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8-bit acorn emulators • Windows 64bit and Save States

Stardot about 4 months ago

I’m a complete noob so bear with me.I have recently changed from windows 7 to windows 11 via a new decommissioned laptop from work and loading discs seems to no longer work (crash or kick out) in Elkulator and also save states no longer work, save or re …

8-bit acorn emulators • Beebit emulator

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hello and happy new year. Does anyone have experience with the Beebit emulator for RiscOS.These days I installed RiscOS 5.28 on Pi3 and tried this emulator.Overall, it works really well, but it has issue with the game Stunt Car Racer, which I wanted to …
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8-bit acorn emulators • pseudo scanlines

Stardot about 6 months ago

Anyone have a hankering to enhance a BBC Micro emulator with pseudo "scanline" effect?In lieu of a sophisticated "CRT filter emulation" graphical layer, one conceptually easy way is:A. Use a line-doubling approach.B. Apply a percentage bias with the "rast …

8-bit acorn emulators • HFE files on Linux

Stardot about 6 months ago

I have a Gotek drive and the USB contains a dsd image in hfe format.I've tried a few solutions and failed. hfsexplorer, although being java, won't recognise the hfe file. HxC Floppy Emulator doesn't want to install/run either with Wine.I'm trying to get m …

8-bit acorn emulators • B-Em Integra-B emulation

Stardot about 6 months ago

I'm having a problem getting b-em to emulate a BBC B with Integra-B. Selection these options from the Model menu for either the 1770 or 8271 disc interface just gives the BBC Micro prompt with Language? below it.I've tried nuking the installation and ./c …

8-bit acorn emulators • Wanting to get Football Manager working

Stardot about 7 months ago

I'm going through a bit of a rough time, so my brain isn't functioning as it should. Long story.Anyway, I've wanted to return to Football Manager but I want to run it under emulation on my Ubuntu system (I had to go to the latest kernel for reasons...) bu …

8-bit acorn emulators • B2 won't build on Mac

Stardot about 7 months ago

I was trying to get B2 to build on an Apple Silicon M3 and I get a strange pile of errors, mainly to do with compiler rules:Code: mac/hid.c:163:23: error: mixing declarations and code is incompatible with standards before C99 [-Werror,-Wdeclaration-after- …

8-bit acorn emulators • CiscOS and a real 68K?

Stardot about 7 months ago

In discussion of a possible b-em issue it has come to light that CiscOS misidentifies the CPU it is running on when running in b-em. See https://github.com/stardot/... ... 1774507835 for more details but code in CiscOS to identify the CPU works …

8-bit acorn emulators • BBC Emulator for iPad?

Stardot about 7 months ago

From my investigations I think I already know the answer, but is there a BBC emulator that works on an iPad with no internet connection? I have a ten hour plane journey coming up and I’d like to get back into LOGO programming. Statistics: Posted by thec …

8-bit acorn emulators • BeebEm hanging during larger Econet transfers?

Stardot about 7 months ago

I've recently been attempting to get an Econet working within BeebEm. The trials and tribulations are here viewtopic.php?p=406711 but it's now mostly working.I have however noticed when transferring larger files, either copying them to the file server wit …

8-bit acorn emulators • MAME: Lightpens

Stardot about 8 months ago

What do we know about the various lightpens that were available for the Beeb?From a little research I believe the following were available:Colour Light Pen - RH ElectronicsStack Light Pen - Stack Computer ServicesDatapen Light Pen - Datapen Technology (al …

8-bit acorn emulators • CiscOS licence

Stardot about 8 months ago

I've been playing around with the M68K co-processor in b-em and see that CiscOS is included. I was considering making a few changes to CiscOS to fix a few bugs, but I looked at the licence file and it contains:THIS PACKAGE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRAN …

8-bit acorn emulators • Beebem, Serial Ports, Modems and Baud Rates

Stardot about 8 months ago

Hi all,I've been experimenting with Beebem and an external USB adapter connected to a Modem. It's working reasonably well but it has raised a question.Modern serial adapters (an FTDI in my case) don't support different baud rates for Rx / Tx, and don't su …

