Econet in all its guises • Re: Issus with the E01
Well at this moment I can not do any further tests it stays with a red LED.Statistics: Posted by TimoHartong — Fri Dec 27, 2024 3:41 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Please Help Fault Find my BBC Model B
Hi again everyone, hope you all had a good Christmas. Sorry to dig up an old thread, hope no one minds, but I thought it would be good to not leave it without any resolution.Not fixed my beeb yet,...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS **UP**
Night Owl is now up for this evening, thanksBrianStatistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Fri Dec 27, 2024 5:40 pm
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: 2048 game by Eben Upton
Extreme thread resurrection, but something along the way seems to have fixed this. At least, I can't repro it now!Statistics: Posted by Matt Godbolt — Fri Dec 27, 2024 5:54 pm
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Mark 1 mouse pinout/schematic
pinout labelling on the mouse PCB is the reverse of what Ian gave it as As my PCB is unlabelled, I had to make something up. Good to have confirmation.Section 19.5 is a particular Stardot gem...9.15...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A500 Modules not showing
So....HD formatted and soft-load RO2 modules transferred over.!Boot written to load said modules in on startup.IMG_0892.jpgThe newly-wired mouse works fine. As you can see from the pic, so does the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Bad Fs map error on ADFS file (BeebSCSI connected...
Which leads me to think the two sentences could be rewritten:However, the 8-bit ADFS API uses the top three bits of the start and length sector address to specify the drive, leaving 21 bits to specify...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • A7000+
Hello ,I bought an original A7000+ in OVP from an old Acorn dealer for the festive season.Acorn dealer.Apart from the fact that the battery has blossomed a little, the computer is perfect.I have...
View Articlesoftware & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Re: Disc Image Manager
1.47.3 has now been compiled and uploaded to GitHub, usual places.I've been pondering about rewriting the entire application in PHP and Javascript and making it an online version, accessible via...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Creating ADF or ADL imgaes using the Beeb
HiI know there are utilities to create adf or adl images on a BBC or Master, but I did not manage to get the right utility or program to do this. (or I'm bad ion reading manuals)What I would like to...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Creating ADF or ADL imgaes using the Beeb
You could do it with a Gotek with blank images on the USB device.Statistics: Posted by thecellartroll — Sun Dec 29, 2024 5:20 pm
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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Plan B In Colour?
why 1 file and not 5 : because acorn dfs has only 31 files on a floppy so if you are not carefull in 1982you have a lot of free space on your floppy ( floppy was 5 pound) so the more files a game...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Was the Amstrad CPC 464 a better games machine?
25fps and scrolling in 2 mode 2 pixel chunks, so probably double buffering, but very pretty.I think Edge Grinder was supposed to be the demo/game coders benchmark but I'm not sure how many platforms...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Master pi tube and graphics speed
So should it be X% and Y% for basic and osword calls?It's set up as a 6502 64k tube second processor. And does osword 6 work the same without the tube processor?Statistics: Posted by vexorg — Mon Dec...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Advice on various cabling please?
Ok, but wouldn’t that be a crossover cable not a modem cable please?It will, but if the pins on the connectors are as you've labelled them, you'll need one. Julian.Statistics: Posted by julians — Mon...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Low resistance short between vcc and 0v
On the resistance, it's a bit meaningless on an active circuit other than for short. For mode 7, what are the rgb outputs like on the saa5050Statistics: Posted by vexorg — Mon Dec 30, 2024 6:20 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A500 sound - a cautionary tale
a. It seems to be a "thing" that you can't softload the sound support modules and expect them to work, either in an emulator or IRL. Maybe they need to be present upon bootup for detection purposes?I...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3010 - Adelaide - repair
I shall haul it down anyway. And if you can't take it, I'll haul it home again and courier it.It seems to be behaving reasonably now - though I've not hooked floppy and speaker yet.Statistics: Posted...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Creating a virtualised copy of an old PC
That seems a very convoluted way to do it. Why not just copy the files she wants to an external drive then copy back to the new pc. Plus you also have a back up. What needs to run on hyper v that...
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: Tatung Einstein and BBC...
Floppy drives interfaces are all open collector, you can't really damaged them. Are the lines the same on the Einstein? It's not a pc compatible interface rather than shuggart?I had forgotten about...
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