8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Econet: Not Listening (I broke it again)
Ok, so there are quite a few things going on in this thread!Firstly, there isn't a 'NODIR' command in IBOS.Secondly, regarding NOBOOT, I'm not entirely sure what happens if you don't have a HDD...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: The BBC Micro chess championship.
I've been interested in Beeb chess for a long time, and I've been reading this thread. Thanks @Sydney for your efforts to set up these matches of various chess engines against one another--and video...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic adventure games • Re: Aural Quest
Cool, I had no idea this even existed! (I bought the album secondhand on CD in about 2002.) I died on my very first move, which I guess is probably expected.I can't even answer the phone - is that a...
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: DEC VT-101 Flyback...
I finally bit the bullet and removed most of the CRT related electronics. I decided I wanted a decent metal front plate to provide structural support and additional shielding / ground plane. I do not...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Spooksville
Thanks @scarybeasts, this is mainly @necronom 's effort and I believe they are now working on a full playthrough on real hardware recorded for YouTube. I just rolled in at the end and worked out how...
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: Retro Chip Tester...
I am sure the documentation says you can't program it with the display connected.Thanks for that info, vanekp.I seem to have missed that, I don't know if I programmed it with the display connected or...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: CRT Monitors
I'd say that they are all potentially serviceable / repairable Definitely don't throw any away as CRTs are now a finite resource.I'm personally yet to encounter a CUB monitor with a dead LOPT, even...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Programming With Inter-Word
Nice work, and kudos for doing it on the Beeb itself with ADT instead of falling back on an emulator!Statistics: Posted by SteveF — Mon Jul 08, 2024 2:16 am
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communications • Re: BeeBS the BBS hosted on a Beeb is Live!
Im not sure but I may have broken your beebs.ddns.net:6502 when I was viewing all new messages and I was pressing random keys trying to stop the endless text now when I try to connect it just does...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Black screen, no led lights, but do have the two...
not impossible if your beeb blows up the userport cb1,cb2,pb0-pb7 with an experiment and you place that 6522 chip in ic3 you machine will work still as ca1,ca2,pa0-pa7 (the printer port) for the...
View Articlesoftware preservation • Re: preserving old discs
Counting Game by Clares Educational SoftwareStatistics: Posted by arnoldemu — Tue Jul 09, 2024 8:01 am
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
This will do for now, lots of luck involved with pod spawns and bouncing bullets.Score: 2700Tetrapod_2024.PNGStatistics: Posted by FourthStone — Tue Jul 09, 2024 8:29 am
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: b2 - new emulator
This is all good stuff Tom... just to note, I briefly tried building b2 myself, and failed. The motivation was to see how much faster a native ARM version might be - the published version is of course...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • A very spooky beebjit capture...
Inspired by the Spooksville thread, I'm working on a beebjit run through of the game as it seems to be sufficiently obscure that until Necronom's efforts there was no published run. I thought it would...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Online Banking on PC vs Telephone
For me, in the mobile banking app, paying someone is divided into two steps:setting up a payment destination.actually transferring the money.The first of these does include some checks. The app asks...
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communications • Re: the Night Owl BBS **UP*
A healthy three callers last night .. Thanks to those who called in.A new caller arrived at around 1am, so much welcome to you and thanks for visitingPlease call in again if you'd like full privileges...
View Articlegeneral • Any hotplate recommendations (for rework, surface mount soldering)
Just read a good experience using a "cheap hotplate from AliExpress" and wondered if anyone had good experiences and specific recommendations to share.Statistics: Posted by BigEd — Tue Jul 09, 2024...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic adventure games • Re: Aural Quest
Quick progress report. Yesterday evening I started proof reading the ported events and statuses. That's quite tedious and will take a few evenings to complete. It's worth doing as I did find one...
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other events + general event chat • Visions of the Impossible at ROUGOL, Mon...
This month's meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be:Visions of the Impossible, presented by Nathan AtkinsonMonday 15th July 2024, 7.45pmThe Duke of Sussex (upstairs in the Chichester or...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Explore the 2024 UK general election...
Are you tired of looking at fancy hypertext pages with graphs and pie charts for your election results? Worry no longer, because now you can browse them the old-fashioned way, on your BBC Micro!I was...
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