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Yes double buffering is possible, but this is an OS feature rather than BASIC. You should read this - it's the manual for BASIC VI. :D This is the same as BASIC V except it has 64-bit floating point. https://www.4corn.co.uk/archive/docs/BBC%20BASIC%20Reference%20Manual-opt.pdf The manual describes a...

Is it really powerfull ? It was said to be the fastest interpreted BASIC in the world, but of course much of that speed came from the Archimedes machines that it ran on. There is actually a version for the 6502 (called Advanced BASIC), but I would expect this is no faster than BASIC IV. The differe...

Ok thanks for the advice - I never would have considered removing the support podule as I assumed it must be essential. I’m not bothered about emulating the A500 personally, but if you do try please be aware that the rom does seem to be incomplete (although perhaps they are all like that ... and the...

Having watched Paul Fellowes' excellent ABUG talk, I thought I would have a play with it using Arculator v2. I can get Arthur 0.3 running, but I don't seem to be having any success with Arthur 1.2. I have found two images online: - The one on 4corn and Eelco Huinunga's site is a single file which is...

That's the highest PAGE I have ever seen!

Glad you got it working!

.SSD images don't contain any protection, so I don't think that could be the issue.

What do you get when you type
and what do you get from
NB in mode 7 the "~" character will look like a divide symbol.

Chris is right - this is almost certainly to do with other roms making PAGE higher. Have you got ADFS for example?

Unfortunately on a Model B switching off roms is not that easy.

Not as far as I know.

I think some companies might have sold BBC adventure games as being suitable for a 64k Electron, but that’s not quite the same thing.

I think it may work on a 1770 FDC, it’s just that you need a Beeb not a Master.

Just thinking about it, I reckon this is a contender for “Most impressive BBC game written in BASIC”. I can’t think of anything better.

That works for me too, in BeebEm. I understand why it prints the first line of output ("Inside"), but at first I was struggling to see what mechanism resets the contents of the global buffer at T% to "Outside" after exitting the procedure. I assume that it can't be affecting the global variable - is...

This is a very impressive piece of work! I'm not into RPGs so playing it is a bit beyond me, but I can contribute the following:

- The background files are indeed in VIEW format.
- The game doesn't run on a Master, even if DFS is selected (this leads to the "this disk title is not ..." message).

I think it might be that in order to look truly 3-dimensional, it has to resemble an actual scene, whereas what you have got is a series of "textured ribbons" moving at different speeds. Obviously I can appreciate that plotting scenery onto them is probably not practical!

Rather than doing , surely you could say this:
This would force bit 5 to zero if it's high.

BTW if anyone has any photos, links, or stories about the use of Acorn kit within BR (or the successor entities) I'd be interested to see them! Nothing to do with station displays, but... I own the actual BBC micro that was used to justify BR not building any more of the unpopular Pacer trains. The...

Yes I also found the Ovine remake. The graphics are really good and as you say it is more or less the same gameplay. The only slight disadvantage is that user-interface type things that I knew how to operate on the BBC version seem a bit less obvious - but then I only played it for a few minutes.

I just tried the version off Stairway to Hell (ie, not Bill Carr's version attached here) and it seemed to work fine. Having said that, I didn't try saving or loading so I'll need to go back and give that a go. This was using a Master Compact (I don't think that's relevant), Acorn DFS and Gotek. It ...

Very nice - just tried it on my Electron.

There's something missing which kind of limits the "3D-ness" somehow, but I'm not sure what it is. Super smooth though!

Hello Joe

I hope you are recovering well from your surgery - that's a massive thing to have undergone. My dad had the same a couple of years ago.

With the software, I assume its all 32 bit? And is it games, or serious stuff?

Cholo is one of those games which has a great reputation, but I don't know how to play it beyond an exploratory "pressing keys at random to see what happens" exercise. However I can see that the full instructions are on the web, so I'll give it a proper go. There is only one version on Stairway to H...

No, I do mean *CO. NOTUBE. This is for the situation where I want to switch off the second processor. Selecting the null processor doesn't work the way my machine is set up, but NOTUBE switches it off perfectly! I suspect the null processor was intended for BBC B users who don't have the NOTUBE faci...

No worries then, thanks!

Don't worry about explaining Dave, I have found your previous explanation now. I must be wrong in thinking this didn't affect the Pi2, probably that recollection is when I used it on a B. *CO. NOTUBE solves the problem, so its not a major hassle anyway. Is this intube/extube thing anything to do wit...

Aha! Mine is set to Extube, because of something I didn’t mention - this machine is a Master Turbo. I guess I can live with the strange behaviour now I know what is causing it. But what’s going on here - how come selecting the internal tube works with an external device? And also... how come this wa...

That's right - I stopped using the commas in the 80s!

I have recently added a pair of Ken Lowe's neat level shifters to my Master, which means I can run PiTubeDirect on a Pi Zero instead of the Pi 2 I used previously. I downloaded the latest version of PiTube (Fer de Lance) for it, whereas I think my previous setup was still on Egg Eater. Everything wo...

It's just as well that I have left it alone then. I did have some non-working keys at first, but I found that the little conductive pads that press down on the circuit board were a tiny bit dusty. Wiping them with a damp cloth fixed the problem. It was odd because the inside of the keyboard wasn't d...

On a Master, memory won't be the issue. I suspect the loader is issuing a *disc command, which drops you back into DFS.

The trouble is, which other keyboards are you comparing it to? There is so much personal taste with keyboards. That's true, but actually I'd say that the keyboard on mine is actually not very good, leaving aside questions of personal preference. As it's a membrane keyboard it feels a bit mushy comp...

So, similar to your Atom project then Roland? (Maybe identical?)

It is straightforward to add DFS though, so that's not a major issue. There is another advantage regarding space/practicality: The base unit has a 240V output port, so you can power a monitor from it. This means that the monitor, disc drive(s) and computer only need one plug socket. Also, if you rem...