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32-bit acorn software: other • Risc OS SZ81 emulator

Stardot about 4 months ago

Does anyone have experience with this port of SZ81 emulator for RiscOS ?https://riscosports.co.uk/... works very well, but I have a problem using tape images in .p format.When I try to load a ZX81 .p image file and type Load"", it always giving me …

off-topic • Strange printing error

Stardot about 4 months ago

I have recently bought a second hand copy of this book: https://archive.org/details... ... c/mode/2upRight at the start it discusses colour and dividing a colour image into primary colours and colour separations. In the copy I have some of the pr …

acorn atom and acorn system series • Top 10 Atom Games

Stardot about 4 months ago

Hi Everyone,I'm adding an Atom section to the downloads area on BeeBS and having not played many Atom games (aside from Eliza, for an embarrassingly long time) I was wondering what your Top 10 Atom games are? Or any notable program/utilities?Looking forwa …
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8-bit acorn hardware • Master ?

Stardot about 4 months ago

I have started the project to get the Master operational.Bit of an odd start as none of the ROMS are present. But, in a box I have them.What I thought was the MOS does not work. Is the photo the MOS? I have found one reference to this chip on the web, h …
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communications • BeeBS the BBS hosted on a Beeb is Live!

Stardot about 4 months ago

Hi All,BeeBS the BBS running on my BBC Micro is up and ready for callers. It has undergone some light testing so please let me know if you encouter bugs. I'm adding new content all the time so leave a message on the board and pop back anytime. I'll post …

Acorn fan from the UK

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hi all My main interest is with the early Acorn System 6502 based computers see my website: https://theoddys.com/acorn/... but I've also made a foray into the SC/MP 8060 world. I recently acquired a couple of AIM-65's hence my reason for joining a …

Hi from Romania!

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hi all! I'm originally from the UK, but have lived in nothern Romania for over 8 years now. I'm very passionate about my retro computers. I have my very first Amstrad CPC 464 (and the insurance replacement after I broke it as a kid!), a ZX Spectrum 48K, t …

8-bit acorn software: games - high scores • High Score Challenge - Season 22

Stardot about 4 months ago

Stardot High Score Challenge - Season Twenty Two!HS overall table goes hereThanks to Galax for the Mode 7 fonts.=====================... 22 Round Links======================... 1 …
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new projects in development: games • Japanese Military Chess for the BBC Micro

Stardot about 5 months ago

I've started writing a version of Japanese Military Chess for the BBC Micro, with a particular view to making it support multiplayer games over Econet. It's still in its early stages but, as part of my new year's resolution to start blogging (again), I've …

8-bit acorn hardware • Interesting problems with commands from a rom image in SWRAM on an Electron

Stardot about 5 months ago

I have written my Desktop software in assembler to make a 'proper' rom image.The Keyboard version is attached in a SSD. Control by cursor keys+SHIFT on BBC or Electron if you can get that far!Problems1. Early during development, as soon as I tested on an …

32-bit acorn hardware • Single stepping the !Boot sequence

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hi,is there a way to single step the boot sequence to find an error, I tried the boot logging but that just told me the same as the error on the screen which is a ‘No such variable’ it comes up after the banner but that is all I can determine so far. …

8-bit acorn hardware • Hardware recommendations for running PanOS

Stardot about 5 months ago

I'd like to run PanOS on my Master 128 with internal PiTubeDirect coprocessor.I lived and worked in Cambridge in the 1980s where I worked as a software engineer for a company on the periphery of the Acorn ecosystem (Control Universal, who made Acorn compa …

acorn atom and acorn system series • Latest AtoMMC sources.

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hi all,After some enquireies at the last ABUG about obtaining AtoMMC boards, I reached ot to SirMorris and got his permission to produce a bunch for people**. So having re-spun the board I want to put the latest firmware version on it.Currently I'm using …

32-bit acorn hardware • ADFFS on a 5th Column ROM?

