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Interesting. I had a board identical to that. IMAG0686.jpg It too was not working, though it had been advertised as working. Before sale the previous owner had 'kindly' cleaned it, wiping away a considerable portion of the CMOS area, tracks, chips, the lot. :( I have retained a lot of the labelled c...

Welcome, Cantra.

Seems OK, Daniel.

What is a bit worrying is the "tight" space. The forum is a great historical repository of knowledge and ideas.

Do we need to crowd-fund buying more space?

Multicore solder is the business. I used that BITD to build valve amplifiers. 1.2mm is a bit big for modern electronics, even my 0.7mm is getting that way. It WILL last a long time. I am still on my original 500g reel of 0.7mm multicore which I bought over 30 years ago! Mind you I used to go through...

Welcome.

Nice machine.

Welcome, Charlie.

Also you may get better results if you format the HD disk on an Archimedes first. OmniFlop formatting is not 100% reliable.

Welcome, James.

Well done!

Welcome, Andrew.

Brilliant, thenks, Pete.

That is a nice indicator. What is the valve designation? It is a new one on me.

Ha ha! I had this problem too because I forgot how the RTOOL program works.

Load the image into the buffer first then write to EEPROM. It works a treat.

I have experience of using a Castle IDE interface mini-podule with a 300Mb real HDD or a SD card reader based on the 1306 chipset (these latter are almost unobtainable now). Both worked really well and appear as ADFS drives. I have also used a Watford IDE mini podule interface from IFEL with a CF ca...

Yes indeed! The output from that is always 'YEUK!"

The DRIBBLE OS. I remember that one well!

It has a very simple command set. All commands are prefaced by "BLAH" and followed by a bash on the keyboard. The more complex commands include "BLAH, BLAH, bash" and "BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, bash, BLAH".

Why use Linux?

RISCOS pico boots in an instant and runs BBC BASIC natively on a Pi zero. The built-in assembler will allow bare metal programming of the GPIO pins so modules could be built to provide I/O connectivity.

Now one will have a 'super-beeb'.

Well, I can dream ...

Sherston: Invisible Ink

This is one of several titles for which I had the documentation but not the software.

Thanks to billcarr2005, who had the software, here is the compete package including documentation.

After a long weekend examining and archiving the haul of floppy discs I obtained at the WROCC Show 2018 I have managed to complete the archive of Sherston: Typesetter! My notes show that I started this title back in 2014. I was missing the FONTS and USER discs and so the title remained until the WRO...

Welcome, Simon.

Welcome, Thomas.

I have now completed the archiving of the floppy discs. Over 200 of them! Perhaps this could be called the DN Baron collection after the collector/originator of all the software. The archives attached below are in no particular order and include mixed content. Each archive contains a csv file listin...

I have just archived over 200 5.25" floppy discs which I obtained from the WROCC Show 2018. There were about 20 useless ones in there. By useless I mean discs which had surface damage visible to the naked eye, traces of 'disc fungus' or ones which threw up disc errors and which would not re-format. ...

The physical discs are variable in quality depending on how they have been stored. Some of the worst discs have a 'look' about them. There are less than 10% damaged and these all came from two boxes. So far I have checked about 150 discs, archiving where necessary. When I have finished I shall dispo...

I like the idea of a different entry page for the educational software as this clearly differentiates educational from gaming although there is some overlap when considering educational games. I remember BITD I used The Sphinx to teach problem solving and logic to my students; when students were all...

I was lucky enough to obtain a couple of hundred 5.25" floppy disks all of which contained educational or 'serious' software at the WROCC Show 2018 from the charity stall. The discs all appeared to be from one collection from someone who worked for the Leeds LEA. Some of this software was 'LOL rare'...

Is your font folder full?

On RISCOS 3.1 there is a limit of 77 files per directory. How many in 3.7?

Maybe there was a typing error and it should have said £49.99.

Just a thought.

Great. See everyone there.