8-bit acorn hardware • Replacement key switches for master?
Has anyone found a modern replacement for the key switches for the BBC Master. I've got a few key switches that don't work. I've opened the switches and cleaned the contacts but I think they are too...
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At the risk of infuriating Electron owners, if you could find a cheap Elk; their key switches are identical to Master key switches.However, taking the key switches apart by unscrewing the solder...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Moving games and other software to rom
A quick way to force a browser to download a fresh copy of something, and not "helpfully" use any cached version that may still be lying around, is to alter the URL ever so slightly...Thanks for the...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: ADFS IDE version for BBC Master 128?
Normally, yes it's on my desktop. But I'm not at home till the.weekend. I'll upload it then unless someone else does firstStatistics: Posted by Ukwebb — Mon Aug 05, 2024 3:54 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Another FPGA Atom techy question
Thanks for looking.Here's the results (also attached as a zip file)Code: ~/grumps$ ls -ltotal 5628-rw-r--r-- 1 dmb dmb 20200 Aug 5 15:57 atomtape.jar-rw-r--r-- 1 dmb dmb 52366 Aug 5 15:55...
View Articleoff-topic • Re: "The Five Doctors" 1984 4-part Repeat
No, that's the 90-minute original, not the 1984 4-part repeat.Statistics: Posted by BeebMaster — Mon Aug 05, 2024 4:11 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
This is my last attempt. Happy to finish in level 19 but couldn't quite nail it.242790.PNGStatistics: Posted by Rod C — Mon Aug 05, 2024 4:12 pm
View Articlemiscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Ghostbusters
Which version are you running? The pause only works on the SWRAM version. (It appears to be working fine at http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=4455)Statistics: Posted by ChrisB — Mon Aug 05, 2024 4:28 pm
View Article8-bit acorn emulators • Re: MAME: How to ... ?
PERFECT!Thank you very much!EgonStatistics: Posted by egrath — Mon Aug 05, 2024 4:46 pm
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: RISC PC Repair - We have life
Interesting, changed monitors, I got a display with a 2MB VRAM module, but it reports a total of 17mb not 18mb [?], could tell me it can't access the other bank or there's more connection issues. No...
View ArticleEconet in all its guises • Re: Pi Econet Bridge v2.1 released
Are there any other issues we need to be aware of?Very minor issue in the EEPROM upgrade instructions - I thinkCode: cd ~/PiEconetbridge should beCode: cd ~/PiEconetBridge Statistics: Posted by...
View Articlegeneral • Re: Station 112 Breaks The Internet
Right. Well. TP600 seemed to reverse its status shortly afterwards, refusing to work again when Station 112 was on, so I really, really don't know what is going on.My latest scheme is having the TP600...
View Articlenew ideas wishlist & general chat • whack-a-mole?
First of all would this be reinventing the wheel is there already a game of this type available for the beeb?Secondly how would you go about controlling which mole you whacked assuming no mouse and no...
View Articlenew ideas wishlist & general chat • Re: whack-a-mole?
I don't know if one. You could number them or use letters or even have a hammer go from one to the next and hit the space-bar.Statistics: Posted by tricky — Tue Aug 06, 2024 2:54 pm
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new projects in development: games • Re: Exploring the posibility of a beeb...
Yes, I was going to move the plaster around to see how well it worked. It is just try to move on whichever access is furthest away and then the furthest are a right angle of the first of that was no...
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: ICE T65/Z80/6809
I admit that I don't have enough knowledge on VHDL to try my foolish idea.It's not a foolish idea at all, and would certainly be feasible. Generally I've tried to avoid making modifications to the...
View Articlemodern implementations of classic programming languages • Matrix Brandy BASIC...
Hi,I have released version 1.23.3 of Matrix Brandy.Changes include:- General: Implemented code tidy-ups recommended by OpenBSD. Thank you to Jag Talon for this!- Build: Added build option...
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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Introducing the Retro Hardware Plus 2 for the...
This all looks very impressive and its great to see folk still developing away on these old machines Statistics: Posted by Spike — Tue Aug 06, 2024 4:58 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Cub 1451 pincushion
I've bought the components and removed the old ones.I think the capacitors were probably okay, but R325 was reading 150ohms instead of 180 and there were visible signs of it getting hot.However, C312...
View Articleprogramming • Re: CPLD Coding - Boolean vs Bitwise Operations
That's not definitely something I would expect (in this context, both operators should behave the same).It's possible what's happening here is that the ISE fitter is generating an initial seed from...
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