software preservation • Re: Preserving old BBC discs and tapes
IEEE 1.96 (C) 1984 Procyon Research Ltd. ROM - from the Besom disc.Statistics: Posted by arnoldemu — Sun Jul 21, 2024 10:52 am
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS **Host UP**
Thanks guys , yeah Dave I get your point.I often feel my updates could be hogging the Comm's sectionand folks may get sick of seeing my updates. Sometimes ifan interesting chat is up or BeeBS has an...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: RiscPC - Blue screen [Post battery leak cleanup]
trying to gauge my next steps from a cost perspective.Depending on your tools and skills, you could/should be doing a lot more than looking to buy ugly things like that CJE thing. Does the CMOS RAM...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Master 128 no beep no display just cassette motor...
IRQ is being held low approx 0.5vCan't detect any shorts to ground.Will in turn try lifting the pins and or checks of the select / bus signals on the following...IC6 (21)IC14 (4)IC3 (28)IC20 (29) -...
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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Chuckie Egg 2023
Hi.This (hanging at Initialising) came up with the initial release running with PiTubeDirect. The disc images have subsequently been updated to address that issue and another with some emulators not...
View Articlescanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • Re: BCPL for the BBC...
Tiny error in the original on p52: "Reports and error messages from the compiler" should, perhaps, be "Reports any error ..."Thanks for this remaster.Statistics: Posted by james — Mon Jul 22, 2024...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: b2 - new emulator
There's a new unadvertised build on GitHub: https://github.com/tom-seddon/b2/releas ... 24-9f95270Tried this. No issues detected with joystick recognition. I tried a few 'dynamic' (USB port removal)...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
Just got back from sunny-ish Devon and all the tor walking has me completely worn out but there's enough lunch time to have another game and I did a bit better, as Venger says, the randomness of the...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: MAME: How to ... ?
I was curious to try Chuckie Egg 2023 in MAME rather than getting the real computer out but, alas, no joy.I'm aware of the Tube issue, but had forgotten about it though so will take a look.In away...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Archimedes USB file transfer using CH376
Fantastic work!A combined IDE and USB podule would be amazing if the software could be in ROM.Might the parallel port be an option for an external solution?Statistics: Posted by Andy1979 — Tue Jul 23,...
View Articlearchive submissions • Re: Peeko-Computer (Acornsoft) Model A/B Version
Do you have the manual for this program (or know of a source)?Statistics: Posted by PBnJ — Tue Jul 23, 2024 11:00 am
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Micro with no beep at all?!
Thank you Mark.When I turned my attention to IC6, I noticed one of its legs looked slightly corroded. Once I lifted it out, two legs dropped off! Suffice to say, when I inserted a replacement, I heard...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Electron clone with JamSoftElectronULA
That's most of the board built up just a few connectors to go. I have been exercising the ULA with various add-ons - the Slogger disc interface, the Jafa 2nd processor, MMFS and a few home made...
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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Moving games and other software to rom
After fitting it should probably be, hold shift down and press and release break, then after a second release shift Statistics: Posted by tricky — Tue Jul 23, 2024 12:43 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
I've never played this properly before, so it'll be a bit of a steep learning curve for me, I think. I'll have a few goes later so that I can see if I can workout the game. I don't think this was as...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: 6809 in a Beeb 6502 CoPro using Liber809
I am no expert in this area, I'll admit.However, the best (easiest?) way to go about loading the co-pro OS might be to go down the same route as the 80186 co-pro does. it does a very basic ROM OS...
View Articlesoftware preservation • Re: Preserving old BBC discs and tapes
Bug Byte - compose - tape - backup.I couldn't transfer side b 'music'.Once I'd accepted the Side B challenge and manually corrected one or two errors, the sunk-cost effect kicked in. I was then...
View Articlearchive requests • Lode Runner full tape copy wanted
Does anyone have a uef copy of Lode Runner they could post here?The one on STH only has the main game that includes the first 40 screens.The reason I ask is because I have found a way to allow for all...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: RGB to HDMI using a Pi Zero and a small CPLD
I created a custom profile and it works well for 60Hz display. The text is sharp and noise free. Sometimes the display gets noisy or the text starts dancing in a wavy manner! In this case I need to go...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Replacement 20mm mouse balls
I've been working on this very problem over here: https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/view ... =29&t=6176Balls made with an epoxy resin/iron composite material are the most comparable weight wise...
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