off-topic • Re: Rechargeable Batteries: Are They Worth It?
Smoke alarms! That's another thing! The ones here are mains powered but with PP3 battery backup. And of course they both ran out in the middle of the night and started bleeping (on different...
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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: The Advent of Beeb Games
Thanks very much for promoting this! It's been quite the ride so far Statistics: Posted by colinhoad — Fri Dec 06, 2024 1:12 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: December 1980, the Proton, Chris Turner's notes
(reserved for transcript of Steve Furber's Specification)Statistics: Posted by BigEd — Sat Dec 07, 2024 12:26 pm
View Articlegeneral • Re: HP1702 Monitor on the Blink
I've taken the plate off the back of the LCD panel at the rear which reveals a PCB along the top, and there's another PCB down the left hand side covered with sticky back plastic. Applying pressure to...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: Getting software on to my RiscPC HDD, help...
No problem, glad it worked. You can create partitions on larger cards so that RISC OS can read them correctly, but 2GB is the general limit on older machines. It functions like having multiple HDDs on...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Master pi tube and graphics speed
Sounds like a mistake from acorn, I think the pc graphics cards have shown that dedicated graphics subsystems processors/memory was the way ahead.Video boards were already around for microcomputers...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: PiEconetBridge and A3000 copy errors
Folks, I've totally rebuilt the Raspberry PI this morning. It's looking much better, it's now coping files to risc machine much more reliable. I'll keep testing but looking better changes I've made...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Unipod and ADF10 or AEH52
No problem. I looked for documentation for the Econet slot when I got a Unipod, so remembered seeing it mentioned somewhere. In this case the starting point was this Usenet post found by doing a...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Archimedes a3010 keyboard drive LED
Hi,Im wanting to wire the activity LED of an external device (a Raspberry Pi 4) to have the keyboard drive LED blinking when the SD card is accessed on the Pi. I was told that the pin to use is the...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: Econet to AUN bridge on Raspberry Pi - released
Ok, having done a loop of *SAVEs (from AUN) and expecting a memory leak, I cannot find one in 2.1-release!My test was over AUN. I wonder if this is localized to Econet clients? Can either of the...
View Articleprogramming • Re: VCCC2024: Christmas Challenge
Yes, and the page has been updated now with more competition information, which wasn't available initially. Plus I just had an e-mail from him as a previous entrant!Statistics: Posted by BeebMaster —...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: PS/2 interface for the Joystick port
I was going to ask if it would work from the 2nd port on the 14b adaptor box but with a through connector it sounds like that wouldn't matter. I'd be interested in a couple.Statistics: Posted by...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Slot Machine in Basic
I like the look of this game.For some time (probably more than 20 years) I've thought about the possibility of using MODE 7 for a slot machine game. I think I even started designing some of the fruits...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Insert Escape Keypress into Text File
If you're in ubuntu (or other unix-like environment) you can readily use awk to line-number a text file, which gets you out of the AUTO/Escape pickle altogether.Code: awk '{print 10*NR,$0}' <...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Master Spacebar\keyboard problem
Try a white LED, then you'll know what bright is for a typical red LED current.Statistics: Posted by vexorg — Mon Dec 09, 2024 1:22 pm
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • ABUG online #95, Tuesday...
On Tuesday there will be an ABUG General Session, at 7pm, on zoom. (Currently, General Sessions run on Tuesdays, every three weeks. If you don't have the zoom coordinates, send a PM or ask in this...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: MMBExplorer and MMFS - card not being read
so a reformat of the SD Card and putting the file back on worked.not sure why but hey.. It working nowfor anyone wanting to do this in the future then ensure the card is less than 2Gbunmount the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: SOLVED:Very noisy B+
Do you by any chance have a photo of how you fitted the capacitor?Thanks.Statistics: Posted by Ronin47 — Tue Dec 10, 2024 1:55 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Help with PiDirect please
I'm probably trying to run before I can walk here, but am trying to get PiDirect CoProcessor running on my Model B Iss 7Using a Pi Zero 2 WI've connected everything to the Tube connector but when I...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: CUB monitor checking advice
R933 (150K) and R934 (180K) usually show signs of overheating and I replace them by default now, using 2 Watt resistors. While you're looking at resistors, also checkout R325 which is a 1W 180R (180...
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