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That's the one, thank you!

I recently saw an eBay listing for a Beeb with ENFS 3.60, which was an extension of NFS by some clever chaps at Oundle school to add ANFS-like buffering. I can't find it in any of my ROM collections. Does anybody happen to have a copy of this ROM?

Also interested in a board please.

I'd love to have a Cray of my own - I almost bought a Cray-2 on impulse when one was listed on eBay during the first dotcom bubble. Likewise, any of the big old iron like a System 370, PDP11 or CDC6600 would be amazing but I don't have a temperature controlled environment to run them in, so I'd prob...

I've been keeping an eye out for free Cisco routers with a suitable serial interface/WIC but I've only found ISDN and ADSL 8xx series so far. It's a long-term project :-) I also don't think that these gateways were intended for linking two Econets together. They were intended to allow users on an Ec...

jgharston wrote:If the mask ROM is PB01 or PB05 it's BASIC (link)

It's actually a 256Kbit PN66. Updated ZIP with the dump (PN66.ROM) attached to this post.

OS ROM is in IC71, ANFS in IC57, TSI in IC37 and a masked ROM that I'm assuming is BASIC in IC62.

Here you go, sorry this has taken so long. One of the more interesting ROMs might be ANFS 4.25 for (supposedly) B/B+ since I thought those could only run up to ANFS 4.18. The MOS ROM looks very different from a normal B+ MOS and has the same credits string at the end as MOS 1.2 for the Model B.

The co-inventor of Logo died yesterday.

https://twitter.com/LogoFoundation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Papert

FServInit mentions that it is for Level 3 and FileStores, so I had a go trying whilst a Level 3 server was running, but it doesn't work (as I anticipated), it just crashes the L3 server station! Did you try it remotely on the L3 server station without the L3 server running? I always thought L3 serv...

Good job! I did something similar with an Atmega32U2 breakout board with my DIY Econet clock but I used an RS422 differential line driver. The differential PWM from the microcontroller is a really nice touch but I'm wondering whether it has enough power alone to drive a full-length network. Is there...

I'm just thinking along the lines of it being capable of a large partition and also much much lower power consumption (and hopefully silence!) , I can visualise what I mean in my head with this , even if it was a 'modern' replacement with just say half a dozen IC's in it. Take a look at the USB Eco...

Hi Chris, for the Beeb and Master, I seem to remember that the Watford Electronics Diagnostics Disk (viewtopic.php?t=7337) had functionality to test keyboards in the way you describe.

I just read a really enjoyable article on vintage copy protection schemes and thought it was worth sharing: http://www.filfre.net/2016/01/a-pirates ... rotection/

I'd love to see something similar about the various copy protection schemes used on Acorn machines.

I couldn't see anything Acorn-related but the Internet Archive has published a bunch of disk magazines from the 1990s at https://archive.org/details/diskmags.

Unfortunately if you want to keep your costs to a minimum on the Econet side of things, learning to stop hating soldering is likely to be your best option. If you really want to avoid it, you can also pay for Econet 'T' cables from CJE and connect your machines to a clock using those. On the other h...

Not bidding either but interested that IDE+CF is unreliable for you as well. I tried using an IDE1v5 podule in my ARM3 A410/1 with various different CF cards and IDE->CF adapters and couldn't get a reliable setup.

Yeah, I've had lots of fun with these guys over the years. They haven't yet worked out that calling me is just going to mean that I get to waste their time and cause them grief for an hour rather than letting them pester somebody else. Eventually I'll get bored playing with them like phish on a hook...

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Not mine, but two Beebs and a B+ for £55 is not to be sneezed at. If they'd had Econet, I might have been interested myself

Visitors to the museum should (hopefully) find a copy of CommunITel being served off the Econet Filestore at the Museum for Computing History in Cambridge, courtesy of my installation skills and the extremely kind permission of Rob O'Donnell to let me scrape viewdata.org.uk. We used CommunITel at my...

I really want my Turbo MMC and Econet to work together (especially in turbo mode!) and I will test your ROM soon but right now I have too much else to do, sorry. Good job, by the way!

I think I spotted that box last time I was visiting because it intrigued me. If I remember correctly, it was under the tables in the main hall, near the ICL PERQ. That was over a year ago, so it may have moved since then.

To me, Minimus appears very much like a "cut and run" effort compared to anything from a solid manufacturer like Pololu. Nobody wants to have to try and figure out how the board is wired up because the manufacturer can't be bothered to document it or thinks that their board (unlike the hundreds of ...

You might also want to take a look at https://github.com/makestuff/udfs for a cool way to access SSD files stored on a PC or Pi. It's also incredibly fast, even compared to TurboMMC. The problem with using the GPIO pins on the Pi is that they need 3.3v and the Beeb's user port will be 5v, so you'll ...

Cheers KarateEd Wow, that's a nice collection you have there. 3 Beebs? That's dedication Hi Matt, Glad to hear I have some more good company on the Emerald Isle. Just for comparison, I have 3 Beebs, 3 Masters and one each of A5000, A410/1, A540 and a StrongARM RISC PC (last 2 not yet working), with...

For me, it has to be Gauntlet - I would have loved to have seen a Beeb version of that.

I found this at http://www.textfiles.com/hacking/hackinge.txt and thought I'd share it here, since I've never seen it before. We knew about the ?&D22 hack to jam another station when I was at school (I think I've mentioned it before) but not the other hacks here. How much more fun could I have had w...

Here's a ROM version of Zalaga that I found, it can be run with *ZALAGA. It needs to have PAGE=&E00 if I remember correctly.

Great news! I also spotted http://www.drobe.co.uk/archives/index.p ... au/RISCiX/ recently, which I don't think I've seen before. It contains riscosbits.zip which has a SecureBoot module ("Acorn Secure RISCiX filing system") which looks interesting.

sweh wrote:(ANFS418 and TurboMMC)

Did you manage to get it working with NFS yet? I've had nothing but problems with NFS and TurboMMC.