32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Should I buy a RISC PC?
I'll echo what IanJ said - if it's for nostalgia/games of the A4000 era, a Risc PC really isn't going to feel particularly satisfactory. Lots of things won't work properly.Likewise, a Raspberry PI...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: RISC PC strange boot
Will give it a go Machine is working wellGot a castle scsi from cje for a good price and it works great with the zuluscsi so I can have a large drive without a second slice. The 486dx4-100 is running...
View Articlenew projects and releases: text and graphic adventures • The Quest Of The...
Here's a conversion of another classic (or perhaps not, Sinclair User rated it 20% at the time) text adventure.It has some interesting spelling, including "tapastries", which I guess is some sort of...
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miscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Elite Compendium (BBC Micro +...
ok. Fix 3 didn't work either yes - Option 4 (teletext) & Option 5 (the editor) appear to both load the music ok.Is it worth dumping out the contents of the sideways ram slot after I've selected...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Reverse engineering "Taipei" Micro User listing?
Oh yeah, I always forget that the Model B has PAGE at &1900 (I'm a Master owner). That... could be a problem, yeah.Statistics: Posted by Danj — Sun Apr 27, 2025 12:26 pm
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • ABUG Dev night #93, Thursday...
On Thursday there will be an ABUG Dev night at 7.30pm (BST) on zoom.This involves a group of us getting together virtually to demo and discuss our current Acorn-related projects - software and...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Micro Model B - Issue 7 fault. Please help!
ChatGPT is usually more misleading than helpful. I tried setting up a specific GPT to assist in diagnosis and it performs better, but I would not trust it for anything but the very common issues.On...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Issues when switching from two physical FDD’s to...
That cable is probably designed for drives sitting one on top of the other.Are you sure one of drves doesn't have a pull up?Is there someting fitted on the drive on the right in the blue socket, it...
View Articleeconet in all its guises • Re: Pi L4 - This program must be recompiled with...
"This program must be recompiled with !ABC 4.10 or later"Any way around this?It seems the (BASIC!) source has been lost -- but have you tried !awServer instead? It may need 'real' Econet hardware -...
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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: SWAP 80t
I don't remember which version, but one of the Opus DDFS's supported partitions natively.Opus DDOS did this, yeah, for double density floppy disks, so we had drives 0A to 0H (for example). It also...
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new projects in development: games • Re: Negatron: new shoot 'em up for...
Oh wow. This looks stellar Maybe a spoiler, but is there a plan to have larger (boss) enemies in there too?Statistics: Posted by Cybershark — Mon Apr 28, 2025 2:03 pm
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S25 -...
Could not top my previous score yesterday and not going to have time for another bash.Very playable game but, eventually, no amount of skill will save you from the random carnage Statistics: Posted by...
View Articlesoftware & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Re: MMBExplorer released!
I recently tried running MMBExplorer again after a break, but it gave me a segmentation fault.I recompiled it from the GitHub repository, and although cmake and make completed without error, it still...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S25 -...
Here's my start.5600.PNGStatistics: Posted by Rod C — Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:51 pm
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programming • Re: Disassemblies of BBC Micro Games
Sorry, only just got to look at this, looks great, much more readable for me anyway Next to add a tool to assemble it and see if it generates what it should.I was also thinking about adding a pass to...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Replacement Serial ULA module for the BBC Micro
Updated my last post with some updated attachments.I still need to check that the Verilog code fits with the pin assignments I've made.Assuming that works out OK, and if there are no further comments,...
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Introduce Yourself • Re: Hello fellow nostalgia fans
Welcome, hope you enjoy this forum as much as I do. Statistics: Posted by Drobell — Tue Apr 29, 2025 2:19 pm
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Atommc v2.0
At last someone who organizes exactly like i do.Layer on Layer on Layer, welcome to the Shoe Event Horizon. Sorry I am not an Atom man so cant help but I applaud your bench.AndyStatistics: Posted by...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Speed of zero page vs Electron sideways RAM
Would it make sense to put the status area at the top to have a mode 5, mode 4 split?Statistics: Posted by tricky — Tue Apr 29, 2025 2:28 pm
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Introduce Yourself • Re: Hello from Canada ..
Welcome, leonk. Statistics: Posted by flaxcottage — Tue Apr 29, 2025 9:09 pm
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