general • Re: Today I received.....
I heartily recommend trying Kieran and friends' Prince of Persia and Stunt Car Racer ports on it. They show what the Master is capable of when really pushed,Statistics: Posted by bob147 — Thu Dec 28,...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: New MicroSD card PCB for use with MMFS
Ok, I'll try and have a look at this over the next week...Statistics: Posted by KenLowe — Fri Dec 29, 2023 6:43 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Converting DFS disc images to ADFS disc images
The brilliant Disc Image Manager by Gerald Holdsworth will do this...https://www.geraldholdsworth.co.uk/There is a thread on this forum too if you want more infohttps://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewt...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Beeb FPGA port to Spectrum Next
Does the old BBC master core work with the XBerry Pi (issue 4G)? Its supposed to be 100% Next compatible as it uses the sparten 6 FPGA as per the issue 2 (KS1) boards i believe.You can get them from...
View Articleprogramming • Re: VCCC2023: Christmas Challenge
If anyone is interested, the data for the second challenge in fuzzel's post above is:Code: 100DATA 10,3,2,3,18,15,13,7,15,11,15,7,9,9,23,4688 110DATA 14,24,20,25,23,24,7,1,10,15,9,4,11,13,11,4828...
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: ABUG Scotland #3 - Thu...
I've decided to come up although best part of a 2-hour drive for me, but have camper, will travel!Might being some non-acorn 6502 stuff and maybe a couple of re-capped PSUs for sale/exchange if...
View Article32-bit acorn software: RISC iX • Re: MEMC and RISC iX
I think that the focus on 32K page size as a topic of debate was a bit of a red herring. The real problem with R140 was not that the pages were too big, it was that there weren't enough of them. Sure,...
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32-bit acorn hardware • A3000 to PC file transfer options
Hi, and season's greetings!Now that my A3000 is working great thanks to many helpful people here I'm on a quest to find ways to transfer files between it and my PC. My current process is CFCARD ->...
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off-topic • Re: Acorn Art Thread
The tracks of my tearsStatistics: Posted by pixelblip — Sat Dec 30, 2023 8:43 pm
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communications • Re: OBBS (without needing Pace Modem)
Hi Ed,couldn't send this through PM obviously so posting here instead.Hopefully you can get the remaining issues sorted soon but hopefully not long beforeanother BBS is out there... great stuff. Well...
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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Master MOS disassembly
My own position would be that if you want the 1980s experience, you can install the 1980s ROMs - but it's arguable.https://beebwiki.mdfs.net/OSWORD_%260E suggests the date range for a 2-digit year...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S21 -...
I'm liking this game a lot. A new high score ... 16816Statistics: Posted by chrisn — Sat Dec 30, 2023 10:27 pm
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off-topic • Re: 1996 the great retuning (Channel 5)
5th channel = money to the treasury....because you're selling a bit more spectrum off.Which is why HMG were so desperate to sell of 5G mobile frequencies. (because money)And then under the guise of...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Converting DFS disc images to ADFS disc images
Thanks beebmaster. I will have to put a fair amount of time and effort into testing out the numerous suggestions. Il will report back.Statistics: Posted by RonT — Sun Dec 31, 2023 8:56 pm
View Articleprogramming • Re: Random access files: Avoiding 'can't extend'
From playing with OPENOUT (and *BUILD too) it seems that DFS needs to find a 16K block of storage on the disc surface even if the file to be created is very small.On a Master use *CREATE to reserve a...
View Articleintroduce yourself • Re: Hello from Bristol
Welcome and enjoy your visits hereGreetings from the South of the Netherlands,RolandStatistics: Posted by roland — Sun Dec 31, 2023 9:09 pm
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programming • Re: Computing pi with Leibniz
Amazing but my initial reaction was ARGH MATH!Statistics: Posted by lovebug — Sun Dec 31, 2023 10:45 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: BBC Micro Languages, use of low ZP addresses
It's really just $00 and $01 that affect me on this platform. That Forth memory map doesn't show ZP anyhow. I expect there is disassembly for some of the language ROMs at least. BASIC is the one...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Tube ULA Re-Implementation
Ok, that took longer than expected because I was getting some strange statuses back. It turns out I had the B-Em tube speed set to 400% so, when the parasite requested that the host fetch the R1...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: No sound with externally powered Gotek Drive
There should be plenty of grounds in the ribbon cable for the floppy interface (unless you are plugging/unplugging with the power on, not recommended in this multi-powered setup).However, a likely...
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