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Thanks for the heads up re granting Horizon disk access. Obviously you have an odd feeling about my use of quotation marks in "heightened"; I'm not entirely sure why. Normally when I use quotation marks (in English) I use them to cast doubt on the word(s) they are wrapped round. In this case because...

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I suspect that Horizon cannot save because of Apple's "heightened" security.

If my balls looked like that I'd be on the train to Dignitas in Switzerland.

I see that Richard Bannister has updated Horizon to version 1.4.1 I have emailed him asking him about what the differences between 1.4 and 1.4.1 might be. Mod Edit: removed inflammatory language "Horizon cannot run without a copy of the original BBC Model B ROM. This is copyrighted software and thus...

does anyone know the latest on BBC emulators that might run in Catalina? Yes, Horizon does . . . https://www.bannister.org/software/horizon.htm "I'm delighted to announce that a major update for my emulator shell is now available, adding support for macOS Catalina and significantly improving suppor...

But possibly digressing now away from original topic about Beebem..........

Gosh, Yes, guilty as charged.

you have no choice if you want to talk to other stuff That is rather specious, and most of it is propaganda pushed out by Microsoft and Apple. I stay in Bulgaria (the home of Viruses, Trojans and all sorts of other internet "evils"), and have been running a load of G5 iMacs running 10.4 and 10.5, I...

Apple telling me to buy a new Well: what can I say except: 1. They don't make their products because they love you. 2. If the blatant commercial push of Microsoft and Apple get too much it is probably time to consider Linux. 3. In the light of #2 I should like to point out that this, hypocritically...

after being held up in UK customs

Obviously a huge security risk.

Those are going to be well expensive balls.

And I do not think a 22 mm mouseball will fit inside a mouse that was meant to take a 20 mm one.

Joking apart: I have searched the internet for the dimensions of the ball in my Belkin Nostromo n30
with no result at all.

Look:

https://curlie.org/en/Computers/Emulators/Acorn/

alternating hands

Really? You type with your hands?

How odd, I've always typed with my feet, as I thought everyone else did.
Mind you, I don't get out of my "computer cave" that often.

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about 20 mm.

* - not falling for that one!

That was an extremely sceptical/skeptical skillful sidestep.

LiveCode; a programming language I use all the time, is made in Scotland, but the people who make it have taken a conscious decision to use American spelling. . . so 'Color' and so on . . . I don't know whether this should be viewed as pandering, or a decision based on some theory that Americans get...

I am sure Alan Turing was not the only one to suffer in those dark times because of his sexual orientation. Of course he wasn't. But it is funny how Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears (who made no secret whatsoever about their love for each other) were let off the hook while Alan Turing wasn't. Obvio...

I really cannot understand what one does in one's bedroom has got to do with anyone except the people/things [sh*gging a BBC Model B, anyone?] taking part in whatever inwith the bedroom. Alan Turing should not have been pardoned: the act of pardoning presumes something criminal happened in the first...

Richard Bannister has confirmed that Horizon 1.4.0 is a 64-bit application.

https://www.bannister.org/software/horizon.htm

Earlier releases for 32-bit Macintosh are also available: http://www.mac-emu.net/~bannister/filemirror/

May I suggest Of course you may . . . but . . . . . . as I have a Model B and a Master Compact in my school, I use emulators on my Linux machines so that, once every child has "had a go" on a REAL BBC they can continue their work on the next best thing. As this phase lasts no more than 90 minutes, ...

I've just contacted Richard Bannister to see if he's going to work out a 64-bit version of Horizon.

I am currently running Mac OS Mojave and keep getting the Cataline Beta "shoved up my nose", but have no intention of upgrading as about 75% of the software I use on a daily basis is 32-bit only. Mind you, I have a PPC G5 iMac running Mac OS 10.4 and 9.2.2 because I've a slew of software I still use...

I have a Belkin Nostromo n30 mouse that appears to have a smaller mouseball than the average Mac mouseball.
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A quick-n-dirty Ecosia web search turned up this:

http://www.mouseballz.com/mouse_balls.html

(NO: I'm not working for "mouseballz", but I am plugging Ecosia as a search engine)

https://www.ecosia.org/

Mind you; if you're planning to order them for Britain, a single one will cost you about 7 quid.

I have a box with 6 Macintosh ABD mice lurking in a place my wife would love
to clear out: but I don't know what the measurement of the balls are . . .

It would be dead easy to remove a mouse ball and pop it in the post.

Nothing is going wrong with the current version of MacBeebEm thanks to the help of Jon Welch. The advantage, from my point of view at least, of Horizon, is the mapping of the keyboard layout so that it is congruent with a standard Macintosh keyboard. To be honest, as I use a BBC emulator to teach BB...

I can confirm that this:

https://drive.guddler.uk/d/f/443181297079165026

runs without hitch on MacOS 10.14.5 beta 5.

I don't know why, but I do have a feeling . . .

Anyway: just tried MacBeebEm 4.0a on a MacMini 2018
running MacOS 10.14.5 beta 5 with no joy whatsoever.

However, Horizon 1.4 works a charm.

https://www.bannister.org/software/horizon.htm

Horizon [ https://www.bannister.org/software/horizon.htm ]
is just doing fine on my December 2018 Mac Mini running OS 10.14.5 beta 2

You're asking for help and people are being helpful Well, Yes and No. Yes, people are trying to be helpful. No, because those people are set in a mindset that presupposes everyone uses Windows (I don't use it for all sorts of reasons: the simplest being that I don't like pirating software, I can us...