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Hi,

Here's a 80 track DFS disk of the bird descriptions.

The original dump seems to miss some subpages and just repeat an earlier page so I've marked some pages as missing.
I think each bird should have 3 subpages.
The later dumps appear to just have the subtitle pages.

Enjoy!

PJ

Hi, Here are the frames from disk#2 - nothing too interresting - just more subtitles. I noticed there's a number of index pages missing from disk#1 between P173-184, which I've managed to 'recreate' locally but I obviously don't have the actual original frame numbers to use, also p185 (order of appe...

Superb!! - Thanks for posting it - I'm just watching it now.... Hey it's got David as well! His voice always brings to mind a cave full of bat dung to me! That's a terrific picture for composite video. If you don't know much about Laserdisc (I didn't) Techmoan has an informative video about it: http...

Hi There, Thanks a lot for that BeebMaster- Terrific Stuff! I'm not familiar with that disk format but I managed to extract all the teletext frames by doing a binary dump (Frame#1 begins at offset 0x6300 for instance) - they have bit 7 set but otherwise are in normal mode7 format. I've attached all ...

Hi,

Can anyone post the Ceefax pages from the 'British Garden Birds' laserdisc?

Thanks

PJ

Yes - looks like mine is an issue #1 - thanks for showing me exacly where that is.

Thanks - interresting to know!
You know I've never networked my BBCs - I use UPURS via the user port or a Datacentre to get stuff across to it from a PC...
PJ

So I opened up my Master up again today and here's a photo: power.jpg From sprows site it smells like this: (and it still actually works!) http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/howto.htm#powersupply Leaking or smoking filter capacitor During normal operation an acrid burning smell comes from the power supply v...

Hi,

I opened up my Master today and I was wondering what this is?
PJ

The Master actually sort of worked! There was no link present (I guess it's issue #1) so I tried the transistor to transistor bridge method master.JPG with a 50v 470pF capacitor... 50v.JPG The result was a 'hint' of color - maybe the probe wires were too long I'm thinking - but everything is SO smal...

Soooo....
Turns out my Model-B has the link but a transistor is bent over it so there's no way I'm going to get to it...

Thanks for the document and picture - very helpful - I actually have a Master 128 and a Model-B - I'll have to open them up to see what mother boards they have got. Do you think my 'tape a bare wire' across the link is a sensible idea? What I really need is some sort of conductive Plasticine... Wow ...

Hi There, Amazing I think I have never used the composite video output from the BBC until last week! Once I got myself a BNC to RCA adapter (BNC - isn't that what 1970s networks cables used?) I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the signal and the fact that RGB and composite output at the sa...

Hi There, So I'd left my Master on all day yesterday and came home to a burning plastic smell ! I opened it up and nothing obvious looked damaged but the smell was coming from the power supply area. Has anyone got any suggestions what I might do to fix it? Can you power a BBC from a modern external ...

This works - fix for v56.0 and earlier:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/commen ... 602_older/

Well spotted! Yes - it's actually a Windows version of Frak! I'd written - there's a few subtle changes - like the palette if you look closely - so it really is widescreen!
PJ

Hi There,
I Love your mode7 stuff - could you post edit.tf links for them so I could transfer them to a real BBC?
Also that VR gallery program looks awesome - the perfect blend of modern technology meets old school! - my VIVE is ready and waiting to test that!
PJ

Just in time for X-mas day!
Here's some Classical Music to chill out to...

Running the BBC Computer Literacy Project Software in jsbeeb is fun, but I wanted to run this software on original hardware, so here are the ssds from https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/beeb : BBCCLP.zip Thanks so much for that - I was trying to download them myself (...

https://tedium.co/2018/06/07/acorn-arm- ... s-history/

Good read!

Re: Adventure by Bob Anderson

Bob Anderson wrote a different game called 'Cosmonaut' that appears on the Beebug Cover disk 3-10.
I found no other reference to him.

By the way do you have OCRs of the Beebug magazines?

PJ

Looks like your links are set to localhost:

http://localhost/egg/public_html/egg/la ... ype/games/


comes from clicking on bbc micro b on this page:

http://www.everygamegoing.com/egg/landi ... Type/menu/

Time to get down to the DISCO!

Here comes Sid Disk #18 - Club Hits!

26 Massive Tracks Remixed for the SID!

Hi, Here's a program that sets the base 8 colors to a 'softer' version - much easier on the eyes! It's Basic so you can change it to set your own favourite palette. You run this program first and then run the game of your choice and it will automatically pick up this new palette until you power down...

Hi, I just installed my one Worked perfectly first time (and the Retrocentre amazing didn't get in the way so the lid came back down OK) The first time I powered it up I got a blank screen and panicked until I realized the Scart cable was still unattached - ha! ha! I was very lucky to have an issue ...

Wow! That is pretty cool - the historical intros are brillant - and you attention to detail with all the changed logos etc is really nice. I can think of a few others for disk#2 - Pengo, Firetrack & Crypt Capers come to mind and I always prefered Watford Electronics version of Centipede (Crawler) wh...

Here's a Repton remake I came across for the PICO-8 console:
http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=29694

Video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF81vpXoR4Y

The PICO-8 has some really good games - there's also a version of Mazezam:

http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=29708

PJ

Seems it was a little later - Oracle started in Jan 1987 !

Wow! This is absolutely amazing! (Apart from from the fire sound that sucks) - it made me remember the first time I ever played it which was on one of those cocktail sitdown machines... Love how you've done the colours (the original was monochrome with the colour overlay as I remember ...) Please, P...