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Welcome, Mark.

Sorry I can't help with the website - I didn't even know it existed.

Welcome, Stephen.

Great work.

Hmm, I have one of those, a brand new case in wrapping. I'll have to get it out and built at that price!

Yep, it's here - http://www.flaxcottage.com/Educational/ ... .asp?p=573

Welcome, BeebAl, and well done!

Hay, that's MIA on my website! Any chance of a scan of the documentation and a WAV copy of the tape?

Serendipity or what! I was charging the battery on my A5000 yesterday and it reported a 'no keyboard present' error. Took the plug out pushed back in and booted OK. Dirty keyboard socket contacts? Who knows. Glad you got yours working. The A5000 is a great machine and it hurts when it does not work....

Welcome, Edzard.

Sometimes, if the battery has been removed or has completely discharged, the A5000 will not boot. Try putting a 1.2v NiMH battery onto the board and switch on to let the battery charge for 30 mins or so. The A5000 could then boot correctly if you hold down the delete key on power on. I have had two ...

Maybe the disk cable connectors are slightly corroded/tarnished on the Nottingham BBC. Yours aren't and that is why yours work. Try fitting and removing the cable on the Beeb in Nottingham several times. It might work.

Welcome.

The Master is an excellent machine.

Also you could use a meanwell PSU such as this:

https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/embedded ... s/6447219/

Should fit nicely into the available space.

Claim damages from the supplier too.

Welcome, Andre.

Welcome.

Ah!

Don't forget www.bbcmicro.co.uk.

Almost every game ever written for the BBC is available there.

Welcome, Adam.

The website is lovely and clear.

Welcome Chesh.

Your board name would make an excellent name for a micro-brewery stout.

Yes, really. I have one version of RISCOS 5.xx that I saved from BITD which has the correct BBC MODEs. MODE7 is awesome, much better than a real Archimedes. MODEs 0 to 6 show the same colour palettes and character sizes but are slightly blurred. MODEs 6 and 3 do not appear to have the gap between li...

Nice collection. But there does appear to be still more room on those shelves for adding to your collection.

Odd that you think the colour palette is different, all Arthur and RISC OS screen modes default to the same palette as the BBC series. In practice that is not true of Raspberry Pi RISCOS. With one historical exception RISCOS 5.xx on the Pi defaults to 64 colours in BBC MODES, including MODE7 for so...

Check the line driver IC. These go down quite frequently and cause all sorts of problems.

Good luck with that pile, Ian. It will take ages as I know from experience. Arcadian brought me over 1000 discs a while back to archive. I did them over a few weeks but still haven't got round to cataloguing their contents. At the moment I am archiving a load of discs loaned to me - most of them wer...

IanJeffray wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 14, 2021 9:29 pm

Another contender enters the ring:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174596386100
Retrobrittled, only RO2, standard ARM2. Gotek to make it ugly. 3rd party mouse. Bleh.

BLEH! is the word. Only a Gotek in there limits the machine so much - as a second drive maybe, as long as it is external.

A metal case machine using RISCOS 3.11 - has to be an A5000. But then I am biased. :lol: If you can find the 33MHz version they fairly whizz along for the retro stuff. (If you want faster, go for a Raspberry Pi with RISCOS.) I have basic 25MHz one with 4Mb RAM, two floppy drives a silent PSU fan and...

How did we get on without the internet?

Yes, that one will go for a bomb! Interesting to see just how much it will make as mine is almost exactly the same spec.

Welcome, Craig. :D The A3000 is a great machine for games and that retro Archimedes feel. It does have a few limitations though (those are part of its charm); 1. the floppy drive is 800K, which can feel a bit small, 2. it has limited screen MODEs unless you add a hardware addition, 3. the printer in...

Welcome, Erik.

Nice Atom.