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I came across this reference to Slogger Expansion ROM (v2.02) which has a utility to map a joystick to key presses. https://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/Acorn-Plus-1-Expansion/ . I also checked the Plus 1 ROM available on mdfs http://mdfs.net/Software/BBC/SROM/Plus1/ , but unfortunately this...

I’m interested too.

From what I remember, there were very few games that had built in support for joysticks. I had been given a joystick for a birthday and was disappointed with the game support. I eventually got a program for Electron User magazine which allowed you to map keys to joystick controls. I don’t know if th...

I’m definitely interested to attend these virtual abugs after seeing the list of sessions from the previous event. I don’t have something to present, but really interested to watch and listen. (And living in Greece it’s a bit difficult to attend a physical event). Any possibility to record these ses...

Came across this Beeb on eBay https://www.ebay.com/itm/283842044946.

It has a button for “Access Protect RAM”. Is this a form of sideways RAM?

It also has two other switches for RAM and FDC controller.

Try Dave H. I got my chips from him. He may have some more.

I use RGB to Scart and the picture quality is good. If your TV doesn’t have a Scart socket you’ll need a Scart to HDMI converter. There are various available and others From stardot can suggestion which work.

As mentioned above the Retro Hardware list. https://elminster.github.io/hardware

The ROM\RAM expansion board I mentioned is Integra-B remake.

camsoft2000 wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 04, 2020 9:46 pm

Where would I get a DFS 1.2 ROM?

RetroClinic, for lots of Beeb related things.

Kenlowe has a ROM expansion board. The name escapes me now.

Well done, another working Elk. I had been using a 18v AC power supply from adaptorsrus which worked fine with many extensions until I got an original psu from Dave H.

Nice work. Another working Elk.

daveejhitchins wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 27, 2020 7:38 am

Currently I have the 5V connector on the back. So would moving it to the front - is that what you’re after?

Yes, moving it to the front.

Jumper to disable ROM 13? To save pulling out the ROM chip.

More convient location for the power connector used for the BeebSCSI.

There is a solution for the Plus 3 to have page at &E00, so I'll use this as an assumption. I have been looking at Elite versions I have from www.acornelectron.co.uk e.g. ADFS (Page &1D00), DFS and UEF (also available on https://www.stairwaytohell.com/ ). It looks to me that both the ADFS an...

That's about right. It was galactic hyperspace. In the original Acornsoft release this was broken, and fixed in the Superior release. :D As a young lad I spent hours trying to hyperspace out of Galaxy one. Back then I had no idea that it was a bug! :roll: I had noticed that back then having the Aco...

I’ll see if I can dissemble it to see if I can gain any insights about changing this. Not really up my street, but there’s a challenge here. Hope there’s no encryption.

Your probably right according to this http://8bs.com/submit/subelite.htm A version for the Acorn Electron, this is the simplest form of Elite. It has the reduced ship selection, and no suns so the fuel scoop is only useful for collecting cargo. The screen is monochrome, including the console, and gr...

Does anyone have a disk version of Elite for the Electron which allows saving and loading of commanders to and from disk?

I have versions of Elite disk images for adfs and dfs, but only load or save commanders from and to tape.

vanpeebles wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 07, 2020 12:01 pm

A first class game on a second rate stamp!!

That's a crime!

At least it's the Beeb version of Elite.

I'm really bad at this. My only excuse is that BeebEM keeps swapping in and out from full screen mode when I'm playing this.

A couple of items to consider here:- 1) Is the version of Elite the disk version, or the tape version transferred to disk? If it is the tape version m(unmodified) you'll not be able to save to disk. I have this problem with Elite for the Electron. Would be nice to have a version to save games to dis...

Here you go:

One available on eBay https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpr ... 4586837715

A picture guide to how I have the SWRAM setup: ROMS IMG_3278.jpg RAM\ROM List Disk attached below the pictures IMG_3279.jpg Top View IMG_3280.jpg Side view 1 IMG_3281.jpg side view 2 IMG_3282.jpg Disk image (DFS) for B+ with the ROM\RAM list program saved as "RTEST". bplus.zip 64K SIDEWAYS...

Connect the other extra pin 20 to the spare pin of L13 (CS for either roms 0/1 or 14/15, depending on where you want BASIC)

I ran the 410 line memtest program and this was the output... IMG_5692.JPG Seems to me there should be some RAM locations, or not? This doesn't look right to me e.g. no RAM reported. Once you get RAM listed the next test is to load something into sideways RAM. And this might be useful to read https...

I've done this upgrade and have the following arrangement of ROMs and RAM:-

DFS version 2.26 (if you don't have it I wopiuld recommend you get it) IC62
BASIC and OS IC71
Sideways RAM IC57

And I always get 128k on power on and crtl+break

This article can answer some of your questions: https://martin-jones.com/2015/01/18/sideways-ram-for-bbc-micro-model-b/ If you are adding sideways RAM as described in this article http://www.firths.org/bbc/my_b+128k.html I would recommend placing it in IC57 socket as it works correctly with the util...

And there are some alternatives connecting your Beeb or Elk to a TV\Monitor e.g. to HDMI:- RGB to HDMI using a Pi Zero and a small CPLD https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14430&start=660&hilit=hdmi+raspberry+pi John Kortink's BBC HDMI (BBC2DVI ) https://stardot.org.uk/foru...

The cable I have that doesn’t work, doesn’t have pin 8 wired also. Reading I’m not sure it’s actually needed. It appears to have two functions, one to switch the tv to look at the RGB signal AUX\AV, and the other, the picture aspect dependent on the voltage level. It also depends what is available o...