other events + general event chat • Re: Big Ben Club annual day Saterday 10...
At this moment we have three speakers who have tentatively accepted to give a presentation:- 0xCODE A gifted speaker about the Acorn Electron- ROOL The maintainers of RISC-OS open- Rik van Wenzum ....
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Mini-challenge: nested FOR with only one NEXT
This one doesn't work though... Can you tell why without trying it first?It’s the one I thought of. And was disappointed it didn’t work. And can’t quite understand why.Statistics: Posted by james —...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Experience with running a Plus 3 off 19V DC
Yes this PSU can provide 4.6A, so that’s about 100W. But I’m still suspicious of it. For testing purposes, at home, I’m using my proper Plus 3 PSU and everything works. That said, even if I used the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBc computer B issue 7, sideways ROM and Language?...
So you think it’s a drive fault? Trouble is the drive was working before. So I still think issue is with the beeb. Anyone any suggestions?Statistics: Posted by sgmiles429 — Sun Dec 15, 2024 1:20 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • RGBtoHDMI Interface to Beeb
I recently made some RGBtoHDMI boards, based on the design by hoglet & IanS:viewtopic.php?p=441853#p441853These are working great, but the one thing that I don't particularly like is the ribbon to...
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off-topic • Re: My Weird Music :P
I was wondering what Gypsy's, Tramps and Thieves by Cher (1971) would sound like if the song was played forward but each beat of the bar was reversedSo I had to try it...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Cumana dual drive issues.
OK, so more info. A better lit top down view:IMG20241216140020.jpgDrive 1 at the top. My memory was correct, it is branded Shugart:IMG20241216140207.jpgAnd here are other...
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programming • Re: VCCC2024: Christmas Challenge
Hah, (don'ttellimpike) bytes? Question: is (don'ttellimpike) in binary, hex or denary? Statistics: Posted by flaxcottage — Mon Dec 16, 2024 2:26 pm
View Articlethe complete BBC games archive • New: Improved search on the Complete BBC...
Hi.I've just added an update to the Complete BBC Micro Games Archive at https://bbcmicro.co.uk/When you do a search, you can now filter the results as follows: Match whole words only Match the full...
View Articlethe complete BBC games archive • Re: New: Improved search on the Complete BBC...
Right. Here's an absolutely ludicrous suggestion:Automated DSD compilation generator. Select games tickbox style up to a size budget and the website lets you download a DSD with menu containing them...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • A curiosity - some BASIC prose
This (owlet) is the first version of a thing, anyone else fancy a bit of composition?Code: 10 IF... YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEAD WHEN YOU LOSE20 DATA OR WHEN SOMEONE MAKES A CUTTING30 REMARK OR WHEN THINGS...
View Article32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • Re: Wanted: RISCix 1.1x
This should be 1.13:https://archive.org/details/riscix_202412d.Statistics: Posted by danielj — Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:28 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: SD Cards and the 1MHz interface
but it is harder to find 4GB cards with a 'name' at a lower price than the 8GB ones . . . Dave H.I actually don't have any 4GB micro SD cards at all, the smallest is 8GB apart from the rogue 128MB one...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: A curiosity - some BASIC prose
Ace and miles better than this old dad-joke:Screenshot From 2024-12-17 12-56-42.pngStatistics: Posted by tnash — Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:59 pm
View Articlegeneral • Re: Interesting YouTube videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wELAhgbqNzcIt's a little grating that during the discussion on Arc games in this video, it spends most of the time lingering on some rather unexciting plodding gameplay...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC B+ 64k EEPROMs and SW RAM
This was my attempt, many, many years ago :http://www.mdfsnet.f9.co.uk/Archive/BBC ... 113821.htmhttp://www.mdfsnet.f9.co.uk/Archive/BBC ... 083033.htmIt only required 3 flying leads. IIRC, I made a...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Enhancement to MMB_Utils ?
It turns out that on Acorn DFS 1770 at least that the DFS is saneCode: A$="DAVID"B$="David"C$=CHR$(&81) + A$10 PRINT HELLOSAVE A$*CAT$.DAVIDSAVE B$*CAT$.David - $.DAVID has been overwrittenSAVE...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Recent A440 Purchase
£355 including the delivery, which I didn't think was too bad (please tell me I did ok!).I think that's a reasonable price for the bundle - because it includes the ARM3 (which I'd value at £150 or so...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Fitting an Atomwide 4-8MB RAM Upgrade to an A5000...
Thanks for the note - I’ll try the print. One thing is that (I guess, having said how easy hand-soldering SMT is!) I sometimes have problems drag soldering memory chips in particular - so I’m maybe...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: E01S HDD error codes
Thanks, I can see the (C)Acorn message split between pages &25 and &26 so that's a good sign. The geometry (cylinders and heads at least) match the spec for the Rodime RO3085S so I think...
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