32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A4000 IDE problems
I'd also guess IC45 is dead. It's missing the high byte. It is getting commands which are lower byte only, aiui. You still might need to try a different device or Wizzo, but wizzo is unlikely to fix...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3000 networking card by Atomwide (1993) - problem!
I am guessing that the EPROM on the card has become corrupted. I don't know whether the black electrical tape on top of it is a sign that an original sticker fell off and the ROM was corrupted by UV...
View Article32-bit acorn emulators • Re: Arculator — menu button
As so often happens as soon as I posted that I got it to work. I changed the memory to 4MB from the default of one (while using A310 and RISC OS 2.00) then applied shift and break and it now works....
View Article32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • Re: How to run RISC iX for yourself!
1) Are you running the arculator networking in PCAP mode? (with a RISCiX IP address of a spare static IP on your home network). You can't use SLIRP networking mode on arculator to access services on...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: The BBC Micro ROM Library
Here's an unusual version of Wordwise 1.20, it displays Wordwise-B20, so maybe a pre-release supporting the Aries-B20?Any care to do a comparison?Statistics: Posted by Pernod — Wed May 07, 2025 8:04 pm
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: How to play Escape from Enthar...
Hmmm.. I have used all those settings via the Arculator v2.2 but after pressing shift/break I get "Not enough room at Line 90."I've not had that message. These are the configuration settings I...
View Articleprogramming • Ghidra reverse engineering tool
Hi guys,I found a nice video about reverse engineering games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7SpWuSU7u8You can reverse engineer Z80, 6502, 65C02, 6809, etc games.Works...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Weekend coding challenge: Turing's tricky tape teaser
I hope I haven't quite done the thing where I think for 4 days and then conclude the answer is obvious...Statistics: Posted by BigEd — Thu May 08, 2025 5:00 pm
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general • Re: Today I received.....
Wizardry I and II for the Apple II. I use to play these round my mates house BITD and have been looking for reasonably priced UK copies (mostly to reduce postage) for a few years now. Finally got...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: AtoMMC wont boot on my atom
HiI have tried it before with a 6522 via chip I borrowed from a commodore disc drive I have but made no difference.Statistics: Posted by traindriver69 — Thu May 08, 2025 5:57 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: cassette relay
Just the ticket.Do you have a link to the BOM - the one I found had a blank space for the relay - I think mine was from the replica board thread.DStatistics: Posted by dominicbeesley — Thu May 08,...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: i8271 Writing Deleted Data
I can't verify directly, but my understanding is that the controller overwrites the entire sector data area on every write - it has no choice.Consider that the sector headers are written once at...
View Articleeconet and other acorn specific networking • Re: A new home for my Pi Bridge.
We'll see. Just ordered a 15cm cable and should have time over the weekend to change the design. I think it should work quite nicely.Statistics: Posted by dhoggan — Thu May 08, 2025 6:53 pm
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Reading from a Philip Harris "Easy Memory...
the timing looks to be around 20us or so20uS is doable (UPURS manages 8->9uS through some clever code unwrapping and cycle counting; MartinB and hoglet get the kudos for that!).It's easy enough to...
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