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these look interesting

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

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Whole weekend please - full kit

Get yourself a JiffyDOS chip for your 1541 too and watch it sprint instead of jog \:D/ I have debated getting a JiffyDOS chip, does it really make a massive difference? like topcat said. yes, massive. It makes it so very pleasant to use. I use it with a sd2iec and it's soooooo much quicker.

Thanks for the pictures. @SarahW What have you got going on your screen?!. Looks like a Master running a Lucasarts adventure!! (Second pic from bottom) I was a bit disappointed how few people recognised the game, or indeed the genre itself :( maniac.png maniac2.png A work in progress :) Amazing! Ye...

Thanks for the pictures.
@SarahW What have you got going on your screen?!. Looks like a Master running a Lucasarts adventure!! (Second pic from bottom)

Have a great weekend everybody. I'm there in spirit and I look forward to the pics in this thread later!

I recall a device that they would stick on the side of buildings to stop kids loitering, adults can't hear it but the kids hate it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito In my early 20s I used it to my advantage, I had a high pitched sms tone that my boss couldn't hear! :D I wouldn't hear it at...

Elminster wrote:It is usually the flux that smells rather than the hot metals bits.

Do you have a fume extractor or a large blower.

lol, no, just a kitchen table, but you make a good point about flux. I'll try a different type of flux core

I've finally got around to doing some soldering with my young lad, though it turns out he hates the smell, so much so it's putting him off.
Can anyone recommend an odour free solder? (lead free is fine also in this instance - he's not going anywhere near the good stuff!)

Similary after the Galaforce nula16 version I did I had a play with the exile code but just didn't give it enough time, I've to have also been thinking about a) chaning the seed for a new map and b) changing the blanking and forced parts as shown by Richard. When originally designed do you think the...

The display looks great =D> If you zoom into the picture it looks like the vga connector is plugged into the wall :lol: Well, the Internet thing of things had to extend to the actual building eventually :lol: @Stew - nice work, well done :D Mark Yeah well... :oops: that's my workbench tidy!

New PSU, new panel mount 5.5mm DC socket and some dry joints later...


It's alive!!!...

On the subject of Exile - what would have to be done to make the game scroll smoothly? The jerky-scrolling has never annoyed me, but I was thinking that with new add-ons like the VideoNula, would it be possible to recode the game to smooth things out? I always assumed the jerky scrolling was down t...

There was another quirk to get through any door, I recall a friend showing me at school. I used to be able to do it too but don't recall the exact method. It was something like:- You stood a close to any door as possible, tab to face away, have a grenade ready in the pocket, get the grenade out at t...

In an update, my new psu turned up today, a 5v 2a.
Or at least that's what I ordered (and what's on the packaging) but on examination it's actually 12v 1a...

Good job I checked (I always would ) but pretty sure if I'd blindly plugged it in my atom would have fried!

Stew

That's the one yes.

Thanks you for decrypting that. Is that's like a bit of an overclock for the Atom?
I know the beeb was 2mhz, but wasn't the atom 1mhz?

Hi there, I've owned a beeb for >35 years and many machines in between but last week made a cheeky bid on an atom and was very pleasantly surprised to have won. The machine as turned up and is in fair good nic. It needs a clean etc but you can tell it's been looked after. Included were the original ...

Hi, I've downloaded some DSD images which I want to use on my BBC B. I've got a Turbo MMC and the MMB Imager s/w that came with it. That s/w will split the 400Kb into, wait for it, 2 x 200KB SSDs. Prefect :) Now drag and drop them into Imager, no it won't play! :x The only reason I can see is the I...

thanks Rob.
Personally I feel this is probably another trick missed by Acorn, though do understand it was all a bit before the true multi-threaded era.

Hi there, I've recently I've finally managed to update my 610 for a 710, just to give a bit more, (StrongARM out of budget and OS ROM version out of reach at the moment.!). I've got a 486 in the second slot at the moment, but is it possible to put my 610 in the second slot? If it's even possible is ...

I recall a Rembrandt self portrait on the Pro Artisan disc

oss003 wrote:And some more progress .......... (looking familiar John .......... )
Does however need some work ....

https://youtu.be/SWbh4SkU4o0

Greetings
Kees

oh my, that's fantastic, One of deathmonks best...I was thinking about this on a beeb, but this is pretty close.

Daniel's right about the cf/sd to IDE being uncertain, but I can confirm this one works in my 3020

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0942895708

if you decide to give it a go.

Great - I'm in - full weekend with kit please Hi Robert, I'd finally got round to booking the hotel up to stay, just double checked with the mrs.... I've been double booked. Apprently i'll be in Corsica with a heavy heart i'm going to have to withdraw... :cry: I'm really gutted.. **Heads Up though*...

I've dusted off the Master now, and I've been suitably blown away by how impressive and beautiful it is! My two boys played it for most of the afternoon and nearly completed Level 2. I'm running it from MMFS and, as mentioned, I needed to *UNPLUG 9 otherwise it hangs to a black screen during the lo...

What version of MMFS are you using? Sure, is there a way to check from the machine? *HELP should show you. Can you also double check with *ROMS that DFS really is present. One last question (in case it makes a difference) is do you have a floppy drive attached? It's v1.36, ROM 9 is there and insert...

I've been playing with a MMFS in 8 but never bothered unplugging 9. It works fine. It may be that i've *CO.FILE 8 set This is very weird.... I've just double checked (three times) and on my Master it definitely hangs if I don't unplug DFS. I'm also using *CONFIGURE FILE 8. What version of MMFS are ...

Hi Kieran, It's also worth noting that as Prince of Persia uses OSWORD A=&7F to do direct disk accesses, it's only possible to use MMFS (in ROM 8) if DFS (ROM 9) is unplugged. Otherwise DFS tries to handle the OSWORD calls, and everything hangs (with a black screen). Dave I've been playing with a M...

Well done again chaps. I think next is for me to get a crt hooked up. Then it should look even better!

I'm reprogramming the palette every 16 scan lines, but to make it work with our without NuLA, I'm programming all the colours I need up front and then using the usual palette swaps. To get the magenta logs to be brown in the top half, I set flashing magenta/X to be brown and leave magenta alone so ...