8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Music500 to Music5000 conversion
Maybe I can't see for looking, but I can't see the new capacitor in the photos. Could somebody point me in the right direction?Statistics: Posted by lushprojects — Sat Jul 20, 2024 10:25 am
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communications • Re: Teletel (MiniTel)
Well I had a good play with the Teletel emulator last nighton my Model B and Wi-modem232, and kind of establisheda way to get around the available servers and the limitationsof use.There is obviously...
View Articlesoftware preservation • Re: Preserving old BBC discs and tapes
IEEE 1.96 (C) 1984 Procyon Research Ltd. ROM - from the Besom disc.Statistics: Posted by arnoldemu — Sun Jul 21, 2024 10:52 am
View Articlecommunications • Re: the Night Owl BBS **Host UP**
Thanks guys , yeah Dave I get your point.I often feel my updates could be hogging the Comm's sectionand folks may get sick of seeing my updates. Sometimes ifan interesting chat is up or BeeBS has an...
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new projects and releases: text and graphic adventures • Re: The Thompson...
Be careful what you ask for... This will be my 6th conversion to the BBC in a little over two weeks. I now need a bit of a lie down.You have surely earned it! The original BASIC game is 329 lines of...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • BBC Micro with no beep at all?!
Hi all,I just acquired a "new" Beeb that I was told was working...not only is that not true but it is also behaving in a way I have never seen before...there is no beep on startup at all, single or...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Chuckie Egg 2023
Ah. I should have mentioned, freshly downloaded today from the head post.Code: % cksum chuckieEgg2023.*2536236223 655360 chuckieEgg2023.adl2331699874 204800 chuckieEgg2023.ssdStatistics: Posted by...
View Articlescanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • Re: BCPL for the BBC...
Tiny error in the original on p52: "Reports and error messages from the compiler" should, perhaps, be "Reports any error ..."Thanks for this remaster.Statistics: Posted by james — Mon Jul 22, 2024...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: b2 - new emulator
There's a new unadvertised build on GitHub: https://github.com/tom-seddon/b2/releas ... 24-9f95270Tried this. No issues detected with joystick recognition. I tried a few 'dynamic' (USB port removal)...
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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
Just got back from sunny-ish Devon and all the tor walking has me completely worn out but there's enough lunch time to have another game and I did a bit better, as Venger says, the randomness of the...
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: MAME: How to ... ?
I was curious to try Chuckie Egg 2023 in MAME rather than getting the real computer out but, alas, no joy.I'm aware of the Tube issue, but had forgotten about it though so will take a look.In away...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Master 128 no beep no display just cassette motor...
The manual has a reasonable approach to fault finding, checking various clocks and lines.I found quite a few of the chips on mine had gone bad, even the basic 74 chips had poor outputs that came back...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Shimmering Teletext on BBC/Master
I found a similar chip, and plan to try it to generate the 6MHz from the 2MHz (only because the lowest input on the one I found was 2MHz, but has a x3 multiplier). Even just to try and see how it...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Micro with no beep at all?!
Thank you Mark.When I turned my attention to IC6, I noticed one of its legs looked slightly corroded. Once I lifted it out, two legs dropped off! Suffice to say, when I inserted a replacement, I heard...
View Articlearchive submissions • Re: Peeko-Computer (Acornsoft) Model A/B Version
The manual's on https://www.flaxcottage.com/Educational/Default.asp (click "P" and then scroll down for Peeko-Computer).And in various formats on https://www.everygamegoing.com/search/i ......
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Electron clone with JamSoftElectronULA
That's most of the board built up just a few connectors to go. I have been exercising the ULA with various add-ons - the Slogger disc interface, the Jafa 2nd processor, MMFS and a few home made...
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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Moving games and other software to rom
After fitting it should probably be, hold shift down and press and release break, then after a second release shift Statistics: Posted by tricky — Tue Jul 23, 2024 12:43 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
I've never played this properly before, so it'll be a bit of a steep learning curve for me, I think. I'll have a few goes later so that I can see if I can work out the gameplay. I don't think this was...
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development tools • Re: Beebasm #include
Statistics: Posted by lovebug — Tue Jul 23, 2024 1:27 pm
View Articlearchive requests • Lode Runner full tape copy wanted
Does anyone have a uef copy of Lode Runner they could post here?The one on STH only has the main game that includes the first 40 screens.The reason I ask is because I have found a way to allow for all...
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