communications • Re: the Night Owl BBS 10th Aug
Pleasure's all mine.Host is up now, so whenever suits you.Thanks for your interest.BrianStatistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Sat Aug 10, 2024 4:19 pm
View Articleprogramming • Re: CPLD Coding - Boolean vs Bitwise Operations
I think that's me pretty much finished with the CPLD coding. I had to make a minor tweak to the switching logic to get some of the PALPROMs working correctly. This is what I initially had:Code: wire...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: BeebUG C
Can someone please point me to the disks that you need in addition to the roms? I guess there are two disks at least, one for the library and one for the standalone generator.With kind...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Trying to resurrect my A5000
Well this is exciting. Thanks to your help we have overcome the first hurdle. We identified no continuity between pin 8 and R281 IMG_3404.jpegand after some amazing soldering from my pal ( and a...
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • wordwise eprom
Hi, its nearly 40 years since Last used a BBC. I had an eprom burner and lots of proprietary eprom for graphics, word processing etc in my old machine, but sadly I got rid of them many years agoIn all...
View Articleother events + general event chat • Re: 2024 Econet LAN party: offsite Econets
I missed the event, but are there still people who have connected their beebs to the big bad internet ?Statistics: Posted by Iggypop — Sun Aug 11, 2024 2:31 pm
View Articleother vintage hardware, software and languages • Re: wordwise eprom
Hi Mike,On the model B the ROM sockets are on the right front, beneath the keyboard. There are 4 available sockets working in from the right. The rightmost socket has the highest priority, that is a...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Programming With Inter-Word
I did a rudimentary BASIC routine which will list the ROM-link packages and identify the "next" available one based on the information held in page 5.I don't have Inter-Base so it doesn't cater for...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Interesting speech ROM socket issue
using a sharp blade you could carefully cut just the two pins from a spare socket and solder it into the pcbThat's a good idea and it would look quite neat when it's done - and if I cut the surplus...
View Articlenew projects and releases: text and graphic adventures • Exploring (fiddling...
Prompted by @SteveF's post here, here's what I've been up to:Wrote some code in C# to parse a BBC Quill database file. Yes, there's already a tool for this, (unqbbc), but I wanted to understand the...
View Articleprogramming • Re: Editing a program loaded with *RUN?
This is not a BASIC program. It was written in assembler.Ooooh thank you, this may be a dead end for now.Statistics: Posted by vela025 — Mon Aug 12, 2024 4:20 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: 8271 Disc interface problem
the read data goes via IC87 and the output of that goes to some more circuitry to create "DATA W" signal for the 8271 and the inverted output goes to the 8271.BBC-DFS.pngStatistics: Posted by vanekp —...
View Article8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...
It's not much more than (FourthStone) but...... I'll take it.....Ruptus-9.pngStatistics: Posted by KarateEd — Mon Aug 12, 2024 5:02 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: High-resolution "maze" one-liner
That's neat, the slight "jagginess" (not sure how to describe it) of the pattern is a nice twist.I think I slight stuffed up the definitions of the Truchet tiles. Essentially, if you create an 8x8 UDG...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Faulty Electron - Boots to red/yellow pattern
I have replacement ULA sockets, if you need one . . . Dave H.Statistics: Posted by daveejhitchins — Mon Aug 12, 2024 6:01 pm
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Beeb FPGA port to Spectrum Next
What sort of joystick are you using - I'm interested in getting one and might have time to add this to the core in the medium term...DStatistics: Posted by dominicbeesley — Tue Aug 13, 2024 4:13 pm
View Articlegeneral • Re: Advice from PCB Creators
So, the boards arrived back from PCBway and I've gone through the complex process of populating it Arm-ADP-1.JPGArm-ADP-2.JPGThe (c) is more of a joke as - let's be honest - there's not an awful lot...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Risc PC - IC27 differences on MK3
Thanks, another I'm struggling with is Pins 139/140 on IC13/IOMD it's not on the MK1 schematics, does anyone know if they are used?Statistics: Posted by Zaspath — Tue Aug 13, 2024 6:14 pm
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Electron View and Viewsheet Function Keystrips
https://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/KeyStrips/The "Elk" keystrips on that page are for the Beeb version of View running on the Electron, as discussed previously.The sanity check for anyone wanting a keystrip...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Faulty Electron - stepped red and yellow pattern...
Thanks Mark.My apologies. All new boy errors. i don't think i have ever actually actively used a forum for anything.As for fault finding, i don't think i did anything that wasn't already covered in...
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