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In addition to the music I find a good Malt makes the scanning fly by. Mind you the last few pages need a bit of editing to get them square.

No pictures I am afraid. :( But ... On the level 1 Econet managed to beat the 12K file limit so we could load Sphinx on all computers. Wrote a Teletext server so that a *TELETEXT command typed on any user station logged the station into the server. *BBC1, *BBC2 etc could change channel. The server p...

I used SwissKnife for my 320Gb HDD. It came as NTFS, which was useless to host films for my USB-equipped TV. Formatted to FAT32 no problem and quickly too.

Welcome.

Not tried two singles but I do have two datacentres using dual CF adapters. These work as master and slave, well actually drives 0/1 and 2/3 and give me 2Gb storage total from two 2Gb CF cards.

The dual adapters also work in my A5000 and A4000 to give me two HHD drives.

Got the Best of Software pack - tape + book. It is on my to do list for my archive. What do you need?

Welcome, Rod.

Please backup that Winchester disc as soon as you can. It may fail at any time and the software may be MIA as well as interesting.

Welcome, Lee.

It looks like you are already infected with the Acorn virus. It gets worse, you know, and there is no known cure.

I second that. Mark fixed my misbehaving B+ in no time at all.

Welcome.

When shuffling and dealing cards I use the algorithm below. Don't know if it is efficient but the random numbers cannot be repeated so the shuffle is as random as is the Beeb's random number generator. The code is written in BBCB4W but should work on any BBC BASIC variant from the model A right up t...

I've seen this sort of wiring in lighting circuits before. Generally the red lead is a live input and the black lead is a live output to the rest of the lighting circuit. In the light fitting there will be the neutral wire also coloured black. The two blacks connect to the light bulb. In some of my ...

Welcome, Gordon. :D What to do with just one Beeb? Hmm. A Gotek drive is a good suggestion but that can only do so much. There is nothing to beat a real floppy drive clunking away. :D Get a real 5.25" floppy drive so you can investigate those floppies you have left. Best would be to get a dual drive...

Thanks John. Looks like something exotic is going on with that B+, those &FE60 / &FE62 values are all over the shop for a cold boot. An emulated B+ in b-em doesn't give values anywhere near as interesting. Maybe some non-default ROMs are peripherals are connected? Assuming MOS 2.0 sets up the print...

Using my B+ with OS2.00 I get these values. I don't have a model B connected at the moment. The B+ plays Pacman perfectly OK, though.

&FE60=107
&FE61=0
&FE62=159
&FE63=255

After the pokes
&FE60=11
&FE61=0

CMcDougall wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 25, 2018 10:16 am

^may be out of date.

I have the MMFS+ version that used the useless printer buffer, so page always stays at &E00. Obviously with DFS226 page jumps to &1900.

Have you got a copy of that MMFS+, Col, or a link to a download. I'd like to experiment with it in my machine.

DFS and MMFS reside in the same 32K ROM with MMFS at a higher ROM location; in my case these are ROMs 4 and 5 respectively. By ROM here I meant a PROM. It is a 32K program once only, non-erasable device that is pin compatible with a 27256. It is unmarked though they are current stock from RS-Online.

I run a B+ with MMFS and DFS on the same machine. In my set up only one filing system is active at a time though both claim workspace so that PAGE is at &1B00. DFS and MMFS reside in the same 32K ROM with MMFS at a higher ROM location; in my case these are ROMs 4 and 5 respectively. All the ROM sock...

OK - the Centre for Computing History it is.

Welcome back. Glad to see you've kept the same avatar.

Puncman 1&2 and Puncman 3&4 have been added to my archive. There is a Puncman 5, 6 & 7 out there somewhere. Does anyone have a copy.

The museum in Cambridge has one, I believe.

In theory Puncman 3&4 is in my archive waiting to be uploaded to the website. The documentation is missing in any case. I'll see if I can see to it this weekend.

johnkenyon wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 20, 2018 11:28 am

... because low voltage transformer power supplies with linear regulators are so 20th century.

Looking at the circuit board there appear to be some unpopulated holes. Could these be for terminators or clock speed changing?

I had a floppy drive which wouldn't format or read properly. It turned out to be a lump of oxide residue stuck to the read head. The residue was so hard it would not dissolve with IPA. I got drastic and scraped the reading surface with a scalpel blade (very, very lightly) which removed the gunk and ...

Amazing, this thread has captured some of my thoughts over the past two days. I grew up when thermionic valves ruled and transistors were hailed as the new wonder device that would revolutionise electronics. I love science fiction and back then authors were imagining the future in which computers we...

jgharston wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 14, 2018 1:43 pm

and I'm sure you can get BBC BASIC running in a UK101 environment.

Now that would be very interesting.

jgharston wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 11, 2018 10:40 pm

... Helped FlaxCottage with something. Too tired to remember!...

The order of precedence of Boolean operations in an IF statement.

Yes, this was a great meeting. I loved the Vixen beer. :lol: Thanks to Alex for organising it. =D> =D> =D> Managed to get my Beeb working with Chris's Boobip gizmos. I shoved in a new Issue 4 motherboard (well not new but you know what I mean). The board looks for all the world like a model A that h...