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That would be nice. BeebEM and Elkulator emulators have "save state" functionality, having something like that on a real Electron would be a useful tool especially as many software do not have a "Save" function. I wonder if a small program could be written to read these saved states into a real Ele...

You could try the method described here https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8123#p85702 That is probably most useful for converting user data stored in UEFs. Most games stored as UEFs will do nasty things like disable hardware and call *TAPE to prevent them from running from disk. So, whi...

There are a lot of games in SSD format at Every Game Going. Here's a search for Electron games. The ones with the little disk icon next to the title are the ones you want.

Hope it all goes well with the operation.

I'm sure we can skip the odd ABug meeting - there have been so many that we're all spoiled right now.

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Thanks for writing up your latest progress! I like decoding old map formats, so this is all very interesting stuff. Now we know what the layout looks like, we can imagine where all those passages down the well could lead to. :) And, to me, it looks like access to the title screen was an intentional ...

Very nice. I hope you have fun with it!

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We used an HCCS second drive cable for the A3000 to use a 5 1/4" floppy disk drive. The software to read the disks was ArcDFS in our case.

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Hopefully the demoscene will push the machine a bit better than it did back in the day, when all the attention was on doing fixed-point maths on a StrongARM.

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Quite a few people in the forum have made Atari joystick adapters. I'm sure they can tell you what you need to do.

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I think I went away to read about shadow RAM and forgot to start a thread about it. It looks like the Shadow RAM and Cheaper 2nd processor in preshadow days? threads are now covering the topic.

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Very good! I like the way you talk about how things are done while you show the results.

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Sat Sep 12, 2020 4:33 pm

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Sat Sep 12, 2020 4:02 pm

It looks like BA5 is still available.

Haha, very good! A bit too easily mistaken for BAS methinks.

That was the idea.

It looks like BA5 is still available.

Even the Electron version includes the sound calls for speech.

Edit: The BT Merlin M2105 would probably emit speech if this game was played on it.

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Sat Sep 05, 2020 2:19 pm

First video edited and online

WiFi on the Acorn Electron - Roland Leurs.

Thanks for uploading it. I will enjoy it at my leisure.

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Maybe you could get MicroPython to run on the A4000 itself. I think early versions of Python (around 1.5.2) worked on the original 32-bit Acorn machines.