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Well, as long as the stereotypes are being brought up by the natives then I guess it's OK. Besides, I couldn't think of a way to connect the A3000 with maple syrup or a mounted police officer.

I recently rummaged through the Chuckie Egg executable on the Electron to see if I could decode the levels, inspired by the recent high score competition. I realised that I should have just looked up the level format from the information in samwise's Chuckie Egg tribute site, but where's the fun in ...

That looks very useful. I'm sure there are a few people with Electrons but no Plus 1 expansions who would be interested in getting one of those.

With four spare I/O pins, surely you could connect directly to the SD card, or is level shifting needed?

Welcome!

I've never put an Arc on the internet via a serial port so I can't really give you any concrete advice. Back in the day when I thought I might be able to set it up in university halls of residence it just seemed like it was designed to be confusing. :( Anyway, you might find the software in this dir...

Would connecting my Electron to the TV via the Video Din Plug and then to a SCART Socket give me any better picture or sound ? Or would i be just wasting my money on a lead ? Or is all sound on the electron via the speaker on the front ? Can this speaker be upgraded ? or the sound chip ? Or am i as...

dgrubb wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 08, 2018 5:58 pm

Wasn't somebody writing a book as part of a Phd thesis a while back? Maybe I dreamt it.

Richard Hallas, I believe. I think it didn't happen in the end. If he's not around in these forums then he can be found in the RISC OS Open forums.

Looks like there may be more developments on the development tools front.

Anecdotal evidence: our A3000 would always hang when SYS "OS_UpdateMEMC", 64, 64 was used. I don't remember if this was under RISC OS 2 or 3.

You need to keep watching this episode. They get to play a Norwegian geography game on the Beeb a few minutes later.

Very interesting! Thanks for pointing out the program. I didn't realise you understood Norwegian, BigEd.

daveejhitchins wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 07, 2018 7:22 am

You can get suitable switches from local stores (Wilco etc), eBay or myself.

See also this thread for a discussion and more recommendations.

Thanks, Kevin!

Now we can finally make Overdrive 2 with corners!

Beautiful! Your best picture yet!

Welcome from a fellow Electron user!

It's probably a good time to jump aboard the Electron bandwagon. I've noticed a few collectors proudly showing off their new Electrons on YouTube, so maybe others will get the urge to complete their 8-bit Acorn collections and push the prices way up.

Welcome! (Feel free to introduce yourself in the Introduce yourself forum.) There's a fair amount of Electron stuff on eBay at the moment, if you're into the auction thing. Power bricks and cassette recorders (though not necessarily the official one) seem to be thrown in with Electrons, whether work...

This message turned out to be even longer than I expected. ;) But my point was that you already had the incentive to *replace* ShareFS to fix the bugs. So in this hypothetical scenario you have the source. Because you have replaced it successfully. You said that only after the license change there w...

Trying to be constructive here. Skip to the end for the constructive bit... There already were lots of incentives. Like fixing a few of the ShareFS bugs (or even providing a solid base for making ShareFS-over-TCP/IP possible and therefore much more relaible than it is nowadays). I thought ShareFS wa...

I think it's worth remembering that most, if not all, of the criticism about barriers to contributing to RISC OS is well-intentioned and coming from people who are sincere about contributing, or who have been interested in the past. People who have easily proved themselves capable at developing soft...

The community is already (and for a long time now) enabled to develop any of the not-yet-open-source parts of the OS. GCC is available. Heck, you can even write your replacement for Resolver or ShareFS with BBC BASIC's assembler. The only necessity for the DDE is if you want to rebuild the whole RO...

Phlamethrower wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:11 pm

It was the ROOL talk (or perhaps both talks?)

Ah, thanks for the correction. Yes, I think it was only mentioned in the ROOL talk in that level of detail. I knew it wasn't in Andrew Rawnsley's talk, anyway.

I think they were originally written by ANT. Richard Brown's talk contained some more information about it. Basically that whoever owns the copyright on them now probably doesn't know anything about them, and palms may need greasing for their lawyer to even look at them.

Remember that there are still a few closed-source components (at least MbufManager, Resolver and ShareFS). They're on ROOL's list of things to sort out, but until that happens you're going to be left a bit short if you're interested in a fully open-source OS. Could the old FreeNet Resolver be used ...

ROOL are looking towards corporate sponsorship as a way of getting the DDE is be freely available. At this point, they are aware it is a barrier. Why is corporate sponsorship necessary? Just make it free. If they need to fund ROOL to cover costs, state the costs and ask for donations - but don't ma...

I'll just add:

A7000+ - like an A7000 but with faster CPU and memory, making it possible to use some higher quality screen modes, a bit like a RiscPC with 1MB VRAM.

Welcome!

Welcome!

Welcome from a fellow Electron user!

There has been a lot of activity around the Electron over the last few years, so helpful advice about expanding it shouldn't be in short supply.

Maybe team up with pixelblip and do an Acorn Art calendar?

I might be wrong but I see the relicensing as part of a move to a common ground by one of the parties behind RISC OS (the one with the de-facto standard version), with the aim of extending an olive branch to the party behind the other (obsolete) version.