new projects in development: games • Re: Japanese Military Chess for the BBC...
Looks great, I don't remember seeing the thread before.You could have different sets of keys for P1 and P2 at opposite ends of the keyboard, but I suspect one person will do all the typing anyway.You...
View Articlecommunications • DEMON Modem and BT modem
On Ebay at the moment - these are pretty rare (untested though).https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235691201791 ... R4ztz-qqZAhttps://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125707690500 ... R4ztz-qqZAThe BT modem looks identical...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Today I received.....
Yeah, I was aware that it’s the Mega STe. My sig over on Atari-forum lists some of the Atari’s I have.MarkStatistics: Posted by 1024MAK — Thu Aug 15, 2024 5:01 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Phi1 vs Phi2
Thanks Mark. That's useful context.As noted in my earlier edit, there is very limited space left in the CPLD, so even very small changes can be a bit of a challenge. However, what does work is using...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
Finally hit 40K, not sure if I can get much further , depends how many extra lives the game wants to give me !Statistics: Posted by MatthewThompson — Thu Aug 15, 2024 5:51 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Demystifying Nightworld
Hi,It looks like this version of the BBC Micro copy is missing the Alligata loader that came with the original.It's nice to see the correct amount of "World" filenames again though!I can confirm that...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Football Director
Is it possible to drop the level back to Easy in the menu options?Statistics: Posted by BBC 128K Fan — Fri Aug 16, 2024 4:09 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3000 keyboard issue
Thanks for the reply.Yes that was my first thought, I separated the membrane and thoroughly cleaned both sides with isoprop, there was quite a lot of chalky residue. I can't see anything that...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: MAME: How to ... ?
I'm being very puzzled. I downloaded v100.ssd from https://mdfs.net/System/C/6502/ and opened c.welcome with Disc Image Manager, it shows me the source file as expected:c.welcome_dim.pngIf I run mame...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: quick query on ANFS?
What exactly are you finding inconsistent? I do use ANFS quite a lot.Fortuitous that you answered Mark.When using NFS it almost always has trouble connectingto your fileserver is Switzerland. Most...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Tetris variant; ran in window,...
Is Blocks (from the default HardDisc4 installation on RISC OS 3.7 and later) the game you're looking for?Blocks.pngStatistics: Posted by ccawley2011 — Sat Aug 17, 2024 3:47 pm
View Articleprogramming • Re: CPLD Coding - Boolean vs Bitwise Operations
Can you post your latest verilog again?(I assume this is not anywhere in github...)It turns out that I did actually have an early version of the code posted on github. I've updated it to include the...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: Pi Econet Bridge v2.1 released
I was doing some tidying up and remembered I'd made versions of the SJ password editor to edit password files on other servers that use the Level2 password file format and Level3 password file format...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl ( Traffic)
Night Owl BBS is up tonight from now.I returned to extended hours until 6amLast night and once also during the week.There were zero calls.In fact Night Owl only had one visitor each weekacross these...
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8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em
I was looking through the source code of b-em to try and find how the floppy disk tracks are stored in memoryI'm hoping they are stored as a long string of bits an like an original disk and not just...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Recreated A3000 board and ARM2 question
From your earlier picture LK90 is unpopulated. It's not on the original A3000 PCB, it's been added to allow Flash chips (like 39sf040) to be used for the OS. It feeds pin 1 of the rom sockets with +5V...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: BeebUG C
I have made up some disc images!BC15LibReco.ssd - a reconstruction of a possible Beebug C V1.5 Library Disc. It's mainly v100.ssd from MDFS but has the Standalone Generator components...
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general • Re: Advice from PCB Creators
I finally got round to trying out my adapter board - doesn't work Since there's only ten connections (nine if you omit the +5V which I think is looking like it can be) then I suspect the pinouts are...
View Articlegeneral • Re: "Top 7000 Acorn Games"?
Is there a list/poll anywhere that ranks all the classic games?Well, Acorn User, December 1993 did include a supplement featuring the editors' and readers' selection of the top 100 games for the...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: High-resolution "maze" one-liner
I recently wrote a program on the ZX Spectrum in BASIC that is in the spirit of the original 'maze' one-liner, so here it is in BBC BASIC:Code:...
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