development tools • Re: Envelope Editor Program?
System Software's Envelope Generator is here, i have no idea whether it's suitable for your needs!viewtopic.php?p=226121Statistics: Posted by billcarr2005 — Tue Apr 22, 2025 7:04 am
View Articlearchive submissions • Re: MUSIC EDITOR / ENVELOPE GENERATOR - SYSTEM SOFTWARE
I have the tape version with a Bach, Boggie, Coke, Entertainer and Yesterday score. But the disk version had more !The disk version I had only contains the ones you mentioned (BACH, BOOG, COKE, ENT,...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Struggling with this one
0xfe40 that appears a lot is the system VIA (6522/IC3), it is responsible for the system interrupt timer and the memory offset for scrolling, sound, speech and keyboard. The user VIA isn't required to...
View Articleeconet in all its guises • Re: FS Op 67 (MDFS Tape Interface)
Is it possible the partition sizes reported by FSOp 67 arg (?) 5 (away from docs!!) are 256 byte blocks not K?Yes, I believe all NetFS "number of blocks" counts are counts of 256-byte blocks,...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Small quantity Custom Prototype PCB
What's your advice for solder mask clearance for small parts - you mentioned them floating. I've not really thought about it on the tiny parts (U30,31,13 above). I've made footprints for and it looks...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Independent power for 5.25 floppy
Right, load it into HxC (you don't rename it). Then you export it as an img and depending on whether it's single/double sided, dfs or adfs, etc you rename it to the correct suffix (ssd, dsd, adf), and...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS **Host is UP*
Night Owl is ready for calls ..cheers to Colin (covkid50) and Keyop who called in last night.Thanks everyone BrianStatistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Tue Apr 22, 2025 7:42 pm
View Articleeconet in all its guises • Re: Pi Econet Bridge v2.1 released
Edit: I notice the kernel docs still suggest a probe function returning int is what you need, in 6.15.0-rc2: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ ... ients.html - so it's all a bit confusing. And...
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Introduce Yourself • Re: Hello fellow Vintage computer enthusiasts
Welcome, cyberwebspace. Statistics: Posted by flaxcottage — Tue Apr 22, 2025 8:13 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Asking for help to identify a bbc...
Pretty positive you're thinking about Block Blitz.https://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=1226You’re a legend- that’s it. Thank you very much.Statistics: Posted by Hirsty — Tue Apr 22, 2025 8:42 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Help with Solidisk 256k and floppy disk drives
I do have a cheap oscilloscope but it's not fast enough to properly record a 4Meg signal. Do you know what the Solidisk board doesn't like about the pick-up points that don't work properly?No idea,...
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miscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Elite Compendium (BBC Micro +...
Ok. Tried the latest 2 elite images you suggested - no difference I’m running MMFS 1.53 (socket 13), with Watford DDFS 1.54T in socket 2.Statistics: Posted by SgtPepper — Tue Apr 22, 2025 9:21 pm
View ArticleIntroduce Yourself • Hello from Rutland (a retro county)
I love the categorisation on the first page: order before chaos! I avoid most fora/ums as they just go round in ever-decreasing circles of self aggrandisement if you ask even a simple question. So far...
View ArticleIntroduce Yourself • Re: Hello from Rutland (a retro county)
Stardot looks exceptional. Certainly better than most.Welcome.Statistics: Posted by Diminished — Wed Apr 23, 2025 11:22 am
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Keep your fr-IRQs close, but keep your NMIs closer
I think the point that some others were speculating about is that unless the 1770/2 chip is reset either via the MR (master reset) input or via accessing the relevant registers, the chip will be in an...
View Articlegeneral • 3d Printing - PLA Colour
Can anyone recommend a PLA filament that closely matches the electron beige colour?Statistics: Posted by tomlinson — Thu Apr 24, 2025 11:11 am
View Articlegeneral • Re: 3d Printing - PLA Colour
If you can do petg, this is a reasonable match: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D4Z8Q73LPLA-wise I've got some of this and not yet printed anything, but looks almost identical to the petg:...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Desktop ROM with up to 4 windows for...
Congratulations on this .. I will have a go with this today. I am constantly shunting teletext frames around between Econet and ADFS for the BBS so potentially of real benefit and reason to usemy AMX...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Long shot - Trying to find old BBS program
Sorry for replying to an old message, only a few years too late! But I came across this by accident.It probably isn't the one you were looking for but there was one called ACMB which I vaguely...
View Articlemodern implementations of classic programming languages • Re: Matrix Brandy...
Last night I added Fedora 42 to the automated nightly RPM builds.And in keeping with the Douglas Adams theme of the Fedora 42 release - last night was a Thursday. Not sure yet if I could get the hang...
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