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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Bluetooth on the BBC Micro
Apart from the 5V to power it, but maybe a bettery would do but that does make it more work and then you could just use an audio lead - it was my first thought to There is an NC pin on the casette...
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general • Re: How often do you use your Acorn(s) computer(s)?...
BBC Master 128 Daily to host the BBS, and when it's not hosting it's usually being used to test out new features I've written up in BeebEm. Or on occasion browse other BBS or edit teletext graphics. A...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn A500 batteries & video problem
Not recharchable.a500-rtc.PNGDo you have a working keyboard? Have you done a delete-power on (press delete, power on, wait for the risc os banner or the desktop before releasing delete). Try R if...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A310 with ARM 3-Upgrade is looking for a harddisk
I don't believe that the A310 is a candidate for increasing the ROM/RAM bus speed. It was just an idea.That's a pity Since I ran out of ideas, I would need every hint, which could help me fixing that...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: PiBridge 2.1-dev pushed to github
I keep getting this error a lot with 2.1-dev. "Too many open directories". I have also tried reverting back to 2.0 but still get same error. Happens anytime I try to copy lots of files "from" the...
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introduce yourself • Re: Hi to you all from Raymond in Sheffield
I used to live on Parsonage Crescent. Small world isn't it Statistics: Posted by segasonic — Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:56 pm
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introduce yourself • Re: Another hello from Sheffield!
Thanks all Statistics: Posted by segasonic — Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:58 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Improved Electron version of Elite
It is playable but only to a certain pointfor me. Apologies if this was already discussed. I dont think it was though. can load it, launch the ship, fly around and shoot things. I can hyperspace. But...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Who else is building a Beeb from scratch?
I've been considering a powder coated sheet metal case. Though I'm assuming to make something smaller than a Beeb but slightly bigger than an Electron to take a full size model b keyboardTNMoC have a...
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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: ElkSD128 - Reccomendations
Amusing, I saw this at the top of the list thinking ohh, someone else has got one - then I realised that it was my original post, and I'd spelt Recommendations wrong Can't help with Blagger I'm...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Xilinx CPLDs are to be axed by AMD
I've not seen anything to make me believe the ASV parts are 5V tolerant. In early versions of the datasheet there were references to VCCIO of 5V, but those are gone in the latest version, and were...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC B (Viglen) with very strange keyboard-related...
Switching keyboards was very easy... in fact I realised I could use the Viglen's stretchy umbilical and not even remove the keyboard from the other BBC. With alternative keyboard - problem goes away....
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Card drives in 2024?
After having one or two things refuse to load off it, it got me thinking, there must be something better for transferring pc<>bbc now we're 7 years down the line?I gave up with everything and...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Today I received.....
That's really interesting John. Thank you for sharing. Good result!Statistics: Posted by markusher — Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:48 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn A500
From the post in the other thread, it looks to be a standard 3.10 rom, so curious how it works with the different keyboardviewtopic.php?p=420163#p420163Running RiscOs 3.10 30 April 1992It looks like...
View Articleprogramming • Re: 11-character filenames?
I think Panos uses the directory method. I wonder… could you just drop one letter off the extension? Perhaps the middle letter. Perhaps have a lookup table for all common extensions and their...
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acorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Combined VGA / Tube interface board...
@Roland, are you following this thread?I'm not sure what's going on here. I've compared the CPLDs from YARRBv1 and YARRBv2 and can't see any significant differences.For reference, here's the source of...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Must all the spade connectors be connected?
This explains what I've been seeing where the computers looked initially worse but when using a good power supply and connecting all the spades they've been much more promising.danielj: thank you for...
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new projects in development: games • Re: Ghostbusters (Activision)
I see that it all makes sense now. The reason Ghostbusters was not created all those years ago was that it wouldn't have been as good, couldn't have taken advantage of the Master 128 with its sampled...
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: (Tonight!) ABUG dev...
Yes indeed, still running! Hope to see you there. I've even managed to write a tiny tiny amount of code today so I'll have a tiny tiny update of my own...Statistics: Posted by BigEd — Thu Mar 21, 2024...
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