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In Basic 4.32 (which I think is version 07) RND(x) starts at B302: https://github.com/hoglet67/BBCBasic4r32/blob/master/disassembly/Basic432.asm#L9889 Dave For completeness, after looking at the disassembly, it looks to me as though RNDX on Basic07 is at $aab0. So the full list is therefore: BASIC1...

The $aa52 address is spot on for BASIC04 thanks. Unfortunately $b302 under BASIC07 throws a "No such variable error".

Alan

Thanks to you both. I'll give them a whirl.

Alan

Ta for the reply.

I'm doing the porting initially under BeebEm but also want to have it work under my real hardware. *ROMS gives '04' and '07' for those platforms. If I had to choose only one then it'd be '07'.

I'm doing some porting from Model B to Master 128. One of the programs has a call to $af24 (BASIC2 ROM rndx). This causes a crash on BASIC 4. Given that the Advanced BASIC ROM User Guide only deals with BASIC1&2 is there such a thing that gives equivalent routine locations in BASIC 4? If not then, m...

Enough time has passed, I hope, for replying to my own posting not to be bad netiquette. In the end I managed to get the elderly Visual Basic 6 installed on a Windows 10 laptop. An interesting diversion. That enabled me to boost the relevant arbitrary limit and produce a new version of makegamedata....

makegamedata is the program used by (e.g.) DCBEEB to convert program description files into a binary file used by the main menu program. Unfortunately the program was written in an early flavour of Visual Basic. The source code sets arbitrary array limits and it crashes out on my large dataset with ...

That would indeed fit with experience. Thanks.
My scope showed the signal at IC43 pin 6 as being very close to 16MHz. There was nothing grossly abnormal about the trace. I didn't bother with my dedicated frequency counter.

Alan

Glad the info was useful. As an addendum to this I've just bought a spare Model B. It showed exactly the same sync problem with the Elephas converter. Having found from my first B that it wasn't particularly bothered by the shape of the sync pulses I headed straight for crystal X1 (16MHz) and replac...

One for the loaded collectors:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CABLETRONIC- ... 4204671594?

You could get 35 Jupiter Aces for that.

I've been working on my wordwrap amendment for displaying the list of objects in a location eg "You are carrying a book, a bell and a candle." and it works except for the final noun. I suspect it's the commas and the "and" at fault so I'd like to use A=GET each time the wordwrap routine is called t...

Thanks for that info - I assumed it might be a timing problem - I'll look into scoping it at some stage and experiment with a schottky diode between the sync pin and GND ... It did turn out to be a timing problem. Replacing IC41 and IC48 with 74ALS types helped clean up the undershoot. However, ful...

Bingo. Thanks very much. Works a treat.

Alan

Iirc, DFSs only has 18 bits and that is supported by beebasm, so save with address &3xxxx and it will show as F in a *I. PS, this is to stop it going over the tube! Thanks. However, if I put in any address over &FFFF I get "error: Out of range." That's using (e.g.) SAVE "test", &32100, &321ff, &321...

I'm currently developing some Tube code using beebasm 1.09. However, I can't seem to find a way to have the high order bits set for load and execution addresses. Is this a syntax problem on my part, if so I'd be grateful to learn how to achieve it, or did the changes to enable this (which I can see ...

My own experience of the metal-boxed SCART->HDMI converters that look exactly like the photos from the other thread has been a little odd. Those such ones I've tried that are not specifically advertised as being made by ELEPHAS do not convert RGB, only composite. The ones advertised as being made by...

Given that this thread has been inactive for a couple of months I thought I'd better point out that the problem is still there when using Edge.

Alan

Also be aware that if you fit the 1K0 resistor then playing back audio through the 1MHz bus will be affected (e.g. BeebSID will be silent except via its external audio output). The resistor is a kind of sideways boosting of the signal from one part of the audio stage to another and you may therefore...

MartinB wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 22, 2019 9:00 pm

In Edge under Windows 10 (and probably other OS), you can just Right-Click on the [Download] box and select 'Save Target as'

Though that works with Firefox, using Edge the filetype is then set to HTML despite it being an ssd file.

I'd have used them a lot more out-of-the-box for experimental data capture and analysis if they'd had a 16 bit ADC as standard. When I saw the subject line I thought it was going to be an I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue one letter changing round, half expecting to see the BBC Yodel B, BBC Easter and Acor...

Ah, good, ta. It sounds like I can put my feet up. Your comment does remind me, though, of an old SF programme where someone needed "an extremely fine pair of brain tweezers".

Alan

Attempting to answer all the points, I don't know whether it works yet as I'm still waiting for the thing that plugs into it to arrive. It's not just the gold plating that's missing, it's the underlying copper as well. I've heard horror stories when people have tinned such pads so I've always avoide...

Thanks for the reply. Such a simple question but it meant a 95% dismantle of the kit. I've attached the best I can do with the cameras I have. As you can see there is some nibbling-n at the side of one of the pads. You may also see a horizontal hairline break of the pad across most of the width. The...

I've a piece of retro kit where a couple of PCB edge card connector pads have been over-etched on one side, possibly because they're adjacent to a notch. The pads are gold plated. What paint/pen/etc product would people here recommend (and how many coats) to patch them up a bit?

Alan

It is more likely IMHO to be leeching-out of a plastic additive, possibly a softener, and subsequent recrystallisation on the polymer surface. The thinking behind that is that a fungus would require a food source (including trace compounds) and moisture to survive. The computers mentioned all seem t...

Advertised for cleaning Epson printer heads:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Eco-Solvent- ... 2496527164

Nowhere near a sideways scroller, but some might say that Lemmings would be a very easy conversion for you given that many of the levels already say "tricky".

The WDC W65C22S6TPG-14 is a CMOS chip for new designs, as the interrupt pin (IRQB) output is a totem pole type which should not be directly connected to existing circuit designs if more than one device is connected to the CPU's interrupt input. The WDC W65C22N6TPG-14 is also a CMOS chip, but design...

Today I received the best cheap Signal Gen my budget would stretch to ... Very useful pieces of kit. One slight problem to be aware of with a lot of these things is that you can get AC line voltages on the outside of the BNC connectors because of the floating switch mode power supplies used. That c...

Odd indeed.
It looks like a ROM socket for a Solidisk SWR card without its cable. In which case it seems rather out of place with a Master.

Alan