off-topic • Re: Good component suppliers?
RS are a remarkably good company in my experience. Very fast delivery.https://uk.rs-online.com/web/Statistics: Posted by OneSwitch — Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:07 pm
View Articlearchive submissions • Re: The Monster of Arkyron
Nothing new of substance here, but going through a collection of old adverts and articles, I found the listing pages for this game extracted from the magazine and stored for later entry, which never...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S22 -...
One that I haven't played before. This game is manic! It's not a bad game, but there's so much going on, at such high speed, that it's difficult to play.I'll start the ball rolling with this...
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scanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • Re: How many sold? German...
A5000 25MHz 2MB RAM 84MB HDD 25-ALB22-1014799 (not mine)Statistics: Posted by a1exh — Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:19 pm
View Articlegeneral • Re: Any info on Acorn's own computing environment?
What cannot be done with the same ease is for the machine itself to spot that an update is available - a holy grail that the CSG has wanted to implement for RISC OS machines.Odd. I implemented that...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A5000 Gone for good? :0
I am just having another go at working out what is wrong with this machine, and I do keep getting the "SRAM Err 0F" or similar when I run the POSTBox on it. I have checked over the clock chip circuit...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Viglen DSDFS
Yes- that was mentioned in the review I posted as well.Statistics: Posted by Bitstik — Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:18 pm
View Articleprogramming • Re: Best Enveloper shaper with SSD or code?
viewtopic.php?p=43883#p43883Maybe this would help? I’ve not tried it. There is a ROM somewhere that does a similar job if I recall.Statistics: Posted by TobyLobster — Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:19 pm
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3010 serial file transfer
I can't see anything relating to handshaking at either end (!Connector and Tera Term) and I'm using the settings that acorn_fan suggested above on both. I can set the block driver to Internal or...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Risc PC keyboard
I've got two RiscPCs, one sadly with battery corrosion, but the other doesn't but its keyboard no longer works - it worked fine a year ago and we used it for games before replacing it with a Pi400. I...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Fault finding index
BBC B Issue 7 factory B/32K with disc interface.Problems: disc interface was removed at some point in the past and the piece of paper inside the machine suggested that the disc interface was faulty. I...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: SNIPPET TO DISPLAY VARIABLE LOCATIONS
If you're looking to access these from assembler then the CALL function allows you to pass variables which BASIC builds a table of the locations of. E.g.https://bbcmic.ro/#%7B%22v%22%3A1%2C%22 ......
View Articleprogramming • Re: Econet Immediate Operations & BeebEm
Poke is another one of these funky immediates, and I don't know if that works either... yet.From my limited testing, both Peek and Poke work fine.Sounds like this might be just OSPROC failing on...
View Articleintroduce yourself • 36 Years Later...
It is all flooding back, including that fateful day in 1988 when I got myself expelled from school for hacking the Econet.Hello Stardot. My name is Cola (nickname). Very pleased to meet you guys after...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Risc PC keyboard
If you can get yourself a PC keyboard with PS2 connector (or even a USB one with USB to PS2 adapter), this will work as well.Statistics: Posted by geraldholdsworth — Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:48 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • List of machines that will run off 110V power?
Motivation for the question being that I'm an ex-pat, I'm trying to determine which of Acorn's 32-bit machines came with power supplies that would function with a 110V 60Hz input. Mostly by image...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: List of machines that will run off 110V power?
Whilst they don't autorange, some can be reconfigured for 110v.e.g. viewtopic.php?p=409716#p409716Statistics: Posted by IanS — Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:07 pm
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introduce yourself • Re: 36 Years Later...
Hi Cola,welcome to this great Forum... Greetings from my little Dutch Atomic Attic, Wim... Statistics: Posted by Multiwizard — Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:28 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn damaged displays a dash
Have you checked IC32 (74LS259)? Its failure would kill the sound and cause other issues (scrolling, DRAM CAS etc.)Statistics: Posted by maniacminer — Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:41 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Music 500 -> Music 5000 and Music 500 ->...
Also, has this been modded for Master use? Double check the correct R/C values have been used.DaveWhile at last weekend's ABUG my MUSIC 500 was tested on both a BBC and Master - worked on both. The...
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