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Welcome! I heartily recommend the whole "picking up 6502 as an escape from the day job" thing! There are so many resources out there to answer any questions you might have. I can't imagine what it must have been like to develop complicated/difficult techniques 'back in the day' with no internet and ...

Having bought drives from <popular auction site> in the past, only to have them damaged even when wrapped in bubble-wrap, I think if you really want to protect the drive, it can help to use a surrounding layer of those expanded polystyrene blobs (I've just realised I don't know the official term for...

Just to clarify: Do you need the email address associated with the Steam account, or the Steam account name?

Thanks!

Certainly looks like the other crew members are featured! This video confirms it.

https://youtu.be/MBVlzXshOw4

I think you’ll have difficulty doing this on the Beeb version. For one thing it uses pretty much every last byte of memory, and more importantly it does hardware scrolling both horizontally and vertically, so whenever the screen scrolled you’d have to redraw the entirety of the helper area, which wo...

It's been about a month since this challenge finished, but I just wanted to post this:


LOOK AT THAT SCORE! WAVE 10, YEEHAH!

This is amazing work!

Would like to join this but family may have to take priority this time. If I can get the time away I will post again to request the meeting details. In any event, I suspect my time may be better served right now by trying to sort out the boxes and boxes of software and manuals I’ve got, and fix my d...

Quick reply: I believe you have to keep the sound chip write active for at least 8us, which is longer than you've got it active in that code. EDIT: Was going to add an additional sentence to say "I know you're tried a delay, but have you made sure it's 8us" ... but you replied in the meantime, and a...

That grommet is a total pain. There are apparently tools that you can use to get it out and in again, but I generally go at it with a pair of pliers and work two small screwdriver blades into the gap between the wider ‘lip’ and the metal case, then lever it out. I’ve often found that it’s the imposs...

edit: deleted this post as I realised it didn’t actually help with the question being asked!

When your sprite plotting / reading code is running, do you have interrupts enabled or disabled? If you are writing directly to ROMSEL and ACCCON, instead of using the OS-approved routines to control whether shadow or main RAM is CPU-visible and/or is displayed and which SWR bank is active, then the...

Thanks for the write-up! This is amazing information, but also confirms my rapidly hardening belief that I should stick to software!

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Wed Sep 16, 2020 11:47 am

A very clean looking and boxed A3000 with monitor. Collection only "way down south"
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333723401634

Note that the listing does say it's been stored in a garage, and that there's damp damage to the box, so be a little careful!

Welcome, from a fellow Londoner!

Quick game at lunchtime and I managed to get above 50k. I have a while to go before I'm challenging the current winners though.

The DataCentre does have several advantages over Goteks. Off the top of my head: Fast import and export from/to SSD files on a USB stick, a non-volatile RAM drive, and you can even connect a hard drive to it. If you have Beeblink (or various other similar systems) and some Goteks, you can do pretty ...

The -boot option unfortunately defaults to performing a *RUN, which is no use for a Basic file. I did create a blank template SSD, containing a manually made !Boot file with the CHAIN"DROID1" in it. However, running the above command overwrites everything, which is a shame. I think you can work aro...

I'm sure this game was easier back in my early teens! I remember being able to keep all three balls in play at once. Can't seem to manage that these days. I have been playing under emulation using JSBeeb, as my actual machine is currently only available for late night disc archival (which doesn't m...

I'm sure this game was easier back in my early teens! I remember being able to keep all three balls in play at once. Can't seem to manage that these days. I have been playing under emulation using JSBeeb, as my actual machine is currently only available for late night disc archival (which doesn't ma...

This looks interesting for someone local https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-computer-collection-acorn-collection-with-lots-of-software-and-parts/274490093165?hash=item3fe8e26e6d:g:UlgAAOSwKTZfWkh1&shqty=1&isGTR=1#shId That was a pretty good bundle. Three-slice RiscPC, two A5000s, an AKF85 (I think)...

Absolutely amazing, thankyou so much.

Now that I'm looking at these, I wonder how I got by with only the NAUG for the past two years!

I'd love these, will PM you!

I can't really *not* attend this one, and it's at a time that I stand a chance of attending. Please put me on the list.

Well done with building BeebAsm locally and creating SSDs! BeebVSC is great (I have it installed) but yes, it's more for assembler than BASIC. In the end, I didn't use BeebVSC's 'build' and 'run' features. Instead I just used Visual Studio Code's 'tasks' feature. I created some simple script files t...

By the way, if what you want to do is create a BASIC program in a text editor and then run it under emulation, one way might be to use BeebAsm to create SSD files which contain the tokenised BASIC program and are already set up to auto-boot and run that program. You could then edit your BASIC files ...

I'm running B2 on Catalina. I built it from source without too much difficulty.

I've just checked and it will let you paste text, there's an option in the 'Edit' menu.

Could you put me down for one RGBtoHDMI built and one analogue board built please?

Thanks!

If you don’t issue FDRV then it copies them all to one drive, and on DataCentre the RAM drives 0 to 3 are all too small to contain 80 TRK files. If you issue FDRV n then it’ll copy to drive N and N+2 so in your case FDRV 0 should fix your disc full error by saving to drives 0 and 2.

Right, so here's how I do it on a DataCentre: After turning machine on (assuming RAMFS is default filing system), import Discbeast files onto RAM drive 0, by doing: *DR. 0 *IMPORT DB041.SSD Then for each disc: *DR. 0 <shift-break> ... to run Discbeast FSYS RAM // This tells Discbeast to issue '*RAM'...