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A long time ago I had an Electron (don't know which motherboard), Plus 1, Plus3, Panasonic KX-P1081 printer and E2P on which I did quite a lot of work. Worked great. It pains me to think that I sold it, particularly the E2P. :( I have reproduced the same system now except for the E2P, having Dave Hi...

I think I have read in another thread that the B-utility ROM is a problem.
Ray

My code translated the 6502 into BASIC, forgetting that the 6502 code shifts bits out of an 8-bit register! DEFFNline(ptr%)=((ptr%?3 EOR (ptr%?1 * 16))*256 + (ptr%?2 EOR ((ptr%?1 AND &30) * 4))) AND &FFFF Thanks Dave & Dave for the BASIC ROM user guide I didn't have that in my collection of book pd...

Interesting. For my example above for line number 30:- lsb : byte 2 EOR ((byte 1 AND &30) * 4) Is: 94 EOR (84 AND &30)*4) = 30 But msb : byte 3 EOR (byte 1 * 16) Is: 64 EOR (84 *16) = 1280 This should be zero. Similarly line number 330 gives bytes 68 74 65 and lsb=74 and msb=1025 where msb should be...

Does anyone know how line numbers are coded/decoded.
GOTO30 is 229(GOTO token) 141(line number) 84 94 64
GOTO20 gives 84 84 64
How do these 3 bytes generate the line number?

Thanks,
Ray

I used the USB A-A cable method on a Windows 7 PC without any problems.
Ray

Just faulty drive. Ray, I can replace this with the same model of drive or let you play with alternatives - let me know. Dave H :D I'll try to make it a 640k drive. I have several modern 3.5" drives that should do - I expect it will need a twisted cable to make it Drive 0. Would there be any advant...

Sorry to waste your time Dave.
I have put the ADFS back into the AP5 slot 13 and set J1 closed on the AP6 - the ADFS is seen at power on and the CF card is working OK!
I presume the ADFS wasn't seated properly when I first tried it though I had tried reseating it.
Ray

This is where it gets interesting: +5V OK - +12V measures 16V ooooch! Drive is officially dead! Probably just the motor drive circuit - but more of that later. Dave H :D Ah well, I was thinking of having a Plus3 with a modern 3.5 inch drive to make it a 640K unit anyway. I can have some fun making ...

I have an AP5 with ADFS and IDE CF card adapter and the ADFS is not seen in slot 13 with a normal Plus1 or with an AP6 with its slot 13 off.
ADFS is OK in the other cartridge slot or a slot in the AP6.
Ray

I have a problem with a Plus3 and Prime's ROM/RAM board. It was working. Then it stopped accessing ADFS discs giving an error whether formatted previously on that drive or elsewhere but working OK with DFS discs. Then (a week or so later) it powered on to a white screen with black stripes, Mode 6 st...

My original Plus 3 came with the stick-on strip for the Electron (long gone) which I duly applied as instructed, as did one I bought recently. I took it off as I always look at the internals to check for corrosion, 'bugs', etc. I thought the idea of the alloy stick-on strip was to shield the electro...

VectorEyes wrote: Could anyone who's done this before tell me what tools they used?

I used a Stanley knife and a chisel to do the same job.
Ray
Edit: I did this on the case without the motherboard.

Ray, I've been using your menu system and it's excellent. I've made a small improvement to the ADFS version though - it prompts to load from drive 1 or 2, but if you have a harddisc this fails because ADFS renumbers the floppy drives as 4 & 5. Also, being pedantic, I would number the drives as 0 & ...

Two GoTeks arrived a couple of weeks ago, also LED and OLED screens, switch and rotary switch soon after. The LED needed some resistors but soon all were set up as second drives on my Electrons' Plus 3 drives, replacing 3.5" HD drives. They are powered from molex 3.5" splitters connected to the Plus...

The colour version does it for me.
Ray

Not under the correct title but the DFS games are now available from the link on the first post.
These are the compilation the disks I produced for MMC cards put back into publisher folders.
A few games' disks are in other publishers folders - the menu prompts for the correct folder+disk.
Ray

I seem to remember these Axxxx machines reported errors through a series of flashes on the floppy drive - like morse code.
The sequence can be used to identify the problem.
Ray

Jeff_HxC2001 wrote:
FYI HxC Gotek can also play ADFS discs (ADF, ADM, ADL...) natively.

Yes, but the original HcX (not GoTek) can't, hence the above HFE files.
Ray

They look great
Anticipation is at maximum
Ray

danielj wrote:In FF.CFG put the line

Code: Select all

host = acorn

and you should be OK?

If it still doesn't work, I'll raise a ticket to fix it - it'll just be down to it not detecting the right size for all varients of adf, it can be fixed quite quickly.

d.

All working fine now.
Thanks Daniel.
Ray

I have made a mistake. The ADF files I have come across are 320K the same as ADM files.
How does FlashFloppy treat ADF files?
I find that FlashFloppy 0.9.16a will not use 320K ADF files but after renaming to ADM it does.
Ray

Electron ADF games that will run natively under the recent FlashFloppy update are available from here viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14947

Ray

I have generated a menu system for the above where the menu and the Emulator can be either Drive 1 or 2. The menu prompts for the Drive to use for the game. It allows selection from A-Z listed game titles or publishers, then prompts with the folder and image to load in the emulator. It can run the g...

Recently the HcX software has been updated so that ADFS discs (ADF, ADM & ADL) are properly converted to the HFE format. HcX and GoTek drives should be able to play these with an AP3 interface or as Drive2 on a Plus3. Also following a recent FlashFloppy update the GoTek can play these files natively...

To finish off - I am using a real HcX emulator, it won't use recent HcX update files that give native support for ADF etc., it won't use flash floppy update files, I have opened a thread on torlus to see if there is a solution.
Ray

danielj wrote:I believe it will. If it doesn't you can always stick the HxC software back on. HxC should also support the acorn formats without needing to convert to HFE though.

d.

At the moment my HcX doesn't recognise ADF, ADM or ADL files.
Ray

If you want to try a version that's supporting this check this test version from the issue 16 thread on github: https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/files/1865255/ff_16_6.zip :) d. Will this flashfloppy upd file work with the HcX since the HcX already has a bootloader? i.e. copy upd file across, pr...

The GoTek can now read the ADF files natively but although the HcX software has recently been upgraded to convert ADF & ADM files properly to HFE, I don't think the HcX can run native ADF/ADM files. Ray Take a look at the HxC thread - it says that the current HxC does support ADF, ADM etc without c...

The GoTek can now read the ADF files natively but although the HcX software has recently been upgraded to convert ADF & ADM files properly to HFE, I don't think the HcX can run native ADF/ADM files.
Ray