8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S24 -...
As mentioned before by someone, it's possible to get into a groove and theoretically (barring lapses of concentration and other unfortunate things like keypresses not being recognised) go on ad...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Wobbly VIDC Video Fixed!
Brought a broken Risc PC 600 MK1 Machine to see if I could repair it, im used to repairing old Macs and not acorns, this is my 3rd Risc PC Machine and my 1st Attempt at fixing a broken one,...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Master Power Supply Ticking
Update: fault solved, IC1 UA43 voltage reference IC on the daughter board had a fractured leg, refitting solved the PSU issue, nice stable 5v now.Well done in finding this! I've never to work on the...
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new ideas wishlist & general chat • Re: Dino
Oh wow love it! We need more Dinosaur games on the Beeb/Elk for sure! Please keep going!! Statistics: Posted by Arcadian — Wed Jan 15, 2025 8:57 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: FPGA advice
Thanks very much. Looks interesting and it’s useful to look at real examples like that. In fact, I’ve bought myself a book called Designing Video Game Hardware In Verilog which is pretty neat so...
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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Updated Master MOS versions
Hi Andy,Thanks for the feedback! Good to hear it basically worked, mostly Regarding the IFEL EROM - I'm not familiar with this device (do you have any links or documentation?) but if it shows up as...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Wobbly VIDC Video Fixed!
C122, so this was the 1st one I replaced which is a 4.7mf 33vIt's spec'd in the TRM as 25V, but higher is always fine - though usually higher voltage means they're physically larger.Good job...
View Articleprogramming • Re: can i read disk sectors in basic?
Short answer - Yes.Download a pdf copy of the "Advanced Disc User Guide for the BBC Micro". It explains how to do everything you want.Or look at ADFS_DiscOp and friends if you're talking about RISC...
View Articlegeneral • Re: publishing long article to stardot?
Not without misgivings, but perhaps a set of GitHub wiki pagesIt's a bit tedious including images in a Github wiki. You have to use git to add the images to a sub folder, then craft a suitable link in...
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Introduce Yourself • Re: Hello! from Nottingham
Thanks, everyone, I'm sure I'll be asking for help at some point AntStatistics: Posted by jumblehead — Thu Jan 16, 2025 8:55 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: LISP: Slower with with Co-Pros and MOS 3.50
I've been working my way through an article on the tak function in various languages and have come across what seems to be an oddity with LISP. I've been wondering what this Tak function was invented...
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programming • Re: The kind of sprite routines that I use
A question from the Dev Night ABUG zoom meeting re how I draw sprites in DigDug and games in general.Ohh i see! Thank you for the answer! Thats very clever- I was thinking and didn't think of eor/xor,...
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programming • Re: Elliot’s coding projects: New Game
Small "update" (removed prescreens for developing) https://bbcmic.ro/#%7B%22v%22%3A1%2C%22 ... 4%29%22%7DStatistics: Posted by Cruxinc — Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:15 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic adventure games • Re: Woodbury End
This is a message for @saltysteve - don't know if you'll get this, but I signed up on this forum just so I could send you a message! Thank you so much for creating Pettigrew's Diary and Safras for the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: New Electron Pro
Great work !Statistics: Posted by Bitstik — Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:35 pm
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off-topic • OSSC 800x600 ?
With so many raving about OSSC, I thought I'd give it a go (KAIKO 1., and for 640x480 VGA it's fine, but can't seem to make it deal with 800x600 out from an A5000. OSSC website states that it supports...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A5000 - New recurring problem
Ugh. Quite probably, a childs book. But even if you have a dry joint, I'd argue you want to suck/wick off the existing as it may be contaminated, flux and add fresh solder. /tuppence.Took me about 35...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Updated Master MOS versions
James. I did not criticise the constructive feedback that you provided. But you did appear to be trying to say that IDE ADFS should not be provided. And that you did not agree that multiple versions...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Electron Plus 3 - how best to invert drive identity
Thanks for all this! I think that by doing it with a single 4PDT switch, I can prevent the selection of both drives as 0 or 1 at the same time! I think that two drives is enough for my Electron (which...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: OSSC 800x600 ?
My experience with my OSSC is that my expectation of it being a complete master of video didn't materialise either.It can't do mode 7 and I never got a picture when I tried it with a VCR or Sky box....
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