communications • Re: the Night Owl BBS
Well, the last two visits were a tale of two downloaders. For disc storage I enabled Plus 1 and Plus 3, and I used the ACP E00 DFS.The first visit made use of the Jafa Mode 7 Simulator and the...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: PiBridge 2.1-dev pushed to github
Given that you've tried without the SJ Research terminator plug, it's unlikely to be the issue. However, you shouldn't really mix the SJ Research style terminators with the Pi generated clock (or the...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Testers wanted for BBC BASIC (Z80) version 5
Yes, PRINT/VDU just sends straight to CONOUT. I haven't checked yet, but PRINT CHR$17;CHR$n; and VDU 17,n would work.Statistics: Posted by jgharston — Sat May 25, 2024 1:36 am
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Econet in all its guises • Re: Econet: ideas for things to do on a LAN
A couple of years ago fuzzel created a complete copy of the Essex University MUD that ran on a Beeb and six RAM banks. In itself that was quite the achievement and more so after following his thread...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: If Acorn had concentrated less on 6502 2p as...
I would have been happy with an 8 bit latch at fe30 and 250 banks of 16K ramStatistics: Posted by lovebug — Sat May 25, 2024 11:24 pm
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: RGB to HDMI using a Pi Zero and a small CPLD
Ian,I would like to try your solution on one of my RGBtoHDMI's (12 bit issue 4). As I already have analog boards in place, I probably also need your 12 bit adapter to hook things up differently.Looks...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: C development for FujiNet and cc65 bbc target
Our production units are built on WROVER-E chips. These have 8MB of PSRAM, as well as 8 or 16MB of Flash memory.E.g. some of our targets are built on the DevkitC-VE unit, while some of the Commodore...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: DFS 2.45 ROM layout
I just tried OSWORD &7E on a DFS disc, using Master 128 with MOS 3.50 and DFS 2.45 in the system ROM, but the call works, and reports the disc size as 204800. So I'm not sure what the bug is...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Micro keyboard PCB
OK, an hour of frustration and I've gone from thisbefore.jpg to this after.jpg oooooh! It's so shiny!I've scanned it in and made a layered view for all tracks, source and destination, all components,...
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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Minor Bug in *Copy in DFS 2.24 and possibly...
Bearing in mind you'd also have to make it use main memory, the keyboard links and the different SWRAM layouts of the B+, it'd be easier to mark up a disassembly of 2.26 and import the features you...
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Econet in all its guises • HOWTO: Quick guide to setting up a shared...
This is one of those quick "I had to look all this up and I'm going to forget if I don't write it down" threads If anyone has any suggestions for additions or improvements, please drop a reply below...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Faulty master mainboards
Have you put in Trickys test rom?yes, same thing - single relay click on power on, then nothingI have notice AA14 and AA15 never have any activity on them, but every other address line looks...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Stupid question re battery backed RAM
Hi allI've got one of Steve/IFEL's RAM/ROM boards in my Beeb. It's been in there for a couple of years now, and due to infrequent use, I'm thinking that it will soon be time to change the battery for...
View Articlestardot FORUM • Re: Saving a copy of a stardot thread
Sometimes when I want to generate a list of URLs for a multi-page webpage, I use a spreadsheet and have the base URL say in cell B1 and then column A is a concatenate formula with B1 plus the row...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Yet another partly dead A5000
Ordered a donor disk to swap the board to see if I can restore it that way.In shocking (at least to me) news the donor drive arrived (it was toast, defects far outrun the defect list) but using the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Stupid question re battery backed RAM
yes, change the battery whilst the machine is powered onbut I'd measure the voltage first, no point changing it for the sake of it.Statistics: Posted by Ukwebb — Sun May 26, 2024 11:04 pm
View Articleoff-topic • Re: VR
Abduction in Gillingham Part 1....done with VR .....and teletext!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFEx9l-4ldAStatistics: Posted by pixelblip — Sun May 26, 2024 11:10 pm
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em
Would it be a bad idea or even possible to allow b-em to ignore the case of the file extension when loading disk images ?I see (for example) some archives have .ssd others .SSD or any case...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Replacement A3000 motherboards
Out of curiousity, whats the go-to method for taking the unsoldered IC's and getting them to fit the sockets reliably?I picked up one of these boards recently to salvage a too-far-gone A3000 but i've...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Faulty Issue 7 Model B
Have you confirmed the address bus connections between the 6502 and the IC12/13, particularly A5 and A12?Yes, those have all been checked. I'll post up a marked up schematic showing everything I've...
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