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Welcome! I remember seeing that beeb on eBay, so it's nice to hear that it has gone to a good home.

If you do a blog post on it, I will be interested to read how you get on refurbishing the CUB monitor.

My best score so far - 75935

Don't think I'll be heading into the millions on this game I'm afraid

I played this game a bit last year when it was first released. Finally found a couple of hours to have a go in hard mode. Best score so far 2335. I'm not great at the precision timing required for the jumps and struggled for quite a while on level 5. Got several of the flags on level 6 but more prac...

Unlikely I would say, assuming it's a modern flat panel TV. Most modern electronic devices will use a form of flash for persistent storage and would probably only have a battery if they have a Real Time Clock - but most TVs will get the time/date from the TV signal if they need it. If just being use...

"Making music on the BBC computer" by Ian Waugh

I was the only bidder on eBay and Hermes actually delivered on time! Looking forward to getting stuck in.

There is a PDF version with SSD of the programs here (which saves me scanning it): http://8bs.com/othrdnld/manuals/publications.shtml

e668ecp wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 11, 2020 9:56 am

Question is... do we want a perforated ashtray?

Just noticed for the first time that my Issue 3 beeb doesn't have a perforated ashtray. So it would be authentic not to have one!

I hope to join too, please send an invite if the zoom details are different to last time

Please do not scrap it! I think in a bundle "sold as seen" for spares/repair you would get at least £100, possibly more, depending on whether you are willing to courier it or only offer collection. The parts may well be worth more broken up but without a functioning RiscPC to try the vario...

Glad to hear you got into your image in the end. In case anyone finds this thread in the future and wants to look at the contents of a disk image on Linux after doing the dd, you need a command like the following to mount the image as if it were a physical hard disk. This can be very useful for extr...

I'm having trouble running Exile from an SD2BBC using SmartSPI. I can get as far as the menu screen but when I press F0 to "run game" the screen flashes and nothing happens. All of the other menu items work. I've seen mention of a patched version of Exile. Is that what I need? Hi Chris, w...

sudo mount -t adfs /dev/sdb /mnt/sdb I can't remember if Linux ADFS support includes write support, but I suggest adding a "-r" in there before -t to mount the drive readonly nontheless. Good point, that will minimise the risk of corrupting the filesystem. In fact before even trying to mo...

I have VirtualBox running on my Laptop but the VM's are old versions of Windows. I haven't used Linux at all. I thought the Win32DiskImager software under Windows should have worked as other threads here seem to suggest that it can recognise ADFS partitions and create images of them. The hard disk ...

I recovered both of my RiscPC hard drives using an IDE -> USB adapter and an Ubuntu 18.04 Linux PC which allows both imaging of the entire hard drive, and mounting the adfs volume to look at what files are present. You may be able to achieve similar with a Linux VM (eg. Virtualbox), let me know if y...

To make sure you're on the latest version: * Library * Right-click on Frak --> Properties * Updates tab * (Make sure this is set to "Always keep this game up to date") * Click on "View Frak! update history" I am struggling to update through this method. I don't think the game ha...

Hi. could I have an invite please?

I am in too! Looking really good and playing great, I have only tried a couple of levels so far. Initial observations: - On the beeb version, if you descend a rope leading to a platform with another rope directly below, holding down the down key allows you to keep going down the second rope. On the ...

These ones aren't my designs, but came with a bundle of stuff on ebay. From poking at the green one, that has socketed ICs, they seem to be 16K to 2x8K adaptor boards with a copy of MOS on. When the model B is up and running, I'm thinking of testing them in there to see if they still work. Also the...

Had 3 separate eBay things go missing recently, one with Yodel, two with Royal Mail. Thankfully all small and not particularly important, but it's frustrating nonetheless. Anyone else having problems with stuff being posted? I have had things arrive slowly with Royal Mail, up to a week after postin...

You are not the first person this year to discover a B+ with OS 1.20 - see this thread: https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20732 You could leave it as it is or get someone to flash you an EPROM with OS 2.00 (ROM image in that other thread). This would give you access to the extra B+ memor...

Great to hear it's working! Looks like a B+ to me.

The output of *FX0 and *HELP would be useful in identifying the OS version.

Thanks from me also, this thread has prompted me to strip down two RiscPCs ready for battery removal. Looks to be lots of useful info in this thread and the one linked by Phil. One RiscPC doesn't look too bad but the other one looks similar to the pictures posted in this thread. I will get the batte...

Next up is a B that I've not yet had a chance to look at - all I get is a flashing cursor top-left... I seem to remember you used to have a scope on your desk at work! Actually you can do quite a bit of investigation on the 8 bit machines with just a multimeter. A quick search on the forum suggests...

My kit from IFEL (Steve) contained both Suntan and Rubycon capacitors for C9 giving me the choice of which to use. Just to clarify, slightly poor wording on my part, I have no connection to IFEL except as a satisfied customer on a couple of occasions. I should have said "The kit which I purcha...

See pictures above. I can't be sure because I have bought kits from both Steve Picton and Mark Haysman and was also given one kit by another user on here. My kit from IFEL (Steve) contained both Suntan and Rubycon capacitors for C9 giving me the choice of which to use. There is a short discussion o...

Just noticed the name - I believe we used to work together! Great to hear you have got the Master out again, and hope you have the time and space to get the Beeb and Risc OS machines going too. I also returned to 8 bit machines this year, I purchased a BBC B in the Summer and have enjoyed bringing i...

As others have stated, Mark at Retroclinic is well known for his repair skills. I fixed my beeb up myself but bought parts from Mark. Service was quick, friendly and professional If you have time to do a small amount of investigation you could check the following. BBC - should not be plugged in unle...

May be worth taking a look at this thread on RGB to HDMI converters using a raspberry pi zero: https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=20404 The first post contains a list of the supported systems. A second batch is being put together at the moment. I have put my name down for the seco...

I haven't played this game before and not got too far with it this week, my reaction times are just not good enough.

Best score this evening 25350

I am also interested in 1x RGB kit for the next batch, please add me to the list. Thanks!

Michael Brown wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 22, 2020 9:58 am

I have managed to transfer all of them to disc.
All 4 games are on this disc.

Great job Mick! Nice to have these games archived without the copy protection. I successfully ran the games on my beeb using your DSD file, much more pleasant than waiting for the UEF or cassette to load.