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FourthStone wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 17, 2018 8:49 am

Would love to play through POP but is there a way to compare scores?

how about remaining time?, you only get 60 mins.

Couple of 4mation titles i'd not heard of, Dinosaur Discovery and Worlds without Words https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ACORN-BBC-DINOSAUR-DISCOVERY-4MATION-40-TRACK-5-25-DISK-BOXED-GAME-RARE/283043535922 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ACORN-BBC-WORLDS-WITHOUT-WORDS-4MATION-40-TRACK-5-25-DISK-BOXED-GAME-RARE-...

Commie_User wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 12, 2018 5:37 pm

Though how do I go about taking off the paint or correction fluid he used to mark the record buttons?

my best bet 111 trichloroethane - aka tipex thinner

edit:Nice find btw!

Export Beeb UNB09 Unmade kit https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VERY-RARE-MODEL-UNB09-FOR-US-EXPORT-BBC-ACORN-COMPUTER-IN-KIT-FORM-UNUSED-PARTS/202367217557 Bit rich for me, but interesting and just superb condition. Edit, just looked it up on CCH In late 1984 Acorn moved into the US computer market releasi...

TopBanana wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 12, 2018 6:11 pm

Can’t believe I chucked 4 decent monitors in the skip

It's pretty good this mini logo PU and PD work too!
Commands i've found that work so far...

EDIT:a few of the abbreviation don't parse either?!, yet on a single line they do. I think some of your abbreviations were a bit off (e.g. MID$ and INSTR). Here's the prog with correct abbreviations. It still can't be typed onto one line though*: 1MO.0:VDU28;31,6479;29,640;512;:PL.69,0,0:REP.I.LINE...

One-line LOGO: 1 MODE0:VDU28;31,6479;29,640;512;:PLOT69,0,0:REPEATINPUTLINE">"A$:FORX=1TOVALA$:B$=A$:REPEATC=ASCB$AND31:N=VALMID$(B$,2):IFC=3RUNELSEIFC=10ORC=28OSCLIB$:B$="":UNTILFALSEELSEPLOT4*-(C=8),0,0:P=PEOR-(C=16):A=(A-N*(C=18)+N*(C=12))MOD360:D=N*(C=2)-N*(C=6):PLOT1-P,D*SINRADA,D*COSRAD(A+.1)...

not acorn - But i know your guys have lots of other interests.

I'm after a couple 6526 CIA chips for C64 U1&U2, or understand 8521 in amigas are identical.


Many thanks
Stew

I should have said , that is from Beebug Vol3, Issue 7, Page 9
Hope it's the one you were after?

Scratch that goose chase, that must have just been something else. I think I've found the proper one ... 1L=0:REP.L=L+3:MO.4:DR.1279,0:DR.1279,452:MOVE1279,572:DR.1279,1023:DR.0,1023:F.I=1TOL:V.31,RND(32)+5,RND(31),42,30:N.:P.(L-3)/3:X=0:Y=512:REP.PL.69,X,Y:X=X+4:Y=Y-(INKEY-74+.5)*8:U.PO.X,Y)=1ORX=1...

I think i've found it...but , it doesn't work in beebem?, maybe my archiving missed something.


EDIT: nope, that wasn't it

Ive definitely got this somewhere... I archived all my beeb discs a few years ago so should have it. I'll have a look

When I saw 'flappy bird' a few years back it made me think RipOff!!

We're only talking about the 80s and the past is a foreign country already. I bet if we were shot back there because we love our BBCs so much, we'd have more culture shocks than we'd care to admit. Yet everything would still seem so familiar. My kids don't understand when we go on holiday and they ...

A quick bit of testing gives these speeds on 6502 BASIC looping 1000 times: BASIC IV BASIC II NX%=MX%*4+MX%DIV2 -> 255cs 282cs NX%=MX%*4+MX%DIV2+MX%DIV14 -> 298cs 440cs NX%=MX%*4.57 -> 283cs 423cs SX=4.57, NX%=MX%*SX -> 180cs 309cs (SX set outside the loop) So, the fastest in BASIC IV is to store t...

A quote from wiki

The Apple II's Hi-Res mode was peculiar even by the standards of the day

Rich Talbot-Watkins wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 03, 2018 7:15 pm

Apple ][ is 280x200 I believe (each character block is 7 pixels across, bizarrely). So it may well have come from Applesoft BASIC originally.

yeah!, cross post - yes it's apple 2 basic

Thanks Jonathan i'll try that out. It's from an Apple II system that I understand is 280×192 with a BASIC coordinate system to match, but 0,0 being top left. Your assertion of 285x200 pleases me!, because I did it by eye rather than the actual Apple resolution (the pixels dont feel the same shape!)....

Hi, I'm back looking at this a bit and with the following code the translation works perfectly. 8300DEF PROCLINE(MX%,MY%,DX%,DY%) 8310MOVE MX%*4.5,1023-(MY%*5.1) 8320DRAW DX%*4.5,1023-(DY%*5.1) 8330ENDPROC 8400DEF PROCDRAW(DX%,DY%) 8420DRAW DX%*4.5,1023-(DY%*5.1) 8430ENDPROC Thought inevitable it ha...

Has anyone come across a clip where they are showing off Deluxe Paint on an Amiga. Not the bit where Fred does an animation of a professor in a class room but just a demo of the actual paint package and specifically palette cycling?
It's a dark distant memory i'd like to see again.

I've got all of Micro File and Micro Live now. Looking at the encoding they are all AVC/H264 (Advanced Video Codec) so I trialled converting one to HEVC/H265 in high quality setting. I took Micro File S2E2 "In the wires" which is 465mb converted to HEVC (high quality) and it came out 66% smaller at ...

That works a treat. The extension detects the video played, it even lets me select a resolution and then mixes the downloaded packets to a single complete video file. It's not often you get quality akin to the master tapes when looking up these BBC videos, so I say to all of us - grab 'em and archi...

Now, how to keep them, after the BBC have discontinued them? The Torch grabber is behind at the moment and Softonic is too old. Of the free ones, this kind-of works fine: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-media-downloader/ehfdcgbfcboceiclmjaofdannmjdeaoi?hl=en A Chrome/Torch add-on whi...

jonb wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 27, 2018 12:19 pm

Beat me to it Stew

Nerdgasm or what?

THERE IS SO MUCH STUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just came across this on BBC news

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44628869



actual archive here

https://computer-literacy-project.pilot ... dio.co.uk/

stew

SarahWalker wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 22, 2018 6:24 pm

You could concentrate on what's actually being written, rather than talking about adding more work...

It's a little demoralising that the only posts so far are basically saying 'add more stuff!'.

Fair cop, sorry, not intentional at all, rest assured it's a truly exciting project

<cough> NULA version

I've tried to put the demos and modded games in the support pack but it needs updating as it's missing Frogger and a couple of other demos. I've finally got round to updating the support pack. I've included the MMC compatible versions of the Bitshifters gallery demos, the updated Spectrum emulator ...

these look interesting

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acorn-BBC-Mi ... 3005965667

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acorn-BBC-Mi ... 3005968482

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Whole weekend please - full kit