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Introduce Yourself • Re: Hello from Canada
Hi Stefan,Welcome to the best Acorn resource! Took me a little while but just realised that you've recently joined our Vancouver Retro Computing group, and it was great meeting you at the Expo in New...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Desktop ROM - keyboard, joystick, mouse -...
It was the image from your post with the mouse on and off REMed out. I have had a look at the TESTMSE - there are no MOUSE ON/OFF commands REMed out.There are OSCLI"MOUSE ON" at lines 95 & 105 and...
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: Laser Direct Printers -...
I have an LBP-4 and an LBP-8 (one came from DaveH and the other from Paul Beverley at ArchiveMag). I have some software, interface cards, some manuals.I'm interested in ROM dumps from the interface...
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: Tatung Einstein and BBC...
Is there any XTAL settings/timeouts that need adjusting?My experience is with the Amstrad CPC and for that at least the 5.25" drives can take longer to become ready vs the 3" and 3.5" drives and the...
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programming • Re: Calling a procedure defined at runtime?
EVAL("FN"+variable$) isn't inefficient, very much the contrary. *That* *particular* *example* is very inefficient.Ah, got you! Thanks for clarifying Statistics: Posted by Cantabrigian — Fri Jan 03,...
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: NOW FULL! Booking...
I can bring my EPROM programmer to ABUG North - if IanS is happy for the ROMs to be dumped, we may as well do both of them at the same time in case the LBP4 is a different version.I'll try and dump...
View Articlesoftware & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Re: Disc Image Manager
Understood.Can you have one instance of the all supporting multiple independent windows?I think it depends on OS. Windows will allow multiple instances of the same app to run. Don't think macOS will...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Shadow RAM Query
Most games write to the screen memory directly so won't work with shadow ram enabled as the ram the game is running in is different to the ram the screen is running in.Statistics: Posted by Ukwebb —...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: The BBC Micro ROM Library
Is there any easy way that the link to the library could be changed slightly or tweaked so that it works under the MAC OS browser Safari?It appears to work for me, though I've only opened the home...
View Articlearchive requests • Re: XBASIC from A&B Computing
Not much gain with VarSpdCode: >CH. "VARSPD"ResInt 546Integer 1415Float 2612>*XBASICXBASIC>OLD>RUNResInt 551Integer 1439Float 2633>Statistics: Posted by BigEd — Sat Jan 04, 2025 6:32 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: MASTER 128 Startup issues : UPDATE STILL ISSUES
I'd also say that 3v is at the very bottom end. 3.3 really should be the point to replace your batteries.Given it's going into a different language ROM ( terminal) rather than basic would point at...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Beeb FPGA port to Spectrum Next
is there a way of making a hybrid sdcard for the pi accelorator that has the next stuff and tube stuff?Statistics: Posted by lordoftime79 — Sat Jan 04, 2025 7:07 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Electron owners survey...
Which electron? I have 7 lolI've voted the last option as my answer would have to basically be 'all of the above'Statistics: Posted by Ukwebb — Sun Jan 05, 2025 5:40 pm
View Articlegeneral • Re: Needed info: How are GND and data lines pared in parallel...
In some documentation it is mentioned they are twisted pares, data wires are numbered, but GND wires are not.They may be "pairs, which are twisted" but there's not much point. Twisted pairs are used...
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programming • BBC BASIC Find Character at X,Y
Greetings,I'm using the routine on page 432 of the BBC BASIC manual to find the character at location X,YI would expect V2 to contain 240, but instead it contains 144. What am I doing wrong please? I...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S24 -...
Well, I wanted to show willing, but yuck... I don't like this game at all, sorry!image_2025-01-05_190620953.pngStatistics: Posted by colinhoad — Sun Jan 05, 2025 7:06 pm
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS **Host UP**
Host is now up for the evening. Things getting so quiet again , hoping it willpick up in interest. If you haven't tried Night Owlbefore and are curious, why not login from your Webbrowser? You'll be...
View Articleprogramming • Re: BBC BASIC Find Character at X,Y
I'm not sure the regular User Guide makes this clear, but by default the BBC Micro can only actually redefine characters 128-159. So when you attempt to redefine character 240, it (silently)...
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archive requests • Re: Missing BBC Games HELP REQUIRED!
Ah, I see I should have known to ask the maze-meister about this one Hmmm.... I am unsure what to do with it now.It isn't strictly a beeb game anyway, and I don't fancy heavily modifying it to make it...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Model B installed ROM not recognised
It does here...DFS 2.26 loaded into SRAM on Econet-only BBC B can't be activated:vlcsnap-2025-01-06-17h25m21s971.pngvlcsnap-2025-01-06-17h32m14s247.pngStatistics: Posted by BeebMaster — Mon Jan 06,...
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