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...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Should I buy a RISC PC?
A3020 has onboard IDE for HDD. But that’s readily and cheaply (thanks to IanS) added to A3010 and A3000 too. For games, there’s not really much to choose between the three.Statistics: Posted by...
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8-bit acorn emulators • Re: Exact timing of Acorn Electron
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development tools • Re: Envelope Editor Program?
this is terrific - I've been using it this afternoon to improve some of my envelopes. Thanks!Glad you're finding it useful.I need to produce some sounds for bells and chimes so will give it a go. A...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A4000 IDE problems
I'm putting it ROM to use it The IDE hardware is all working fine now I've replaced IC45. I wanted to use the additional capabilities of IDEFS to make the most of the CF card I'm using.Statistics:...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Interesting YouTube videos
Tony's finally dragged himself away from grim old x86s again ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ncoeenX7IStatistics: Posted by IanJeffray — Fri May 09, 2025 10:39 pm
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Amiga-like demo on raspberry pico2 (RISC-V flavour)
He's quite good at things and stuff.Understatement. What he does in the 256 bytes of A Mind Is Born is beyond craftyStatistics: Posted by scruss — Fri May 09, 2025 11:38 pm
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