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A charity shop contacted me the other day asking if I'd be interested in taking a rather battered Hybrid 6000 sensor unit off their hands... I've not had a chance to test it yet but when I took it to pieces it seems someone had put bubble wrap inside the head unit to stop the sensor and the PCB comi...

sirbod wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 06, 2019 3:32 pm

A RISC OS 2 era version by any chance? RISC OS 3 added a legal method to detect the floppy disc controller.

TBH, I'm not sure. It's a copy of Acorn Desktop C - Release 4 which I thought was the first RO3 era version but now you ask, I don't actually know.

Paul

Quote danielj I guess it depends on the version, the installer with the version I have definitely requires the 177x disc controller to detect the disc change because it hits the hardware directly. On the later machines it just locks up because the hardware isn't there. God only knows why they did t...

Certainly my version of the Acorn C development environment which is release 4 will not install on an Arc without a 177x FDC but once you get it over onto one of the later machines it works just fine. It's just the installer that doesn't work... If you'd like a copy of my fresh install in a zipped f...

IIRC some of the C/C++ installers look for the 177x disc controller, hitting the hardware directly to do so so if you're trying to install from those discs on any RO3 machine that doesn't have that hardware the installer dies. To get around that, I installed it on one of my older Arc's then cos the ...

This is just so clever. =D> =D> The difference in colour recovery and colourisation is quite clear when you see the product of both techniques within a short space of time. I recently got round to watching the new WW1 film "They shall not grow old" which is impressive but ultimately, distracting bec...

Making Pod explode :lol: Podd explodes? I never tried that! :lol: :lol: :lol: Paul Wasn’t he called Pob??! Apparently not!! We definitely called him Pob at school Never mix Pob anbd Podd... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dqxZo_myyA <= Pob https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LYPsdBNTi8 <= Podd

You drop your hot soldering iron onto a solid concrete tiled floor and it lands tip first...


Got another iron on order now

Paul

vanpeebles wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 08, 2018 10:11 pm

Making Pod explode

Podd explodes? I never tried that!

Paul

That photo is mine.... I hooked up a VELA to a pH meter and a Beeb to track the progress of a titration, running a strong acid into a strong alkali. https://www.retro-kit.co.uk/user/custom/Acorn/Education/TitrationGraph.gif As my Chemistry teacher at the time said in a rather amazed tone... You've p...

daveejhitchins wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 07, 2018 5:09 pm

Thanks to PaulV (thank's Paul) I now have the PLD for the original Anna MEMC - and it wasn't locked

Here the .jed file. If someone has the time to convert this to a .pld file??

MEMC ANNA PLD.jed.zip

Dave H

Cool

Chris . . . If you want to lose a pack or two (?) I use them! I could collect at ABUG. Let me know if, and what price. Dave H :D I'm always in need of right angled headers so if you really do have some spare I could use a pack or two too... I can't pick up but I'm happy to pay for them and postage ...

I actually have that PAL in a reasonably easy to find spot. I spotted it when I was preparing for ABUG so I've seen it in the last month.

If someone wants to read it, I can dig it out and send it.

Paul

I've not come across one and what's most irritating is that whilst the Music 2000 has a MIDI IN, it doesn't do much and you can't use it to control the Music 5000 from a MIDI keyboard or record the MIDI playback using the Beeb .

Paul

Life has a way of throwing curve-balls like that, I know only too well. the good thing is you're still here and still have a love for it all.

Welcome back

Paul

I bought a cheap gun that came with a selection of rivets and picked the rivet that most closely matched the originals. My rivet gun looks like the one in the video linked above.

It's really, really easy to do and this was my first attempt at using a rivet gun too.

Paul

I'd definitely be interested in this. Bring able to switch between the various OSes more easily is definitely something I'd like to be able to do.

Paul

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