8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Help with PiDirect please
Possibly tarnished pins on the tube connector, causing a bad connection. Particularly if it's not been used in a long time. Try inserting and removing the level shifter a good number of times (as this...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Star Trail for the BBC Micro and...
Attached is a new update. This is getting quite close to what I consider "finished" for the base game. It needs some testing but any comments would be welcome. 19 bytes free. Changes in this...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Master Spacebar\keyboard problem
Unfortunately I am boring so I just ordered 100 red ones Well that's you set for another 32 BBCs!!Statistics: Posted by vexorg — Wed Dec 11, 2024 9:10 am
View Articlegeneral • Re: BBC OS for other platforms?
You could try my bbz project https://github.com/ivanizag/bbz to have something similar to run some of the BBC language ROMs on a modern computer terminal.Statistics: Posted by ivanizag — Wed Dec 11,...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • BBC Master Compact - faulty when in case [SOLVED]
This was quite a weird one, for me at least.My Master Compact would be quite happy outside of its case, just the bare motherboard on my bench with keyboard connected & resting on top.But if I...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Master Compact - faulty when in case [SOLVED]
Thanks, I don't think I would have liked for that for ages!Statistics: Posted by tricky — Wed Dec 11, 2024 2:16 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A500 Modules not showing
You could at least give it a dusting? Would love to see one of these in the flesh.The dusting was being witheld until I knew whether it worked before trying to clean it. Now, if it doesn't work...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: PiTubeDirect Lock Up
I think this is because I don't fully support bankswitching if it contains code as I don't think I flush the JITed code.If I disable the bank switching on the JIT core, the game works correctly, which...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A500 keyboard weirdness
I'd guess the cable was for a joystick or something, effectively pressing keys when used. With a basic switched joystick and using only a single row or column of the keyboard matrix it would be...
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: ABUG online #95, Tuesday...
I can probably work out how to change my recurring event!Statistics: Posted by tricky — Thu Dec 12, 2024 2:15 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: PunyInform and Ozmoo
I have tagged up a new alpha 59 with the tweak to avoid needing the "six" module to be installed at build time. There are no other changes.Statistics: Posted by SteveF — Thu Dec 12, 2024 2:57 pm
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: b2 - new emulator
that's after a *DIRGood catch, thanks - *DIR (or *LIB) with no arguments would crash the server. That will have been in there for several years!I've uploaded a new prerelease:...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Advice on various cabling please?
This is a double power supply adapter.Statistics: Posted by acornist — Fri Dec 13, 2024 2:25 pm
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Acorn Art Thread
A Saucerful of SecretsStatistics: Posted by pixelblip — Fri Dec 13, 2024 2:27 pm
View Articleprogramming • Re: Enhancement to MMB_Utils ?
I know how to patch files; been doing that from before git ever existed (it was a common method of sending updates via usenet comp.sources, for example). What confused me was you writing "and if a...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Mini-challenge: nested FOR with only one NEXT
Here's a mini-challenge to amuse yourself with this weekend: write some Basic which has nested FOR loops but only one NEXT in the program. (Of course, a bare NEXT, not one with a variable name or a...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: SD Cards and the 1MHz interface
@Dave . Do Let me know if you have any issues once an SDCARD has been formatted FAT32 on Pi1MHz. I would these days recommend a fast SDCARD as it can be used for future projects as well.Statistics:...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Cub 653 No Picture
…and I don't think there's such a thing as intermittent fuses, they're either blown or not blown.Clearly never heard of Schrodinger’s fuse…I hope you find the fault and are able to fix it.Statistics:...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Interesting YouTube videos
A talk I did about BBC Micro Elite at hack::soho in May, which just got published to YouTube.Very nice, mate.Statistics: Posted by Diminished — Sat Dec 14, 2024 1:45 pm
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Repton 3 Redux Acorn Electron
It would be great if someone could post a video of this game... I've struggled to get an Electron emulator working and so not seen it.Cheers.Statistics: Posted by archie456 — Sat Dec 14, 2024 2:02 pm
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