8-bit acorn hardware • Re: RS423 to usb tty
Agreed - this is what I’ve been using on my Master for about a year now- and more recently for testing the replacement Serial ULA.Statistics: Posted by AndySilicon — Sat May 31, 2025 6:40 pm
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Art Thread (non acorn)
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View Articlegeneral • Re: Interesting YouTube videos
For those trying to fix AKF11/AKF12/ADF32, Adrian's been attacking some clones:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p_2ysRjsD4Statistics: Posted by IanJeffray — Sat May 31, 2025 6:58 pm
View Articleoff-topic • Re: New laptop quandry
...Windows 11 is awful. ...I'm all for linux. But for possible usefulness:How to make Windows 11 more usable, less annoyingStatistics: Posted by BigEd — Sat May 31, 2025 7:23 pm
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS *BACK*
Night Owl BBS is up for Saturday night.Thanks to those who called in these past few nights. Appreciate it greatly.Last live WiFi Sheep stream of the year tonight.Night Owl featuring as usual...
View Articleeconet and other acorn specific networking • Re: Configuring Beebem to work...
I've attached the full source of the SJ *VIEW (BBC Basic ASM source) - it's fairly well commented, but has the usual sort of obfuscations caused by squeezing the code for size.That's fantastic -...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: IOMega ZIP Drive (Parallel) powering my A3010?
While I had connectivity from the Cap to the printer port, the respect traces from the Resistors to the port were both working - resulting in the printer port working but voltage leaking into the...
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general • Re: BeebWiki offline for maintainance
After the filters I added the Wiki was responding quite well. But it's now back to taking at least 10 seconds to respond to page requests, so I'm going to have to dig further. Edit: Hmmm.... since...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S25 -...
Pressing on... slowly! 23710.PNGStatistics: Posted by Rod C — Sun Jun 01, 2025 3:36 am
View Articleprogramming • Mental Gymnastics Challenge
Following on from Big Ed I found a puzzle which may fit in with his programming challenge.Given a triangle with one obtuse angle, is it possible to cut the triangle into smaller triangles, all of them...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: RS423 to usb tty
Use a shorter usb cable!I hide the devices behind the Beebs, which or sort of in a raked stack…Edit: from memory, the cable from the domino DIN terminates on a little plug… easy to shorten I do think...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em
The latest master branch has some further disc cleanups and also things aimed at making automated tests easier:1. The config file and log files may be specified on the command line.2. A printer output...
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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Rocket Raid full commented disassembly
Very nice, thanks for your hard work Statistics: Posted by lovebug — Sun Jun 01, 2025 9:28 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Reccomendations for Archimedes to Run C++
It was interesting... RISC OS debugging really consisted of banging relevant debug data down the Tube to an attached Beeb, run-time choice of debug flags could select different levels of...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: New laptop quandry
Can't say it bothers me. Use what works for you.Statistics: Posted by danielj — Sun Jun 01, 2025 9:52 pm
View Articleprogramming • Re: Disassemblies of BBC Micro Games
Artemis has disassembled Rocket Raid - see viewtopic.php?t=31148 (it’s a proper reassembly too).Might be worth popping on the list.MarkStatistics: Posted by MarkMoxon — Sun Jun 01, 2025 10:19 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Disassembly/reassembly of Acornsoft's VIEW?
Yay:Screenshot_20250602_002037.pngIt's very oddly written. It copies the line currently being edited into a fixed-size 135-byte buffer (132 + three for the command), and then, when the cursor moves to...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: Help - Code Runs To Low Error
In general, with *ANYTHING*, if you want to extact files for Platform X, extract them on Platform X.Extract archived BBC files on a BBC.Extract archived MacOS files on MacOS.Extract archived CPM files...
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general • Re: Safely send an Archimedes to the UK
I will propose it with Elliot .. I'm sure he will be delighted to cough up a few hundred euros ...Statistics: Posted by TimoHartong — Mon Jun 02, 2025 1:43 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Trying to make a small fast rnd function in...
Yours is smaller than mine ;viewtopic.php?p=343873#p343873There have been a few threads on this.Statistics: Posted by tricky — Mon Jun 02, 2025 2:01 pm
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