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Introduce Yourself • Re: Hello from Merseyside
Welcome. Forget those 8bit toys. 32bit FTW. Statistics: Posted by IanJeffray — Fri May 09, 2025 11:50 pm
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: The Hidden Fifth Column: Integrating Wizzo...
The problem with that Wizzo ROM is that the Extension ROM doesn't end on a 64K boundary, see https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~the ... Column.txt. The "ExtnROM0" header marker should be at the end...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Use of GENSYM in Acornsoft lisp?
Reading through this lisp topic I'm assuming there are some lisp connoisseurs around. Ever since I started playing around with acornsoft lisp I was wondering how GENSYM would be used as there are no...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: unnamed shoot-em-up....
Great progress - good luck fitting it all in! There are many good compression libraries around these days although they may not help in your case as I imagine most of your game is...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: Elkulator plus Allegro5 - The future begins!
I'm guessing nobody's got this going on macOS yet?First, I had trouble with missing libalut. Downloading and building freealut seemed to resolve this eventually.I had to manually tell it to use the...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: Electroniq - online Acorn Electron emulator
I think Camelot's screen X-position is borked. It works OK in Elkulator (once you've convinced it to load -- Elkulator tends to miss the first block for some reason).Give a try using other tape...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: AtoMMC wont boot on my atom
Just for my information, are you using the AtoMMC rom at #Axxx or at #Exxx?These are 2 different setups.If you use the AtoMMC ROM at #Axxx, LK1 must be in because IRQ is used while #Exxx can be used...
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8-bit acorn software: other • Acorn Game Loader (AGL) - uef tape loader
Hi allI recently wrote ZX Spectrum Game Loader for loading tzx and tap files onto real hardware and have now adapted this for Acorn Electron and BBC micros to load uef files in a similar way to...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: Exact timing of Acorn Electron
My numbers are correct for MODE 4, except that the RTC interrupt happens 1us (2 cycles @2MHz) earlier.Compared to the logic analzer traces, I think your VSYNC pulse is also 1us late. I'm actually very...
View Articleeconet and other acorn specific networking • Re: DOSPlus with Econet
Morning allBeeb emailing @BeebMaster about this. The situation is this:Yes, user quotas in PiFS are not implemented - never thought people would use them!The bodge for clamping user free space in PiFS...
View Articleeconet and other acorn specific networking • Re: DOSPlus with Econet Issues
I can’t recall - I have a hunch it was. V2.2-dev (not yet beta) implements quotas and can specify a maximum free space to report. IIRC the magic number translates to 99,999,999 bytes…CStatistics:...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS *NOW*
Night Owl is up and waiting for callsThanksStatistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Sat May 10, 2025 6:21 pm
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Dead RiscPC#1 - Virq and Sirq bad
Doh! A stupid error - I forgot to trim the tail of the bit of wire I installed (under the board)…How stupid. I would never do that. Repeatedly. Statistics: Posted by IanJeffray — Sun May 11, 2025 3:09...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: VOLTMACE Delta 14B/1 User Port Adapter Issues
I think I found the problem.I discovered it while installing one of Mark's Datacentre's.Apparently the Parallel Port is not the same as the User Port.Stupid mistake.Although I still have to do...
View Articlesoftware & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Re: Quadbike 2: Tape...
Been doing some testing, and have noticed that the "signal on" threshold is probably set a bit too high in 2.0.2.I have a couple of sample recordings which get quieter over time, causing the last few...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Floppy Drive Sharer
Hi allI've been laid in the sun today (a little too long maybe) and got to contemplating :could i build a device that could share my physical floppy drives between two or maybe more physical beebsI'm...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S25 -...
Over 200k.....lost my last two lives on level 7 after many times through, probably due to lack of interest. I feel like I could have gone on forever and ever and ever......Hopman-13.pngStatistics:...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Floppy Drive Sharer
An auto printer switch only has to deal with data flowing in one direction and so is far simpler...Is an automatic floppy disk switcher/sharer possible, yes. I think using a pico or other suitable...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Amiga-like demo on raspberry pico2 (RISC-V flavour)
why would anyone do something just for the fun of itStatistics: Posted by SarahWalker — Mon May 12, 2025 5:18 pm
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acorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: [COMPLETED] BOOKING...
Some more photos:MarkI just noticed I am in some of these pics, notably playing (poorly, I might add) Bomberman with Kieran, Matt Godbolt, Sarah Walker and one other (whose name I don't recall -...
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