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8-bit acorn software: other • Omniflop strange behaviour

Stardot about 4 months ago

I have been using Omniflop on the same PC for years without any problems, but recently I have encountered something quite odd with it.I'm creating a games compendium on a 3.5" disk for the Electron. I started by writing a menu on the Electron itself (form …
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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 …
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communications • OBBS (without needing Pace Modem)

Stardot about 5 months ago

Afternoon all,I spent some time yesterday faffing with the copy of OBBS on the forum removing the dependency on the PACE hardware and getting it to answer calls via TcpSer, shockingly (for my limited knowledge) I've had some success...but for some reason …

8-bit acorn hardware • PiBridge 2.1-dev pushed to github

Stardot about 5 months ago

Dear allI am slowly beginning work on the next release of the PiBridge software - v2.1-dev.https://github.com... default branch remains v2.0 (stable). v2.1 will have to be specifically selected to get this version.Code: git clone -b …
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8-bit acorn hardware • DOS image won’t boot on Electron

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hello allI have an Electron with AP5, PiCoProc and BeebSCSI. I have built a hard drive image which works fine in BeebEm but when I select the 80286 co-proc on my physical hardware I just get this:Pressing return does nothing but I suspect it may have alre …

communications • WFSINITing IDE disc for a Level 3 File Server

Stardot about 5 months ago

Hi all,I've been experimenting with setting up a Level 3 File Server on a Model B. I've previously gone through the process with Pi1MHz emulating a SCSI disc which worked fine, but now I am trying with an IDE adapter and SD card I'm not having much luck.I …

8-bit acorn software: other • 32k Intersheet image

Stardot about 5 months ago

I've been adding support to accept up to 128k Roms in the Mac version of Beebem, and would like to try the intersheet Rom. Unfortunately all the copies I've seen have been modified to turn off the carrier switching and allow the rom to be split in two. D …

8-bit acorn hardware • ADFS not appearing in *HELP

Stardot about 6 months ago

Hi All,I'm trying to get ADFS working on a Model B to use in conjunction with a 1MHz Pi adapter to emulate a SCSI Hard Disk. The machine is fitted with a 8271 Disk Controller which works fine with a Gotek, and an IFEL 128k FLASH ROM board which has been w …

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 …
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development tools • Advanced ROM Manager (ARM) 1.13 Limitations

Stardot about 6 months ago

I thought I'd have a quick look at the new Repton3 loader to figure out why it won't load from ADFS / NFS. Got myself really confused when using the *REX disassembly tool that is part of the Advanced ROM Manager (ARM) Utility ROM. Initially testing on rea …

introduce yourself • Hello world

Stardot about 7 months ago

Hi StardottersI'm new to the forum. I'm a BBC fan from my school days and only this year have I started to get back into it all. I went to the Liverpool comic con last week and spoke to your team about the work the owner of this place does in schools wh …

the complete BBC games archive • Lost Game

Stardot about 7 months ago

Hi, Wonder if anyone can help me? I am the author of Cosmic Intruders that was marketed by Paean Software back in 1984 and see that it is listed as a lost game in the BBC Micro Archive. However, I now have it working once again using BeebEM from an old …

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 …

communications • Setting up an Econet L3 File Server on a Model B with BeebEm

Stardot about 7 months ago

Hi all,I'm experimenting with setting up a level 3 file server (with scsi harddrive) on a Model B in BeebEm so I can get to grips with it before trying on proper hardware.I'm following bits of this guide https://www.beebmaster.co.u... and …

programming • Emulation of BBCModel B questions.

Stardot about 7 months ago

Hi guys, I have, for my amusement, started a BBC Model B emulator. I have the 6502 working, thanks for Javidx8, or One Lone Coder for his NES emulation course on youtube. I have a bus, and it handles the 64k of memory, the 16 rom slots are setup, and i …

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 …

programming • Testing memory refresh failure

Stardot about 8 months ago

As the question just came up in the Disassemblies thread, I wrote a quick program to demonstrate DRAM refresh failing, attached as a disc image and quoted as text below for quick reference. refresh.ssdIt assembles some machine code at &900 that starts …

introduce yourself • Hi from Northamptonshire

Stardot about 8 months ago

Hello!My name is Neil Beresford.Back in the day (2008/9) - I wrote Spare Invaders, using SWIFT and P65. The disk image and source were on Retro Software (Still is) and just out of interest, I found out that in 2013 8b-software's magazine featured it on th …

8-bit acorn hardware • Electron Econet module with Advanced Disk Toolkit

Stardot about 8 months ago

Has anyone else tried using Advanced Disk Toolkit on an electron with the Econet cartridge?I’ve been using ADT quite a bit with the Econet on my BBC Master, because of the *MENU command that makes navigating through the directory structure on my file se …
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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 …

programming • ZP location magically changes its value

Stardot about 8 months ago

I'm using the BeebEm to write an assembly program.I write a value to a zero-page location, read it back, and it's changed. In fact, the value ALWAYS reverts back to 3 regardless of what value I store in that location: LDA #6 STA &15 …

8-bit acorn hardware • Revs on BeebEm - which joystick / controller?

Stardot about 9 months ago

Hi allAnyone have any recommendations (besides use the keyboard) for a controller to play Revs on BeebEm? I absolutely love Revs - always have and probably always will.After many years of using my "trusty" old "The Boss" C64 joystick connected (via Prot …

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 …

programming • Curious problem with Beeb and not Elk

Stardot about 11 months ago

Hi all,As mentioned in another post, I am porting my game Tenebra (https://h4plo.itch.io/tene... to Beeb and Elk. It is almost done...however, I'm having problem loading my disk image on Beeb emulators, while on Elkulator the game works perfectly.The gam …

programming • Curious problem with Beeb and not Elk

Stardot about 11 months ago

Hi all,As mentioned in another post, I am porting my game Tenebra (https://h4plo.itch.io/tene... to Beeb and Elk. It is almost done...however, I'm having problem loading my disk image on Beeb emulators, while on Elkulator the game works perfectly.The gam …