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new ideas wishlist & general chat • Re: More Boulder Dash!
Did people know about pressing 'B' on the menu to see the credits? (Not sure why 'B' but there you go)I diiscovered that whilst tracing the input routine Statistics: Posted by billcarr2005 — Sat Feb...
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general • Re: Not today I received.....
I was given a Dragon 32 a few weeks ago. No idea if it works yet as the power supply rattles alarmingly and I need to drill out the rivets to find out what's going on inside. It also has a severe case...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • BBC Micro NMI spamming
I have an Issue 4 with factory disc fitted. I added Econet and then the Beeb refuses to boot and stuck in a loop.I connected up the Tube Snoop and got this endlessly repeating section.Code: 83 a9 a9...
View Articlecommunications • Re: IEEE488 INTERFACE 02
That is interesting. Whilst looking through the disks on the Gotek, I came across a utilities disk.On it there was a ROM copy program. It crashed, but I was running it on a BBC Master 128.I note that...
View Articlearchive submissions • Re: ALPS Adventure Language Programming System
Can I just ask how to get the Archimedes version of ALPS running? The download leads to a file with a RO file type of &FCE which is supposed to be a filecore floppy disk image, but I don't know...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: IC88, IC100 and the Tube issues
Some progress - sort of ...I managed to borrow a BBC model B from the very kind Kirk Jackson who helps keep the NZ Vintage Computing Group alive. The Z80 copro seems fine with his machine. I didn't...
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general • Saw this passing by, but not mine...
I wanted to start this new Topic because from time to time we sometimes see unknown thingies passing by on the Internet which we are curious about what it actually is... Looks a bit like a satellite...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Saw this passing by, but not mine...
Is it a NetStation? http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org ... ation.htmlStatistics: Posted by james — Sun Feb 11, 2024 7:07 am
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: DEC VT-101 Flyback...
My DEC Flyback Data:Totuku Taiwan TW MF-1100 HIPOTTEDDEC Part # 16-16463-00 Rev BPrimaryPin 1 - BROWNPin 2 - YELLOWPin 3 - REDSecondaryPin 4 - GREENPin 5 - VIOLETPin 6 - BLACKRED LEAD Anode...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: New MicroSD card PCB for use with MMFS
Right, the PCBs arrived a couple of weeks ago, but other priorities got in the way of testing them.I had a bit of spare time this evening, so I pulled apart one of my beebs, added the patch wires,...
View Articlescanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • Re: "Calculation of the...
To save you any OCR grief:Code: 10REM-------------------------------2030REM CALCULATION OF THE CONSTANT e506070REM (c) BORIS ALLAN, 198390100REM-------------------------------110 @%=1 : REM SETS...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Micro NMI spamming
NMI is edge triggered, so I would expect to see NMI toggling pretty rapidly (~17KHz?)What does NMI look like on the scope?Can you trace it back through IC27 and IC91?If the 6845 INT is high...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Master + 630B Genlock / VIDEO_ROM / no colour on uhf
Does anyone have a copy of the schematic for the Cox 630B genlock board?Statistics: Posted by maniacminer — Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:32 am
View Articlegeneral • UHF modulators
Why are they always rusty, in every single computer that uses them? (So much so that the Amiga folks even sell stickers to stick on top of them to hide it). Were they made out of some kind of...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S22 -...
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View Articlenew projects and releases: text and graphic adventures • Re: The Lords of...
There are even more of the "magic PRINT statements" this time. What actually do they do? On BBC Basic for Windows they print the actual characters shown in the PRINT statements on the Owlet editor. I...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Making extra space for Basic by resizing the screen
This is cool! I tried (naively) to use this for a mode 5 program I have. I changed 3000 to 5800, but when the program was running, it looked like a scramble of moving pixels was taking up one of the...
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other events + general event chat • 2024 Econet LAN party 18 & 19th May
Its back! You are all invited to TNMoC at Bletchley for this year's Econet LAN party. Bring your machine along and plug in. Can we make a bigger network than last year?This is a little teaser ahead of...
View Articlegeneral • Re: UHF modulators
Not all of them are rusty.The plating on them is not that thick, hence if they are stored in an area where it gets damp, or condensation may form, because it's one of the larger metal items, that's...
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acorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Issue 1 Acorn Atom with vented case
Hi Jez- things got out of hand I am am now reviewing what I have and a few surprises have popped up not least that I have 7 Acorn Atoms, 3 of them including original brown box packaging (I had no idea...
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