8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Help with a Master that isn't quite working
PS it's quite interesting that this machine has ANFS 4.21 which isn't all that common; ANFS 4.25 is more usually found (maybe partly due to me). Can we have a picture of the ANFS ROM...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Pi-based Co-Pro on the cheap - 100MHz 6502 for...
As the TIME$ bug in 6502 Tube host 1.10 has come up again recently, is it possible to have a choice of which Tube host code (1.10 or 1.20) to use in PiTubeDirect? Maybe as a separate option with...
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programming • Re: programming a sl811hs ???
I was reading the SL811HS documentation just a couple of weeks ago and got similarly confused.The easiest bit to understand was the CPU access. It "looks" like a 6845 CRTC. Write to base+0 to select a...
View Articleintroduce yourself • Hello From Matt Black
I was involved in the Acorn 8-bit (6502) and 32-bit (ARM) computing world for many years. I worked as a BBC Micro programmer at Netherhall Educational Software (owned by the Cambridge University...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Looking For A Working Copy of Blood Sport
Back in the late 80s, and into the early 90s, I ran two small UK mail-order software companies called Matt Black and Atomic Software.We published clip art packs under the Matt Black label, and arcade...
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off-topic • Re: LOLPRICE
I noticed this BBC Micro synthesizer for sale and then did an image search. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145832977907 I was wondering what's inside it, it's a bit how-you-doing for a M3000 case though...
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introduce yourself • Re: Hello From Matt Black
Welcome to the Forum, feetup . . . Enjoy . . .Sounds like you'll fit in nicely Dave H.Statistics: Posted by daveejhitchins — Wed Jun 19, 2024 4:08 am
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: Bridge Reset / Update & !Machines Discussion
Isn't there a filetype for a BASIC program saved as text, which *BASIC will just load as it is?BasText &FD1.Also if a text file is set to BASIC &FFB it will be loaded and tokenised, but with a...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Black screen, no led lights, but do have the two...
The video processor model VC2023 which replaced the original Ferranti ULA needs bodges to work correctly as it contained bugs. The bodges are done on the underside of the motherboard so it's not...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Full list of Master MOS versions
Happened upon this while googling for something else: Master Compact Prototype at CFCH: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det ... Prototype/I wonder which MOS version it has.--TomStatistics: Posted...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
Slowly getting better......there is a rhythm to this game.....Boris-5.pngStatistics: Posted by KarateEd — Thu Jun 20, 2024 3:13 am
View Articlegeneral • Re: dutch van england naar nederland inklaring - England to...
oke , i think in every country it is diffent costsThis forum is for the whole world, but English is the common language that's used on it. I'm a great fan of being able to speak multiple languages,...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Beeb FPGA port to Spectrum Next
It looks like the Spectrum Next Team have quietly uploaded a new Next firmware which enables alternate cores on KS2 Nexts. Interesting that they have updated the binary, but not the source...
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8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em
thats great, thank you Statistics: Posted by lovebug — Thu Jun 20, 2024 8:50 pm
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • NFS & ANFS 40+ yr old bug
First, kudos to @beebmaster for hard work confirming what i’ve found…On OSWORD &14 arg 0 (do fileserver operation),the client machine sets a byte in tge tx block to indicate its length so NFS...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Usb keyboard for a beeb
That sounds great Dominic. This was something I was thinking of doing too. I built a replica MB and was wondering how to get started on the KB as I dont want to steal one from another BBC.Statistics:...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: NFS & ANFS 40+ yr old bug
On OSWORD &14 arg 0 (do fileserver operation),the client machine sets a byte in tge tx block to indicate its length so NFS sends the right number of bytes. On return after a successful query,...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn A4 Laptop Repair
Isn't the small LCD for battery level?Statistics: Posted by thecellartroll — Fri Jun 21, 2024 11:55 pm
View Articlegeneral • Re: BeebRoom 2024
I can't remember a time when all the FileStores were at home at the same time:BeebGarageJune2024-34.jpgTop one is the E01S which worked for a couple of hours and then stopped responding again. On the...
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Econet in all its guises • Re: Econet Clock / Termination
Ok, so here's the latest revision. After a bit of discussion with @ukwebb regarding the case design I decided to start again with the PCB layout, so that the OLED and rotary encoder are on the top of...
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