8-bit acorn hardware • Re: Teletext Adapter Fault
A brief update to this.I've sought advice from a friend who is an ex BBC/Thames broadcast engineer, and have been looking to see if there is anything amiss with the teletext generation side, or the...
View Article32-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Sim City 2000
the only problem that occurred was closing down, it came up with 'Now leaving SimCity 2000' and the cursor slowed to a crawl and the screen wouldn't close. Tried to Control-Shift-F12 and got a...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: best hardware for Acorn demos
I'll grab those two demos and take a look.DSymphonyPlayer might be the issue with the second, it has a stack corruption bug. I think I fixed and 32bitted it, I'm not near my machine to check but it...
View Article8-bit acorn hardware • Re: BBC Master white screen
Check that link7 hasnt been altered from default, it should be 5v to pin 27 of vidprocStatistics: Posted by marcusjambler — Tue Oct 29, 2024 11:03 pm
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acorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • Re: ABUG Scotland Day Event...
I’ll probably bring my Pi400 so that folks can play Starfighter TNG, which is the 3DO version of SF3000 back-ported to RISC OS. I will also likely bring something else as yet unknown that will most...
View Articleacorn atom and acorn system series • Re: Combined VGA / Tube interface board...
I have this wired to desktop PC speakers via a prototype output stage as suggested by Ken (just the passive components). It sounds considerably better!I've updated the VGA connector PCB to include an...
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miscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Ghouls: Revenge
Bitshifters are pleased to announce Ghouls: Revenge! The ghost is back!We've always loved Ghouls, despite the slightly fierce difficulty level, and its 40th birthday this year felt like the perfect...
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miscellaneous new bbc and electron games • Re: Ghouls: Revenge
Looks good! Well done guys .And the fact that you've got ADFS images suggests this might even run over Econet. Although I notice from the readme that ADFS isn't supported on the B / B+. I guess that's...
View Article32-bit acorn hardware • Re: Slather everything in vinegar! (Don't...)
No one should mess about with sulfuric acid.When I was a teenager and hanging out on my mate’s farm an incident with a tractor battery led to one of the farm hands’ crotch getting generously doused in...
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8-bit acorn software: other • Re: A superfast 3D maze shooter for the PDP-11
This is what I thought, and coded my PDP11 emulator to do this, and I was initially worried that I'd be hitting signed/unsigned ambiguities. But the divide10 code *always* works with unambiguously...
View Articlescanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • Scan & OCR of Dabhand...
Although there's a scan of "Master Operating System : A Dabhand Guide" at bbcdocs mirror, having bought a copy in nice condition I thought I'd have a go at making a scan too.So for a limited time only...
View Article8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: Simultaneous 2 player games
Grid is a recent 2 player simultaneous game supporting two joysticks.You should mention it in one of the ABUG threads. Would be good to see it played at one of those events.Statistics: Posted by...
View Article8-bit acorn software: other • Re: Mouse Software
The Repton 3 editor had mouse support.Statistics: Posted by Cybershark — Thu Oct 31, 2024 11:42 pm
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8-bit acorn software: classic games • Re: CABALIST - a challenge....
thanksby the way :strange that you must have dfs 0.9 , not seen that systeem requirementfuther looks it a error in the &98 , at least it is strange too use vdu 31 with two numbers after thatbut i...
View Articlearchive requests • Re: SOURCES: Missing BBC Games Help Required!
Took me a while, and lots of help from Fuzzle, but I think I've got it! Hopefully this makes sense to someone, I'm not into footie...
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new projects in development: games • Re: Lady Bug
What I did for pacman was add code to record the movement keys pressed and then changed the code to play it back. I got the timing a bit off but it worked well enough in about 100 byes but don't quote...
View ArticleIntroduce Yourself • Re: Greetings from Philadelphia (USA)
Welcome! There are a few of us in North America with BeebsStatistics: Posted by scruss — Fri Nov 01, 2024 1:18 am
View Articleoff-topic • Re: Soldering help.
Iron is set to 350C. Isn't that a little hot for leaded? I solder lead-free SAC305 at 350.Iron temperatures are often a great work of fiction. The Hakko temperature gauge (or its much cheaper...
View Article32-bit acorn software: other • Re: best hardware for Acorn demos
I’ll have to download them again...I didn’t keep them.Your scripts look okay, although all those WimpSlot look odd, it just needs the one at the top. Just a thought, try running AnyMode to see if you...
View ArticleIntroduce Yourself • Re: Hello from Australia!
Welcome, how common were arcs down underI've never come across one before. Most of our schools had Apple IIe and early Mac computers in the late 80s and early 90's. I'm not sure how my Acorns ended up...
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