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new acorn atom games made with agd • Atomic AGD Pack70

Hi guys, another four AGD games to play .....AGD Pack 70: Title:The 8-Bit WarsRelease Date:2022Original Publisher:Luca BordoniCreators:Luca Bordoni, Andy Remic, Mongrel, Clive Townsend, Rich Hollins,...

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new acorn atom games made with agd • Re: Atomic AGD Pack70

And an update of the AGD overview page: viewtopic.php?f=57&t=16275Statistics: Posted by oss003 — Mon May 13, 2024 9:55 pm

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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S22 -...

24,400I was pleased to see a joystick option, but it turned out to be for analogue joysticks.I'm REALLY bad with keys, so I probably won't do much better than this.My first go I tried using the F keys...

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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A310 with Serial Modem

Thank you for the info, I have some serial cables and adapters coming tomorrow.Statistics: Posted by robheaton — Mon May 13, 2024 10:24 pm

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general • Re: mmbimager not working on windows 8.1 laptop

It's possible that for some reason mscomctl.ocx is not registered properly on the laptop you are getting the error on.This article may help:https://www.partitionwizard.com/partiti ... l-ocx.htmlIt's...

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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Some VIDC experiments with RasterMan v0.35

Great sleuthing! I'm still in Beeb-land and probably not jumping to Arc stuff for several years ... but I'm still curious about something. Regarding "5. Changing the pixel rate during screen output."...

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new projects and releases: demoscene • Re: Voxel Landscape

Chris, of course I was inspired by your demo at ABUG in April 2024, but also knew I had to go a different route to get something to work on an Acorn Electron. I had great fun starting with a Voxel...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Got a new BBC - Daft questions

Could it be the DFS metal links, extra board, or S9 that's stopping the MMFS from working? Should I swap any of the chips to another slot?Statistics: Posted by necronom — Tue May 14, 2024 9:37 pm

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miscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Elite Compendium (BBC Master)...

I don’t knowing this has already been asked before, Mark, but would it be possible to add the Spectrum missions into BBC Elite?Great question! When I was backporting the Trumbles mission from the C64...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Gotek double sided disk emulation?

I have a 5.25" drive and a Gotek on the Floppy cable of my Master 128.When I put a floppy disk in my drive, I have the option of reading and saving to drive 2 and 3, so both sides of the floppy.Is...

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programming • Re: TOP and OSHWM is assembley code

Parsing as a command line might be easier than passing via CALL.Those are very compact. I started off with something that I swiped from a link to the mdfs page that Steve gave me, but it kind of...

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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: DFS 2.45 ROM layout

Thank you, I think that is probably what started me thinking about it initially, but no conclusions came out of that thread on the differences between the MOS and EPROM versions of DFS 2.45. But I was...

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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Minor Bug in *Copy in DFS 2.24 and possibly...

There was a similar bug in Watford's 8271 DFS. I reproduced it exactly when I worked there. The "solution" was to replace the complainant's ROM with an Acorn one. For years I've tried to remember the...

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new projects in development: games • Re: Apache Valley - possible new...

Took another look at my problem code tonight - and fixed the issue, who would have thought re-enabling interrupts too early could cause so much chaos!What this has done is taught me the value of over...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Gotek double sided disk emulation?

It depends on how it was imaged, but basically if it is an exact copy of the original disk then yes it should be just the same in working as the original floppy.The name (or at least filetype...

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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Elite over Econet (BBC Master,...

Just a quick note to say that I've added a few updates to Elite over Econet this week, following feedback on the Discord server.Here are the details: Fixed a bug in the scoreboard where changing port...

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other events + general event chat • Re: 2024 Econet LAN party: Charity Auction

FYI :20Acorn Electron issue 1 motherboard with 'hybrid circuit' type ULALot 20a (Large).jpgThat is _not_ a standard Electron board. It looks like some kind of prototype? Are you sure you want to be...

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8-bit acorn software: classic adventure games • Re: Satan's Challenge - Can...

I wonder if the author of this title was playing the long game, and the name "Satan's Challenge" actually referred to the debugging process?Also it's funny to note how conspicuous leenew has been by...

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general • Re: BeebRoom 2024

Thank you, I did look at that website amongst about 17 others, and found that channel number on a different page but I wasn't sure what the minus sign meant. Anyway, I did a manual scan of all the RF...

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programming • Re: Shorter ADC and SBC

2nd, can something similar be done with DEC replacing SBC? The zero flag doesn't seem helpful here as reaching zero doesn't mean the hi byte needs decrementing. And the negative flag also doesn't seem...

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