8-bit acorn hardware • Re: JamSoftElectronULA: A no-frills Electron ULA...
As requested I had a look at C9 and tried the following:...Please let me know if you'd like me to do any testing at all, hardware or firmware, I really don't mind and like giving back to the retro...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: LOLPRICE
Simply place a bid here https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276511429839 for £2049 or higher and it's yours!Sprow.But surely for such a sought after rarity there will be many other bidders to compete with?...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Usb keyboard for a beeb
Just sat in the garden enjoying a beer in this lovely warm weather, and got to thinking....Would it be possible to use an Arduino or a pico to interface between a USB keyboard and the Beeb &...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Puzzling over RTC year logic with PCF8583? RISC OS...
TLDR, is there any known issues with RISC OS machines and the year maintained by the clock (assuming good battery) if the machine has been off for more than 5 years? Reason for the ask is as follows....
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Reading/Writing from the RTC in the Electron Plus...
Additional Validation logic I updated the ROM (ssd in GitHub repository above) with logic that will avoid the user overwriting (with *I2CTXB or *I2CTXD) free storage used to manage the break toggle...
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS
I'm connecting to my own virtual modem on my own (isolated) Asterisk install, which is then using a network connection to Telstar.I managed to talk to the author of the terminal program and he told me...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Puzzling over RTC year logic with PCF8583? RISC...
https://github.com/barryc-ro/RiscOS_371 ... word#L1013Nice! Thanks Ian, this really helps. Its kinda crazy for the sake of a few bits more what the IC designers enforced on the developers Statistics:...
View Articleintroduce yourself • Re: Hello from North Somerset
Welcome, what is a variant 1, I've never heard of one! Are you looking to program on the beeb or for the beeb? Probably depends on how attached you are to the authentic experience. Popular for the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Help needed to follow keyboard schematic
Many thanks IanS and Arg for your swift replies and, more importantly, for correcting me. I will get on with checking the keyboard tracks as soon as I am able and I will post back here about what I...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Under the cover: the ARM250 die
I think that's a bit optimistic - the ARM3 is approximately the same size as the ARM250. I'm guessing though that there wasn't a vast amount of design time, and hence optimisation, put into the...
View Articleintroduce yourself • Re: Hello from West Berkshire
Welcome on board Texy! Welcome to our forums There's some useful links in my signature below.If you search or browse the relevant sections of the forum, you will also find various software. Either as...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
Another Boost.....3DDotty-9.pngStatistics: Posted by KarateEd — Wed Jul 03, 2024 2:54 am
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Black screen, no led lights, but do have the two...
oke from the two pictures , are the links S32 and S33 WEST ???the link S32 and S33 are on the bottom right by the rom sockettake picturei think they are east !!! not WESTStatistics: Posted by...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: Pi Econet Bridge v2.1 released
many many thx to all.. wifi troubles are now a thing of the past with my pi 3a Pleasure CStatistics: Posted by cr12925 — Wed Jul 03, 2024 6:19 am
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: PiBridge 2.1-dev pushed to github
2.1 now released:viewtopic.php?t=29395CStatistics: Posted by cr12925 — Wed Jul 03, 2024 6:44 am
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • BBC master IDE adapter on the internal 'modem' header
I've recently seen a photo of a homemade PCB which plugs onto the internal 1Mhz bus/modem/scsi header on the Master, and had a dual CF card adapter plugged into it offering four HDD drives . This is...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC master IDE adapter on the internal 'modem' header
I've not seen any ROMs for IDE on that header - but you should be able to do as beebmaster did and rejiggle the hoglet ADFS source to use the correct...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC video output idea?
In outline, the proposed board would sit between the main board and the CPU, snooping on all bus writes that address video memory, the 6845 CRTC or the video ULA, effectively shadowing those devices....
View Articleprogramming • Re: Armdroid Program Preservation/Restoration Project: Help...
Sorry, this is really all new to me so I'm not really sure what that means. It sounds like you're saying that Y only needs to be 128 on entry? That still leaves me wondering how X represents the key...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: Backup your PiFS
I know 20k Get requests is high, but I think its only about 2000 list/put requests before they charge you so decided against using S3 as the backend storage...That's the main reason I went the...
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