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What they've said above!

Think you are in Australia, though, so might be a bit more challenging unless a local user can help.

I've had machines sent from Mark Haysman to NZ - so it might not be a cheap option but it IS an option.

Definitely don't give up or get rid of the machine.

Most recent ones with MySQL rather than electronics. A few years ago, thought I was in a work project's database, did DELETE FROM user ... but I was in the mysql database so had just nuked all the MySQL user accounts. I'd missed out doing USE <project-name> first. I'd done a SELECT * FROM user a whi...

You need to contact Virgin Media (don’t use and contact details in that email) to confirm if it’s actually been sent from them. +1 to this. My Dad was contacted (but I think that was by phone and they were a bit vague) and got scammed into granting remote access etc. etc. etc. You can guess the res...

Your post is in the wrong place - this forum (the original location) is for the discussion of new ideas and chat about software you'd like to see on old computers.

I'll move it to 8 bit high scores - that's what it seems to be more about, I think. If I'm wrong it can be moved again.

Looking good

See also: viewtopic.php?p=307299#p307299

OK, I've fixed fudged as suggested. dfs/dfscat.js - lines 80 to 88 look at the file extension to decide what to set ddd to. So I've left the existing logic for ddd there, this just overrides it. 76 networkGetBinaryBlob(diskPath) 77 .then(function () 78 { 79 checkDiskType(); 80 ext=diskPath.substr(-3...

the original code was open-sourced on Github so I'm pretty sure you'll be okay to tweak it, especially as you'll be saving someone else the work! Well, that's the protocol issue I'm concerned about - I'll be changing some code to make it work in one place, of no value (I don't think?) to anyone els...

Since the topic subject was "CRC-32 calculator for files on SSD" and since a CRC-32 calculator is missing from the functions of the BBC Disc Image Displayer, I would've thought the request was fairly self explanatory :roll: Still don't see how a Windows EXE is useful on a FreeBSD server r...

Is there any chance of adding this feature to the BBC Disc Image Displayer on bbcmicro.co.uk (although I realise a lot of those files are custom, such as the instructions, or "tweaked") What did you have in mind? The code behind the site is PHP/JavaScript, so I can't see the link between ...

I didn't like the idea because it doesn't help fix the shared code (well, somebody else's code, not mine.) Don't want to step on toes - not sure of the polite protocol. But the more I think about it, why not just try a bbcmicro.co.uk fix that might do in the meantime (as you've suggested), and then ...

Hearing the tune made me do a mental time jump back quite a few years

Clever programming but definitely in the too-fast-for-me category. OK, then, in the WAY too-fast-for-me!

It's the same issue as this one: https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=281535#p281535 It is mis-identifying the disc type, so it is reading the wrong sectors. Same sort of fudge works - if I change it to not think too hard about the disc type - it works - so that's definitely the problem. I'...

That's strange - is it just this title or others as well? I'll have a look.

I've subscribed.

Thanks for doing this - the videos were a bit sluggish when I tried the non-You Tube setup, but that could well have been my (mis-)configuration.

There's lots of great content there, so will add to my list of fun things to try and do!

OSCLI is token &FF so at that location DFS put &FFFF. But I haven't figured out exactly why ...

Enjoy the book!

But I think it needs to be wrapped, so you get a nice surprise on Christmas Day!

The Atari ST manual mentions BASIC (and LOGO) and the disk that came with the machine included BASIC.PRG - so that was c. 1987. Not quite the same thing but at least the concept of the home user doing some programming was still thought a possibility!

I don't understand why the hexadecimal values change when I look at the on the pc Vs on the BBC, shouldn't they be CD 19 on all platforms? I don't think this is the cause of your issues, but not sure what you mean? IIRC, COPY CON BOOT.COM just means what you type (CON=CONsole) will be put into a fi...

MartinH wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 15, 2020 5:40 pm

Well played everybody!

Well I don't know about everybody I was useless again. Will try and be more useful with the PacMan testing!

But everyone else

One thing that did seem strange is when editing the binary file (BOOT.COM) with EDBIN (as per the guide) I specify I want to start at 0000 and change the values to CD 19 00 00 00 00 as described, but the guide says there are only four 00 where as, this doesn't account for all the values (so I fille...

Rich Talbot-Watkins wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 08, 2020 5:08 pm

And then what was waiting for you? Another, slightly different loop

Oh, yes, I remember those days! now but BITD

Ah, think I missed the vital ".." as in parent directory part of the CMake command ... EDIT: and with that I got further. I installed fltk1.3 using the GUI Admin->Synaptic Package Manager, searching for fltk, and choosing the libfltk1.3-dev option (that auto-suggests a few others). Then th...

I've got Mint 20, too, and thought I'd jump on and give it a quick go. But I"m stuck on an even earlier step! :oops: I'm missing something very obvious, think I'm missing a git step but not sure what ... 1) Clone this repository (git clone https://github.com/robcfg/retrotools.git) 2) Open a ter...

KarateEd wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 07, 2020 4:57 pm

I'm not sure if we're able to clear the achievements but if not maybe Nick can help in that regard.

No worries, I've managed to get mine to 0. I must have clocked it

I was getting worried about my copy arriving - looks like we're hitting the shipping problems here, too: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/ports-of-auckland-hiring-more-staff-to-help-with-unprecedented-demand-as-ships-wait-eight-days-before-being-processed/RYGWYMHQEWXA5GDIYKSLMDEFWY/ BUT it arrived toda...

Is perl still there? Yep, should have thought of trying that, too. :oops: richardtoohey@Richards-Mini ~ % perl -v This is perl 5, version 28, subversion 2 (v5.28.2) built for darwin-thread-multi-2level (with 2 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2019, Larry Wall Perl may...

I'm actually now looking at Python/Tkinter which I think is probably most suitable in so far as easy portability. Sadly, frustratingly, Apple seem to be removing some open source programming languages from the base install of Mac OS X. You can still install them via other methods (haven't used any ...

I'd like more time so I can get around to giving Frak! a proper go but given my very low participation in the last few seasons feel free to ignore! And I'm not sure I'll find more time, it's that time of the year and summer has started (well in NZ it has).

If anyone wants to join me or just comment on the games or my opinions please do so! I'm enjoying your reports so far, but nothing useful to add ... yet! :D Think we got our BBC in 1982 but only have vague memories of the games we started with - definitely Arcadians and Meteroids and Snapper but ot...