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That is a great collection, Martin.

But watch out for the dreaded magpie bug. Your cabinet will soon be too small to house the collection.

Welcome, Drygol.

Lardo Boffin wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 17, 2018 8:11 am

It produced 4.4 volts on my multimeter. Not sure if that is enough to power a Z88?

I power mine OK from a 4.5v adapter, so 4.4v seems reasonable.

I don't use the MMC system on my Master - I use a datacentre instead.

Tried the 8271 route cos I thought that may show a difference but the result was just the same. Even Disc Doctor struggled to read track 0 as well.

Welcome.

Welcome, Chris.

Nice machine and what a clear bench on which it sits.

https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15728#p215581 did you try my original v121 from this thread a few weeks ago?? I had a disc that done similar with UPURS5r :shock: in the end I just copied it to SD card with the MMFS prog DTOM :) still a weird one though :? I'll give that a go, Col,...

I've only now looked at the programs myself, because I own a Master 128, which wouldn't run the discs. I note the protection code is much more sophisticated than the actual programs. That is often the case. :? I wrote in my hacking diary for the "Fun Phonics" title by Pavic Publications "Way OTT pr...

The disk is Dragon mix. Did you run out of disks to archive, that you're checking over old titles? :o I wrote my own sector reader but that only loaded garbage. What code was your own sector reader based on? The one I supplied was ripped from FSD maker which in turn was borrowed from Enigma Disc Im...

The disk is Dragon mix. Yes I did do that sector read and that shows everything as it should be. I tried several different floppy drives in case it was an alignment issue. They all ran the disk, catalogued the disk but ADI2 would not scan Track 0. I even tried different computers. I wrote my own sec...

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For what it is worth, I had a similar problem on one of my issue 4 boards; MODEs 0 through 6 were OK but MODE 7 would not display. The fault turned out to be the video ULA. Once I changed that everything was hunkydory.

Thanks, Daniel, I'll do that. I have just got a Kryothingy myself but it is being a very silly-thingy to get set up. I have tried 5 PCs and only a very odd and niche Samsung Q1 running XP managed to install the drivers and run the software without errors. Vista and Windows 7 won't touch it! :( Anywa...

This is a weird one. I have a protected disc which catalogues and runs correctly but when I try to examine the catalogue sector, Track 0 Sector 0, only garbage appears in the edit window of ADI2. If I scan the disc, Track 0 is reported as having no sectors. This is not the case as !BOOT runs perfect...

Kenelm wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 10, 2018 11:05 pm

Kidnap!

Master 128 only. Requires disc write access.

Interestingly the accents are wrong. The Master already has French accents defined so why get them wrong? Nice find though.

That's great, jgh.

Now if I can only remember that technique if something like that happens to me.

Welcome, Ari.

That A3020 is an excellent machine. You will enjoy it.

Thanks for all the software posted. Nearly all of it was MIA.

[*]The Dudley Programs – Ballooning [*]The Dudley Programs – Understanding the Weather[/list] Both are by Heinemann Computers/Fiveways Software. The type of protection used is exactly the same as described on the flaxcottage.com archive site under 'Protection'. It's defeated my attempts to crack it...

If you copy the code into BBC BASIC for Windows it takes less than 2 seconds to render. :D The supplied download does not work on a real BBC. All the files report 'Bad program' when loaded, except C.Spheres. The download is a DSD file but IMPORTS as a SSD file into a Datacentre. I tried the SPHERES ...

Thanks.

Thanks for that. I had heard of the title but never seen the package.

The protection sounds interesting. I have met setting &81 before in a protection method.

The only Cambridge Micro Software titles I have were all unprotected.

Did the disc(s) have the date on them?

Welcome, Gavin.

It won't be long before the 'Electron Massif' take you to their collective bosom.

IKEA do some really cheap desks which will do for computers.

I also use a simple 4' by 2' table and have a real BBC micro monitor stand.

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It looks like a coaxial triode and probably for RF work. I'd guess a 2v DC heater with the cathode connected to the heater. The anode voltage, say 90-100v. It is beautifully old-looking. The end caps remind me of some old resistors I once had which fitted into a holder made of tool clips. They dated...

Now that I didn't know. It sounds like a useful idea. Create a Floppy.ssd, then copy it multiple times and Windows will atomatically number the copies for me. Great tip, thanks.

guddler wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:36 pm

Woohoo! I'm rich, I've got one of them on the shelf

Ditto! They must be really rare. LOL.

Yes they are really good. I mounted mine in a spare, self-powered floppy drive case. It looks the part now. The only down side to the whole system is that a new, blank SSD or ADL file cannot be created easily on the drive. I use BeebEm or a Datacentre to create mine and drop them on the USB stick. I...