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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: BeebWiFi for the Acorn System 5

Awesome... Statistics: Posted by Multiwizard — Sun Aug 25, 2024 6:51 pm

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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Trying to get an A7000 working

Assuming that the circuitry is the same as the RPC (and I believe that it is) the NIC may not play nicely at all with compact flash installed. I haven’t seen that written about A7000 though so I may...

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communications • Re: the Night Owl BBS *up*

Host is up for a few hours this evening.I was out for a bit , just logged up now.thanksBrianStatistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Sun Aug 25, 2024 8:37 pm

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programming • Re: 11-character filenames?

According to the Master Reference Manual, there are 14 unused bytes from byte 1260 in the ADFS directory. I think these are used in RISC OS for the ADFS disc name, but not used in 8-bit ADFS. That's...

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programming • Re: Reading / Writing to RTC from BASIC

Thanks Jonathan. I got a bit side tracked last week, but will hopefully get back onto this in the coming week.he he, I've been so shattered this weekend I didn't wake up today until 2pm.......

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development tools • Re: BeebAsm

The ACME assembler seems to do it the way I have, but I haven't tried it.I've realised that my implementation is a bit too simplistic. +/- loops can't include macro invocations at the moment, so I'll...

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programming • Re: Why is Watford DFS's use of OSBYTE 111 to return the...

Hmm, I fired up b-em to do some experiments. With WDFS130c from mdfs.net I can get OSBYTE 111 to return the current drive with no tube. I don't think 1.30 includes the tube host code, but if I have...

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programming • Creative Assembler: How to Write Arcade Games

Apologies if I'm just going crazy, but is the copy in the pinned thread actually complete? It seems to end somewhat abruptly on (PDF) page 106. The table of contents does end there as well, so maybe...

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other vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: What to do with a Grundy...

Anyone got any software for a NB ?Statistics: Posted by Gary C — Mon Aug 26, 2024 8:31 pm

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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn A4 Laptop Repair

A few thoughts:1. Probably needs the brightness/contrast adjusting... see #2 (but note that vintage LCD panels were never as crisp as the modern TFT types - and are a lot more dependent on viewing...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Strange? Result from Tricky's test rom

The team test only knows what the CPU sees, the display goes through a different pair of 245s iirc.Statistics: Posted by tricky — Tue Aug 27, 2024 6:10 pm

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Aries B20 Shadow RAM board - user guide and ROM wa

If that's the header on the South-East corner of the board, it connects to the B-12 ROM board. So I don't think need to connect anything to it unless you have a B-12.Thanks for pointing me in the...

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archive submissions • Morley Ramdisc 1.04 rom

Attached image of the Wedge Rom for the Morley Ramdisc (1 or 2 Mb). Only the version 1.01 seems to be in the archives I've looked through.Manual is here https://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewt ......

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archive submissions • Re: Morley Ramdisc 1.04 rom

Attached image of the Wedge Rom for the Morley Ramdisc (1 or 2 Mb). Only the version 1.01 seems to be in the archives I've looked through.I wasn't expecting later versions of this to exist, but you...

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acorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: (On now!) ABUG online,...

we're on!Statistics: Posted by BigEd — Tue Aug 27, 2024 7:05 pm

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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: file won't run in ADFS (BeebFAX)

Hi Brian,Line 440 calls OSGBPB at &FFD1. A%, X%, and Y% have to be used since CALL uses them to set the values of the A, X and Y registers. In any case they are LOCAL so are preserved.Is the file...

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communications • Re: the Night Owl BBS (HOST UP)

Tuesday 27thNight Owl is now up for a bit ...Sorry there was no service last night I was busy with some code issues.Not many recent visits so I figured it wouldn't be much of an issueApologies if you...

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introduce yourself • Re: Hello from Derbyshire!

Thanks everyone for the responses.My eBay BBC micro hasn't arrived yet, so I don't know what state it's in. I might have some more questions when it gets here.I'll take all your advice about...

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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: C development for FujiNet and cc65 bbc target

Thanks @dominicbeesley for the update. Some interesting ideas around the clib ROM for applications. Certainly something I hadn't thought of before for writing C apps.The fujinet device will require a...

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8-bit acorn emulators • Re: What hardware is needed to run Trickysoft games...

Mainline mame will work fine and probably all BBC emulators by now should be fine. Quite a few of my games do push the display hardware to achieve the results that I want.Statistics: Posted by tricky...

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