32-bit acorn hardware • Yet another partly dead A5000
After randomly reading on here about the dreaded battery ick I pulled my A5000 out of storage. I've had it since new in the '90s.It's an A5000 alpha, 4Mb, 33Mhz. It has a simtec 4Mb -> 8Mb upgrade...
View Articleintroduce yourself • Hi from London
Hi all,I've used everything from BBC micros, Masters, A310 and up to owning an A5000 since 1994 and my mother (CS teacher) had a RiscPC. It's been a long time since I've done anything with Acorn kit...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Yet another partly dead A5000
It has a 72MHz CPU xtal in it to be running at 36Mhz rather than 33Mhz, this never caused any issues. I My experience trying to overclock Alphas is to the negative - they don't, at all. YMMV, but I'd...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: PunyInform and Ozmoo
I've just tagged up 14.22 alpha 54. This tweaks the !BOOT file to avoid showing CHAIN "LOADER" so prominently - I am 99% confident this change won't break anything but would appreciate any testing,...
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introduce yourself • Re: Hi from London
Hi,welcome to this great Forum... "Everything"? , but no Atom... Greetings from my little Dutch Atomic Attic, Wim... Statistics: Posted by Multiwizard — Sat May 11, 2024 6:16 am
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Obsolete, but not gone: The people who won't give...
I don't think the majority of people want physical media. Yes, there is some nostalgia in picking up a tangible object As said in that article, it's not just nostalgia, some very expensive older bits...
View Articlegeneral • Re: mmbimager not working on windows 8.1 laptop
It's possible that for some reason mscomctl.ocx is not registered properly on the laptop you are getting the error on.This article may help:https://www.partitionwizard.com/partiti ... l-ocx.htmlIt's...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Some VIDC experiments with RasterMan v0.35
Great sleuthing! I'm still in Beeb-land and probably not jumping to Arc stuff for several years ... but I'm still curious about something. Regarding "5. Changing the pixel rate during screen output."...
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new projects in development: games • Re: Apache Valley - possible new...
Very slow going I'm afraid I'm having a lot of issues with the toolchain and wondering if there's a better way? I'm currently using Elkulator to test my code, but the debugger isn't particularly...
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new projects and releases: demoscene • Re: Voxel Landscape
This is (of course) extremely cool. I was having a look over the code to see if I could find any micro-optimisations and I wonder if I've found a minor bug, or just don't understand the code (or...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Time to cut my losses?
I've just opened it up, pulled S22 out and back in (I've previously cleaned all the switches), as it's to do with the ROMs. I switched it on, and "BBC Computer 32K BASIC". Seriously? It's got nothing...
View Articlecommunications • Re: Buzzbox Modem Ebay
I should still have mine somewhere, didn't get a lot of use, upgraded to something faster very quickly.IIRC it could also run from two 9V batteries that fitted inside.Statistics: Posted by IanS — Mon...
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Elite Compendium (BBC Master)...
I don’t knowing this has already been asked before, Mark, but would it be possible to add the Spectrum missions into BBC Elite?Great question! When I was backporting the Trumbles mission from the C64...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Gotek double sided disk emulation?
I have a 5.25" drive and a Gotek on the Floppy cable of my Master 128.When I put a floppy disk in my drive, I have the option of reading and saving to drive 2 and 3, so both sides of the floppy.Is...
View Articleprogramming • Re: TOP and OSHWM is assembley code
Parsing as a command line might be easier than passing via CALL.Those are very compact. I started off with something that I swiped from a link to the mdfs page that Steve gave me, but it kind of...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: DFS 2.45 ROM layout
Thank you, I think that is probably what started me thinking about it initially, but no conclusions came out of that thread on the differences between the MOS and EPROM versions of DFS 2.45. But I was...
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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Minor Bug in *Copy in DFS 2.24 and possibly...
There was a similar bug in Watford's 8271 DFS. I reproduced it exactly when I worked there. The "solution" was to replace the complainant's ROM with an Acorn one. For years I've tried to remember the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Gotek double sided disk emulation?
It depends on how it was imaged, but basically if it is an exact copy of the original disk then yes it should be just the same in working as the original floppy.The name (or at least filetype...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Elite over Econet (BBC Master,...
Just a quick note to say that I've added a few updates to Elite over Econet this week, following feedback on the Discord server.Here are the details: Fixed a bug in the scoreboard where changing port...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Got a new BBC - Daft questions
Does the 6522 user VIA work? If you don't have a spare, remove IC3 and swap it with IC69 and see if the computer still works. If you get a continuous tone, then you'll need a replacement...
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