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metaluna wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 22, 2018 7:28 pm

Can I purchase this cassette recorder from you please. Chris.

All yours.

Beyond awesome! I will have to get my Master fixed.

Another ANF03! This one is in pretty good condition. There are a few scuffs on it as can be seen. I have run the head cleaner through it a few times and cleaned the pinch roller. I have tested loading a few games. It came with a power lead and DIN to DIN lead both of which are included. You will nee...

Beeb-bot! https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Clwyd-Technics-Trekker-Robot-Vehicle-BBC-Micro-Computer/163109204112?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3Dec8569b83d8c4e4aa6542957b2a5016e%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D163109204112%26itm%3D1631092041...

A disc cleaner frame, some lint free cloths and by coincidence some discs of unknown pedigree that I can practice on before trying any of the more expensive ones. The video link from the purchase suggested using rubbing alocohol (IPA?) but advice on here was distilled water - which is the best way f...

Well sadly it is doa. When I switch it on nothing happens and neither of the leds come on, nor does the disc try to spin. I have cycled the switch a good few times but to no avail. Having taken the lid off, the rf shield (of which there is a lot) runs under the PSU at the back so presumbly the PSU h...

jonb wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 20, 2018 3:28 pm

Oh yeah, those STFM mouse / joystick connectors under the keyboard. What a poor design.

From what I can see they used to be where the disc drive ended up being put when they started fitting them internally. Shame they didn’t put a but more effort into finding a better home for them.

An Atari 520STFM! Also the mouse, leads and some games. Is there anything I need to check before switching this on? No sources of magic smoke etc.? Magic smoke, not normally, no. Typical faults are:- Faulty PSU on/off switch, non-functional or crackles.... Mark Thanks Mark. Doesn’t sound like anyth...

Well watching an A3010 on ebay There are 2 bidders with 0 feedback pushing the price up Doesn't feel legit I don't mind loosing to genuine bidders , this just feels wrong Thats worked to my advantage a few times. So long as you only bid what you are willing to pay and don’t get carried away with it...

An Atari 520STFM! Also the mouse, leads and some games.

Is there anything I need to check before switching this on? No sources of magic smoke etc.?

paradroid90 wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 19, 2018 6:07 am

Hi Lando

Interested in the Cassette Recorder and Joystick

All yours! I will PM some details.

Monsters disc by Acornsoft. I have added this to the Battle of Britain disc earlier on.

ANF03 cassette player. I have run a head cleaner through this and spend some time cleaning the pinch roller. I have never tested saving with this but it loads fine. It is missing a little paint on the front, under the plastic by the looks of it. £10 plus p&p. 4B8B6C7A-B6BC-4C0E-BF6D-0B0124084390.jpe...

A generic joystick! At least they tried to do beeb colours. £5 plus p&p. It wasn’t working when it arrived but I cleaned up the contactors and reattached them and now all is well. Hopefully the selotape will last another 30 years! The handle has yellowed somewhat. This is switch based so not much us...

Really interesting read!

Was it a Dundee built 16k or 48k? The QC at Timex was non existent. The trouble is, how to tell where it was made? Mark Board revision usually helps. For example revision 4S is made my Samsung in South Korea. Earlier revisions are guaranteed to be Timex. Issue two. See if you can spot the missing r...

I had a Spectrum that was missing a resistor. It all worked fine until something was plugged into the edge connector then the keyboard went funny! QC indeed.

Bards Tale (and similar such as Wizardry).

I spent a lot of time playing them on my mate’s Apple II

Its just a nostaliga thing to be honest.

I have vague memories that they came in a nice happy yellow box as well.

I think you can maybe do *DCAT? This lists the disc contents one at a time but without all the typing. Not 100% sure as I have not used one for a while.

Sadly it appears that switching between the Editor and C while in co proc mode kills it. I guess something is trampling on workspaces? Certainly once you transfer back from Edit and try to compile your changes it all goes horribly wrong. I get the same issues with Word (also built into the Master). ...

Ok so coproc running is very simple, once in the co proc:

Start C (*C)
Assuming you are in the root of the drive type *CSP

Done. Faster everything, especially in the 274 mode of the Pi co proc.

I suspect at this stage ‘disc access’ may be the speed limiting factor.

I have managed to get it working on the CF card attached to my data-centre. I used TREECPY (thanks JGH) to copy the working DFS image to the root of the drive 0. Unfortunately you get a mess of folders: 7710F380-F77A-4F13-BE2C-DF7A1B40FFB9.jpeg You then have to set the *LIB to $ and it works. EADC16...

‘Rare’

Thanks. It ran fine on my 1.2 DFS and normal floppies as well.

I’m trying to avoid buying more hardware - how much do BeebSCSI’s go for? I have not got it working in ADFS yet - need to figure out the folder structure!

These are the versions I am using. Once the ROMs are in sideways RAM type *C to boot up C. Then providing the disc image is in the appropriate drive you should be able to type COMPILE WELCOME LINK WELCOME RUN WELCOME without any errors reported. This works fine on my Master running from floppy (wit...

Intersting. Just need one for 5.25” floppies!

Edit. There is one. Ordered it and will see what it is like when it arrives.

Excellent. I figured it would probably be archived somehwere but doubt anyone would spot it.

Some cassettes and a disc game. The four games in the first photo have all loaded. I could not get the language tapes to load or Knight Lore sadly. However Knight Lore’s case and instructions are in reasonable shape and may be of use to someone. Edit - I tried loading the language tapes using the DI...

I wasn’t sure if anyone has posted this one before but I saw an interesting article about floppy disc ‘servicing’! The program listed seems to read in the data, reformat the track and write it back again, filling in any dodgy bits with 0. This ‘refreshes’ the disc as if just written. I can scan the ...