off-topic • Re: Online Banking on PC vs Telephone
A few months ago, my bank changed its the first part of their two-factor authentication from asking for four characters from my passcode string to asking for the whole string. When it first happened I...
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general • Re: BeebRoom 2024
Very nice! I hope your cup of tea didn't go cold whilst taking the pictures.Statistics: Posted by growntree — Tue Mar 05, 2024 11:08 am
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programming • Re: Disassemblies of BBC Micro Games
Oooh, still thinking about recolouring it?Would be nice to also change sprites as well as the coloursI've disassembled Boulder Dash (1988).https://github.com/TobyLobster/BoulderdashVery nice When I...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High score challenge - S2...
Sadly this hsc is from about 10 years ago (we've been at this for that long )Check out the latest game we're playing viewtopic.php?t=28679Statistics: Posted by fwibbler — Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:56 am
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Xilinx CPLDs are to be axed by AMD
Out of interest as I'm taking a look at the ATF15xx series for some projects, does anyone know if the ASV 3.3V range can be pushed to tollerate 5V signals? These ASV parts are cheaper and available in...
View Articlenew ideas wishlist & general chat • Re: NFS / ANFS Commented Disassembly?
That's brilliant. Thank you for that!Statistics: Posted by KenLowe — Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:08 pm
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32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: New: fully documented source code...
I've added an update to the Lander repository that some of you may find interesting (I know I like it, anyway!).The repository now includes a BBC BASIC version of the source that will build Lander...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: !Lander's weird control scheme...
I tried implementing this, and the ZIP files beginning with "W" attached to this post are the result.These are fascinating! Having the mouse pointer visible makes quite a difference, once you get used...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: ROM archive?
Is there an all-in-one downloadable archive of acorn.huininga.nl anywhere? As per the thread subject, I'm mainly interested in just the ROMs.I'd ordinarily use wget --no-parent to grab only that part...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S22 -...
Starting to get the hang of it. No wonder it's such hard work, ospreys aren't supposed to have that many chicks! Statistics: Posted by Rod C — Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:16 pm
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general • Re: Acorn machines in the movies / TV
The displays in "The Robots of Death" - and lots of other episodes - are from the BBC's ANCHOR character generator, which used analogue electronics to generate the curved letterforms, and could read a...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Boxford TCL Lathe
Photo of the PCBInteresting, I don't think we've seen this board before. There's 16K RAM on there so possibly being used as sideways RAM rather than shadow RAM.Are you able to dump the TCL ROM?If you...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Atom: Speckling of red dots around the screen edges.
Answers to the questions:1. I assume you mean what the UPDATE CPLD menu reports, in which case: 6-12_BIT_BBC_CPLD_v79 6-12_BIT_BBC_CPLD_v94 6-12_BIT_YUV_CPLD_v912. I used a fresh SDHC card and fresh...
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introduce yourself • Ola! from the Azores
Hi all, finally joined this forum after many years of it coming up in search results for Archimedes and BBC micro stuff.I'm from sunny South Africa, now living in the (not so sunny) Azores (Faial...
View Articleother events + general event chat • Re: 2024 Econet LAN party 18 & 19th May
I will try to make it again this year, I have an Econet project I'm working on (now I'm going to have to get my finger out and get it into a transportable state, as well as possibly enough software to...
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introduce yourself • Re: Ola! from the Azores
Hi,welcome to this great Forum... Greetings from my little Dutch Atomic Attic, Wim... Statistics: Posted by Multiwizard — Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:03 pm
View Articleintroduce yourself • Re: Hello from a returnee
Hello from a fellow Acorn owner in Oxfordshire.Statistics: Posted by a1exh — Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:35 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: HOWTO: An alternative tripler for Microvitec CUB...
Surely there's scope for getting onto Donberg and asking them what the deal is with the flaky units? And them encouraging their suppliers to fix their QC?d.The flaky units came directly from Efiter...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Updating Econet Bridge
It looks like your econet-gpio-module isn't compiling correctly. Try doing a 'make clean' before 'make all'.This is what I see when I do a 'make all':Code: sudo groupadd econetgroupadd: group 'econet'...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Peartree MR3000 ROM Board (Issue 2)
I thought I'd document this for anyone who is interested in Beeb hardware.This is my original ROM board from my first BBC Micro (Model B). It was removed prior to trading in the Model B at Watford...
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