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A cheap Beeb, isn’t that an Electron?

I don't understand as well. I rediscovered by first home computer clearing my parents house (ZX81), then wanted again an Electron, then added another Electron with MRB and finally ended up buying a B+ on sale on this forum for a reasonable price , eBay prices can get quite high. Reading all this tal...

Oh dear - that message is just checking what type of machine it is running on, not whether this mode 7 trick actually works. Could you try in again, please but instead of doing shift-break do: > LOAD "M7-3C00" > 3 > RUN i.e. delete the machine-type test so the program attempts to put Mode...

The cases you did were probably a bit more of a tricky shape, not sure if that adds to cost. Might be as much as twice as much volume for a Gotek, but even if that double/trebled the price to £30, would still be considerably cheaper than £110. When you see these prices: 3D printed https://www.ebay....

Looks like a sensible price for a metal case to me.

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Tue Aug 18, 2020 1:30 pm

Like this one?

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4131308

There is a 3D print section on hardware list now, link below.

Yep, like that. Also add a LED “on” indicator and on\off switch for completeness.

I would be interested in a couple of cases if a run was to go ahead. Either 3D printed or metal at a reasonable price.

Another wish would be for a retro styled cheese wegde case (e.g. 2nd processor) for raspberry pi zero.

I would guess it’s either the ULA or memory. Take a look at this topic viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19887 for the ULA.

Will try again with your instructions when back home again. On the beach, away from home.

A picture of the screen output would help and knowing which motherboard issue (e.g. a picture of the inside of the Elk).

Try a minimum setup first e.g. only the Elk. If this works one by one add the additional hardware to see what happens.

Ran the disk and I get themessage "Sorry BBC B only!".

Useful tools for creating and manipulating disc\disk images:- ADFS Explorer (5 GBP) https://www.g7jjf.com/adfs_explorer.htm DFS Explorer (5 GBP) https://www.g7jjf.com/dfs_explorer.htm Beeb Image http://www.cowsarenotpurple.co.uk/beeb-image.html Other useful tools https://www.stairwaytohell.com/essen...

I also found this review useful when setting up and using the GoSDC even if it’s for the BBC. http://www.retroisle.com/general/revie ... _part2.php

This is from memory, but it’s quite a while since I’ve used it. Roughly you need to:- Configure the jumpers on the device. Probably nothing to do for you as it’s already configured Insert your SD card, turn on the Elk Configure your choice of filing system(s) e.g. Elk DFS and ADFS Prepare the SD car...

Happy to try it, but it’ll have to wait until Tuesday or Wednesday next week when I’m back home. If no one else has tried it by then.

I’m also very curious about the MK 2 Mode 7 internal board as I know very little about it. John showed the board which left me tantalised to know more.

I really enjoy viewing the videos. It’s especially difficult for me to attend these sessions. I’m still trying to get through all of Jafa systems and me video, with my wife constantly interrupting me.

It’s a shame that there were never versions of Elite that made use of SWRAM, like there were for the BBC micro. I think Electrons were sold near there end with MRB (Master ram board) fitted as standard providing much more memory for programs, but I don’t know if any software specifically written to ...

It may be useful contacting Dave Hitchins (Retro Hardware) on this forum to see if he has the RAM you need.

I would expect it’s a ULA issue. If it’s a pre-issue 6, pressing gently down on it might fix it. The alternative is removing the ULA and cleaning the pins with IPA. If you search a bit on this forum there are step-by-step instructions. I had a similar issue with my issue 4 Elk and gently pressing th...

My Main setup with A Plus 1 is: AP6, which fits inside the Plus 1, gives me lots of sideways RAM and ROM (EEPROM) to load useful ROM images etc Updated Plus 1 ROM with useful utilities AP5, which gives you User Ports, Tube interface, 1MHz interface and more sideways ROM \ RAM BeebSCSI, provides hard...

I did start looking at the code of ElectrEM that is available to look at porting it to C# for the hell of it and up dating it for Windows some years ago. Unfortunately work and life got in the way and then I bought an Electron. I foolishly sold my first Electron (£80’s including plus 1 and software)...

From Wikipedia: This system boasted a coprocessor card with a 10 MHz Intel 80186 and 512 KB memory. It also had the ability to run DOS Plus and the GEM graphical user interface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Master#Master_512 You can add a Raspberry Pi to emulate many co-processes to nearly all ...

I’ve tried GoSDC, Turbo MMFS (the Electron version from Ramtop), BeebSCSI (Hard disk on a SD card) and Gotek. They all work well. My personal choice is Gotek as it really is just a drop in replacement floppy drive, most software is distributed as disk images and you just copy them onto a USB drive, ...

Just be browsing through the videos. Great stuff.

Electrem has paste but it is buggy. It only works for a few pastes. For Electron development I use BeebEm to paste text from PSPad, save the program to disk, and then load the program into Elkulator from the same disk. I find ElectrEM a bit buggy. ElectrEM hasn’t been updated for a number of years a...

I believe I read somewhere View and maybe ViewSheet could make use of this additional memory.

On the BBC, there’s a version of Elite that makes use of sideways RAM.

I’d recommend a RGB to Scart cable and use with a tv. You can pick one on eBay easily. If you have a monitor or tv with only hdmi, there are some recommended converters, or a project here in the forums to convert RGB to hdmi using a Raspberry Pi. https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t...

Possibly interested in one if I can source a reasonable priced Plus 1 for my second Electron. All the Plus 1’s on eBay are way over priced.

It may well be a good idea to get in touch with Dave H on this forum. He’s the best person for Electron hardware.

He’s the service manual if it helps http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org ... tronSM.pdf