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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Model B voltage sag and low impedance
Yes, -5V is good, though I still have an issue with audio output; the 10 Ohm resistor from the -5V to the LM324 had gone bad and was up to 55K Ohm. Replaced, but still not fixed so next step is more...
View Articlegeneral • School Markings: Keep or Remove?
Hiya!I was wondering what other people's opinion is on school markings on their Beebs?One of mine has a school's initials and postcode daubed on the sides in permanent marker. It's not even a nice...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: HOWTO: An alternative tripler for Microvitec CUB...
As someone bloody insane enough to have a Cub shipped over to the USA that ended up needing a new tripler, I've been following this thread in the shadows... FYI, Donberg have jacked up the prices even...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Pirate "Compilation Games...
Hello all,I was wondering if anyone has any .SSD / .DSD files of original dodgy 1980s compilation games disks? I'm giving a talk/video on video game cheating and disability, and would love to get an...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn A500 repairs
ThanksTook pictures & documented where they come from, still got a picture , everything seems to be working apart from the picture being pink where it should be white, I am thinking of soldering...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: BBC BASIC and Functions
The other thing to remember is that END can be anywhere in a BBC BASIC program, not just the last line, and there can be multiple ENDs, or none, as BBC BASIC doesn't require a program to be terminated...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Flicker-free Elite for all versions...
Following the penny-drop that Ian Bell's site contains both the bugged and bug-fix versions of Acorn Electron Elite, I have extended my electron-elite-beebasm repository to support the building of...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: PiBridge 2.1-dev pushed to github
OK will do some debug output for the failing VIEW.Another anomaly is the *ACCESS command.If I create a directory*CDIR TESTDIRand then*ACCESS TESTDIR Lit removes the wr/ permission and sets it just as...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Pirate "Compilation Games...
Have you looked on bbcmicro.co.uk ?Statistics: Posted by vexorg — Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:48 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Beeb FPGA port to Spectrum Next
Hogle167 has given the community so much, his "Beeb FPGA" project is just fantastic.Thanks for the mini review Neil.It's nice to hear the positive experiences as well as the bug...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S22 -...
And another one.Statistics: Posted by MatthewThompson — Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:35 pm
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Matchbox sized 6502 / Z80 / 6809 Co Pro
The funniest thing is that I have the boad from December of 2016 and tested only once when received and then was forgotten in a box!!! Now remember again the possibility to run Elite tube and CP/M -...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC SCSI help
But in addition, SCSI2SD (as with "BBC IDE drives") uses 512 byte sectors, so the data has to be padded. In the case of IDE, I think the layout goes ADFS 256 byte sector, followed by 256 null bytes...
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general • Re: BBC micro in new ghostbusters film.
That must be there paying homage to ChrisB’s awesome BBC version of the game! Chris - your influence reaches far indeed That must be it! Statistics: Posted by Cybershark — Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:38 pm
View Articlenew projects and releases: text and graphic adventures • Re: The Hobbit :...
Looks like good progress!Although I don't think it's necessarily a good idea to be updating the topic title with new developments, as it loses the context of the subject matter when it shows up in the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Music 500 -> Music 5000 and Music 500 ->...
So my question is, am I missing part of the instructions where I have to cut the top track as well as the bottom track?I would say yes, the there must be a cut on the top track that has been missed.If...
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programming • A3020 8-bit RGB332 Colour
I've been having a bit of fun generating a non-tint based 8-bit palette for my A3020. I found that in mode 13 or mode 28 I could create this palette:Code: 20 DATA 0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,4,0,0,630 DATA...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: HOWTO: An alternative tripler for Microvitec CUB...
As someone bloody insane enough to have a Cub shipped over to the USA that ended up needing a new tripler, I've been following this thread in the shadows... You know they actually sold some cubs over...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Free-dos customised for Master 512
Well originally the 512 co-pro was slightly cheaper (and the Master 512 was smaller) than the PCs available at the time. Also some of us didn't have space for another large computer. It's just that...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Coming back to programming
There's also the book Code the Classics (vol. 1) published by Raspberry Pi Press. You can download a PDF version for free. It contains the stories of a number of so-called classic games including two...
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