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Beer goggles and reduced size makes me think the tripler/lopt are failing.

Paul

I should add that it was both a privilege and an inspiration to finally meet paulv. Huge admiration at want you have managed to achieve over the last few years. =D> Thank you :) To be completely honest, I still get a bit uncomfortable with praise like this, it's not that it's unwelcome, in fact I a...

Just loading the car. Should be there around 10.

Paul

I'll be there Saturday mid morning for the day and Sunday the same.

I'm bringing my soldering gear and parts to stick together.

Paul

guesser wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 06, 2018 1:44 pm

I've re-done the keystrip as a vector file: https://zxnet.co.uk/teletext/documents/ ... ystrip.pdf

Would you mind if I host this on the retro-kit site too with proper attribution to you?

Paul

I have some of those that Mark has linked to. They work fine

Paul

At least on of the links appears to be incorrect. BOOT - Runs the Lancashire Polytechnic's Halley's Comet program Instead of disc1=CLP0195.ssd in the URL it should be disc1=CLP195.ssd https://computer-literacy-project.pilots.bbcconnectedstudio.co.uk/jsbeeb/index.html?disc1=CLP195.ssd&loadBasic=%2Fbe...

It was quite funny.. on my first test I was playing some music samples left on the hard disk.. One of my kids looked up and asked "Who's phone ringtone is that?" Welcome to the forum! I do hope you gave them a potted history of the SoC ARM chips and told them they were actually looking at the forer...

DON'T plug it in. It may be an anticlimax seeing as it's been off for over a month... Get a long flat bladed screwdriver with a metal shaft, but fully insulated handle. Attach a wire from the shaft of the screwdriver to the metal chassis of the CRT tube. Put one hand in your rear pocket, don't lean...

The if evaluation took me a couple of reads as you have equality and assignation in the statement so on first read, it looks like you've missed a couple of = symbols out accidentally but they're actually correct as they are. For clarity, it may be worth doing the assignation before the if rather tha...

Ahh, thanks Paul - you're a star.... =D> 8) I was going to contact you via email because I didn't want to just assume you had the personal bandwidth to deal with the update. Anyway, you have and that's great! I'll update my post above later to add the standard UPURS Retro-Kit link. Ta No problems. ...

For someone to sponsor a bounty of that size would mean that you'd have to have some sort of viable business model to give you a sizeable ROI that was critical for that bounty to be completed AND be something only RISC OS could do. I can't think of any situation that would make that a long term via...

Cool, I've updated my UPURS page to reflect the updates too

Paul

The only necessity for the DDE is if you want to rebuild the whole ROM. If you really want to develop one of the OS modules, most of them are compilable for softloading, and this is (at least theoretically) possible with GCC. Theoretically? OK. I've previously developed a soft loadable module for R...

I know most of the community are "outsiders" regarding RISC OS and the shenanigans that have led us to this point, myself included but as a member of the community, after watching that video I can't help thinking that things are being over complicated with bounties and legalities etc. especially whe...

There's one here

https://www.retro-kit.co.uk/user/custom ... ystrip.pdf

Paul

dp11 wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 28, 2018 4:25 pm

For an extra £2.00 I will supply all the bits except the cable and connector to get +5v to the board .

That sounds like a plan. I'll definitely take you up on this.

Paul

Much respect for taking this on. I've often wondered about doing something similar with one of my beebs and fitting turned pin sockets throughout but the prospect of doing it is quite daunting.



Paul

The A7000 is basically a cut down RISC PC with poor expandability options. It's fully compatible with the RISC PC but you can't have a CD drive if you want a back plane....

Paul

Personally I find the older A3xx, 4xx and 400/1 machines have more character than the later machines. The A540 is an evolution of those machines and is easily the most expandable of all the ARM 2/3 based machines. It is however, the rarest and most costly of them all and the RAM expansions can be te...

I thought that was Rob Zombie when I first saw it...

Paul

It sounds like a decoupling capacitor. I think you may be misreading the value on the thing though, it's more likely to be an F than an S. The machine can operate without the odd one as they're there to provide a bit of extra power in the event of voltage drops and smooth out spikes but really, in p...

Yep, getting connection is not private errors here on Chrome, though you can continue at your own risk. On every page request. That's really bothersome... I don't know why Chrome doesn't allow a "remember choice for this site/session" or an "I know what I'm doing" or a "I trust this site" option. A...

Whilst testing my VS build, I spotted a bit of an issue. To verify it wasn't my changes, I replicated the same issue the MinGW build Steve provided previously. You can see in the first image, the correct colours for the screen, then the same screen in a VS built and MinGW built version with PAL Emul...

I'll be bringing my soldering equipment and multi-meter at the very least so could take a look for you.

Paul

Paul, I don't have time for a length reply just now, I'll see if I can reply more fully later but, in brief: No worries. 1. On gcc on Linux and other Unix-like systems VERSION is set via GNU autotools, a script, and the Makefile to either a released version number or the current git commit identifi...

Following on from my last post, at the time of writing, when previewing a pull request the fork can be merged with the stardot master and it should have no effect on the ability to build with other tool chains which is cool :) There are two things I'd like to fully bottom out though which I'm strugg...

It seems to be working fine on my Visual Studio build of B-em although my arcade gaming skills are and have been so poor that I don't even get past the entry to the first "cave" section.

Paul

They're not cheap but they are available...

https://www.littlediode.com/components/AY3-4592.html

I guess it depends on the amount of time you want to invest in coming up with a new drop in replacement or just getting it up and running.

Paul

For the through hole Archimedes machines, I designed this a couple of years ago. https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=10968 It simply, replaces a borked through hole version with a SMT version of the same chip and provides I2C as a breakout. It does depend on the basic functionality of...