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It's always good to see people experimenting with languages and compilers.

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Sounds like you did a good job there! :) I have absolutely no idea on half of this stuff, but I didn't want to see it binned. Hopefully I'll get some pictures onto this thread when I manage to get some energy to drag the items out of the back of our van. Thank goodness we've got a tail lift, and a l...

It's in a box marked TAPE so maybe it was a hastily-produced review copy? Weren't all these boxes manufactured with places for both tapes and disks to slot inside?

As mentioned in the Alternative 32-bit operating systems topic, the Inferno operating system apparently ran on the A7000 at some point. It would be interesting to see the sources for the port but it's possible that they no longer exist. Anyway, I thought it would be interesting to try and port it ag...

See the Archiology site or its 4corn mirror for the disk images.

waltermixxx wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 03, 2020 11:16 pm

Well I never did sort out a case for me A7000 motherboard, but I am having fun with it.

There's always the Lego approach.

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Thanks to the organisers and speakers. I managed to drop in for John Wike's presentation and really enjoyed it.

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This article by Kevin Edwards also gives a taste of the process. Kevin also tweets about retro stuff and is a member of this forum.

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I am currently writing a video series about growing up with computers and currently working on the elk and beeb. I am wondering if anyone can list the kinds of tricks programmers used to over the limitations of the elk when porting beeb games over? I only need a "laymans" perpsective. For e.g I see...

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Laurie Van Someren - Aleph-One - Acorn ARM Processors Upgrades

Shared via the RISC OS Open forums.

Given that we know the units have speech hardware, and that the ROMs implement extended SOUND command support, has anyone with a Merlin tried the programs from the Speech System User Guide ? Or just tried something like this: SOUND -1,160,0,0 If BT/Acorn made it BBC Micro compatible then it should j...

I'm sure you won't have a problem shifting any NOS Acorn stuff!

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ARandomDave wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:18 pm

Thanks davidb for messaging me, unfortunately I don't have PM rights just yet so have been unable to respond.

No problem. I wasn't necessarily expecting a response - just letting you know where you might find another copy.

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I fixed the part of the toolchain that generated the offending instructions, so I could get a bit further.

Now I just need to switch into 32-bit mode. I hardly ever wrote code outside user mode back in the 1990s so this is turning out to be eye-opening.

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You can find the memory maps for both the BBC Micro and Electron in the manual for the Electron version in 8-Bit Software's Applications And ROMs collection. I created a UEF file from Jim Nagel's copy of S-Pascal, though it's perhaps not a full preservation-level copy because I didn't preserve all t...

Please can you sign me up for the morning and evening?

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Maybe the Ozmoo interpreter could be ported to machines with sideways RAM.