32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: What to do with old games?
What games have you got ? there is definitely a market for these old Archimedes games, I still have all the ones I bought years ago, but there are a few ones I've never managed to get hold...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Issues when switching from two physical FDD’s with One...
As the title mentions, I have successfully tested two physical FDD’s with my BBC Master. Both worked, loading software from either with physical media. I also have had a single Gotek connected to it -...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: HCCS HardCard for A3000
OK seems I have found the way forward using SCSIFSMAP 4 0Blimey, need to log these things down!From what I remember, all this -can- be done from the desktop app, but IIRC it's definitely not at all...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Atommc v2.0
Hello! Who remembers my previous posts about the atom with the missing game from the archive? Well I passed that atom on and I am building a replica. However I need to try and work out how to use the...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Hang Seng
Anyone have more examples of real world uses of Acorn Computers?I know of one UK Calibration company (I'll spare their blushes) that until about four years ago was still using a Beeb with IEEE...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS *Mon*
Night Owl is now up for this evening ..cheersStatistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Mon Apr 28, 2025 8:06 pm
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Elite Compendium (BBC Micro +...
Yes, please do not paste LLM outputs in sensible forums!Statistics: Posted by BigEd — Mon Apr 28, 2025 8:17 pm
View Articleprogramming • Re: Speed of zero page vs Electron sideways RAM
Which I think equates to 4p in your answer, Steve?Yes, I think so.So as a rule of thumb, does this mean that when when migrating code to take advantage of the faster tick in sideways RAM, these...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Reverse engineering "Taipei" Micro User listing?
I guess I need to write my actual program first with some kind of placeholders, then see if there'll be enough memory to fit the tiles in.Statistics: Posted by Danj — Mon Apr 28, 2025 8:22 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A310 Upgrades
OK, that's a set of the scariest upgrades I think I've ever done. Today I upgraded the A310 with :1. RO 3.11, it was originally running 2.00. This involved fitting a carrier which has a few flying...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S25 -...
Starting to get the hang of this.....good game Venger....Hopman-5.pngStatistics: Posted by KarateEd — Tue Apr 29, 2025 7:51 pm
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS *NOW*
The Night Owl BBS Hostis now waiting for your calls.Thanks as alwaysBrianStatistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Tue Apr 29, 2025 8:01 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Acorn CN61014N ROM source?
I've got a CN61014 00201666-03 ROM that is faulty. From reading around it looks like it can be replaced with a 27C128 which I have, but I can't seem to find a source for the ROM download. Anyone know...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: Configuring Pinboard
Have you dragged any icons onto the pinboard area yet? Try dragging any sprite file and dropping it somewhere within the vast expanse of grey, then menu / middle mouse button should allow you to...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Blasted StarDot cookies
I'm started having this issue now as well. Tried 2 difference machines, Ubuntu 25.04 and Ubuntu 24.10.Tried Chrome and Brave - both give a error that I must accept cookies. When clicking login for a...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Replacement Serial ULA module for the BBC Micro
As I mentioned in the other thread (which was ignored in favour of this one) there are some possible fantasy ULA extensions. These are HDL related rather than PCB related, though.1. Dividing by...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Type-in challenge - landing Christopher Evans on the Moon
Just stumbled across this article that may help with the calculations. Seems like there's a bug in the maths, which is interesting! https://martincmartin.com/2024/06/14/ho ... nder-game/Statistics:...
View Articleeconet and other acorn specific networking • Re: FS Op 67 (MDFS Tape Interface)
Not sure if it actually ejected the tape, but I'm fairly sure it did the equivalent of a *UNLOADTAPE after a scheduled backup.Not sure if anything changed with later tape drives (I only remember the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Serial ULA2C199E
You didn't happen to do similar tests for the ADC did you? I seem to recall a thread about emulation and the fact that high/low values are converted slower/faster (or vice versa) but emulators maybe...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Issues when switching from two physical FDD’s to...
So the 150R terminating resistors arrived today and I have been doing further research to confirm where they go! I have found two ref manuals online - https://oldcomputers.dyndns.org/public/ ......
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