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VGM export for an emulator is jolly good, but it doesn't really help me get things from a 2DD floppy
disc where I havew saved my work from my BBC Master.

I am currently messing around with Music on my BBC Master Compact,
and, while I can save it on a floppy disk I cannot think of a way to
export it in some sort of meaningful format to use elsewhere, or, for that matter, just
capture the sound onto a cassette recorder.

a hole in the rear

and

two large holes in the top

I've got all of those.

I'm already a BBC Micro "case" without your help. Thanks anyway.

I'm 56. Started learning MINIFORTRAN via Hollerith cards and the GPO when I was 13 (1975). Started learning FORTRAN IV via Hollerith cards and the GPO when I was 14 (1976). Started learning BASIC on a Research machine 380Z when I was 15 (1977). Started learning PASCAL V when I was 22 (University of ...

missing out on things as fundamental as multi-line IF clauses or WHILE loops or CASE statements

By the time we get to SWITCH and CASE I've already transitioned the kids to LiveCode.

AND, to be really crude:

Nothing is quite as "in your face" and attention-grabbing as a black screen.

No "nasty" GUI to distract anyone.

a bit of thread drift

Can't see much wrong with that: far, far better than thread stagnation.

Personally I can't see the attraction of teaching 1980s-vintage BBC BASIC Possibly because you, also, cannot see the attraction of teaching very, very simple things using BBC BASIC on Model B' and emulators to children in a country where what constitutes computer programming means: 1. Nothing in 90...

what programming is thought - by the younger generation at least - to be Love that split: so symptomatic of "the younger generation". HOWEVER: I run a private language school in Bulgaria, and I teach programming in the summer. So I don't give a "tuppenny toss" about WHAT the younger generation thin...

You definitely need something to convert the signal.

Notwithstanding that, I shall still send Amazon.co.uk a distinctly negative feedback note re those cables.

Ha, ha, ha; Amazon would not publish my review, presumably because I stated that I had been cheated.

How exactly are those cables wired? I dinnae ken, and I'm not going to see my way clear til opening them up to see. This is the label on the envelope of what I ordered: - ordure1.png - AND here is what was marked on the inner bag: - ordure2.png - AND here is a film poster: - Fields_Never_Give_TC.jp...

Are you sure they are for 625-lines (PAL) rather than 525-lines (NTSC)? To be honest I'm not sure if they are anything: Connected to the Yellow & White Output sockets of a television that can manage PAL, SECAM & NTSC I get NO signal on my VGA monitor. BUT that is probably because I ordered 3RCA to ...

What a "bother" !
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"The Boy" arrived last night with the RCA to VGA converters, and they just
do NOT seem to pick up a signal from either the Model B or the Master Compact.
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Would be most grateful for a few "pointers' if possible.

I like it. Just because there haven't been any follow-up post, doesn't mean that people haven't read it before it was edited.

I think this makes very good sense.

OK: I went to the System Prefs. thingy in Mac OS 10.7.5 and turned off all the F-keys mods.

Now I'm up queer street as the '=' (among others) key does not line up with the '=' on the Macintosh keyboard.

is your monitor a colour monitor ?

Look at my photographs before you ask me questions like that.

My wife's MacBook Air laptop has an fn key . . . but that is not every Macintosh.

I was just running MODE 5 as a rough guide.

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Which Perk are you going to get?
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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/deva ... s-design#/

I have about 12 Macintosh keyboards of various vintages to hand and I cannot work
out what you mean by "fn".

I normally use a 2001 iMac keyboard that has 15 F keys, and sometimes I use
a 2010 keyboard that has 16 F keys.

Neither of these has anything marked "fn".

During the week I'll play silly buggers with the TVs and my BBC Master Compact.

Looking forward to Andro's arrival with the "Yellow" to VGA connectors on the 20th.

Here's the Retro Clinic RGB DIN to SCART:
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By far the best {and that's even visible even when my hand was wobbling].

Here's the UHF out that involves tuning tellies:
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Well, you do get colours: but at a crappy low standard.

So, here's the video output to AV (yellow to yellow): providing a relatively crisp image with no colours (suits me for teaching BBC BASIC ): - video_output_to_AV.png - similarly, video output to SCART : providing a relatively crisp image with no colours: - vide0_outout_to_SCART.png

Well, here I am back from my stroll, and a bit like a really corny 1970s musical:
I'm wrong in some ways and right in others.

So, just linking my tablet up with my 2006 iMac . . .

Knee-deep in some Bulgarian - English translation,
but this afternoon I'll stroll across to the school
and see whether I'm getting a colour signal with my "non-standard" rig.

Well, the first thing to check is the +5V supply to the modulator

Ach, Ah widnae fash masel anent that: Ahve an oot signal via the ither gate, and that'll suffice, forbye.

oke in simple englisch Possibly: but your message isn't simple to understand, I'm afraid. И, по принсип, нямам търпение с хора кой има проблеми с разни езици. what is the problem ? if you turn on your bbc , connecting uhf out to tv arial in you get picture ? if you turn on your bbc , connecting vid...

does the machine have internal modifications?

Not as far as I know.

As far as I can tell that machine is a "plain vanilla" model I bought from eBay last Summer.