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My impression was that there are quite a few avid users of BBC BASIC for SDL and Windows, so you may find that one or more of them might be interested in helping with the language implementation. After all, the users are often the ones driving development.

Interesting to learn about the genesis of some of the ARM6's features - thanks for bringing it up! No problem! It's interesting to know that Apple requested features for either their cancelled ARM-based desktop machine or the Newton: 32-bit mode and big endian support, if I remember the video corre...

Don't forget the controversy over Barbarian that raged in the pages of Electron User! I wonder what the authors of those letters make of today's video games...

From this weekend's PyCon UK: Running a subset of python on the BBC Micro.

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I see you have your own species of BBC Owl in Tasmania!

snapman intruders panzers mayday Are these from Classic Arcade Games ? spread graph money word dbase address/planner Acornsoft productivity software? spacehike parky rally alphaswap knockitout moneymaze jam butty haunted ten of best I think these are Electron User games. Certainly looks like Ten of...

Elminster wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:16 am

Now there is an idea.

http://www.jaywickmartellotower.org/Hire/

Or, for more exclusive events: Fort Clonque.

From a quick glance it looks like lots of commercial games plus type-ins from Electron User and other magazines. Nothing obviously missing from the archive as far as I can see. Maybe others will spot something.

Cross-referencing with the Stairway to Hell, Acorn Electron World and Every Game Going is usually a good way of determining whether something has been archived.

Other than that, post the list and I'm sure the usual suspects will look through it.

Retro Software doesn't have to be 8-bit only. It's just that we haven't got round to writing anything 32-bit yet.
Also, the site went offline for a while and we might have lost a bit of momentum there. I'm not sure if it's been HTTPS-enabled, either.

We used to use the Retro Software Wiki for development diaries. However, I don't know the status of that site now - are we still using it for that? Also, you might not want to tie your game to Retro Software so perhaps that wouldn't be ideal for you. You could start a thread in one of the subforums ...

I meant to post this yesterday but apparently didn't hit the Submit button. I can't really tell you what the "best practice" is. However, it would be worth identifying files or components that are common to different platforms and either group them together in a repository or create a repository sp...

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Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:15 am

I think Firetrack also got an outing on the C64 too but I've only ever played it on a Beeb.

Frak! and Zalaga, too.

A few Acorn originals have been ported to the Atari 8-bit machines, including Ziggy and Hobgoblin.

Thanks for making these documents available. :) Acorn Information - Volume 1 - Enormous folder containing technical information and circuit diagrams on Acorn System, Atom, BBC and Electron machine Plus diagrams for many of the add-ons, such as the Z80 and 6502 second processors and Teletext decoder....

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Thanks for making this available. At first glance there don't seem to be too many differences between this ROM and OS 1.00.

For 50p in a charity shop today I picked up a 12" CD Video disc. Not to be confused with Video Cd or other similarly named and wholly incompatible formats, e.g. LaserDisc. I don't believe the charity chop even knew nor cared what it was they had. I've never seen one before, and probably won't ever ...

So it is - Several problems: Slightly bigger IC socket needed (if you use sockets, that is) : I'd want to use the whole capacity, somehow :oops: : I don't have them in-stock, so it would have meant more cash layout! Also, does MartinB's Utilities work with it? Using the whole capacity would mean us...

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Wed Sep 05, 2018 11:07 am

Could you still get the 28pin 28c256 to work electrically in the 32pin holder? For some reason I cant see the datasheet.

Not without some pin remapping which would probably involve clipping legs off the IC and using jumper wires, as far as I can tell.

It's good to see something like this - the low cost nature of it is one of the aims I had for my cartridges. Thinking about saving pennies here and there, how about using the SST39SF010A-70-4C-PHE-ND Flash ROM instead of the 28C256? I know it's a larger components and much of its capacity would be w...

The Centre for Computing History has put up a few interesting videos related to ARM recently. Here's one that I found quite intriguing: Historic ARM Presentation to Apple Computer - 1992.

Thanks for developing and maintaining the site for so long. There's a lot of helpful information there that I'd perhaps forgotten about. Certainly, there's a guide to stripping down an A7000 that someone was looking for a while ago, so it's all still proving to be useful.

I found JOYPLUS on an old ADFS disk. Hope someone finds it useful.

For completeness, here's the advert for the Commander 3 joystick from Electron User.

Here's an 8 colour MODE 1 resolution version of that image. It's quite remarkable how much detail remains.

Looks like it was published on cover disc 1 of the January 1997 issue. Maybe it will also be on one of the Acorn User CD-ROMs that were published. Edit: Looks like it was on Acorn User Cover CD 3 . Individual ArcFS file here . I suppose it might be possible to just unpack that onto a floppy disk. Ot...

Hi, I'm trying to find a copy of Xenon 2 hopefully in ADF format. I've scoured the net to no avail. Does anyone know where I can obtain it please? I've no idea about where you might find it online, but CJE have it in stock as part of a compilation . Making an ADF file from it might be a challenge b...

Well, there's an "official" but ancient MS-DOS version and I also found an non ancient but old version (files here). It looks like 7-zip might be simpler to use.

Note that I haven't tried any of the above. I last used Windows on a computer I own in 2002/3.

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