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general • Re: X filter goes bang
There was a 13A fuse in the plug (it's a 2kW model) I cut the wire off, cleaned the blast area, replaced the capacitor and crimped the connections - all good and it's working again. The cable is...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A4 next steps
It sounds like they need to come up to check underneath - or at least that area of the board needs a very good clean to make sure there's no capacitor grot hanging around. Looks like it's been...
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new ideas wishlist & general chat • Re: More Boulder Dash!
Luckily the bonus caves are numbered sequentially from the main caves, so I just needed to add Q, R, S and TThey're the same sized caves from the program's storage perspective. I had to modify the...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Did the BBC try commissioning Microsoft to...
The idea of there being a "standard" BASIC in 1980-81 is somewhat absurd. Sure, Microsoft probably had the most installations, but DEC, HP, Data General and IBM all had robust — and wildly...
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8-bit acorn hardware • IC88, IC100 and the Tube issues
I'm struggling to give enough information to be useful without telling you my entire life story, but here goes ...Short version: I have a BBC model B with two issues - it won't recognise any ROMS in...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: ADJI Testing and Results
FireTrack (BBC Master) working! Thanks to the amazing disassembly of the game (https://www.level7.org.uk/miscellany/fi ... sembly.txt) I was able to leverage a nice configuration easter egg from...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S22 -...
Broke 60k....man it gets rough up at those levels....I almost got through level 3, had one umbrella and brick to open up.....Statistics: Posted by KarateEd — Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:13 pm
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: Beta update for BeebAsm VSCode extension
Hi Tom,To re-iterate what others have already said: Thanks for driving Beeb-related VSCode extension development forward!I currently use Simon's BeebVSC extension and I thought I would take a look to...
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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Elite over Econet (BBC Master, 6502SP)
I have !SoftMDFS on my RISC PC, so as long as it's authentic MDFS behaviour, I can test.I exported my usual RISC PC Level 4 export as "Disc1" and the RPC RAM Disc as "Disc2" and made a directory...
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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: The Greatest BBC Micro Programmers
They may not have got your teenage time, but there are some more recent authors that have done some great work too Statistics: Posted by tricky — Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:37 pm
View Articlesoftware & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Re: Xfer in C
Does it work if you set the COM port as \\.\COM12 or \\.\COM13? The Windows CreateFile function needs the \\.\ prefix to use COM ports above 9.Statistics: Posted by chrisn — Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:35 am
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: py8dis - a programmable static tracing 6502...
I don't have access to a PC right now to test this, but I suspect you can define your own hook function which is a lightly tweaked copy of the existing stringhi_hook:Code: def my_stringhi_hook(target,...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: Archimedes Software Preservation Project
Tried that version, and everything seemed to go OK. Was able to actually create the JFD, but when I try to open it I get the error: "FileCore does not understand this disc".Did you image it from a...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • High Score Challenge - S22 -...
Stardot high score challengeSeason Twenty Two: Round ThreeCookie chosen by MatthewThompson=====================================================================================RULES Round Three starts...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC crashing randomly but works fine 30 minutes...
I hope you have fixed it, as its intensely irritating, I have had 'Incredible HULK' moments before trying to fix these old Beeb's ...It's not just Beebs - I've a C64S which is basically Trigger's...
View Articlemodern implementations of classic programming languages • Re: Matrix Brandy...
I've been busy in the shadows.Some new fixes since my last post include- PRINT now handles exponent format better, with padding akin to Acorn BASICs- Subtraction now works in "long double" space (80...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S22 -...
Never played this before, didn’t realise there was a Beeb version as I’d only heard of the Speccie one. Gradually getting to grips with this, just managed to get on the high score table!!Statistics:...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: "A very nice, compact SWRAM/Flash board"
There is also a problem with the code that I uploaded to github, which makes it inclined to say NO quite a lot more than it should.I will see about updating it or maybe just paste the fixed version...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: BASIC Question: How do I turn off the cursor?
Thanks everybody!! It works now. Adding the VDU command to the same line as the MODE made all the difference.Statistics: Posted by DistantStar001 — Tue Feb 06, 2024 5:00 am
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: Building BASIC4 source
Sorry, I'm still not clear on which assembler is used to compile the BASIC4.ZIP at the MDFS site:Code: REM > Basic4/srcREM Source code for 65C02 BBC BASIC IV for the BBC:IF PAGE>&8000:SYS...
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