can find the DCI-4 version about on here but not the DCI-2 version.Thanks,SteveStatistics: Posted by SteveBagley — Sat Mar 08, 2025 9:32 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Fixing up an A420/1
As I'm waiting for a few things to arrive, I thought I'd do some work on the A420/1 today. Fitting the extra 2MB of RAM was a bit nerve racking (16 zigzag pin RAM chips into sockets). Some of the...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Possible Pinball game for the BBC Micro
Tweaked the lights a bit more and moved their sprites to line up with their physics!same memoryso not much to see, maybe tomorrow!Oh, and made the ball round again!Statistics: Posted by tricky — Sat...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Updated Master MOS versions
I am not sure if it is only one of the two MOS versions, but at least one of them also clears the sideways RAM if it is doing a memory clear on break.But, on the inefficient memory clear, the Master...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: BeebEm Bug or BBC bug?
You have to attach images for them to be visible. Attach them to the post, then click the Place inline button to have a preview image appear in the post when people view it.BEMBUG.jpgI get the same...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn Electron - Searching - File Not Found - BASIC
I've had a good look at this today. Spoiler - I haven't found the fault so far!All the following has been done without the keyboard attached, as it doesn't seem to be relevant. Here are my notes:-...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Music 10000
Things are coming together. I sampled the Music 5000 this weekend and used A.I to help me.It was a difficult task. I might make the samples a bit longer.I've reskinned the editor. Still got a bit of a...
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Atom Software Archive
The web address's in the spreadsheet for the Acornsoft Gamepacks are all incorrect, apart from Games Pack 8.Everything before the final / could be copied from the address for Games Pack 8 and paste...
View Articleprogramming • Re: question about screen modes and reset/cleaning
is there a way to change mode WITHOUT cleaning the screen ?Well you can sort of achieve this on the Master using the shadow screen buffer:Code: 10 MODE 2 20 PRINTTAB(2,10) "This is a test" 30 PRINT...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A5000 video fail
Nice job repairing that without removing the socket, or melting it!Looks to me like the IC was probably rammed right the way down in the socket and the screwdriver didn't go far enough in.As soon as...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Dual ROM carrier boards
You can't usually use ROMs with anything other than the original PAL module. InterBase (for example) is a 64kB EPROM and the PAL must output signals to A14 and A15 on the EPROM. InterWord is a 32kB...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Wrecked Master Compact ADD04 base unit
Its in a zip file a couple of posts up...Statistics: Posted by jms2 — Mon Mar 10, 2025 9:01 pm
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • B-Em Tape Overhaul v4.1
4.1Source patch, Windows build, tests package:https://beebstuff.uk/f/acorn/TOH/v4.1-rc9/SHA256 on pastebin:https://pastebin.com/UYmarx0L(check the account name, and the date)If building from source,...
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econet in all its guises • Re: Econet to AUN bridge on Raspberry Pi - released
Hmm, maybe?Tests done using RiscOS on rpcemuFirst I did a "*SAVE" of 64K chunk of memory in a 5000 loop direct to the server. Took just under 10 minutes to complete, with no errors.Before:Code: % ps...
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