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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Trying to test my Hybrid Music 500 (and...

Hi Dave,Here is a forum link to my Electron Ample rom for an 5000 , with working password and discs.It may or may not be useful.viewtopic.php?p=376224#p376224DaveStatistics: Posted by DaveLecky — Tue...

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programming • Re: Sending Teletext over Serial

Using BGET will slow things down a lot.You could just *LOAD the file into memory and then loop through memory instead ?Ahhh ok yes that sounds like it would work, I'm testing:Code: *LOAD MAIN...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: USB keyboard to BBC Master

Thanks,Looks like Data centre isn't available any more. http://www.retroclinic.com/acorn/datace ... centre.htmI've drawn up a solid hard wired pcb breakout board that taps off the keyboard matrix, but...

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archive submissions • Re: Z80 Winchester Utilities

Can you see and access a CPM directory on the virtual Winchester drive? What files are in there?Statistics: Posted by DutchAcorn — Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:15 am

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8-bit acorn software: classic adventure games • Re: 'Good' adventure games

'Graphical' is a bit of a stretch on twin kingdom valleyStatistics: Posted by vexorg — Wed Feb 21, 2024 8:54 am

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other events + general event chat • Re: RISC OS South West Show 2024 24th...

Just a reminder that this is on Saturday.I've managed to obtain two stands and am happy to cover the cost so if any other forum members are interested in exhibiting, please get in touch with me and...

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8-bit acorn emulators • Re: Model Master 128+Acorn Z80 Second Processor

Thanks for the feedback. I also tried the version that allows installation of CPM onto a Winchester disk. Again my BeebEM (recently downloaded) correctly initialised the CPM disks but I could not seem...

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new ideas wishlist & general chat • Re: More Boulder Dash!

It turned out better than expected, a nice bit of detail in the original along with Rockford blinking, you don't often see that kind of thing in retro gamesStatistics: Posted by raspberrypioneer — Wed...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Micro NMI spamming

I did a side by side visual comparison of the components and one thing did strike me as odd, I have a 33pF capacitor in C23 rather than 10nF - I wonder if this is causing the problem? I think the 3db...

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development tools • Re: Porting BASIC2 to a homebrew system

Yay! Got Esc working now. I just copied some of the code from page 466 into $DC1C in my memory map and that did the trick. I could have put it anywhere.. but I think that's where the MOS routine...

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32-bit acorn software: other • Re: !HForm for RiscOS 3.0 on A4000

I suspect you've use an extractor that didn't retain the case of the files going by the app name. The function names are all derived from the filenames, so case needs to be correct.I believe it was...

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off-topic • Re: LOLPRICE

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186309938496 ... media=MOREStatistics: Posted by c0burn — Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:40 am

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programming • Re: Sending Teletext over Serial

The hang is a bit odd!Is fle% definitely <=1024 ? Just realized that the image I was using in BeebEm was way older than I thought and contained corrupt menu files...which were indeed over 1024....

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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S22 -...

It's looking a bit bleak here so I'm adding a little colour. 3524Statistics: Posted by Rod C — Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:02 am

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC ADVANCED TELETEXT RECEIVER

Does anyone happen to have a scanned copy of the manual shown on the first post please?It looks like it is called "Advanced Teletext Received User Guide".Thanks so muchJohnStatistics: Posted by...

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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Running binaries on a Communicator

There are still load of things I don't understand in there so any scans or photos of the actual source would be great but I understand if you don't fancy undertaking such a huge task!I'm definitely up...

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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Panos and ADFS/32

Do you have the installed operating system available as part of a beeb.mmb file. I've been trying to get PANOS to run without any success. There are no step by step instructions (using modern filing...

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general • Re: BeebRoom 2024

If we have to move now the man cave will easily fit into one van. I don't know about the shed though ...Hmmmm! You haven't said what size van . . . there are huge vans out there! Statistics: Posted by...

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archive submissions • Re: Z80 Winchester Utilities

After some testing it seems to work OK with the IDE CF card. You can get the turbommc to act as a floppy drive provided you setup the disks at the * prompt before entering cpm with cpm.z Changing...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Setting a real-time clock to centi-second accuracy

Just FYI... A quick try on my old mac laptop, which should be nicely network time-synced, and I find time.gov reckons it is 89ms adrift. ButCode: ntpdate -q pool.ntp.orgreckons it is 12ms adrift.How...

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