other vintage hardware, software and languages • wordwise eprom
Hi, its nearly 40 years since Last used a BBC. I had an eprom burner and lots of proprietary eprom for graphics, word processing etc in my old machine, but sadly I got rid of them many years agoIn all...
View Articleother events + general event chat • Re: 2024 Econet LAN party: offsite Econets
I missed the event, but are there still people who have connected their beebs to the big bad internet ?Statistics: Posted by Iggypop — Sun Aug 11, 2024 2:31 pm
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: wordwise eprom
Hi Mike,On the model B the ROM sockets are on the right front, beneath the keyboard. There are 4 available sockets working in from the right. The rightmost socket has the highest priority, that is a...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Programming With Inter-Word
I did a rudimentary BASIC routine which will list the ROM-link packages and identify the "next" available one based on the information held in page 5.I don't have Inter-Base so it doesn't cater for...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Interesting speech ROM socket issue
using a sharp blade you could carefully cut just the two pins from a spare socket and solder it into the pcbThat's a good idea and it would look quite neat when it's done - and if I cut the surplus...
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new projects and releases: text and graphic adventures • Exploring (fiddling...
Prompted by @SteveF's post here, here's what I've been up to:Wrote some code in C# to parse a BBC Quill database file. Yes, there's already a tool for this, (unqbbc), but I wanted to understand the...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Today I received.....
"How to wire your home" - think that's exactly what I need after all the shenanigans lately!Statistics: Posted by BeebMaster — Mon Aug 12, 2024 3:52 pm
View Articleprogramming • Re: Editing a program loaded with *RUN?
Can I somehow "export" the program from memory and save it back into a BASIC file for editing?This is not a BASIC program. It was written in assembler.Also the very first thing it does is the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: 8271 Disc interface problem
the read data goes via IC87 and the output of that goes to some more circuitry to create "DATA W" signal for the 8271 and the inverted output goes to the 8271.BBC-DFS.pngStatistics: Posted by vanekp —...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
It's not much more than (FourthStone) but...... I'll take it.....Ruptus-9.pngStatistics: Posted by KarateEd — Mon Aug 12, 2024 5:02 pm
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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: High-resolution "maze" one-liner
That's neat, the slight "jagginess" (not sure how to describe it) of the pattern is a nice twist.I think I slight stuffed up the definitions of the Truchet tiles. Essentially, if you create an 8x8 UDG...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Faulty Electron - Boots to red/yellow pattern
After moving that spring, cleaning the contacts on the ULA and socket, and the keyboard connector while i was there...Splendid IIRC that spring just puts tension on the ULA and holds it in place until...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Beeb FPGA port to Spectrum Next
What sort of joystick are you using - I'm interested in getting one and might have time to add this to the core in the medium term...DStatistics: Posted by dominicbeesley — Tue Aug 13, 2024 4:13 pm
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • (Tomorrow!) ABUG dev night...
On Thursday - tomorrow - there will be an ABUG Dev night, at 7, on zoom. (Dev Nights run on Thursdays, every three weeks. If you don't have the zoom coordinates, send a PM or ask in this thread. We...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Electron View and Viewsheet Function Keystrips
https://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/KeyStrips/The "Elk" keystrips on that page are for the Beeb version of View running on the Electron, as discussed previously.The sanity check for anyone wanting a keystrip...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Faulty Electron - stepped red and yellow pattern...
Thanks Mark.My apologies. All new boy errors. i don't think i have ever actually actively used a forum for anything.As for fault finding, i don't think i did anything that wasn't already covered in...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: C development for FujiNet and cc65 bbc target
@fenrock thanks a lot for your work ! I am excited about the new development.If you have something already working would you mind doing a pull request to the cc65 repository ?I am currently using...
View Articlegeneral • Jeremy Ruston (not a YouTube) Video
"The Home Computer That Roared: How the BBC Micro Shaped Our World"Although predominentrly about Open Source and his TiddlyWiki personal wiki project, there's a substiantial BBC Micro thread running...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Demystifying Nightworld
Diminished is going to have a go at getting a dump from it as we noticed the uef on stairway doesn't actually work.Merchandise received, with thanks.This is the cheaper type of cassette tape that...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: "The Five Doctors" 1984 4-part Repeat
The others who appear as ghosts are more tricky. There's a continuity mistake in the explanation of how the second Doctor discovers Jamie & Zoe aren't real, as he states they couldn't know who he...
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