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

Another increase. I take back what I say about going on forever as the time goes down by 10 after every 8 levels. I think I got to level 37 on this run.Statistics: Posted by Venger — Tue Sep 03, 2024...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: 6264 RAM Not Showing Up

No, they're sideways RAM - the beeb will treat them as another ROM, just one you can write to. You won't see any difference with the startup banner.Have a look at the...

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programming • Re: 11-character filenames?

I've prepared a sample ADFS disk image and ZIP file with a EXT.FILENAME disk structure with some CP/M...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: LV-ROM Player Picture Interference

You want to use the audio/video path (on page 24 of the PDF I have) to try and track where the problem is...Only just saw this, thank you! The info panel reports "mono" on areas with sound, so I think...

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8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Composite video

Hi,Thank you UKwebb, excuse me I wasn't very clear. I use the RGBtoHDMI for QL/BBC/Electron and its working perfectly.I haven't verified if the Atom is actually alive yet so that's why I prefer to...

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communications • Re: the Night Owl BBS **UP**

Night Owl BBS is now up for the evening, new callers welcome.Hopefully see you on at some point Colin.It's simple to get in, First and surname, location andthen choose a password (there are no special...

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32-bit acorn hardware • SMD Type A5000 / RISC-PC

Does anyone know the SMD type for the RISC-PC and A5000 is that SOIC. I want to order at farnell but last time I made a mistakeStatistics: Posted by TimoHartong — Wed Sep 04, 2024 7:37 pm

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new risc os games and conversions • Re: Empire Builders - simple board land...

I think the game that was altered because of the Piper Alpha disaster became Pipeline (Superior) by Ian Holmes, who I was at secondary school with at the time. I vaguely remember him showing me the...

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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: SMD Type A5000 / RISC-PC

I think they're SOICs? - just measure and check against the datasheet? I'd do that to double check even if someone confirmed on here d.Statistics: Posted by danielj — Wed Sep 04, 2024 8:29 pm

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communications • Re: the Night Owl BBS

Hello again! So, I did connect... but I'm clearly doing something wrong because I only get garbled text and not the lovely mode 7 graphics I've seen on screenshots of Night Owl... Problem I have is...

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

From my limited understanding, the semantics of what the application is doing when it "sends an instruction to the Fujinet" are very like the semantics of dealing with files. So for me, Fujinet...

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development tools • Re: BeebAsm

This isn't a proper bug report because I didn't have time to look into it as I just needed to get beebasm working on my laptop in a hurry, but I struggled to compile on Debian yesterday (stardot...

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

We're on!Statistics: Posted by BigEd — Thu Sep 05, 2024 7:05 pm

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communications • Re: the Night Owl BBS **Host UP**

Pleasure Colin , glad you enjoyed the BBS. and thanks for calling in .I've granted you Message board & Telesoftware privileges for next timeyou call in. Leave a message if you could , it's good to...

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32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Acorn A4 Laptop Repair

A few thoughts:1. Probably needs the brightness/contrast adjusting... see #2 (but note that vintage LCD panels were never as crisp as the modern TFT types - and are a lot more dependent on viewing...

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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: A new MENU system for MMC/Gotek

Hi, So the full mmfs2 set still won't bring up a menu for me, just get a garbled screen....17255691106005204976151282984715.jpgStatistics: Posted by itsmeedoofer — Thu Sep 05, 2024 9:46 pm

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development tools • Re: Beta update for BeebAsm VSCode extension

Thanks for the update. The memory viewer works well, is it possible to jump to a memory address, as scrolling through the whole thing takes a while.Also, my code is not sophisticated enough to check,...

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communications • Re: the Night Owl BBS *NOW*

Thanks Colin, hope you ll be a regular visitorNight Owl is up for the evening folks.viewtopic.php?p=421919#p421919Statistics: Posted by brianmartin_2001 — Fri Sep 06, 2024 6:19 pm

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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: BCPL Standalone Generator on ADFS?

Wow! Fascinating look into the workings of FIXCIN and confirms your thoughts on how it’s working.Which, as JGH says, makes you wonder why FIXCIN didn't just SAVE everything in one go with the correct...

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development tools • Re: Conversion between SSD and UEF

If the games are well known, they are probably already available at the Stairway to Hell or Every Game Going.I thought I'd mention that, just in case you're finding SSDs of games somewhere and were...

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