communications • Re: Night Owl BBS (via Elkulator)
Was so interesting to see the screenshots of how the Mode7 simulator delivered a Mode7 style display. It renders that bit differently but still has it's own feel. Thanks for educating me and your...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: UEF chunk 0102
You are a hero. My sentiments exactly.I wonder what can be done about the other 30-odd pre-release versions that need merging back in Statistics: Posted by SamSkivington — Sat May 18, 2024 9:47 pm
View Articleother events + general event chat • Re: 2024 Econet LAN party: offsite Econets
I am going to bed and will look at these things after I have done the ironing tomorrow!I had no idea “birth time” existed in the statbuf. I will look into that one… would be nice to be able to change...
View Articlemodern implementations of classic programming languages • Re: Matrix Brandy...
Now that I've had a chance to test on real hardware, disappointingly but not particularly surprising, is that on a real StrongARM Risc PC, Matrix Brandy is about half the speed in Bubble Universe...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Z80 Protocol Decoder
Fantastic!! but hey, I'm not Sergey, but the owner of the repo that is responding to Sergey.Ah, sorry about that, now fixed. So you are Redcode/Manuel then?Statistics: Posted by hoglet — Sat May 18,...
View Articlenew projects in development: games • Re: Apache Valley - possible new...
And here it is running on Elkulator - to say I am happy at getting this working is an understatement - it was one of "those coding" evenings where everything just seemed to click and start working My...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Help needed with BooBip RAM
The RAM is not being detected by either the RAM test or RTool. RTool shows ROM for all your slots. The RAM test shows 0 (no RAM) for all banks.4x repeats are expected on ROMs. 8x repeats is a bit...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Elite over Econet (BBC Master,...
(skipping to the end)Regarding the discussions on directory structures and where to put the master files, a common method, that I use with MUGINS, BeebMail, and ABZ Teletext, is to have a single...
View Articleother events + general event chat • Re: 2024 Econet LAN party 18 & 19th May
Pi is &EEEENew icons and other quick tweaks by me on Thursday.Updated version is on BOOT on IJ_RiscPC for those with TNMoC cloud access.More updates and wholescale rewrite planned now - plenty of...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em Tape Overhaul v3 (SAVE support, autotests)
I don't understand much of this but I applaud your determination to get this working correctly. Keep at it!Lee.Statistics: Posted by leenew — Sun May 19, 2024 10:56 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Minor Bug in *Copy in DFS 2.24 and possibly...
He also suggests that trying to copy a zero-length file in DFS 0.9 can be disastrous [23-5 Bugs, page 246] Mmm...he doesn't say what the disaster is though!Statistics: Posted by BeebMaster — Sun May...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: 3.5mm headphone jack socket for the beeb
Penny washers may help... (if you can find the “right” size)...MarkStatistics: Posted by 1024MAK — Sun May 19, 2024 11:38 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Assembly compiler
Perusing old publications again, I thought that this might be somewhat relevant to the topic, as well as being of potential interest to others:Champ is designed to run on the Commodore 64, BBC Micro...
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: Unilab Serial Computer...
I dug out my cable for the PC and made a Beeb version of it. The cable starts out life as a "Kenable" DAP Audio HQ 8 pin Mini DIN Plug to 8 pin Mini DIN Plug Cable 1.5M and I take that cable and cut...
View Articleother events + general event chat • Re: 2024 Econet LAN party: offsite Econets
Perhaps I should only be doing this fir directories?MDFS doesn't allow setting any of WR/WR on directories, only setting/clearing of P, L, and the never-used-for-anything M bits. Appears to be treated...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: RISCPC Power Supply Refurbish - 4 Kits Available
I've just repaired my 0197,010 Issue 4 after it packed up this evening (I guess the Econet LAN Party finished it off!). Capacitor list and some repair notes included!First a couple of warnings: Watch...
View ArticleEconet and Econet over IP • Re: Bridge Reset / Update & !Machines Discussion
Thank you!Unfortunately, Acorn file servers don't respond to the wildcard broadcast, so they never show up in *SERVERS or *FSLIST. Currently my listing is showing L3 version 1.33 at 61.4 and L4 v 1.30...
View Articlestardot FORUM • Re: Server reboot Thu 16th May 2024 at 18:30 - done. Please...
Further Update: we're being done in by an AI. More specifically, ClaudeBot has been aggressively scraping Stardot, pretty much overloading our little corner of the web, in the name of LLM 'AI'. I...
View Articleacorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: ABUG Scotland #7 : Thu...
No matter, shouldn't take a minute to switch it to something else and back again.There shouldn't really be an need to switch it back again. You'll still be able to log into your PiEconetBridge with...
View Articleother events + general event chat • Re: 2024 Econet LAN party: Charity Auction
Did this go ahead? Doesn't look like my bid PMs were opened.Statistics: Posted by pir — Tue May 21, 2024 11:04 pm
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