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After a huge delay here's 0.94 (I skipped 0.93 - wasn't happy with it). It can now save games to, and load games from, a human-readable and editable text format. This lets you easily meddle with the game's internals (i.e. so you can cheat, or turn the hero into a dog for a while, and other things - ...

I'm in. I mean I'm there. And by there I mean here.

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The finished version of my Acorn is logo here: http://www.davespace.co.uk/doodles/acorn.html

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I guess this drop is from 1993 or 1994? We get as far as Medusa, but not much further.

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I been re-doing a cut-in/chamfered edge style Acorn logo, that I did in Xara some years back, in Affinity. Can't decide whether the nut should stick in or out...
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woohoo! Looking forward to receiving my copy.

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I see the "stunning package" is still up https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acorn-RiscPC ... 2225599020

"Probably the best RiscPC 700 deal ever!"

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Interesting. Looks like the Risc PC was planned to have light pipes for the LEDs, and removable drive bay covers...

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Will try to make it.

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Added a 0197,100 (mark 2) Risc PC board, an ARM610 card and a four-way backplane.

TIFFs are at the link above ^

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Tonight's scan: a 0197,000 mark 1 board. This has an IOMD20, rather than an IOMD21.

Flipping between this and the scan of the mark 3 board, I see that the small square RAS PAL that sits inbetween the SIMM banks vanishes on the mark 3. Perhaps integrated into IOMD21?

TIFFs are at the link above ^

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£2000 for an A3010 anyone?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acorn-Archim ... 4457880909

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Well I finally got around to doing a bit of disassembling, dusting off, and scanning in. Low-quality JPEG previews are below. Huge TIFF sources are here: https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code ... 8KRLPl3u1y

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I had a slice with a broken flap and a missing spring. When I did this fix I drilled through the case behind where the peg sits and bolted two M3 solder tags into place, one top and one bottom. This gave me a point in the same position as the original peg where I could loop the spring through. I've ...

Ooh that's so crisp. What are you building these manuals in?

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Will try to make an appearance, might be late on though.

Excellent work. Thanks!

I'll be there, but it might be late on, once I've got the kids to bed and had some exercise.

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Count me in.

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charlewi wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 13, 2020 2:47 pm

Hi Dave. Nice designs. May I ask which company you used to make the mouse pads?

Of course. It was A1 Graphics of Annan, via this eBay listing: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Personalised ... 4009033936

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There's a Rage 128 Pro 32MB version on eBay at the moment:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Viewfinder-p ... 4071148333

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Here's the slides from my talk: https://slides.com/dpt/the-great-escape-42cbed/

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It needs to be an Nvidia GeForce *PCI* card (not PCI Express or AGP). The Iyonix shipped with a GeForce 2 MX. I upgraded mine to an FX 5500 which helped solve the "pyjamas" issue (booting up with the card funted, it just showing stripes). I've actually been keeping an eye out for a spare l...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224063669930



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Yes! Put me down for one.

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philpem wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 22, 2020 1:21 pm

I haven't tried 4.39 (which I think is Select?). The ROM sets I've seen on sale have gone for way more than what I'm willing to pay.

That's because they contain my highly-valued CDFSFiler v4.

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Thanks, that does look like the (attempted) mod.

Unfortunately it turned out that the motherboard is gubbed and needs further diagnosis. I can get some sort of a video signal out of it, but it's not right at all. I'll be needing one of these new fangled POST boxes I reckon.

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I was just having a look at electronics books. I started leafing through "Starting Electronics Construction" by Keith Brindley and ...

I double checked. The pin pitch is 2mm. Looks most like a PH connector to me.

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Sorry, I've no calipers but with a steel ruler: exterior is ~ 15.5x4.5mm, pin pitch is ~ 2mm, gap at the front is ~ 9.5mm.

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