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Congratulations! :D I read a comment on an article or video the other day that lamented the lack of preserved educational material for the BBC Micro. It's good to know that some of that material has been saved, though we've known for a while that you've been very busy doing just that. ;) Thanks to y...

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Don't forget that RISC OS has OS_Byte 112/113 for controlling screen banking. It's not quite the same functionality as *REFRESH, but if the intention is to keep Matrix Brandy programs compatible with RISC OS BASIC (and vice-versa) then supporting those calls would be useful. Richard Russell's BASIC...

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I would be slightly concerned that there might be a difference between the original Acorn units and those from Castle. I've never looked at the PSU in my Acorn A7000+ very closely. I seem to remember that it whines a little these days, so it would be something I'd think about replacing in the future...

I should first say thanks for the compliment! :D Then I should mention that these are preview images, not screenshots from real hardware or even emulators, but you can check that the images will display as shown by using the ROM and disk image in Elkulator (and probably also ElectrEm and Clock Signa...

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Not the same kind of art, but perhaps artistic in nature: I've converted another set of photos to 8 colour MODE 1 and uploaded them to the Enhanced mode 1 pictures thread.

This one stood out to me, which is why I took the time to do a few more:

I converted a few recent photos using paulb's optimiser tool and created a new disk image (with ROM). I've attached the images here for convenience.

That's a good question: I think probably not, on the inside. Certainly not derived from Unix. In terms of capabilities, perhaps somewhat: multi user, multi process, pre-emptive. But I'm not sure any ARX materials survive - no wait, someone claims there are sources. It seems Acorn purged Modula-2 fr...

Don't forget that 4corn has a collection of resources about Acorn's UNIX.
I also started a thread about alternative 32-bit operating systems for the RISC OS machines.

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Don't worry about the tendency to ramble. We like rambles here.

Pressing keys tends to make the colours shift, which is an interesting effect, but perhaps running a small piece of machine code to turn interrupts off before running the loop might be useful.

Take a look at 4corn for more resources. For example, here's a page of brochures.

People have uploaded scans of various posters over the years: Level 9 adventures Ravenskull Elite , and here Wizadore and Codename: Droid You might also want to take a look at the community projects forum and its coordination of magazine scanning projects subforum. I have larger versions of the scan...

Welcome! It's time to get another Electron and start again!

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Edit3: Playing in colour is a novelty though. Played Boxer, the last game on the game challenge, seems pretty good. Anyone remember if they is anything taxing I might have choosen on the MGC, other wise I ma going to need to load up DC or GoSDC with stuff. Depends what you have on the MGC. Firetrac...

I may have encountered that one when trawling FTP sites and newsgroup archives for operating systems. I should really have linked to the ones I found. :roll: It could be interesting to see Minix ported to the later Acorn systems, at least. Depending on how far the original Minix porter got it might,...

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Time to get another Electron, I think! It won't take up too much space compared to the Master.

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CMcDougall wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:01 pm

A brand new still sealed in box typewriter 'thing'

Looks like a nice keyboard, anyway!

On the Electron I found that side-stepping the whole process by using the Superior re-release was the way to go! I'm guessing that the original protection caused problems at the time of the re-release.

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I'd have to go back and look in my Exile manual but the "Important Message" looks familiar. I don't remember either of the blue cards so perhaps I never got them, though I would imagine that most people would only ever have needed one of them. ;) In terms of service, I'm sure Superior were second-to...

Make the game you want to make - then add a hard mode for Wouter.

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Wed Jul 11, 2018 4:36 pm

I probably will be watching the match...

What match? Is there a game on?