8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Help needed with BooBip RAM
The RAM is not being detected by either the RAM test or RTool. RTool shows ROM for all your slots. The RAM test shows 0 (no RAM) for all banks.4x repeats are expected on ROMs. 8x repeats is a bit...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Elite over Econet (BBC Master,...
(skipping to the end)Regarding the discussions on directory structures and where to put the master files, a common method, that I use with MUGINS, BeebMail, and ABZ Teletext, is to have a single...
View Articleother events + general event chat • Re: 2024 Econet LAN party 18 & 19th May
Pi is &EEEENew icons and other quick tweaks by me on Thursday.Updated version is on BOOT on IJ_RiscPC for those with TNMoC cloud access.More updates and wholescale rewrite planned now - plenty of...
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8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em Tape Overhaul v3 (SAVE support, autotests)
I don't understand much of this but I applaud your determination to get this working correctly. Keep at it!Lee.Statistics: Posted by leenew — Sun May 19, 2024 10:56 pm
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new projects in development: games • Re: Apache Valley - possible new...
A little experimentation tonight to see how long each of the drawing routines take using the 1980s equivalent of console.log - palette switching black background shows how long it takes to draw the...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Minor Bug in *Copy in DFS 2.24 and possibly...
He also suggests that trying to copy a zero-length file in DFS 0.9 can be disastrous [23-5 Bugs, page 246] Mmm...he doesn't say what the disaster is though!Statistics: Posted by BeebMaster — Sun May...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: 3.5mm headphone jack socket for the beeb
Penny washers may help... (if you can find the “right” size)...MarkStatistics: Posted by 1024MAK — Sun May 19, 2024 11:38 pm
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new projects in development: games • Re: New version of PacMan (PuckMan) for...
You will see that I dedicated a fair bit of memory to making the movement as easy as possible, this is because I have quite a bit of trouble guiding the arcade game Statistics: Posted by tricky — Mon...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Assembly compiler
Perusing old publications again, I thought that this might be somewhat relevant to the topic, as well as being of potential interest to others:Champ is designed to run on the Commodore 64, BBC Micro...
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other vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: Unilab Serial Computer...
I dug out my cable for the PC and made a Beeb version of it. The cable starts out life as a "Kenable" DAP Audio HQ 8 pin Mini DIN Plug to 8 pin Mini DIN Plug Cable 1.5M and I take that cable and cut...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: RISCPC Power Supply Refurbish - 4 Kits Available
I've just repaired my 0197,010 Issue 4 after it packed up this evening (I guess the Econet LAN Party finished it off!). Capacitor list and some repair notes included!First a couple of warnings: Watch...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: RISC OS 5.30: Wifi on Raspberry Pi hardware
Thanks! I seem to have the default card image working with wifi now, but I'm not 100% sure why.Poking through the router settings (quite an old router) for 2.4 GHz, these seem to be the winning...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S22 -...
44,865BeebEm, with mouse. Much easier than using keys!Statistics: Posted by necronom — Thu May 23, 2024 9:11 pm
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32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Please help me find this Acorn game!
I think it was a magazine cover disc game, see page 13 here: https://archive.org/details/acorn-archi ... d_Dec_1993 that's it! Thank you so much! I haven't seen the game in so many years!And you have...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A310 unable to access FDD
I have just received a one of these VR177X FDCs to try in place of the VL1772. Will hopefully get a change to install it in the next few days Statistics: Posted by nicf82 — Thu May 23, 2024 9:46 pm
View Articlegeneral • is it loofa or loofah or loofha ??
i am "playing" the satan gamein the badroom i can get loofa , but is that good english ? in dutch luffa (e:sponge)Statistics: Posted by duikkie — Thu May 23, 2024 10:15 pm
View Articlegeneral • Re: is it loofa or loofah or loofha ??
Loofah:IMG_20240523_224644439.jpg(1955 Little Oxford Dictionary of Current English)Statistics: Posted by Diminished — Thu May 23, 2024 10:55 pm
View Articlegeneral • Re: BeebRoom 2024
Also I don't have a DFS-only Beeb with PAGE at &1900, which is a very common setup, but recently I have written a DNFS/ANFS switcher which reliably (at last) allows me to turn off filing systems...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Beeb with no V-Sync on 6845
Check IC26/74LS139 and IC24/74LS138 and IC20/74LS139 - make sure the levels are good and not contradicting other outputs - the selection of an IC at the time memory is being read creates similar...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: Econet basics (BBC Micro, Electron & RiscPC)
Lol, looks like no PM today. I'll write some more posts in the meantime.I've enabled them for you.Statistics: Posted by danielj — Fri May 24, 2024 10:38 pm
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