Econet in all its guises • NFS & ANFS 40+ yr old bug
First, kudos to @beebmaster for hard work confirming what i’ve found…On OSWORD &14 arg 0 (do fileserver operation),the client machine sets a byte in tge tx block to indicate its length so NFS...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Usb keyboard for a beeb
That sounds great Dominic. This was something I was thinking of doing too. I built a replica MB and was wondering how to get started on the KB as I dont want to steal one from another BBC.Statistics:...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: NFS & ANFS 40+ yr old bug
On OSWORD &14 arg 0 (do fileserver operation),the client machine sets a byte in tge tx block to indicate its length so NFS sends the right number of bytes. On return after a successful query,...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn A4 Laptop Repair
Isn't the small LCD for battery level?Statistics: Posted by thecellartroll — Fri Jun 21, 2024 11:55 pm
View Articlegeneral • Re: BeebRoom 2024
I can't remember a time when all the FileStores were at home at the same time:BeebGarageJune2024-34.jpgTop one is the E01S which worked for a couple of hours and then stopped responding again. On the...
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Econet in all its guises • Re: Econet Clock / Termination
Ok, so here's the latest revision. After a bit of discussion with @ukwebb regarding the case design I decided to start again with the PCB layout, so that the OLED and rotary encoder are on the top of...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Shugart SA465 "goes to sleep"
Each drive or device uses one of the possible two (for Acorn systems, but the Shugart floppy standard allows for a possible four) select lines (denoted as DS0 through DS3 or DS1 through DS4). Some...
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off-topic • Re: Acorn Art Thread
Happy Summer / Winter Solstice!Greate pic! Winter Soltice for us, my favourite day of Winter as the days start getting longer again Statistics: Posted by FourthStone — Sat Jun 22, 2024 5:52 am
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
Forced myself to have another go at this. I can't see myself doing any better. It's the 2nd screen of what look like mushroom enemies and 4 disks.Statistics: Posted by Venger — Sat Jun 22, 2024 7:12 pm
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS **Host UP**
Night Owl BBS is now waiting for calls,cheersStatistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Sat Jun 22, 2024 7:34 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A5000 podules not working
Well that’s an interesting question. Because my CF card did not work, and started working when I changed the adapter. My investigations suggested that the soldering on the power connector was dodgy....
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off-topic • Re: This forum image attachment
Its a strange bug for sure considering that I can upload images perfectly to the linux mint forum that runs this same phpbb forum !Very odd indeed, best of luck BaZ Statistics: Posted by lovebug — Sat...
View Articleprogramming • Re: programming a sl811hs ???
What it really needs -- and this probably would be helpful to the wider retro-computing community -- is for someone to find a microcontroller with USB host on-board, E2PROM and a sufficient number of...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Diagnostic/testing utilities for BBC?
The keyboard issue (for the keys) is normally dirty or tarnished contacts in the keyboard switches. Repeatably pressing and releasing each affected key fifty odd times often helps. Spraying contact...
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other vintage hardware, software and languages • BBC Basic on Junior Computer
hi all,After 40+ years I revived my Electors Junior Computer and now I'm running BBC Basic on it To achieve this I did some "minor" changes to the board: I added a small piggyback board with a 128K...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Meshtastic
You can still pick up signals from ionica.But only if the wind is blowing in the right direction. I almost went for a job there in the mid 90s, that was until I saw what they were doing, taking a...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn Archimedes 310 hard drive issues
Thanks for your replies! Both cables are definitely plugged in correctly and I'm pretty sure the batteries are working as there is over 3V at where they enter the motherboard.The computer is running...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Spooksville - Game breaking bug?
I've been playing Spooksville from my MMFS MMB image, and also from the SSD file from https://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=645I've mapped all the rooms I can get to, though I have got to a point where I...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS *UPDATE*
There's not been much interest overall but been glad ofthe friendly enthusiastic callers Night Owl has had, unfortunatelymost don't return often enough to make this project worth continuing long...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Viewdata Service
Sorry to bump an old thread, but since I was looking at the Night Owl BBS earlier this evening and was perusing its list of other BBSs, I had to try Telstar as well.As previously noted in the Night...
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