Econet in all its guises • Re: Econet Clock / Termination
Values on the left hand side of this circuit are compromised as it's powered from a GPIO. If you don't mind burning the power statically, lower values will give better results. AC impedance remains...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC B Mode 7 fault.
HiThank you maniacminer, for your most instructive reply, rechecked the readings only to find I had recorded both TR6 and F1 incorrectly, table below shows TR6 at fault.table.jpgAs per your...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3000 Alarm app - unknown or missing variable
Which files do you need?Sorry for not replying sooner - I wasn't 100% sure of the answer, because I knew that the applications in the !Apps folder are just stubs and don't contain the actual !RunImage...
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8-bit acorn software: classic adventure games • Re: 'Good' adventure games
I was never a fan of unnecessarily-complicated parsers. They eat up precious bytes that could have been used for rooms, objects or puzzle logic. For me, distilling a command down to one, two (or...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
I couldn't seem to move diagonally, I kind of hate this game Statistics: Posted by lovebug — Sun Jun 16, 2024 1:24 am
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Help with a Master that isn't quite working
PS it's quite interesting that this machine has ANFS 4.21 which isn't all that common; ANFS 4.25 is more usually found (maybe partly due to me). Can we have a picture of the ANFS ROM...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Pi-based Co-Pro on the cheap - 100MHz 6502 for...
As the TIME$ bug in 6502 Tube host 1.10 has come up again recently, is it possible to have a choice of which Tube host code (1.10 or 1.20) to use in PiTubeDirect? Maybe as a separate option with...
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programming • Re: programming a sl811hs ???
I was reading the SL811HS documentation just a couple of weeks ago and got similarly confused.The easiest bit to understand was the CPU access. It "looks" like a 6845 CRTC. Write to base+0 to select a...
View Articleintroduce yourself • Hello From Matt Black
I was involved in the Acorn 8-bit (6502) and 32-bit (ARM) computing world for many years. I worked as a BBC Micro programmer at Netherhall Educational Software (owned by the Cambridge University...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Looking For A Working Copy of Blood Sport
Back in the late 80s, and into the early 90s, I ran two small UK mail-order software companies called Matt Black and Atomic Software.We published clip art packs under the Matt Black label, and arcade...
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off-topic • Re: LOLPRICE
I noticed this BBC Micro synthesizer for sale and then did an image search. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145832977907 I was wondering what's inside it, it's a bit how-you-doing for a M3000 case though...
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introduce yourself • Re: Hello From Matt Black
Welcome to the Forum, feetup . . . Enjoy . . .Sounds like you'll fit in nicely Dave H.Statistics: Posted by daveejhitchins — Wed Jun 19, 2024 4:08 am
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: Bridge Reset / Update & !Machines Discussion
Isn't there a filetype for a BASIC program saved as text, which *BASIC will just load as it is?BasText &FD1.Also if a text file is set to BASIC &FFB it will be loaded and tokenised, but with a...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Black screen, no led lights, but do have the two...
The video processor model VC2023 which replaced the original Ferranti ULA needs bodges to work correctly as it contained bugs. The bodges are done on the underside of the motherboard so it's not...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Full list of Master MOS versions
Happened upon this while googling for something else: Master Compact Prototype at CFCH: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det ... Prototype/I wonder which MOS version it has.--TomStatistics: Posted...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
Slowly getting better......there is a rhythm to this game.....Boris-5.pngStatistics: Posted by KarateEd — Thu Jun 20, 2024 3:13 am
View Articlegeneral • Re: dutch van england naar nederland inklaring - England to...
oke , i think in every country it is diffent costsThis forum is for the whole world, but English is the common language that's used on it. I'm a great fan of being able to speak multiple languages,...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS **Host is UP*
3 calls last night only from spammers who didn't have the manners to even enter a handle or use the guest account. Now have 3 accounts with names like Rfujh Rfdxc.Please don't do this, as all I can do...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Beeb FPGA port to Spectrum Next
It looks like the Spectrum Next Team have quietly uploaded a new Next firmware which enables alternate cores on KS2 Nexts. Interesting that they have updated the binary, but not the source...
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8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em
thats great, thank you Statistics: Posted by lovebug — Thu Jun 20, 2024 8:50 pm
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