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8-bit acorn hardware • Beeb that likes a Ctrl Break or 100 before it boots

Stardot about 20 hours ago

Hello,I have a Beeb that I periodically return to the bench and try to fix. The strange part is with Tricky's ROM in situ, when you power the machine on you get the beep of doom, mostly with no keyboard LED's lit, but if you hammer away at CTRL + BREAK fa …

8-bit acorn software: other • Mode 128 screen dump

Stardot about 21 hours ago

Hi, can anyone advise of a Mode 128 to printer screen dump application please ?ThanksStatistics: Posted by John Pen — Fri Dec 08, 2023 5:13 pm — Replies 3 — Views 139 …

32-bit acorn software: classic games • Uffenkamp Computer Systems

Stardot about 22 hours ago

Much to my surprise, this company (based in Germany) still has old stock of a number of Archimedes titles. Has anyone here, at any point, ever dealt with them? I have been in contact with Kai Uffenkamp (presumably the business owner) and he says that he o …

programming • BBC MOS help: Best serial buffer approach for my BASIC 6502 port?

Stardot about 1 day ago

Hi everyone ! I'm currently on a long-term assembly project to port BBC BASIC 4r32 to a Ben Eater 6502 breadboard computer. See here for details: https://github.com/chelsea6... I've found out that pasting doesn't work well, because charact …

32-bit acorn hardware • A540 / R260 PSU Fans / Capacitors

Stardot about 2 days ago

These fans fit and are quiet (splice wires)Noctua NF-R8 redux-1200, Ultra Quiet Silent Fan, 3-Pin, 1200 RPM (80mm, Grey)The two RIFAs that could go are:PME271M622KR30PME271M61... Posted by steve-h — Thu Dec 07, 2023 8:57 pm — Replies 2 …

acorn atom and acorn system series • AtoMMC joystick.....

Stardot about 2 days ago

Hi all,Does anyone know the pinout of the Joystick port on the AtoMMC board?Cheers.Phill.Statistics: Posted by Prime — Thu Dec 07, 2023 3:09 pm — Replies 7 — Views 195 …
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32-bit acorn hardware • My A5000 - work done so far

Stardot about 2 days ago

After my A3000 has been completely repaired (I am just 'enhancing' it now...), here are all the picture I took during the repair of my A5000.The full story started on the following forum:https://www.exxosforu... ... =18&t=6682And here w …

scanning of books, magazines, ads and letters • Looking for a scan of "Aldebaran" game review

Stardot about 2 days ago

Hello,I'm looking for a scan of the review of "Aldebaran", published in "Acorn Computing - March 1993 (Vol. 11, No. 1)".Cover: http://8bs.com/othrdnld/tmu... AFAIK the content of this issue is not available on 8bs.com nor in other online a …

acorn & bbc micro user group (abug) events • On now! ABUG dev night on zoom, Thursday at 7pm (GMT)

Stardot about 2 days ago

On Thursday (tonight!) there will be an ABUG Dev night, at 7, on zoom. (Dev Nights run on Thursdays, every three weeks. If you don't have the zoom coordinates, send a PM or ask in this thread. We don't publish them!)- keep it interesting, or otherwise kee …

8-bit acorn hardware • Sound digitizing interface?

Stardot about 2 days ago

BITD me and my mates… used to capture a lot of digitized sound on our Beebs. Has the circuit for this ever come up on the forums? I know it’s easier to convert on a PC/MAC to format such as that used by the speech chips. Just curious though, as it wou …

8-bit acorn hardware • Model B: Disc Fault 18 with working Gotek.

Stardot about 3 days ago

Hi All,I've got an Issue 7 Model B that won't read discs (A Gotek to be precise). When I try to do any operation on disc (*.) the activity light lights up but after some time I just get the error "Disk Fault 18 at 00/00". The Gotek works fine on other mac …

introduce yourself • Hi all, Nice to be approved by admin to join.

