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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Crystal Castles update (including...

Nice job Statistics: Posted by Dave Footitt — Wed Mar 12, 2025 2:58 pm

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general • Re: Today I received.....

Just arrived at lunchtime:IMG20250312130336.jpgIMG20250312130321.jpgA bit grubby and needs a good clean but does boot to DOS.Statistics: Posted by Ronin47 — Wed Mar 12, 2025 3:23 pm

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acorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: ABUG Online #99 :...

Thank you for the excellent evening. It was worth to go to bed a bit later the SCSI solution for the filestore looks very good. I'm looking forward for the econet eveningStatistics: Posted by...

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off-topic • Very OT: Recommend me a USB3 hub please

I'm sick and tired of USB hubs. I've half a dozen - various makes and prices - and they're all unreliable garbage and constantly make me fume.Ideally I want something with ten or more ports,...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Why didn't Acorn use rigid LED mounts on the BBC...

I was always under the impression that marking something as fragile resulted in more damage, not less.Statistics: Posted by growntree — Thu Mar 13, 2025 2:35 pm

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other events + general event chat • Re: TNMOC ECONET LAN PARTY 2025 - SAVE...

I intend to be there (in fact I've already booked the hotel for Friday/Saturday) with the same german-ish A3000, cream coloured cub monitor and the master I brought to ABUG north. Statistics: Posted...

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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Philosphical question on facebook

Time to do anything once your get older becomes a real problem, work does get inthe way of funStatistics: Posted by vexorg — Thu Mar 13, 2025 2:54 pm

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: One long beep woes! [bbc micro B]

I had a BBC with similar symptoms, and needed to buy a new keyboard ribbon cable for it. They are pretty rigid and I think develop broken wires.Try checking continuity through each wire in the...

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development tools • Re: BeebAsm

You could build the string in memory, save it and then put basic but that is a bit messy although it does easily allow assemble time information to be added. I build !BOOT in memory and sometimes...

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off-topic • Re: Very OT: Recommend me a USB3 hub please

Curious to that you are plugging in that needs more than 10 ports.Is this for a PC or a laptop?An average PC will have about 4 USB3 ports, so 4 x 4-port hubs might be an option.Laptops are a bit more...

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econet in all its guises • Re: List all created users on PiBridge

wildcards for disc names but it’s not hard. Yes, once you've got a wildcard matcher it's easy to use it for everything (I'm fairly sure I refrained from using it for the passwords themselves however...

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acorn atom and acorn system series • Acorn Atom voltage problem

On my Newly acquired Atom fitted with a 5 volt power supply I am puzzled by the loss of voltage in the machine.5 volts is connected to the PCB but is not present on any of the components. It’s as...

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32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Untouched high score file request...

Does anyone have an untouched Highscore file from E-Type? (disc 2 $.HIGH)I'm getting the various versions ready for release and having looked at lots of copies, every one is slightly different. What's...

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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: PDFs of Electron View manual and key strip

As promised please find attached a 1200dpi scan of my original Electron Viewsheet keystrip.Super. Thank you kindly.Statistics: Posted by origami_camera — Sat Mar 15, 2025 1:21 pm

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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: PunyInform and Ozmoo

I've just noticed that the ADFS builds are not loading correctly if a co-processor is active.Thanks very much for the bug report Ken, and sorry for taking so long to look into it.I've created alpha 60...

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new projects and releases: text and graphic adventures • Re: Text Adventure...

Here's a rough work in progress build of the Dunshalt Donut for the Electron with one bank of SWRAM + a loader program to allow the selection of which bank to use.Let me know if it works for...

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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A5000 video fail

I stopped using it after an FDD controller in an Atari 1050 disk drive snapped in two whilst extracting it!!! Much the face I pulled at the time. The IC was strange though, about half the thickness of...

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32-bit acorn emulators • Re: Arculator and BASIC programs

I'd be interested to know how you got it working - when I tried, it ended up not working because Arculator polls for events on a separate thread.In the past, I've had to make a few hacks to get the...

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general • Re: Today I received.....

JealousI second that!MarkStatistics: Posted by 1024MAK — Sat Mar 15, 2025 3:23 pm

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: SMART SPI [SD2BBC]

Firstly I'd contact them, as they sold it to you and they should therefore be helping sort things out!(Sorry, not meaning to be git-ish, but lots of these companies are selling things for profit that...

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