8-bit acorn emulators • B-Em speed

Stardot about 8 months ago

On SOUND and Music 5000, B-Em Speed Full-speed (sic) accelerates duration but not pitch. Also accelerated is e.g. key repeat rate. I guess the program design has chosen which clocks to accelerate (e.g. CPU, 100Hz VIA) and which to leave unchanged (SN76489 …

8-bit acorn emulators • 5-hour, 261-file UEF

Stardot about 8 months ago

Obnoxious unit test, fabricated by concatenating a lot of TIBET files made from Beebug magazine cassettes, and then feeding the output to tibetuef.php.Loading it in PlayUEF (using ?LOCAL=true) is quite amusing. 5hour100.uefStatistics: Posted by Diminished …
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8-bit acorn emulators • Emulating an NTSC BBC B

Stardot about 8 months ago

I've recently restored my US BBC B back to it's full original configuration. It spent the last ~20 years pretending to be a weird mix of UK and US systems (PAL display, but, 120v PSU), mostly by means of having it's US OS ROM replaced with a bog standard …

8-bit acorn emulators • Does ADI work in Beeb-em?

Stardot about 9 months ago

I have loaded ADI into the rom section of Beeb-em (it shows up when I do *roms).I have loaded a disk into drive 0 of the emulator (snowball). I can see it when I do *. and it runs.I can't get ADI to load it into the buffer using 'scan a disc' or 'get sect …

8-bit acorn emulators • BeebEm on Raspberry Pi 400 through Wine and Twister OS

Stardot about 10 months ago

I recently started running Twister OS on my Raspberry Pi 400. It's built off the back of Raspberry Pi OS Lite and adds a ton of gaming and media features (including an implementation of Wine and an x86 processor emulator) which I have successfully used t …

8-bit acorn emulators • MAME Emulation - How-To Sideways RAM?

Stardot about 10 months ago

Hi - looking for some guidance re: MAME emulation. I'm running latest MAME on Steam Deck and building a BBC Micro game collection. Dr. Who Mines of Terror and Holed-Out are confounding me...Both are looking for Sideways RAM - I've tried various images fro …

8-bit acorn emulators • Emulating Concept/Overlay keyboards..

Stardot about 10 months ago

Is this feasible?The thought was to have the 'overlays' as a window, in which an image mapped bitmap ( representing the overlay) could be placed. The emulation would translate mouse clicks within the 'overlay window' , into the equivalent values for the …
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8-bit acorn emulators • Wish list for 8-bit (and 32-bit) emulation ?

Stardot about 10 months ago

Below is a "pseudo-amalgamation" of many common feaures of emulators. "Our" crop of Acorn 8-bit and 32-bit emulators cover some... but not all of these items.Is there any emulator capability that is on your personal wishlist? ( My wishes are CRT shaders …
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8-bit acorn emulators • BeebEm assembler

Stardot about 11 months ago

I am using BeebEm to debug my code and I can't work out what is going on.The debug shows this:asm output is 4CE2 A5 77 LDA &77 4CE4 18 CLC 4CE5 69 0A ADC #&0A 4CE7 A8 TAY 4CE8 A5 70 LDA …

8-bit acorn emulators • Searching for "Learning BBC BASIC, an online course"

Stardot about 11 months ago

Hi,Does anybody know of an website where one could learn BBC BASIC, with tutorials and where you can type and run code?Ta,J1M.Statistics: Posted by RoboJ1M — Wed Jun 14, 2023 11:31 pm — Replies 2 — Views 159 …

8-bit acorn emulators • compiling beebem

Stardot about 11 months ago

ive had no issues compiling beebem on windows 7 but can someone give me any advice on compiling the windows beebem on linux mint 21.1i can also run the windows beebem in linux using wine but I would prefer to compile this version for linux will there b …