8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Wrecked Master Compact ADD04 base unit
Does anyone recall how the front facia was reproduced?Statistics: Posted by !FOZ! — Wed Mar 12, 2025 8:43 am
View Articleeconet in all its guises • Re: PiEconetBridge and RISC-OS AUN Clients
You need to *SETFREE even for SYST I'm told... that one foxed me for a while as well!Hmm. I'd been doing this as GROOT and *READFREE returned 256k, and even after doing SETFREE (as SYST) it didn't...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Adrian's Digital Basement - Elk Repair
No worries, Derek! I was just surprised that upon searching for earlier coverage, it turned out to be you who had covered it before. As someone who also encounters interesting content and wonders if...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Crystal Castles update (including...
Looking amazingI was curious what that level would look like with the black and dark grey palette entries swappedstaircase.pngstaircase palette swap.pngStatistics: Posted by lovebug — Wed Mar 12, 2025...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Refurbing a Winchester HDD
Hi everyone.Would anyone know if it's viable to refurb a Winchester 110 HDD to it's original state?I have the opportunity to acquire one of these units but it's HDD is missing. So I'd like to somehow...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Refurbing a Winchester HDD
Yes absolutely. There's a list of compatible drives here... viewtopic.php?p=308340#p308340The Seagate ones seem more available.Statistics: Posted by Ukwebb — Thu Mar 13, 2025 6:49 am
View Articlenew ideas wishlist & general chat • Re: Bombjack
Nothing new, but put together really nicely and helped to flicker less by having colours much closer together than the beeb's.Compiled sprites would be great but they take a lot more memory, although...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Very OT: Recommend me a USB3 hub please
The next product I did for them was thundersync which used thunderbolt to supply the upstream data at 32Gbits/s to the usb ports they are even more expensive, but again there a lot of them running...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em
Please can someone help me as I may have broken something in linux mint and I'm really stuckI am no longer able to start b-em as it now gives the following errorCode: lovebug@LoveByte:~$ b-emb-em:...
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: BeebAsm
One extension I'd like to see (and why I decided it would be easier to use a Makefile .....) would be a RUNSCRIPT command. This would do a bunch of setenv()s to build up a copy of all the BeebAsm...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: One long beep woes! [bbc micro B]
+1 for the keyboard cable.I’ve had a couple that buzzed put fine when laid out flat but had a broken connection when attached to the keyboard/morherboard and bent to position the keyboard. Luckily,...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Philosphical question on facebook
Mostly nostalgia for me. The test is whether you can play old games that you didn’t play BITD and properly enjoy them as a game (as opposes to impressive technical achievement etc.). I can always...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: Econet for dummies
Acorn Zip files have additional data that contains these values, but other OSes (eg Linux, Windows, MacOS) don't understand them so you don't get it.Thanks for enlightening me, I didn't know about...
View ArticleIntroduce Yourself • Re: Hello!
Welcome to the Forum, Coastered . . . Enjoy - hope you get your Beeb fixed . . . Dave H.Statistics: Posted by daveejhitchins — Sat Mar 15, 2025 6:42 am
View Articleoff-topic • Re: AliExpress . . . New and Original . . . Buyer Beware . . . !
Well, I go the AliExpress route!I've still got 10 of these RAM modules if you're interested!Ken, I'll drop you a PM . . . Dave H.Statistics: Posted by daveejhitchins — Sat Mar 15, 2025 6:51 am
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: PDFs of Electron View manual and key strip
Good morning Mark.The link worked perfectly.Once again many thanks.Regards.RonStatistics: Posted by RonT — Sat Mar 15, 2025 7:54 am
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programming • Re: Direct keyboard access on BBC?
How do I access the keyboard directly on a BBC? A pointer to some information or a small example would be helpful.I know how to do it on an Electron (ROM 8/9, reading from addresses like &9FFF)....
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Acorn Atom voltage problem
what current rating is the power supply?are there any components on the board getting exsessavly hot?Statistics: Posted by vanekp — Sat Mar 15, 2025 8:19 am
View Articleeconet in all its guises • Re: SJ Research Clock Power Supply
The one I used here (https://www.flaxcottage.com/Projects/EconetBox.pdf) needed 9v AC.Statistics: Posted by flaxcottage — Sat Mar 15, 2025 8:34 am
View Articlegeneral • Re: Today I received.....
brand new, possibly never used, BBC Model B and Cassette Recorder :D JealousStatistics: Posted by Diminished — Sat Mar 15, 2025 8:40 am
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