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Well, in Derby quite a lot of the buttons don't seem to work properly. You have to press them several times before they light up.

Great - thanks Kees

That's great, thanks.

Kees, do you still have the disassembly of the Electron version that you started with? I've been trying to create my own but using your version would save me some time. I know it's not that hard to do, but my rate of progress is 100x slower than yours!

Good news: I've kind of fixed it now. :D I decided there must be something nasty lurking in !System somewhere. I was sure I'd updated something about it - apparently it wasn't CLib, but the Toolbox modules were definitely in there, which wouldn't have been the case originally. I think I put them in ...

Loaded Vprotect as part of desktop boot file, and also tried running Sparkplug from RAMFS. No change unfortunately.

frustratingly, that didn't help at all. :( I tried various versions, but they all resulted in the machine locking up. What's more, I have discovered that v3.99 is actually a ROM module in Risc OS 3.10, so it must be ok. My recollection of softloading a newer version must have been false. CLib is the...

Thanks everyone - the way that certain versions work but others don't is a bit strange!

Anyway I'll give those a try.

I understood that part Jon, I just wasn't sure what the complete explanation was for the problem. However, having revisited the machine today I think I understand what has happened, and why it is causing a problem: 1) Not too long ago, I installed a piece of software which needed a newer version of ...

Another possibility, I wonder if you have one of ye olde RISC OS viruses, as these would affect disc based programmes and not ROM apps, and I recall often lead to crashes once they'd overwritten themselves a few times. Do you have VProtect module loaded at boot (assuming you have a hard disc?) Hmm,...

Thanks! I did wonder about Clib. Assuming its the cause, what would be the underlying issue - inappropriate version? I'm not sure I understand the sequence of events you are describing.

Bit of a strange one this. I went to use my A3000 today for the first time in a few months. It has always worked OK before and I have not changed anything recently. Risc OS works fine and I can copy files, open directories etc. BASIC programs are fine. ROM-based apps (eg !Draw and !Edit) work fine. ...

Glad to read you got it working! :D I don't think it is particularly fast though - in fact I think I read somewhere that it is actually slower than a real floppy, and it certainly seems that way. You're right about the buzzer being quiet. The Flashfloppy wiki does mention that you can fit a loudspea...

Are pms enabled for you generally? I see you've only made 15 posts in total, so maybe not yet.

Solution: I will PM you my email address.

Not as far as I am aware - I didn't know you could turn them off!?

I can see that you've received my message. What kind of error message are you getting when you try to reply?

@Dunkinator - PM sent

I have just been playing Black Angel again, and I think I might have written this game off too soon (26 years too soon, in fact). It's starting to look a lot better. I realised that there is a very small reference in the manual relating to finding the Star Gates. It is buried on what feels like page...

Here's the manual... EDIT: ... and it turns out I don't need to image my discs, as working .JFD images already exist on the web.

Sorry to hear about your problems and well done for seeking advice! I've only got one thing to add to the comments above, which is that you don't need to be stressed and nervous when inserting/removing ROMs. It's not really a high risk process, you don't need to wear an anti-static suit or be in a c...

ADFFS can cope with protected discs, and sirbod on this forum (and indeed this thread) is the author, so don't worry!

The biggest issue with Arc games is the terrible copyright situation affecting them.

That might be tricky, as I don't know anyone with an Amiga. However, I was planning to use ADFFS to image the disks, surely that will do?

So far I've found time to read the manual and try out the discs to see if they still work. The good part is that the discs do work, as far as I've been able to test. :D The less good part relates to playing the game itself, which gave me a bit of a flashback to 1992 and reminded me why I never playe...

Good news ... I have found that I have both the discs and the manual!

I will see if I can image the discs and will scan the manual. Might take me a while though.

The Amazon listing says this: Connectors: 1 x VGA 15-pin male on one end - 1 x S-Video mini-DIN 4-pin connector and 3 x RCA composite connector on other end. • This VGA to S-Video + 3 RCA Adapter connections your PC / Laptop to LCD projector, HDTV, or any other display devices. Note: This adapter wi...

Hang on a minute... as of right now, it's changed to a green padlock on almost all pages! Have you changed something? This doesn't apply to every single page though. The thread Re:BeebSCSI mini shows a white circle with a !, meaning 'connection not fully secure'. This applies to pages 3-5 of that th...

'your connection to this site is not secure'

Wiping the cache has helped. I no longer get all the warnings, just a red triangle symbol with a ! in it.

I'm getting these warnings as well, on my Android tablet. I've just installed the latest version of Chrome and if anything, the warnings have become even more dire!

In Windows, and on my iPhone, everything seems OK though.

I think they are:
LS00 - not gates
LS33 - nor gates
LS682 - 8 bit comparator

I wonder how the comparator is being used in this context?

Not experimented with *free yet, but adding padding to my unrecognised images has fixed them.

I did also make a file containing 640*1024 zeros, with a .ADL extension, with a view to formatting it, but this was rejected with err 31 again.
Maybe it needs .ADF?