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I also enjoyed your Exile playthrough videos. Thanks for making them.

They inspired me to make my own set for the Electron, though without annotations.

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I was amused that the Roman, Saxons and Vikings themes also overlap with the ones from the Logotron Zig Zag series. Was that because those periods were part of the curriculum at the time?

I got it working eventually. Just documenting the context using the PRES Plus 1 ROM: Rom C : (SL ) 23 PRES Plus 1 1.23 Rom B * ( L ) 01 BASIC Rom 6 : ( R) Rom 1 : ( R) Rom 0 : (S ) 01 Mega Games Cartridge 2 1.0 The MGC2 cartridge decompresses the MMFS ROM (the MGCBB.rom file padded with zeros to 16K...

While I'm on this subject perhaps there should be a similar thing for game adverts, some of these were very glossy magazine ads eg Superior Software and Micro Power. Others were little more than small-ads but I suppose everyone had a budget to work to. You can find some adverts in the Community Pro...

Yes, I think this is expected. You need to either: 1. Force MMFS to re-initialize, by issuing *MMFS (or making the appropriate initialize filesystem service call), or I tried this, I think. I'll need to check, but I think it didn't work. I also tried sending a service call (which may have done the ...

I have been experimenting with MMFS in a modified version of Elkulator to get it working for the MGC2. I also see the "Bad Sum" error after copying the ROM data into sideways RAM. However, after Ctrl-BREAK it works as expected, so perhaps the initialisation code is getting run and the checksum is be...

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Nice avatar you have there, by the way.

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Elkulator includes ACP 1770 DFS which keeps PAGE at E00.

Are the FORTH reference and disks part of the Silicon Vision product? Was that ever archived?

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The disk images will have been deprotected to an extent, though you will need to trust that the conversion was done correctly by whoever did it. If you start from the cassette version, use the Superior re-release because it had some (all?) of the original Acornsoft protection removed, assuming that ...

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I saw a screenshot of your compiler on Twitter. It looks very interesting so far.

There's a disk version on Every Game Going. I couldn't test whether saving to disk worked. However, it seems to use cassette for loading, so I suspect it would need some hacking.

I don't know if there was ever source code available for the Electron version of the game at The Elite Home Page.

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The nearest thing Castle Raider has to save points is its use of separate levels. When you use a life, you start at the last entrance you used. I suppose I could have found some spare RAM to add a single save point and a title screen option to continue. Nobody asked for anything like that during pla...

Today I received a homework assignment from DaveH...

...and he sent me a floppy disk from his attic clearout that I will try to image when I can.

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Very impressive!

You could always try haggling with CJE Micro's: Acorn Electron (S/H) Not working and incomplete.

fuzzel wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 13, 2019 10:32 am

I must admit, the artwork on the Acornsoft packaging was very well done, yours being a particularly good example.

I agree. It certainly looks good from the pictures I've seen online. I wonder who the artist was?

The ANT/Atomwide "Combi" Ethernet card disc might be useful, I suppose. I think I have one in my A7000+ so you would think I would have the disc somewhere.

I'll check later to see if I imaged it already.

Snuggsy187 wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 12, 2019 3:21 pm

What next..... Ravenskull.....?

Well, there's some information already available so that should get you started.

Or you could fix Repton Infinity to make it the game it should have been.

Very well done!

What did you have to juggle around to fit the map code in?