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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: C development for FujiNet and cc65 bbc target

@fenrock thanks a lot for your work ! I am excited about the new development.If you have something already working would you mind doing a pull request to the cc65 repository ?I am currently using...

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general • Jeremy Ruston (not a YouTube) Video

"The Home Computer That Roared: How the BBC Micro Shaped Our World"Although predominantly about Open Source and his TiddlyWiki personal wiki project, there's a substiantial BBC Micro thread running...

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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Demystifying Nightworld

Diminished is going to have a go at getting a dump from it as we noticed the uef on stairway doesn't actually work.Merchandise received, with thanks.This is the cheaper type of cassette tape that...

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new projects in development: games • Re: Japanese Military Chess for the BBC...

Version strings should be x.yz not x.y.z. Copyright strings should be (C) not (c).Impressed with the well-drawn Kanji.Any progress on Econet linking?Edit:!BOOT doesn't need both *BASIC and *JMC. If...

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communications • DEMON Modem and BT modem

On Ebay at the moment - these are pretty rare (untested though).https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235691201791 ... R4ztz-qqZAhttps://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125707690500 ... R4ztz-qqZAThe BT modem looks identical...

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general • Re: Today I received.....

Yeah, I was aware that it’s the Mega STe. My sig over on Atari-forum lists some of the Atari’s I have.MarkStatistics: Posted by 1024MAK — Thu Aug 15, 2024 5:01 pm

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Phi1 vs Phi2

Thanks Mark. That's useful context.As noted in my earlier edit, there is very limited space left in the CPLD, so even very small changes can be a bit of a challenge. However, what does work is using...

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8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • Re: High Score Challenge - S23 -...

Finally hit 40K, not sure if I can get much further , depends how many extra lives the game wants to give me !Statistics: Posted by MatthewThompson — Thu Aug 15, 2024 5:51 pm

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introduce yourself • Re: Hello from Bristol

Also hello from Bristol as well My current collection (and Ive forgotten some) - Elk's, Plus 1's, Plus3's and addonsBeebs , Issue 3,4,7, B+ 64k , B+ 128kMaster 128k with Acorn Dual Drive PlinthMaster...

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acorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: (Tonight!) ABUG dev...

I don't think I'll be able to make it tonight, enjoy the evening. Statistics: Posted by tricky — Thu Aug 15, 2024 6:32 pm

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: New British speech vocab!

Did the CM62006 ever get dumped?I have one that I bought from that ebay seller (they originally listed them as CM62024 and were really sh*tty about giving a refund). I'll send the one I have to anyone...

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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Football Director

Is it possible to drop the level back to Easy in the menu options?Statistics: Posted by BBC 128K Fan — Fri Aug 16, 2024 4:09 pm

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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Demystifying Nightworld

Indeed, discovering that faulty uef is what started my interest in this exercise but that uef must have been dumped from a different tape to the one I bought to have that alligata splash.Statistics:...

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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: A3000 keyboard issue

Thanks for the reply.Yes that was my first thought, I separated the membrane and thoroughly cleaned both sides with isoprop, there was quite a lot of chalky residue. I can't see anything that...

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general • Re: Beeb Spotting

Is it an Archimedes under Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock's right elbow?From "The Sky At Night" ~ Nicky, NASA and the Next Frontierarchimedes at night.pngStatistics: Posted by james — Fri Aug 16, 2024 6:33 pm

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off-topic • Re: "The Five Doctors" 1984 4-part Repeat

Mmm, talking of illusions, there is no credit for Capt Yates or Liz Shaw at the end of episode 3, in which they appear!Statistics: Posted by BeebMaster — Fri Aug 16, 2024 6:48 pm

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8-bit acorn emulators • Re: MAME: How to ... ?

I'm being very puzzled. I downloaded v100.ssd from https://mdfs.net/System/C/6502/ and opened c.welcome with Disc Image Manager, it shows me the source file as expected:c.welcome_dim.pngIf I run mame...

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Econet in all its guises • Re: quick query on ANFS?

What exactly are you finding inconsistent? I do use ANFS quite a lot.Fortuitous that you answered Mark.When using NFS it almost always has trouble connectingto your fileserver is Switzerland. Most...

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32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Tetris variant; ran in window,...

Is Blocks (from the default HardDisc4 installation on RISC OS 3.7 and later) the game you're looking for?Blocks.pngStatistics: Posted by ccawley2011 — Sat Aug 17, 2024 3:47 pm

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programming • Re: CPLD Coding - Boolean vs Bitwise Operations

Can you post your latest verilog again?(I assume this is not anywhere in github...)It turns out that I did actually have an early version of the code posted on github. I've updated it to include the...

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