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software preservation • Re: Help: Cassette Program Preservation
Sorry it's been a while, the last visual took an absolute age to do but we were able to only spend about 1 hour a week on it.It doesn't look great but its there and it works OK.So really the last...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Help Needed - Unilab 532.001 software/manuals
Can anyone assist with the manual, the links here no longer work?Also, was there a ROM?Statistics: Posted by IBM portable PC — Thu Aug 01, 2024 8:12 am
View Articleprogramming • Re: How to check the filing system that's currently in use ?
I ended up writing this bodge last night CheckFS short basic test loaded from !BootCode: B%=FALSEON ERROR CHAIN "Menu"*ACCESS * LRB%=TRUECHAIN "Menu"but I prefer the idea of checking for $ so i'll...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
Well, no danger of me getting to those giddy heights yet, but I've got the hang of the first several levels now.Statistics: Posted by fwibbler — Thu Aug 01, 2024 1:08 pm
View Articlecommunications • Re: ⚠️ Warning: some modems contain Ni-Cad cells
Any idea why it needs a battery? Presumably battery backed RAM for dialup settings, or is there RTC in there. A ROM dump may be interesting.Statistics: Posted by Pernod — Thu Aug 01, 2024 2:15 pm
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acorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: ABUG Scotland Day Event...
<pedant mode> Shouldn't the top of the poster should say "Acorn 8/32bit" not 16bit? There's the Acorn communicator based on the 65816 ... A sort of 16-bit CPU ...-GordonStatistics: Posted by...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • quick query on ANFS?
ANFS is a 16k ROM right ? DNFS is a 16k ROM, NFS is an 8k ROM.Does ANFS have DFS code within it as DNFS does?I have a PiEconetBridge with the new 2.1 version installed.I use ANFS 4.18 in my ModelB as...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: quick query on ANFS
ANFS is a 16k ROM right ? DNFS is a 16k ROM, NFS is an 8k ROM.Does ANFS have DFS code within it as DNFS does?No, it's just NFS.e.g. The Tube Host code is present , just wondered if any other aspectsof...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: quick query on ANFS?
Great , thanks very much Jonathan.Anyone else noticed NFS to be somewhat inconsistent when accessing a cloud network?I know there are only a small number who have had this set up so far. Just wondered...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em
I think beebjit handles a lower lever data description but I don't know about beebemthanks i'll check out beebjitStatistics: Posted by lovebug — Fri Aug 02, 2024 2:06 pm
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Exploring the posibility of a beeb...
Would be great to see a Beeb version of this game.I'd especially like to see some of the technical details of how it would be done, so you have my vote.(Also theres a ZX Spectrum version out there,...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Disc Sector Editor
I'm sure I remember from Back In The Days™ there used to be disc- and sideways ROM-based utilities for the BBC Micro, that allowed you to edit the individual bytes stored on a disc (like an...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Disc Sector Editor
I always used Disc Doctor:*DZAP for disc editing.*MZAP for memory editing.*DIS for disassembler.Statistics: Posted by Pernod — Sat Aug 03, 2024 3:00 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Moving games and other software to rom
A quick way to force a browser to download a fresh copy of something, and not "helpfully" use any cached version that may still be lying around, is to alter the URL ever so slightly. Click the cursor...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Anf 03 wiring/circuit diagram
New thermal fuses are available from the larger electronic suppliers. They are made with various temperature values. But, you have to take precautions if soldering them for obvious reasons......
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Sweet combination: pi and prime numbers
I asked an LLM how I might use a list of prime numbers to compute an approximation to pi - there's surely a way - and indeed there is, it's called Euler's product formula which is an approximation to...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Trying to get an A7000 working
More questions, the CD Drive I've connected isn't recognised (it's just the CD drive, I've not added the hard disk as well on the IDE connection). No CD related Configure commands work either...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Dumping "AMX Design" rom (32k...
As promised, and with apologies to yrrah2, here's the AMX Design disc attached.DESIGN.SSDStatistics: Posted by jms2 — Sun Aug 04, 2024 1:31 pm
View Articlesoftware preservation • Re: Preserving old BBC discs and tapes
I was looking through one backup disc and I found one labelled 'terminals'. It was corrupted but I think I managed to get most of this program off it, but there are two files 'TEK' and 'TEK96' which...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: A tale of two spigots - more digits of pi,...
It's been a while, and we've been continuing to make progress...The big news, is that we - wait for it - doubled the number of digits we can calculate, in a given amount of RAM! This is remarkable,...
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