8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Hidden Music in Pipeline Game
Doh - yes!Statistics: Posted by !FOZ! — Wed Jun 18, 2025 9:50 am
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: overclocking Arm 3 - by integer?
Sorry Steve wasn't trying to stamp on your toes.Don’t worry, toes are fine what you have done is remind me that I need to release my driver for the ICD2053 clock generator, in case anyone else wants...
View Articlegeneral • Oak badged Archimedes
Does anyone know/remember the story behind this?It seems to be an A310 with an Oak badge. I have a vague recollection of seeing one at some point (possibly at an Acorn show) but am not 100%...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Replacement Serial ULA module for the BBC Micro
Cool, thanks for the update. I now need 17 serial ULAs Statistics: Posted by maniacminer — Wed Jun 18, 2025 1:02 pm
View Articlegeneral • Re: Oak badged Archimedes
Interesting that it has some EMR and Clares audio hardware installed. I would have thought that an Oak Solutions rebadged computer might have been network-related, and I see that there is a SCSI card...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Acorn A3000 issue.
I have a tidy A3000 here that was working perfectly which i purchased and imported from CJE Micro's at no small cost...shipping was very expensive but I struggled to find one locally. A very well...
View Articleprogramming • Beebasm VSCode and debug
I have been using beebasm and vscode for some time now and it is sooo much easier than the years I spent on unix machines just using "vi" and "make".I have searched the forums and I can't find a...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Running DFS on an issue 2
There is a lot of detail in the Acorn BBC Micro Service ManualApologies if I'm missing something but I couldn't find anything in the service manual, or the extract you posted, which explains why pin 5...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn A3000 issue.
Have you tried popping the ROM chips out and giving the legs a clean?Statistics: Posted by thecellartroll — Thu Jun 19, 2025 9:15 am
View Articleprogramming • Re: Beebasm VSCode and debug
I have been using beebasm and vscode for some time now and it is sooo much easier than the years I spent on unix machines just using "vi" and "make".I have searched the forums and I can't find a...
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: ABUG Scotland Day Event...
My quids are in the can! See you all there.Since everything I bring stops working either the night before when I test, or on arrival to the meeting, this time I may bring my untested Music 500 stuff...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Hershey Fonts.
from your other thread (Decoding 9's complement properly... - stardot.org.uk) - are you working with the original data files? Did you transcribe them, or have you found a good source? If so, please...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC B Replacement VidProc
Hi Dave, There are a couple of options, RobC makes the awesome VideoNula board which not only replaces the ULA, adds some clever new features too. He sells them through Stardot....
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other events + general event chat • Re: ABUG Canada West at VRGE 2025
Brilliant photos, thank you for sharing! What a great event, and thank you both for representing the Acorns Statistics: Posted by colinhoad — Fri Jun 20, 2025 11:31 am
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: overclocking Arm 3 - by integer?
All derived timings should be derived from MCLK (since that's used for I/O), which isn't changing here (it'll be 12 MHz on an A5000, 8 MHz on an A3000 with an ARM3 upgrade); this is changing FCLK,...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Model C20K - a new "Beeb"
Thanks maniacminer@Vexorg I wanted a real user port and printer port for interfacing. By the time you've added all the voltage translation and bidirectional buffers and latches it would cost more in...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Socketed master 128 issue 2
Or just take out two of the ram chips that are for the sideways memoryStatistics: Posted by vexorg — Fri Jun 20, 2025 12:46 pm
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new projects in development: games • Re: Lady Bug
Sorry that last post was a bit longI don't think that's possible. How could there be too much technical detail in a dev blog thread on stardot? I enjoyed it anyway.I know this speed test program looks...
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Lander - demo
Thanks for that - will come on to the line drawing in a minute...First, I just wanted to say that the code is now available from https://github.com/tribbles/bbc-lander.gitSince I use my own private...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: MacBook Pro 13” delaminated screen fix
The GPU solder joints failing was a more common issueStatistics: Posted by vexorg — Sat Jun 21, 2025 9:54 am
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