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Kazzie wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:00 pm

It seems that Plusnet not only limit you to a total of 250MB web storage, but also a daily traffic limit of 250MB!

That is what I call retro hosting
Come on Plusnet, we're already living in 2019

oss003 wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 07, 2019 7:08 am

As soon as the BBC AGD port is ready, they can run on a BBC.

is somebody working on that port?

How many games can we expect to be released in the next weeks?
I think you already gave us more games than Acorn did bitd

Actually I was thinking about a Pi Zero inside.

Maybe the board can be design so that it fits inside with a
Pi Zero or outside with a full sized Pi. It depends on how I can position the 64p connector.

Another idea pops into my mind: shall we build an Atom Tube interface with the level converters "on board"? It saves an additional pcb and it saves space in the Atom. It's only two ic's extra....

I did this "trick" on my BBC-ports-for-the-Atom board and it works great

Hi All Are there any bare boards left? [-o< And will it work with a PI CoPro? Marcus Hi Marcus, No, there are no boards left. But if there are more people who want one I can order a few more. These boards should work with the Pi Copro but you need a level shifter board like this one: https://stardo...

Now there are more games available than in the 80's
I can't keep up making man pages

Amazing

Next Friday we have an Atom User Group Meeting in Sittard, I will bring my Atom and play these games

Wim, BBAS2FIN still has a bug. It displays the digits of the day and month in the wrong order. You might not have noticed it on the 10th of January. On the picture it shows 01-10-19 which is not the Dutch notation for the date. It should be 10-01-19. This versions shows it correctly and also display...

Nice work Kees. Although I have to practice a lot to complete these games

I have created a set of man-pages for the games. Just copy the files in the archive to the /manpages directory and type MAN AGD to get started.

So you created this great workbench just because I asked you the time and date?
What would have happened if I asked you to format a floppy

It's really beautiful and this would be a great case to display an Atom 2k15

Sure, it has only two digits for the year but I don't think that's a real issue for the next 81 years

First of all, this is not a new design. It's a design from 1983, so it's about 35 years old. The last time I used it was about 30 years ago but today I wanted to reinstall it on my Atom. The board was designed to fit on PL8 on the Atom, at the keyboard side. However, today most Atoms have their AtoM...

The select pins have different names on the buffer and the Pi connector. So this track is not routed on the board. It's easy to repair, just a piece of wire between pin 11 of the connector and pin 7 of U2. After adding that wire, the PI zero starts printing the Atom's output to the second monitor :...

AFAIK this is still MIA. I haven't seen it before. Great find

Kees, these games look very nice. Thank you for this work.

If a game runs too slow at 1MHz, how about switching to 2MHz? Or can AGD be modified to use a 65C102 co-pro? That can solve the speed issue and we have serious software for the co-pro....

Cool to collect enough Atoms to spell Merry Christmas. I can just display XMAS

Merry Christmas to you all!

I don't know if I have an Electron/BBC version of this game but I am sure I have an Atom version of it. It's probably in the Atom software archive.

Great job Dave

That could be the second Pi connected to my Atom. Imho this is an easy and affordable colour board solution for many Atoms.

Hello MPK,

Welcome to this forum and enjoy your visits.

Greetings from the South of the Netherlands,
Roland


BTW .... why is your beeb missing the OS ROM socket with a jumper wire diverting the CS line to one of the other ROM sockets?

I use a Pi Zero as an extra hi-res colour display adapter for my Atom. It's connected as second display as it does not yet emulate the 6847. With a few hardware and software adjustments it could be configured as an emulator but it would probably be slower. Of course, there's no software yet that use...

Yes, I did implement a lot more VDU codes. I have a dual monitor setup for my Atom. The Pi can draw circles, rectangles, triangles, lines, text (in user selectable fonts and size) and has also already support for a mouse pointer. It works quite reasonable but there's much more to do due to of our co...

Why did you also all that work to remove the keyboard? I can understand all the passive components and sockets. But the keyboard also ?

Nice stripping anyway. Good luck with rebuilding the Atom.

Prime wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 27, 2018 10:24 am

Humm that does seem to be it, how primitive that it doesn't ignore whitespace.

What would you expect in a 4 KB rom

DavidWallis wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 19, 2018 10:47 am

And can you buy the TV modulator?

I think I still have one or two spares....
And please make that issue 3 Atom working again. The mainboard looks good so it will work again

I have written a few simple device drivers for Flex, I have a monitor rom and some kind of TinyBasic for my 6809 board. On my Atom runs a terminal program that communicates with this board.

I will collect this software and post it here within a few days.

Afaik the lithium battery is embedded in the DS1216 and cannnot be replaced. I don't think it can do any harm if the battery is empty except that the battery backup for cmos ram and the internal time device won't work. Dallas had several real time clock devices bitd. Some were also use in IBM compat...

Somewhere in my memory:

CLEAR4;DO F.B=0 TO 500 S.2; BO.B,B;N.;U.0

You need the GAGS-rom for the BORDER (BO.) statement

I'd still advice a static 8k cmos board for video memory because it's cheaper, draws much less power ( and so produces less heat) and gives an additional 2k of workspace that will be used by many programs.

All photos of the GDOS board show a GDOS 1.66 that's also MIA, anyone have either of them? There is mention of GDOS 1.66 in this thread: https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=7308 I noticed that one of the GDOS boards in that thread is mine..... I'll make and image of the rom and post ...