8-bit acorn software: other • Re: A new MENU system for MMC/Gotek
Test versions with 512 byte sectors for GOTEK and drive selection instead of &80 (current drive, no checking). https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/q2o58ox8 ... 7fsy1&dl=0Top post updated, only the...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: The palette converter for the Archimedes
Thanks for the new interesting information. But IMHO the proper title for the Acorn Archimedes is the first ARM based computer. The ARM technology is perhaps more important than the whole branch of...
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development tools • Re: Beta update for BeebAsm VSCode extension
Thanks for this. I've been using it for a day or so and there are a few niggles. Any chance they can be looked at?This version seems slower to recognise labels. So if I type ".abcd" then type "beq ab"...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Extracting subtitles
Is the VOB all you have, or do you have a DVD (either physical or iso)?It seems not all subtitle data on DVDs is stored in the VOB; some is stored in other files. Players such as VLC seem to be able...
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: Micro-Robotics Scorpion...
Wow good work Pernod very happy to finally see this supported!Statistics: Posted by Arcadian — Sun Feb 18, 2024 2:16 am
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: WiFi Modems - any recommendations?
I would have recommended the modem he sells, but recent reviews are a little critical and it seems there's a been a 'V6' hardware revision (including a micro SD card) which isn't documented on Github,...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: getting large file from HDD over to...
The “Winchester Disc Filing System USERGUIDE” http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org ... stemUG.pdf mentions, on p98, the BACKUP utility:BACKUPPurposeEnables data to be backed up from the Winchester...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Superform and the Acorn Winchester...
P.S. the ADFS utils disc is about somewhere I'm sure, but all the other utils except WEditor are on the Master 128 Welcome disc.At the risk of descending to pantomime: oh no they’re notAt least, not...
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development tools • Re: Porting BASIC2 to a homebrew system
Hmm.. struggling a bit with OSWORD=&00 - probably because I've never used the BRK instruction before.If Escape is pressed, there's a JMP $98389838 just seems to contain a single BRK instruction.....
View Articlesoftware & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Re: Create SSD / DSD image...
Alternatively, if you want a GUI based tool (that also has command line interface), you could also try Disc Image Manager. It runs under Windows, Mac and...
View Articlesoftware & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Re: Xfer in C
yes will have a look today - was just trying to find which computer I originally used to edit the code.I put it on the back burner for a long simmer! Thanks for having a look at it. My gut feeling was...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Teletext Mode Chess Pieces
Great find!Statistics: Posted by BigEd — Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:56 am
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3000 restoration possibility
I want to put the case in my retrobrighting solution but afraid of anything metal in there being corroded.Brass is reactive with peroxide, but for the amount of time you'd normally retrobrite...
View Articleprogramming • Re: 6502 Compressors / Decompressors
In an attempt to write my own fast decompressor someday, I gathered also a couple of interesting finds last year:FastLZ - https://ariya.github.io/FastLZ/LZO -...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: RESOLVED : WIN and LOSE Tunes ?
And the result is???Statistics: Posted by vexorg — Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:02 am
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC master fault finding guide
Not had much time to look at it after getting it back up and running. Mode 7 isn't working, so will need to check the SA5050 chip next.Statistics: Posted by vexorg — Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:04 am
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: !HForm for RiscOS 3.0 on A4000
I got in my hands an a4000 with RiscOS 3.0 ROMsAre you sure about that? 3.0 was very short-lived and broken and only distributed in 8bit ROMs for the first release of A5000 in 1991, not 16bit ROMs as...
View Articleintroduce yourself • Re: Hello from East Kilbride
Welcome! I managed to recreate the E2P a few years ago, and its original creator John Wike joined this forum and made some amazing improvements to it. He also recreated the PMS product Hi Wordwise...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Extracting subtitles
I’ve used subtitle edit to ocr subtitles https://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit. It’s free and quite useful.Statistics: Posted by rmbrowngr — Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:00 am
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S22 -...
Hmmm... not played this one, not much to it really, left / right / shoot...Score: 1282Statistics: Posted by FourthStone — Tue Feb 20, 2024 7:04 am
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