other events + general event chat • Re: Visions of the Impossible at ROUGOL,...
and going in the other direction with the port of Starfighter 3000 to the 3DO console.Surely the other way round? Krisalis did the 3DO port, VOTI ported that back to RISC OS.Statistics: Posted by...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Spooksville
Thanks for putting your route up! We mostly match. The main difference is that you do all the Franks Lair stuff on the way to the ferry man, where as I do it on the way back. I don't think there's...
View Articlecommunications • Re: Teletel (MiniTel)
That's interesting. I didn't think it was possible to display the minitel character set on the beeb. I'm guessing that that is a mode 1 rendering. Did you notice any problems with colours? I remember...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: BeebEm Mac - Info
Thanks for testing Peter. Maybe that is the real fix for this bit of the Econet interface, and someone more knowledgable can confirm.I've been tirelessly working on the port for the past couple of...
View Articledevelopment tools • Apps that are good at producing annotated documentation?
(I've posted this in "development tools" because I think "documentation" should fall under the heading of "development", but if it's the wrong forum please let me know)Are there any apps that are...
View Articledevelopment tools • Re: Apps that are good at producing annotated documentation?
Some word processors can have comments added. With Microsoft Word for example, these appear in a separate column on the right. They are linked with whatever text you highlighted and the users name...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Puzzling over RTC year logic with PCF8583? RISC...
Sorry, is must be underneath as the cartridge tray sits very close to the PCB if not actually touching it !! As mentioned, you could bring wires out for a remote battety!Ah yes, makes sense-...
View Articlesoftware preservation • Re: preserving old discs
I am sure there are other ways but I have always used PlayUEF to convert UEF to WAV http://playuef.8bitkick.cc/?&turbo=1&ba ... LOCAL=truegreat. I'll use it. thank you. :)I don't know if...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Valiant Turtle owners
I struggled to find suitable tyres so ended up making my own.I used some rubber strip of the correct thickness, cut a long enough length and then cut it to the correct width. I secured one end with...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Citadel Item Randomiser 0.4 (updated)
The radiation is emitted from the crystals, so surely carrying the things about should incur a radiation penalty.Statistics: Posted by 6502 — Thu Jul 11, 2024 9:39 am
View Articlearchive submissions • Re: 30th Anniversary BBC and Electron Collection
Hi all,Just re-posted Disc101 in Section 6 due to amendments to Strawberry Fields allowing you to save your scores to disc. You must insert a blank disc into Drive 0/2 as the game is on side 2 of this...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: B-Em
I just pulled the latest changes from github for the fix of elite music/graphics issueI compiled b-em but there is a problem, the emulator is running at normal speed but the screen is only updating at...
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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: *** HELP THE EDUCATIONAL ARCHIVE ***
@TrickyThis post is somewhat puzzling. To make an Educational MMFS/GOTEK menu with the software on it will take up about 5Gb of SSDs. Now that's a lot. Statistics: Posted by flaxcottage — Fri Jul 12,...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Another FPGA Atom techy question
So I got the T65 core and set the mode to 6502. Then I put this into my VHDL in place of the Free6502 core.It was far easier than expected, but there is a very weird issue.With the old Free6502 core...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: b2 - new emulator
If you still get a message about unsupported gamepad on startup, please post the log here and I'll try to figure out what's going on.Still an error.Interestingly, I did a manual grep for some of the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Cub 1451 pincushion
Thank you, Jonathan. Useful tips, and that circuit diagram for that section is also very useful.I'll let you know how I get on.Statistics: Posted by SevernWolf — Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:56 am
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Model B memory corruption
If the machine has been stored for such a long time some of the 'legs' of the ROM or RAM chips might not make proper contact in their sockets anymore because they are dirty or corroded after all these...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: Benchmarks
Nope.It would be extremely limited in what benchmarks it could run anyway.Statistics: Posted by SarahWalker — Sat Jul 13, 2024 9:23 am
View Articlesoftware preservation • Re: Preserving old BBC discs and tapes
number invaders. tape. backup.I can see a similar one on the Educational Archive but I'm not sure this is the same.Statistics: Posted by arnoldemu — Sat Jul 13, 2024 10:04 am
View Articlegeneral • r/bbcmicro Reddit Page
Hey all,Anyone know what’s going on with the bbc micro Reddit sub? It has changed so that you can only submit a post by messaging the mods first, but they don’t reply. Consequently it’s gone from...
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