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Nothing in the ROMs moving PAGE?

Rather unlikely to get to &2500, and even if it did, not likely to be all zeros ...

Monster: Hopper: So to answer your question I think you are not a Monster, you are a Hopper.

Cough. Shuffles off stage left.

KarateEd wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:21 pm

It ends on this coming Monday, 9 PM UK time.

Thanks, Ed. Had a few more goes but still stuck in the high-20Ks. Too slow, too stupid, and too lazy to work out the ghost patterns.

Will try and get past the 30K mark as a personal goal ... but expecting to fail ...

What a pain. Seemed like things were on the up and now back down again. Frustrating but ... nowt like folk.

Good luck.

klintworth wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 26, 2019 5:26 pm

Ok Richard - over to you!

26670

I want to see if I can get to 30K ... but lost track of when this round ends, but the first page says "9pm on Monday the 4th of January and ends at 9pm on Monday the 18th of February" ...

So how long have I got ?

Sounds like you had lots of fun ...

But don't let him win too often!

fwibbler wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:55 am

Had one of my best ever goes at this this morning and got what I thought was a fantastic score until I saw the rest of them
Must try harder still!

Don't worry, I know who is going to be last in this round ... and it's not you!

Sega Mega Drive...greatly regret it now! Me too - Megadrive (never had the CD add-on). But did get rid of the Master system add-on, and a Master system, NES, SNES, Atari 520 STFM & STE, Amiga 1200 etc. etc. :cry: At least my Dad was in charge of the BITD BBC B (well, it was his!) so that was kept. :D

(First two paragraphs are repeated as para 1 para 2 and then para 1 para 2 again. Not that it really matters?)

Great game but I'll definitely be at the bottom of the table for this one!

23,580 for starters.

That's exactly what I was after ... thank you.

No purpose other than my enlightenment.

Plus once you posted links here all the search engines would have started crawling your pages and using up some of that bandwidth to get and index the content.

Sure you'll be back online soon.

Blasting past me and no time for me to have another game ... you win (2nd last place) this time!

Yes, Dave, but I was trying to work out WHERE that was in the photo. :-k Not knowing what in the photo was a RAM IC or where pins 1 & 2 of that were made it a puzzle for me :?: :idea: :-s :-k I'm not much good with hardware but trying to learn. :D My guess was right and my question was answered by m...

daveejhitchins wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 13, 2019 11:06 am

1) If you can solder (?) Just form a solder bridge between pins 1 & 2 of the 62256 IC (see photo).

Dave, I'm curious - is the bridge the blob almost dead-centre vertically in the photo? Don't have one of these, just trying to work out what's what in the photo.

That's a good result! Thanks for the update, too.

Got through Cave 3 and met the spider ...

41280

Looks interesting so I'll have a browse around.

From the index page:

Please drop me an email if you spot any error's or omissions or you have any information that can be added to the site.

Umm ... I've got this thing about apostrophes, sorry.

Must be very old books - pre-DFS ?

If you search the forums for "d00" you'll get a few hits / more information.

Arrgh, cleared the cave and died trying to get to the owl ... missed by 1/2 inch (only cave 4 ... or maybe it was only 3!)

Not a bad game at all but definitely not one I'm going to excel at (no, don't ask me which games those are!)

29810

Could you do this by intercepting the VDU vector and building up words I wonder ... :-k So on entry to the routine, if A-Z a-z then store in word buffer. If punctuation like space, comma or full stop, send word buffer to speech synth and clear word buffer. Regardless of whether storing in the buffer...

Stock Car and Dogfight for me ...

Welcome!

Don't be in too much of a rush to get rid of anything ... it's a lot more expensive if you change your mind!

Know the feeling re. computers at work ... and about being time-poor ...

Never did much useful at school (and nothing much has changed!) but for A level computer science (or was it computer studies?) I wanted to use one of the BBC Bs the school had. But no, had to use a RM 480Z ... the BASIC wasn't as good. Wrote a magazine subscription database system (exciting, I know!...

Sorry to hear about the upset. I'm trying to write something useful about the thread but failing miserably. I don't think anyone had malicious intentions ... just different perceptions and goals and concerns ... :-# A break is good so hopefully you recharge your batteries. Go and play in the high-sc...

Chris, your stuff is clearly great. Don't let unpleasant people put you off keeping the retro scene alive! Hear, hear! You see the same sort of silliness on Amazon. People give a book a one star review because it got damaged in the post or they didn't like the cover or something UTTERLY unrelated t...

Do you mean using an 8-bit machine or an Acorn machine? Or definitely something on Windows/Linux? You could run a BBC emulator (on Windows or Linux) and slurp in the code and save it tokenised (but don't think that counts as easy) but that would be using 8-bit software. EDIT: e.g. this in Beebem ......

I stumbled across the Basic Engine before and it looks interesting

But got Raspberry Pis of all sorts & sizes, Adafruit microcontrollers galore, let alone a lot of Acorn & other 8-bit machines and widgets ... don't need any more!

Can't help with the problem but this might be better in the 32 bit | Hardware forum?

rwap wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 01, 2019 6:23 am

The Retro-Printer is now available for purchase - www.retroprinter.com

That looks interesting!

On the web page you've linked to, the last three sections all fizzle out mid-sentence?