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scanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • Re: How many sold? German...
A5000 25MHz 2MB RAM 84MB HDD 25-ALB22-1014799 (not mine)Statistics: Posted by a1exh — Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:19 pm
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S22 -...
Okay, last go for tonight. It seems like there's no strategy to the game, just fire as fast as you can and hope you don't get hit.Statistics: Posted by Venger — Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:24 pm
View Articlegeneral • Re: Any info on Acorn's own computing environment?
What cannot be done with the same ease is for the machine itself to spot that an update is available - a holy grail that the CSG has wanted to implement for RISC OS machines.Odd. I implemented that...
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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A5000 Gone for good? :0
I am just having another go at working out what is wrong with this machine, and I do keep getting the "SRAM Err 0F" or similar when I run the POSTBox on it. I have checked over the clock chip circuit...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Abductor
Bit more work doneAdded level 2 sprites and attack patternPlugged humanoid code back in, so aliens can take them and drop them as skullshttps://youtu.be/UinJJyGiEp0Slight bug, leaving alien sprites...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Elite over Econet (BBC Master, 6502SP)
In anticipation of the TNMOC LAN Party (see here), I have put together a version of Elite that will load over Econet for the BBC Micro; all you need is 16K of sideways RAM.I would love to know if it...
View Articlearchive submissions • Re: The Monster of Arkyron
Flaxcottage has a nice collection of Games Computing magazines here (very nice quality too):http://www.flaxcottage.com/GamesComputingAugust 1984 (8408.pdf) has the game in.Good to know. I looked for a...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Viglen DSDFS
This is the disk interfaceStatistics: Posted by Bitstik — Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:45 pm
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Fault finding index
BBC B Issue 7 factory B/32K with disc interface.Problems: disc interface was removed at some point in the past and the piece of paper inside the machine suggested that the disc interface was faulty. I...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: SNIPPET TO DISPLAY VARIABLE LOCATIONS
If you're looking to access these from assembler then the CALL function allows you to pass variables which BASIC builds a table of the locations of. E.g.https://bbcmic.ro/#%7B%22v%22%3A1%2C%22 ......
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Risc PC keyboard
If the lights toggle then RISC OS is running in some capacity.I assume that you've held down Delete while powering on?Statistics: Posted by thecellartroll — Tue Apr 16, 2024 11:43 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn A3010 Motherboard Repair
Great it’s an interesting watch! I’d be interested in how you hooked up the push button to simulate the del-key? I’m suspecting the A5000 I’m struggling with at the minute may not be picking up the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Music 500 -> Music 5000 and Music 500 ->...
That's an excellent resource, thanks! I scoped out the "good" and "bad" M5000 and yup, D0 is different and that drives data input to the flip-flop that in turn with ADDR0 drives the "mute" circuitry.I...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • List of machines that will run off 110V power?
Motivation for the question being that I'm an ex-pat, I'm trying to determine which of Acorn's 32-bit machines came with power supplies that would function with a 110V 60Hz input. Mostly by image...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: List of machines that will run off 110V power?
Whilst they don't autorange, some can be reconfigured for 110v.e.g. viewtopic.php?p=409716#p409716Statistics: Posted by IanS — Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:07 pm
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introduce yourself • Re: 36 Years Later...
Hi Cola,welcome to this great Forum... Greetings from my little Dutch Atomic Attic, Wim... Statistics: Posted by Multiwizard — Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:28 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn damaged displays a dash
Have you checked IC32 (74LS259)? Its failure would kill the sound and cause other issues (scrolling, DRAM CAS etc.)Statistics: Posted by maniacminer — Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:41 pm
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: Acornsoft ISO Pascal object-code format?
Ah, there seems to be a copy of the optimiser on Graham's site, as well as the BL code disassemblerAre these files in BL-code? They don't look like source.Statistics: Posted by Coeus — Wed Apr 17,...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Shipping Acorns across the Atlantic - any tips?
I once received a Risc PC returned from the US by our sales guy just slapping a postage sticker on it.It was scuffed, as you might imagine. The CD-ROM drive had come free of its insufficient mount...
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acorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: SAVE THE DATE! ABUG...
I need to get a babysitter. And a car I can trust. Statistics: Posted by cola5pandex — Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:28 pm
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