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rmbrowngr wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 15, 2021 3:20 pm

Are these still for sale? I'm interest in an under the Beeb, built, with shipping to Greece.

You can order from Kjell's website?

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Great to see some interest here! I remember the Nimbus BBC Basic port - it was pretty good too, and it's great that BBC Basic still seems to be in active development. Poor old RM Basic is dead as a doornail from what I can tell but I'm determined to bring it back! I don't remember if RM Basic on th...

Having finally managed to run this on proper hardware, it is excellent - very elegantly done!

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Excellent - RM BASIC was also used on the 380z and 480z - I'd guess the nimbus version was an evolution of it? (he says not having done any googling) Our nimbii at school mostly ran the nimbus port of BBC BASIC

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Worth checking the voltages too, at the spades and at some of the ICs... Certainly I got this on my master when I was a touch under-voltage...

I agree. However, I understand that the relative risks are much more marginal amongst the younger population, which is why - even in the UK - the the under 30s are now being offered an alternative to the AZ vaccine. Even with a cut-off at age 30, the JCVI are definitely erring on the side of cautio...

I wonder if the people that suffer from blood clots caused by the vaccine (and eventually died because of this) would have the same issues if they got caught by the covid-19 virus? Or how ill they would be? We'll probably newer know .... My suspicion (courtesy of my inner biologist) is that it's th...

The RISC OS hits the price point and Cloverleaf looks really interesting -- I wonder if I can strip all the GUI away and it boots to command line BBC Basic? Glad you're better! Was it the awful covids? Cloverleaf isn't anything that actually exists at present other than a notion. It was an individu...

There aren't any jumpers that I'm aware of - I confess to not having probed the Master's hardware very much.

Hi John, I'd like one please if still available? Drop me a PM with paypal address

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Do whatever you like with them. But I am planning to do this properly in due course, if I can work out what "properly" means... :D - I'll see if I can get it hosted on here in this thread. Looking at the schematic has reminded me of a question I had when looking at the board: Were the opt...

Wow - those are amazing Thank you! One thing that can be done is to upload them to archive.org, then they're just there for posterity. Let me see if I can get it on this server somewhere too if you're happy for me to?

(having read the rest of the thread) I take my hat off to Ottly for that re-creation. It really is quite an impressive piece of work! The PAL in the econet circuit gets the line turnaround timing right - which the Z80 SIO couldn't do with the exact same timing as the 6854. 380Z, HDFS and FDFS had a...

That's sneaky! :oops: there's no sensible way of taking people so far as I can tell. I think there's a PHPbb extension that does it, but it involves re-dirtying my hands with the guts of the forum and I'm always loathed to do that :D Yes, I do have MDFS schematics in various formats (and also the H...

I'm just bumping this thread up the threading order - I was wondering if arg had seen it, seen the rather remarkable hand-built mdfs, and I wondered if there's actually an official schematic floating around that might be easier to read?

arg wrote:Quote just to bring attention, not a real quote!

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I've got a few bits of gear that I want to get going that have been in storage for nearly 20 years, and I'd appreciate any experience people have to share that might make this less traumatic. 1) 1982 BBC B This had the electrolytic in the PSU 'that always goes' replaced back in about 1987 with a hi...

marcusjambler wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:21 am

Wow this is great
Confirmed working on a Master with a Kortink Reco6502mini copro

That has a short FIFO IIRC?

I think it's fair to say that something is indeed buggered up, but as to what it's impossible to guess without seeing the board or knowing which bits you soldered?

I am exceptionally impressed. The scratch-coding child in this household was also well impressed - which frankly is a much tougher gig to crack, so much kudos!

:) =D> Good work! There's no correlation with how covid would affect you, but the older you are the less likely you are to suffer any of the adverse reactions. The ones you list are all "solicited" - exactly the sorts of things you'd expect to see which let you know your immune system has ...

Hopefully cases aren't quite as lacerate-y now though! You'd think, wouldn't you - although my PC building last year put paid to that assumption! Still managed to slice my hand on something and not notice until substantially later. At least these days you don't create confusion over pin 1 on a ribb...

Boydie wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 01, 2021 2:53 pm

For my gaming PC I bought a bluetooth dongle. With suitable software I’ve been able to pair my PS3 controllers wirelessly. It’ll also allow PS4 and XBox controllers to be used.

Likewise - I can happily use PS3 and PS4 controllers with my PC.

It needs an econet module installed, a 6502 coprocessor (or Pi Coprocessor), some form of hard disk or hard disk emulation, and the level 3 fileserver software:
https://www.beebmaster.co.uk/Econet/Level3.html

I've got one of these - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Digital-Temperature-Adjustable-Desoldering-Rework-Station-Solder-Iron-Gun/254502699335?hash=item3b418b0147:g:VIQAAOSwSxleOM0- which is either a close copy of or identical to the Duratool job. The Hakko thing looks nice though a bit pricey and possi...

Desoldering Station is definitely worth it if you're going to be doing a bit of it. Many people on here use the duratool which is rather cheaper than the hakko and still yields excellent results: https://cpc.farnell.com/duratool/d00672 ... dp/SD01384

Check the theme you're using and delete any cache, then force refresh the page. Edge and chrome use the same rendering engine so if fixed on chrome it should be OK on Edge!

I can’t remember what mix of devices I was seeing it on - I just got used to it I think - but its fixed everywhere now thank-you, Windows and IOS. Well done Daniel, you are a very clever man.... 🤓 =D> 8) No, just stupid brave enough to use vi on the live forum and copy what someone else suggested!

Can people check if this is working properly now? I went and got my hands dirty under the bonnet....

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Yes, you're right - it will draw from the 1MHz bus (somehow!) but doesn't get enough juice to actually operate - I would check that it's actually powered. There's also a fuse on the board that can go IIRC - if you contact Mark Hayesman he should be able to give you more info!

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If you're getting a continuous beep it won't be the ROM, it'll be whatever is connected to the 1MHz bus preventing the computer from booting properly (i.e. the datacentre) - could be dirty pins? Try disconnecting/reconnecting the ribbon cable a few times.