8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Fault finding index
BBC Micro Issue 4 motherboard with Econet and 8271 DFSFault : Keyboard unresponsive and continuous (polyphonic)tone.Culprit : IC32 74LS259Now working time to test Econet and DFS.MarcusStatistics:...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Sudden VSCode+BeebAsm "symbol not...
Opened VSCode to work on the game and suddenly it's an explosion of squiggly yellow underlines... "symbol not defined" says vscode-beebasm.Seems it's for every symbol I'm using in a script whose...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Econet to AUN bridge on Raspberry Pi - released
No, you've not missed the party. I'll drop you a PM shortly, but worth having a quick read through some of the initial posts on this thread:viewtopic.php?t=25126Statistics: Posted by KenLowe — Mon Mar...
View Articleintroduce yourself • Re: Elite-A Researcher
Welcome to the Forum, myno . . . Enjoy . . .Dave H.Statistics: Posted by daveejhitchins — Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:39 pm
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acorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: ABUG Scotland #5 - Thu...
Nearly forgot! Well if we're talking "Rare" and there's an Iyonix, I guess I better bring my almost vapourware Macrodigital Omega. This will be dependent on three things:1) I can persuade it to work...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Very noisy B+
Moral being, don't let the digital electronic guys route your sensitive analogue circuitry... Oh definitely had experience of that. A guy laid out the A/D and amplifier section of an avalanche...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Online Banking on PC vs Telephone
Now consider that my banking mobile app requires that I record a short video clip of me blinking my eyes using the built-in camera on my phone to verify that I agree to make a payment. Is that a real...
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programming • Re: Whats going on with BeebVSC?
Am I supposed to be adding this to the main settings.json file, i.e. /User/xxx/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json? I've also tried adding it to the workspace settings, but that didn't...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC SCSI help
However the firmware util is available to run on most popular OSes, I've only ever used the Linux version on Ubuntu, and it just needs a USB cable to connect to the SCSI2SD board (assuming you haven't...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Tape has gone deaf
thats what I have just done and using the terminal program from the advanced users guide and I get nothing so there is something not right now to track down what.Statistics: Posted by vanekp — Wed Mar...
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archive requests • Re: SOURCES: Missing BBC Games Help Required!
ACNEAN MUTOIDS and COSMIC DEFENDER from Soft Joe's Software.This advert is from Home Computer Weekly May 31st to June 6th 1983.The advert was only found after ACNEAN MUTOIDS was discovered on a...
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archive requests • Re: MIA Model B Computing Tape 11 Side 2
Tantalisingly, 2 games named LIGHT BIKES and POKER DICE have just been found by Mick Brown on a recent disc trawl.Can it be confirmed if these are the missing MODEL B computing games?...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Large haul of Acorn ROMs/EPROMs
It's very similar indeed to the MOS ROM from the Acorn Business Computer:https://mdfs.net/System/ROMs/AcornMOS/ABM/MOS200Infact, the only difference is "Acorn business computer" has been patched to...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: a3020 onboard ide + CF
Battery - you only need 1 cell - 1.2V. The circuit is not designed to be able to charge 3.6V.It may be that the cmos is broken, or there are destroyed tracks - was there battery damage that was...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Fantasy 6502 variant...
Interesting thoughts on a 32-bit 6502... one could argue that a binary incompatible version is basically the ARM1 but it's interesting to explore how to extend the 6502 in various ways whilst...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A5000 help
Yes already got a 15 pin to 9 pin lead I’ll try typing but not easy with the scrolling!Statistics: Posted by Kdc — Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:23 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC B "homebrew" PSU?
The small board has a voltage inverter chip on it, it's producing the -5V supply from a positive supply rail.MarkStatistics: Posted by 1024MAK — Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:38 pm
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communications • Re: the Night Owl BBS **Host UP**
Host is up 28thCheers Statistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Thu Mar 28, 2024 6:28 pm
View Articleoff-topic • Re: How do you search for Acorn 'stuff' on eBay?
Thanks John and Mark . . . But all for nought!I started the listing and found adding the variations confusing! It turns out what I wanted to do perhaps isn't covered by variations - if it is, I'm not...
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general • Re: " *. " -- What does it mean?
Thanks, everyone.... Most educational, indeed. ...and some funny posts in there; I was laughing out load. Oh! By the way, welcome to the mad house MarkStatistics: Posted by 1024MAK — Fri Mar 29, 2024...
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