Stardot about 3 days ago

Great to see a big following for Acorn products. I am only here out of interest from my childhood and what my parents built with ACP/PRES. I’m not here for petty squabbles or arguments. Let’s enjoy retro.Statistics: Posted by jayhud/PRESS/ACP — Wed …

8-bit acorn hardware • Electron +3 spontaneously died

Stardot about 3 days ago

Been using the Elk all day, then suddenly I notice the screen's "frozen" - no flashing cursor.Ctrl-Break does nothing.Powercycle.Just get white bars across the whole screen.Pull it all apart, +1, +3, Elkonet, etc.After some fiddling, it turns out the Elk …

8-bit acorn hardware • 5.25" drive

Stardot about 3 days ago

It's been quite a while since I used this board - pleased to see that my account is still available!After having my old BBC B restored and spending a good bit of time playing through my old games on tape, I've been trying to get my old 5.25" disk games go …

other vintage hardware, software and languages • Commodore 16 RAM upgrade DRAM compatibility question

Stardot about 3 days ago

Hello,It is possible to upgrade a Commodore 16 to 64k by inserting 2 x TMS4464 and adding a couple of address line connections and bending some legs on the SN74ls257 etc. https://hackaday.com/2019/0... ... modore-64/My question is would it also w …

8-bit acorn software: other • Available ROM list

Stardot about 3 days ago

Is there a site with a list of ROMs and their descriptions that people normally use?I've done a search and you can find the ROM repositiories, but often it's just the rom file with no description of what it does.Statistics: Posted by vexorg — Wed Dec 06 …

new bbc and electron games from 'retro software' • RetroGinger: New Nethack/Rogue adventure game

Stardot about 3 days ago

Working on a new Nethack/Rogue adventure game for the BBC.Going to feature 100 levels and the intention is to release this on physical media in a nice box and bundled booklet.Just like it was back in the day!Play testers welcome for a pre-release version …

programming • masked sprites

Stardot about 4 days ago

I'm continuing my slow lumbering progress through ARM assembler and I've got to the point of being able to load a sprite file made in !Paint, grab individual 32x32 MODE9 sprites and plot them, providing they're nicely aligned. My next experiment has been …
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new projects and releases: text and graphic adventures • The Lords of Midnight : Landscaping

Stardot about 4 days ago

The Lords of Midnight was a popular and epic graphic adventure game by Mike Singleton for the ZX Spectrum (and other platforms - but not for the Beeb) originally released in 1984.Here's a few screenshots of what it looked like:-I never completed the game …
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32-bit acorn emulators • Arculator 2.1 - Help needed please

Stardot about 4 days ago

I’m trying to install Arculator v2.1, having previously got v0.99 working using the pinned installation instructions.As I couldn't find any instructions for later versions, I decided to follow the v0.99 instructions again and adapt where necessary. For …

8-bit acorn software: other • Version of TreeCopy for the Electron

Stardot about 4 days ago

Hello,I've got my Elk connected up to the Econet (PiBridge) and now want to upload some files to the file server. Is there a verion of Treecopy that works works for the Electron to copy across different filing systems (I'm looking to upload some games of …

8-bit acorn hardware • disk rot questions

Stardot about 4 days ago

hello everyone! this is a bit of a follow up to the post i made on the facebook group.i have a few questions to do with disk rot:how do you prevent disk rot?how do you spot disk rot?how often is disk rot a problem?is there any way to fix disks with disk r …

8-bit acorn hardware • Why "This is not a language" but not "This is not a filing system"?

Stardot about 5 days ago

I've wondered this on and off, and decided to wonder again today.If a Master has its language configured to a ROM that isn't a language ROM, it gives the error "This is not a language" and goes to a supervisor prompt.But if a Master has a filing system co …

programming • Incrementing address location?

Stardot about 5 days ago

Hello.I'm new to the forum, and in fact quite new to assembly language. I had a BBC Model B when I was a kid back in 82 and wrote a lot of BASIC programs on it. I have a MiSTer multisystem now that I built a couple of months back and I just very recently …
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programming • VCCC2023: Christmas Challenge

Stardot about 5 days ago

Oh come, all ye faithful.https://logiker.co... ... lenge-2023"A small programming contest that will run from Monday, 4.12.2023 until Monday, 25.12.2023."Last year saw the great Acorn choir in good voice, with many Acorn entries proving q …