general • Radio 4: the rise and rise on the microchip
Interesting on radio 4 yesterday, the rise and rose of the microchip programme. Quote a bit on acorn and the bbc with interviews with Hermann HauserStatistics: Posted by vexorg — Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:07...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: How To Stop the Tube?
I discovered the same issue a little while ago, and its because of the tube code being in the mmfs ROM, so built (with hoglets help) a version of MMFS without tube code.Statistics: Posted by Ukwebb —...
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new ideas wishlist & general chat • Re: More Boulder Dash!
The game 'engine' for the Electron is Boulder Dash 1 / BD1 so it won't be able to work for all the Boulder Dash 2 caves. Some look like they will work as they don't have the new BD2 elements. The new...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BeebWifi: Page &FD on a Master Compact
I'll read the topic you refer to. But just to answer a first question: what can it be at page &FD when the Mertic is not connected. Should it behave like a BBC B, like this:WhatsApp Image...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A4 econet - opensource project
Well, I did what I said I wouldn't. I cut a cover. I realised I had a spare. It's tough stuff!Ok, so, with care, this may be a justifiable case hack I guess. Particularly as the upper cut edge faces...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: RP2040/Pico beeb emulator
From the readme.md on https://github.com/kilograham/b-emThe sole reason for this project's existence was to get a BBC B/Master 128 emulator running on the Raspberry Pi Pico. It supports building on...
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programming • LISTO indentation
I'm confused about LISTO.. In this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci_70naIg_Q, Gordon uses LISTO7 and gets the following indentation:When I try something similar on the b2 emulator, I get...
View Articleprogramming • Re: LISTO indentation
Depends on the BASIC you're using. Before BASIC IV the listing de-indented *after* the closing keyword instead of before.Statistics: Posted by jgharston — Sat Feb 24, 2024 3:31 am
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: BeebEm Custom Keyboard Mapping
Are you in mode 7 by any chance? Try a non-teletext mode.Statistics: Posted by baz4096 — Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:53 am
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3000 restoration possibility
I got back to working on the A3000 board, down to point 8 on the system failure checklist, probing the data bus.I checked all the ROM sockets continuity before and after replacing them, all seems...
View Article32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • Re: RISC iX 1.21c manual set scanned finally.
Excellent news, thank you!Statistics: Posted by matt_nottm — Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:04 am
View Articlegeneral • Re: Radio 4: the rise and rise on the microchip
It's a three-part series: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001whjrStatistics: Posted by iamaran — Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:28 am
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: Networking Acorn Machines
Well, nowhere probably, as it's my own thing, and there was a bug identified at the Manchester ABug which caused every alternate "pass" of scanning stations to find nothing, which I haven't ironed out...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Strange fault when testing the new Electron Plus 1
Interesting... could be a lesson here, not only to test logical operation, but also electrical characteristics. There's always a trickle of stories where someone's retro build is sensitive to the...
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: Should apple have split...
Nice finds in the archives, as ever, Paul!Quoted for exposure:The highlight of the keynote, however, was a shouting match between Gassée and Bill Mensch, designer of the GS' 65816 microprocessor....
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Setting a real-time clock to centi-second accuracy
I've bee reading the thread with interest, as I have a yet unsupported RTC on the AP6 . . . My initial thought, on the subject, was "WHY" . . . Even if you achieve absolute accuracy - unless you have...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: The New Plus 1 for the Electron Ready for Sale -...
Can you please post some photos of the bevelled connectors? I have used similar Chinese connectors for minus1 boards and I didn’t notice any damage.Photos on their way today . . . Have you tried a...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic adventure games • Re: 'Good' adventure games
Thinking about @julie_m's comments, I took a look at the test script for my own game, which is written in Inform6/PunyInform, so it has a somewhat sophisticated parser. However, most of the commands...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic adventure games • Re: Infocom adventures
While I haven't worked on this further, I did have some thoughts on how someone else might pick up the baton and run with it, should anyone so desire.The byte code interpreter is <6Kb. If this is...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: New: fully documented source code...
Wow, great work, Mark. Thank you!I found the commentaries on the triangle plotter and horizontal line routines very helpful - I'd always wondered about those. I didn't realise people managed to pack...
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