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I think you missed the boat, though there is another boat getting ready to sail in the form of the MGC Mk II. Dave H (daveejhitchens) will be along shortly to give you details, no doubt.

Depending on how long it takes to repaint the screen, you might miss the next vsync pulse. This would mean dropping alternate frames, and running at 25Hz rather than 50Hz. Depending on the application, this may or may not be noticable. I was thinking that it would run at least one frame too late, p...

I thought I'd pose a random question which I hope hasn't been asked before. Would it be possible to decode the output from the last 32 lines of MODE 4 on the Electron and transform it into text that filled the entire framebuffer, or doesn't the Pi have enough bandwidth for anything more than scanlin...

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Looks like OSWORD &7F (127) - Perform floppy disk operation. I guess it depends on what the X and Y registers point to.

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Thanks for starting it in the first place, and for keeping it going after it ended.
I still go there regularly to get resources - most recently the thumbnail images of Electron games in an attempt to do something with them.

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So, it's true that people will pay more for Apple stuff! ;) Just joking - I don't doubt anyone's motives or generosity here. :) I think someone previously offered to pay for a commercial organisation, so we'll see what happens with regards to adding members the next time someone asks. Do we know wha...

There are also a bunch of Sun servers if you like that sort of thing, though you'll need a fork-lift truck to move them by the look of things.

Looks like the Acorn one is the Acorn Set Top Box 22, judging by the label on the case.

I tried the drawing program again today since my Electron has been a bit deaf to cassette input from my phone. As I feared, it only worked sporadically. Another phone wouldn't even detect the cassette lead when I plugged it in. :( On the positive side, I tried it with a tablet and it still worked. H...

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"My" setup was the computer room at school, I didn't get my own kit until a year at university, having gone there naively expecting to continue to have access to computers, and finding none there. (shoulda gone to Teeside Poly, grumble grumble....) What's the computer on the left, under the posters...

Interesting idea to use the cassette port, was just thinking back to the days using the printer port to drive the robot, wondered if i could connect it to a arduino or pi to capture key presses.... With the printer port, just redirecting the VDU output should just work and would probably be easier ...

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Welcome! :D In the collection i have 4 Electrons at the moment just bought one off of Ebay to convert as a USB keyboard to use for work but it works ok!, so loathed to convert it. Don't do it! [-X Write a program to send keypresses over the cassette port, use a microcontroller to pretend to be a USB...

No, it is very simple and encodes up to 128 uncompressed or repeated bytes from anywhere in the last 256 bytes. If you have the same eight bytes repeated eight times, you would have 8 uncompressed bytes and then 56 repeated bytes starting 8 bytes before, so as they are copied, they intern are copie...

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Welcome at last, Angus!

Now about that port of Elite-A to the Electron...

Seriously, though, did you see the Atom port of Elite that Kees did?

That term really annoys me as 'left' is *not* the opposite of that meaning of 'right'. It's like the recent surgence of "cis" - that's *not* the opposite of that particular meaning of "trans" that you're trying to opposite it to. It's as though "right-on"yness precludes or destroys literacy. The us...

Yes, take care. You need to be fit and ready to build all those 8-bit upgrades people will be demanding once the economy has bounced back.

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The SoC was used in the Netwinder, I think. Some useful documents can be found at Oregon State University's Open Source Lab site. There's even an ARM 8 data sheet there.

I had to get my passport renewed last year, which involved sending it via registered post from Norway to the UK. I watched it travel using the tracking code as far as the initial distribution centre in the UK where it was lost for about three weeks. I had a feeling something like that would happen. ...

Hum... If I understand that correctly, you'd have to spam the whole group to get him. You can find a list of alternative nicks on that site though. Perhaps he'll find us :). If he was still into BBCs that recently, I'm sure he's seen stardot! I'm sure he's aware of stardot . What I meant was that y...

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Sun Mar 08, 2020 5:59 pm

1) The name "Gareth Babb" doesn't appear in the 6502 OS at all.

He would have been the author of the computer software I think. Yes, he seems to have vanished from the web a good few years ago.

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