Stardot about 5 months ago

As per title. Would this be possible? Reason would be simply to improve loading times. If possible, how difficult would it be to burn such a ROM? ADFFS gets updated regularly, so new ROMs would need to be burned as and when required. I was thinking you co …
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8-bit acorn hardware • RAM / ROM Board

Stardot about 5 months ago

Over Christmas I was the (very) lucky recipient of a BBC Model B fulfilling a dream of over 35 years to upgrade from my Electron!The Beeb is in fantastic condition and has an IFEL RAM / ROM board already fitted. I can find a couple of listings for this bo …

general • Inflammatory 1984 Acorn advert lambasting Sinclair's reliability

Stardot about 5 months ago

Does anyone know which newspaper this advert was published in? Doesn't seem to be the Guardian but I thought I'd ask here before I start hunting through all the newspapers. Thank you!Statistics: Posted by chocky — Fri Jan 05, 2024 12:40 am — Replies 2 …

8-bit acorn hardware • Speculation on alternatives to audio cassette tapes and disks for mass storage in the 1980s

Stardot about 5 months ago

Moderators note: This topic split out from a discussion that was originally here The Beeb's cassette storage input circuit. Mark (1024MAK)Where the effort was concentrated was reliability and functionality rather than speed, e.g. the ability to rewind and …

introduce yourself • Hello from Italy

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hi everyone!I'm Gabriele, from Bologna, Italy. Growing up here, had no chance to get my hands on an Acorn machine while they were current - but being a sucker for vintage computers, in the last 20 years or so had my chance to catch up, somewhat Currently …

8-bit acorn hardware • BBC crashing randomly but works fine 30 minutes after boot up.

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hi all, I joined in October to get some help about a Beeb I recently purchased that was completely dead, but thanks to your help I was able to resurrect it and it works a treat now, albeit with one minor issue.My Beeb will tend to crash randomly up to may …

32-bit acorn hardware • Is it worth trying to get RISC OS 4.39 on ROM rather than just 4.02?

Stardot about 5 months ago

My SA RPC has got RISC OS 4.02 on ROM and softloads 4.39, I've always felt a bit conflicted about that as to me BITD RISC OS was something I only ever experienced as a near-incorruptible ROM and had been pondering trying to get 4.39 on ROM too.I was wonde …

32-bit acorn software: classic games • Grievous Bodily 'ARM (APDL Sporting Games Collection) on RISC OS 3.11

Stardot about 5 months ago

Anyone had any luck getting this to run on RISC OS 3.11? According to the JASPP entry for this game, the original releases have problems with disc swapping, so I assumed that the version found on the APDL Sporting Games Collection would be the best way to …

8-bit acorn hardware • 5.25 drives with Ready signal

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hi,I'm looking for a list of 5.25" 40 track drives that provide a Ready signal (that goes low when a disk is inserted and spinning). I have a YE Data YD 274 that does but I suspect it may be faulty so am looking for a substitute to try. One I had to hand …

32-bit acorn software: other • Risc OS - Questions

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hi Folks,I recently dropped a SD card based HDD solution into my A3010. Works great, but I got to thinking about loading a few applications on boot up to make life easier and ran across the requirement edit a !BOOT file.Which I cant find. Nor can I see a …

programming • Unsigned 24-bit integer division in 6502 assembler

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hi,Would anyone have example 6502 assembler code for dividing a 24-bit unsigned number by an 8-bit unsigned number (which can be a power of two if that makes it easier - for my purposes a value of 32 would work and I’m not too worried about remainders)? …

software & utilities for the pc, mac or unix • Sample sound to the BBC using Windows

Stardot about 5 months ago

In the same way we have Image2BBC, is there a sound2BBC or similar?I'd like to convert a PC wav to a file a BBC can play.Thanks!Statistics: Posted by reanimate — Wed Jan 03, 2024 7:24 pm — Replies 3 — Views 142 …