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8-bit acorn emulators • Re: Electroniq - online Acorn Electron emulator
Wonderful! That’s definitely worth documenting, what a handy feature.The thought of clicking on a link to watch a modern browser fire up an emulator of a beloved 1980s computer that loads a classic...
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Atom fault
The video subsystem is now working (fingers crossed) but it was confusing due to three separate faults.The first was fairly easy, on reset it displayed a corrupted message due to one data pin of the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Increase BBC B Reset/Boot Delay
In the first post there is mention of the null processor, but that option effectively disables PiTube surely? So the BBC B boot time has no meaning on what will happen at start-up because it will...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Glue/adhesive/cement? Assistance needed for ultrasonic...
Just to close this thread:The JB Weld - Worked a treat - many thanks. I might get another 40 years out of it now.I use the cleaner for a whole load of 40 year old 20 pin latched headers I use for the...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3000 repairs
The second link from the left (LK9?) was shorted, but the track to IC4 pin 10 was cracked.That's LK12, as I noted, not LK9. The physical layout is misleading you - you have to just go by the...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: Decoding Podule IDs
Did some tests using “Podule_CallLoader” and yes, it returns the last eight bytes in registers one and two (unchanged). The last four bytes are the same in both Alan’s Unipod and my Unipod so if the...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: RiscOS Pi boot screen
IIRC - *unplug bootfxStatistics: Posted by helpful — Sun Nov 24, 2024 4:04 am
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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Qwak 2024 update (prerelease)
What I'd love to do is to be able to offer alternate keys for gameplay, as CAPS and CTRL for left and right does not suit PC keyboards. I did poke around in the code and thought I'd found the values...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Adventure Party Creator
Is 700DEFFNname missing its corresponding ENDPROC?Let me try that againDoes 670DEFPROCdel having a closing ENDPROC? There’s one on 680, but what about 690?Does 700DEFFNname have a closing...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: Econet to AUN bridge on Raspberry Pi - released
Those values were for the hpbridge process.Given the number of "anon" segments, this looks like userspace malloc() without free(). You're not mmap()'ing the econet-gpio into address space, so it's not...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: Changing icons in RiscOS 5
ha, ok. I used another theme than the default one, moistly to be able tu use the regular one as fallback.Statistics: Posted by guibrush — Sun Nov 24, 2024 8:30 am
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: Amstrad NC100 Control Codes
The screen control codes were definitely mentioned in the manual supplied with the NC100, because I remember writing stuff using them back in the day .....If I recall correctly they only worked from...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Storage box?
Hello BM,These are what I use:https://direct.asda.com/george/home/hom ... lt,pd.htmlAlso I have some of the longer boxes as well, which are the same height and...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S24 -...
A bit better …..!IMG_4798.jpegStatistics: Posted by klintworth — Mon Nov 25, 2024 5:02 am
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • High Score Challenge - S24 -...
Stardot high score challengeSeason Twenty Four: Round TwoElementum chosen by KarateEdElementum.png=====================================================================================RULES Round Champ...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Saving the text on screen to a file
At the point of capture, you have to know the intended purpose, to be able to prepare the output accordingly:All the text on screen, or just the current text windowPlain text* (eg for sharing here,...
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off-topic • Re: Glue/adhesive/cement? Assistance needed for ultrasonic...
I don't recall a shop at Bradford University when I was there.. out of interest where was it?Oh! Goodness . . . IIRC it was 'down-some-stairs' and IIRC near the students unions "hang-out" and again...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A5000 fettling - a short story.
I often break out the thermal camera these days when I have something to fix, it's a great way to find problems.Statistics: Posted by Ronin47 — Mon Nov 25, 2024 8:58 am
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic adventure games • Re: Bug in Savage Island 1 by...
When I wrote my interpreter (nearly 15 years ago now, eek)! I had to write my own PRNG. I noted at the time that the Howarth engine just used the low byte of the system clock. I never dug into the...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: software with good Superior Speech
IIRC there was a software version of speech just for the BBC micro that our school had the disk for. We used to mess with it all the time.There's no reason why you couldn't get sampled speech working...
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