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Nice! 2) Carefully remove the black plug (noting which way it was fitted) Could you avoid this if you removed the Master PCB? Dave Yes but IMHO it's easier to remove & refit the plug than remove the pcb. Removing the plug is easy, just lift the lock tab slightly and then pull up the hold-down s...

I've mounted mine internally :D 1) Buy a 40way 20cm cable for £2.75 from CPC/Farnell 2) Carefully remove the black plug (noting which way it was fitted) 3) Feed the cable through the gap above the tube socket (it's tight fit so I held it open with a flat screwdiver blade whilst getting the cable whe...

Incase you don't want to wait there is a first byte joystick interface on fleabay at the moment...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121906686748

You better be quick if you want it, it ends tomorrow.

Hi Tricky, tried latest Astroblaster on my Master - detects SWRAM and loads game - but garbled/rolling screen. <SNIP> Obviously in my case we could have another example of a game that my Master has an issue with but ok for everyone else. Well I've just tried it on my Master and it appears to play f...

daveejhitchins wrote:

DutchAcorn wrote:If you want one for under £100 you could go for
this one. Happy to act as a proxy.

Ooooo! Yes please . . . PM sent

Dave H

Damn it, beaten to it by DaveH, he might be retired but he sure ain't slowing down

I don't know about most technically impressive but a couple of my favourites because they looked stunning were Flashback and Zool, Zool especially looked great after it was hacked to have rasterbars in the background 8) Another good one to look out for was AXIS especially if you had an ARM3 and even...

I think this will be worth keeping an eye on . . . Any guesses? Working Acorn Electron with Plus 1 and Plus 3 ......... They say it's working but no pictures to prove it, so my estimate is the absolute minimum it'll go for is £100 and much more likely to make £200 plus. I wish I could justify buyin...

It's more software than hardware, but try Astro blaster. Did you say you had issues with Phoenix? Hi - the last version of Phoenix on RS thread doesn't appear to work on real h/w on Beeb B or Master - but I tried the penultimate one and that was ok on real Beeb B and Master Re Astroblaster - the la...

Interesting that you say the Arc has a 'slow' serial port though, little or no improvement on the Beeb then...? If I remember correctly you could do 19,200 on a Archimedes but 9600 was a lot more reliable. It was only when the Risc PC series came along that we finally got a decent speed serial port...

It also uses 2xAA batteries which is a better choice than many DMM's So the million dollar question is what is the best battery choice in a DMM ? I've several cheapies one of which lives in my pickup just incase and a decent Beckman Industrial and they all take a PP3 9v battery, I've always liked t...

daveejhitchins wrote:Any of the ACP ROMs will work on the Electron (by design) E.g. ADT, ACP, ARM, ADI

Told ya he'd be along shortly

ADFS isn't at fault here; it's a consequence of the architecture. You need to ensure your manager ROM is in the highest priority bank for it to be able to disable things early enough. Yes finally someone understands the problem, ADFS isn't the problem (but some people just like to bash it anyway) y...

Ok, so, it turned out to be the ADFS rom. It obviously doesn't release all it's work space when disabled. Don't blame ADFS it's your cr*p Megarom that can't disable a ROM properly, try sticking megarom in a higher priority socket than ADFS and it might work correctly. Well I happen to like...... ar...

ADT (theres a BBC one on STH, but isn't the Elk one different?) JAFA mode 7 rom I've been using ADT on the Elk just fine, it's by ACP which became PRES so I think it's possibly written just using legal calls so it works on all the 8bit machines, DaveH will either confirm or deny this at somepoint n...

I have a first byte interface at my brothers house, if your not in a rush I'll collect it next time I'm up that way.... but if anyone else can help before then feel free to.

I'm sure I used to play this on my A310 back when it only had 4Mb of memory, I'll have to try and dig out the disc, wether it'll still be readable is another question, I've lost a few to bit rot.

MartinB wrote:

Wookie wrote:Now everybody can pick holes in my code

Line 20 should be file=OPENUP(filename$)



Ha! You edited it......

I knew I'd make a mistake somewhere, I really should proof read before hitting submit
If that's the only mistake and it works I'll be happy.

do you pad this out to 16k with FF's ? is so how? If you want do this on your Beeb try the following ( make a backup first I have NOT tested this !!!! ) 10 INPUT "Enter name of file you wish to extend";filename$ 20 file=OPENUP filename$ 30 length=EXT#file 40 extra=16384-length 50 PTR#file...

Advance wrote:More stuff for sale shortly. Watch this space.

I'm watching, I'm watching

Potentially interested in Electron UPURS, books, Arc games on 3.5 (have you got Flashback ? 1 of my discs is corrupted) and your bits and pieces, always interested in bits and pieces

Well I've just copied Frogger from floppy to MMFS on my Master and then run it from MMFS and it works perfectly, sorry but atleast on my Master MMFS does not cause a problem, so I think we can rule out MMFS as being a factor, surely it must be some hardware/timing fault with jnbeeb's Master.

Rich Talbot-Watkins wrote: I would try actually physically pulling out the hardware, rather than *UNPLUGing the ROM.

I read what jnbeeb wrote to mean he had phyically pulled the EPROM from his machine rather than just unplugging it, I maybe wrong. Until jnbeeb pipes up we won't know for sure...

MMFS isn't the issue here, as he says he still gets the corruption when running from floppy with no MMFS fitted.

jbnbeeb wrote:The problem shows without MMFS eprom chip in place when loaded from floppy / DFS 1770 too.

Rich Talbot-Watkins wrote:unless all Masters are suffering this problem.

Nope, mine plays it just fine

You'll could use a20k mode and set a text window to a small area near the bottom of the screen (can't remember the VDU sequence, but I do use it in the carnival loading screen). VDU 28,left x,bottom y,right x,top y Just remember text origin 0,0 is top left, not bottom left as is the graphics origin...

I've rebuilt all the eeprom configuration and programming utilities now to make them compatible with any DFS and the worst-case ADFS where PAGE=$1D00 (ffs :roll:) and I've also embodied a few minor tidying tweaks here and there. The only significant difference is that the EELOAD '@' switch now prog...

jamesclephanecameron wrote:Huh, never seen one of these before.

I've saw one years ago but never actually used one, I'd forgotten just how ugly it is

gravity value for each level is in the level_gravity_FRAC_table - I never realised before that gravity gets heavier with each level! - the demo mode fakes keypresses on a timer to play the game automatically - you can change these in demo_keypress_bit_mask_table Very interesting, I always thought t...

duikkie wrote:nobody use the *dget option

Sorry mate my Master has MMFS in it

if it is only one rom tell us :) , we can make a ssd for it :) It doesn't matter how many ROM images you want on a disc I can make a .ssd for it 8) Only I'm struggling to find out how I copy a ROM file I downloaded off stairway to heaven to a real disk. XFER works with images, but I don't have them...

I assume you guys have heard of youtube-dl ?

It's a python script that allows you to downloads videos from youtube, but the best bit is you can choose both the video format & audio quality you want to save.

duikkie wrote:err at line 30.

The sad thing is I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out, I just automatically typed a zero rather than the letter O