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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...

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new 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...

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8-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

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general • 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,...

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8-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...

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8-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

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32-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...

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8-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...

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32-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...

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acorn & 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

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8-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

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8-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:...

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8-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

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off-topic • Re: Acorn Art Thread

A Saucerful of SecretsStatistics: Posted by pixelblip — Fri Dec 13, 2024 2:27 pm

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programming • 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...

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8-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...

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8-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:...

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8-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:...

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general • 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

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miscellaneous 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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