stardot.org.uk

Thanks guys, Dave's suggestion worked perfectly (kicking myself for not trying it first! doh!). A couple of CTRL Breaks and all is good with the Pi4. My Pi 3 that I thought was dead, turns out it was a bad SD card and it works again (Lazarus style! Wife is super impressed... ). It steadfastly refuse...

Pi 4 arrived today, works fine (testing running various pi4 builds of stuff) but the Beep refuses to recognise it via the CoPro interface. I'm using a fresh sd card with Fer-De-Lance on it. I've tried the same SD card & same software in the zero and it works fine. I'm connecting the cable with the s...

BeebMaster wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 15, 2020 2:27 pm

You can tell her you will need a spare Pi4 as well, just in case. And it will reduce the unit postage cost, hopefully go down well with Mrs Muddy.

Cable works perfectly - Thanks Beebmaster. Unfortunately my Pi3 is dead. I hooked up the zero first of all, using the cable, turns out I didn't have the cable on 100% correctly and had missed the final row of pins. Once corrected, the Pi Zero fired up first time as normal. All good. (probably lucky ...

Great :) Coming out the back might have been a bit more problematic as that's where I have my rom switcher rotary dial located on the doomsday/modem cut out. Cartridge port seems fine, I'm planning to run a USB extension out of there too from my datacentre so I don't have to faff around adding ssd's...

I was thinking more of keeping the pi outside the case and having a longer cable, maybe routed out via the cart slot that I don't use (I have the Nula rom sitting in the other).

That looks great

I never did get around to ordering any boards for this. If anyone has one they would be willing to part with (complete or just a board), I'd be happy to pay.

Cheers,

Thanks gents for the replies re: the cable, much appreciated. In my Master, the PiZero goes right on to the leveller (retro clinic) no issues. p0 (2).jpg But the Pi3, the USB sockets get in the way, plus a cable means I wouldn't need to keep de-casing it every time. pi3_1.jpg Out of interest BigEd, ...

Hi all,

I currently have a PiZero connected internally on my master but I want to connect up my pi3b. What ribbon cable would I need?

Is it just a regular 40 Pin GPIO Ribbon Cable ? (https://thepihut.com/products/40-pin-gp ... -gertboard)

Appreciate any guidance

If i was going to get a run of say 10 of these boards made, what file would I send the manufacturer? the board file or the schematic or both ? do I need to convert them to a "gerber" file?

ANy suggestions would be appreciated so I don't go and order the wrong thing

I'd be very interested even at £50.

Hi Martin,

I'm not a BBC expert but I think "Beeb Image" or "ADFS" explorer can read the .dat file

viewtopic.php?t=14844 (for Beeb Image)

https://www.g7jjf.com/adfs_explorer.htm

https://www.amazon.co.uk/3-5mm-Single-Audio-Contacts-Available-Gold/dp/B07B4CK95J/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=m%28core+1m+long+2pin+Mono+3.5mm+to+RCA+Single+Plug+Audio+Coax+Cable+Lead%2FGold+Contacts+%28Available+in+0.5m%2C+1m%2C+1.2m%2C+2m%2C+3m%29+%281m%29&qid=1563210902&s=electronics&sr=1-3 also works ok...

Rob, thanks for the mail, your reply was really helpful!

The 512MB CF image that I use on my DC is on Dropbox. I can PM you a link if you like. You just need to use the cfrestore utility to write it to a CF card. It has DOS/GEM for the 80286 core, Panos for the 32016 and the ARM Eval utilities. I believe each one has its own version of BBC BASIC installe...

Hey all, I've been tinkering with my Pi Tube, mostly running some of the really cool mandlebrot and julia set programs from the old Acorn User archives (oh and playing Elite of course..). Rendering was lighting fast (as expected). I'm looking for some ideas on what else to try with the Pi Tube on my...

Thanks for all the kind words. I got a bit bogged down writing different sprite routines for every object, most of them have multiple routines! Now I have plenty of frame time, but not much memory and will have to combine a few of them to get the memory back! I'm currently prepping for Revival and ...

Rob, that sounds great, I'd really like to take advantage of your soldering offer as my skills with a soldering iron are right up with my knowledge of brain surgery. I'm not close to Newport but I do go to Cardiff now and again visiting a client down that way. I'd rather bring you the machine than t...

This is looking great!

Yeah, I have a datacentre fitted already. Will be ordering a VideoNuLA on payday! Then doom on a beeb, yay! Great - do contact me on here rather than buying one on eBay as it'll be cheaper... RobC, I'd love to know more about getting a VideoNuLA for my master but I can't PM you as I'm too new to th...

Got it, thanks guys.

Every day is a school day for me with the Beeb at the moment

Picked up this trail from the GitHub list.

I'd really like to build one of these for my master but soldering skills are really poor.

Does anyone have any of these premade that they would be willing to sell?

Hi all, I've been recently expanding my master and i've added the RPI Co-processor to it. I love the possibilities that this opens up. I understand how to switch cores and so on but one thing I was wondering is if it's possible to increase the memory on the 6502 core to 128k to allow running of game...

DanielJ pointed me to this, as I was looking to do the same with either the CF or USB in my datacentre. https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17091&p=236943#p236943 Second reply in, there's a link with a guide for both options. I go the the USB version working perfectly. Not sure it does...

Thanks again Danielj, that's a great guide. In the end I put the game repository on my USB and have the menu boot from the NV RAM drive (4).

And yes Ray, I completely agree, I'm not that advanced yet though

Thanks Danielj,

looks like I have some reading to do

That is a great port of Frogger!

My co-pro board arrived today so i'll be planning some time to tinker with that at the weekend.

Also got a CF card for the datacenter and the multiOS ROM. Love how easy that was to get installed and working, managed to get a bunch of the older games working.

Hi all, Currently I have a few ssd images sitting on a mini-usb stick that I access via my datacenter. I recently also added a CF card via my Datacenter in my Master. I often see videos on YouTube of folks using their BBCs with menus that have pages and pages of games. I think these are mostly folks...

Thanks! :) Yes, its probably the same machine. I was quite lucky because the seller was quite local so I could collect it rather than trusting it to a courier. I pinged Mark an email, I should have probably done that in the first place as he already kindly helped me with the replacement battery pack...

Hello everyone, I'm new to the boards and I'm hoping I can ask some of the more experienced hands for advice. I only really used BBC's when I was at school in the 80's and most of my retro computing / projects are with Sinclair and Commodore computers. However recently I managed to acquire a BBC Mas...