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It can detect the NULA and make the colours more arcade-y

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It's a straight dither - you can see it in beebem. Your display hasn't the fidelity to distinguish the individual pixels.

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Yup, the cap's the right way around on your picture - VSS is next to where it says "Acorn A3010". Pin 1 is marked by the circle on the silkscreen for the ICs - so those should be at the end that says "front".

Brilliant - pleased you're all up and running!

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Is this with a cp/n format disk in the drive?

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0xC0DE wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 20, 2019 6:19 am

I certainly will! Any definitive tutorial on recapping an Electron?

You don't need to recap an electron

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Likewise - I think your best bet is to post up your symptoms and we'll see if we can get you fixed - There aren't many undead master motherboards floating around!

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Hi James, welcome to the forum!

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IanS wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 19, 2019 1:00 pm

According to the website there is also someone called David Jameson exhibiting, is he related?
https://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk/exhibitors.php#181

*strokes chin*

The modern ram/rom solutions are far less power hungry and more flexible than the old 16 ROM boards - especially with an issue 3 I'd go that route. No need for gotek *and* MMC, and seeing as you've already got a disk interface installed I'd just go with the former as it's much more flexible. Many pe...

Hullo Rich

But I think we can safely say that zinc batteries aren't "leak proof"

Hullo Courtney, welcome to the forum!

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Zinc Carbon batteries leak worse than alkaline... The zinc gets all used up and they barf goo.

Should do, yes. Or you can use any PC floppy drive (you might have to change the jumper - sometimes a 0ohm resistor - to make it drive 0 though!)

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Flips this boolean to false:
which disables telnet control codes
- this didn't cause an issue originally, so I'm assuming something changed on the telstar end of things?

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I contemplated it, but it does make the plastic more brittle... My electron's got quite a good suntan but, meh, it's just part of it being old

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Martin - I'd use a NiMH AA in a holder off board. Or a varta mempac but mounted away from the board on flying leads...
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Ick Get that snipped out quick-smart, and as Paul said - white vinegar, an old toothbrush and a good final rinse with distilled water (I don't use that, but I'm in Manchester and the water's ridiculously soft here).

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It'll be possible to transfer one format to the other... I'll see if I can update my java tool to do it

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Is this to get them off a real beeb and then use them back in the emulator? Or to use in the emulator from scratch? The usual way on an emulator is just to take a 200kb or 400kb file (ssd/dsd) and attach that to the emulator. I think you can even just choose "insert blank disc" in one of the menus a...

You can either desolder them completely or just one half and bend the pcb 90 degrees, hooking the encoder back in with short wires.

Hi Colin!

That's sector not found iirc?

At a guess, the directory needs to be changed to $ (which is root on a beeb) rather than . (which is root on the atom, and also I assume system?)

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Neat please :-) In that case, it's the pin headers (2.54mm pin header - e.g. https://www.toby.co.uk/board-to-board-pcb-connectors/254mm-headers/ths-valcon-254mm-single-row-pin-header/ - other suppliers are available!), and the dupont cables people have listed above. Or you can use crimps on the wir...

Yup.

A beebscsi mounted internally from the 1MHz bus is fine, but mounted from the internal header with the VFS board won't do what you want it to. If you want modern hardware that mimics the original hardware, appears to software as the original hardware, and hence is properly compatible, the gotek/beeb...

OK - not on my phone anymore :) The question is how much do you want to spend? The neat way to connect the encoder to the main board is to put headers in, then crimps onto the wires to the encoder, then plug them in. The cheap (and quicker) way to do it is just to solder wires from the encoder direc...

Not really as these things change... Let me have a look a bit later for the basic stuff and point you in the right direction.

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