other vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: The Xberry-Pi - A...
A number of vendors on ebay sell them pre-made with the female connector on the underside. You can also get a pi zero with no connector and use the pimoroni gpio hammer kit to fit a female connector...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Speculation on alternatives to audio cassette...
The sinclair microdrive made a surprisingly effective medium once ICL's engineers had sorted out its shortcomings. I used them a lot in my ICL One Per Desk (a rebadged Sinclair QL)I found then slow...
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new projects in development: games • Re: Japanese Military Chess for the BBC...
Thanks for the effort komadori. It seems excellent just by looking. I have never played the game and this seems a good opportunity to learn.Thanks nicolagiacobbe. It's more show than substance at the...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge...
Ok, so we have a bunch of games and now submissions are complete.Thank you everyone for your submissions and I will endevour to get the new thread up and running so we can start Season 22 on Monday, 9...
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32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • Re: How to run RISC iX for yourself!
IDE podule? viewtopic.php?t=24555Yeah, saw that. Very tempting. Might have to give it a go sometime! I'll also need to check what ethernet podule is in in, but I'm sure it's not an Acorn...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: New A3000 Restoration Upgrade Progress
OK, a small amount of progress...I've got the battery out, and, unsurprisingly, its a mess under there: I'll start cleanup in the area, but one thing that's obvious is that I'm going to have to...
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acorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Top 10 Atom Games
Sorry I can't make a top 10 selection just to many nice games to choose from... So just a few: 1. Atomica 2. Defender 3. Galaxian 4. Space Fighter 5. Stargate 6. Space invaders 7. Stow away 8....
View Articlecommunications • Re: BeeBS the BBS hosted on a Beeb is Live!
Well there's a number of them, you would need to get a modem for around 30-40 quid.and then get a lead to fit to your Beeb which shouldn't be expensive.These two items work together...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: Stardot High Score Table -...
Here’s a low res version of the excel map!https://ibb.co/rfZ3M4cWhat are we playing next week? Exile? Statistics: Posted by Cybershark — Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:50 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A4 next steps
Meh. It's failed again. I've not done too much investigation yet, but there's certainly no +5v on PL3 (Econet connector) pin 1. With the power switch in either position. It does jump up to 9mV when I...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: what are the best platform games?
Rock hard, but I kept going back to Tarzan Boy.Blagger was also pretty tricky, and in hindsight was probably a terrible game. Added to that, my copy was one of those tapes that would only load once...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Interesting problems with commands from a rom...
***ANYTHING*** passed to code in a sideways bank - such as filing systems, utilities, OSWORDS, OSBYTE, etc. - has to have its control block in memory that is visible by ALL of the machine, ie, *NOT*...
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general • Re: Inflammatory 1984 Acorn advert lambasting Sinclair's reliability
Perfect! Thanks a lot. Statistics: Posted by chocky — Sun Jan 07, 2024 7:24 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC crashing randomly but works fine 30 minutes...
The voltage is fine so it might be a dodgy IC14.As my Beeb is an Issue 4, IC14 is soldered onto the board, so I have to replace it the hard way.Statistics: Posted by photographystew — Sun Jan 07, 2024...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Chinese FPGAs
I'm currently connecting them directly.HOWEVER...The pins I'm using for the dedicated VGA interface have 1.8V levels, which is far from ideal. They really should be level shifted up to proper TTL...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: SJ Research Nexus pin out?
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you Phil.I haven't tried to partition the Nexus yet as I want to put a new blank hdd image on my micoSD card first, but I can now see the partitions using the 1994 disc...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Model B issue 7 sold for parts
HiHow much is it please ?Hi James, sorry about the misleading subject - I meant that I bought it as non-working.I haven't yet got it to boot up, if I do I'll be using the chips to see if my other...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Using an FPA10 @ 33MHz
If it ran most of time at 32 and 33 and only fell over on preonged use then a wee chip mounted heat sync may solve the issue.Already fitted, and it was in an unheated room with a desk-fan blowing over...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Arch games that are better than...
Iron Lord (Cygnus) might qualify, being written in BBC BASIC by an intern with no access to the source code and with completely different music (because the MD was a medieval music buff and picked out...
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off-topic • Re: OT - How old is your everyday computer?
Not my everyday computer, but my "first" computer that I got in 1994, a Compaq Deskpro 286e, the machine itself was made in 1989. It still works great and I fire it up every now and again.My everyday...
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