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Thank-you and yes, those are the ones I can use. Sincerely though, if you don’t want to post (because I do recognise that it amounts to significant hassle) then no worries at all, I will happily leave them for another taker. However, if you feel that you can take an anti-histamine and bear to confro...

I try it on a regular basis but despite greasing up, I keep getting stuck in the large letter test slot.

Hi Duncan - I'm by no means an expert here but do those iMac memory modules match up to something like "DDR3 10600S PC3-10600S 1333MHZ 204 Pin SODIMM" ? I ask because I have MSI netbooks that use the latter spec modules (2Gb max) so I 'd take yours if compatible for spares/upgrading future...

Yes the Beeb will power twin drives and yes, DFS will support two physical drives (as four logical drives). On the power supply, if you could find a drive with a built-in PSU and you can cope with the slightly larger case and one more mains plug, you will be reducing the strain on your Beeb PSU but ...

Hi Tom - I’m just a Beeb hobbyist and not from a software or IT background so things like licensing, open/closed source, git(?) etc are all just complete jabberwocky to me. The reason I haven’t ever gone out of my way to make the sources for UPURS public is simply because I didn’t want to encourage ...

I’m afraid I can’t help with UPURSFS because it wasn't my 'thing', (I’m only responsible for the original UPURS system), so I’ll have to leave the expert comment on that to Stephen ( sweh ). My only suggestion though if you continue to struggle would be for you to first confirm that the basic UPURS ...

Ah, thanks for that, Martin! I wasn't able to observe that behaviour on my iPhone, possibly because it's a 6s Plus, which has a larger screen.... In case it matters, mine is actually a 6s which is slightly larger than a 6 but I think still smaller than your Plus. Anyway, not that I know anything ab...

I thought the same as tricky when I first tried it (iPhone 6 IOS) but on swivelling to landscape, it is there and it becomes visible. In portrait, you can see the search button by dragging the screen down but you can’t actually use it because it just springs back up out of sight when you release the...

Kazzie wrote:In summary, whatever media you buy, as long as it isn't HD....

You can ’do stuff’ to a 177x-based DFS Beeb (and Master and Elk) to allow you to happily use HD floppies.....

So I can definitely remove the X2 caps (as opposed to leaving the leaking ones in ) for it to continue to work?

Absolutely, Paul (retro-kit) is perfectly correct - if pressed for time, just Remove’n’Go

Still, maybe something for Kieran to knock up for tricky’s light gun....

Heh heh, I was just kidding Barrie and if you recall, we discussed this many moons ago...

James wrote:You any good at fixing Spectrums?

Yes, I could certainly ‘fix’ Spectrums - but not necessarily in a good way.....

Looks like they copied this guy’s design......

But yes, that would be awesome if you could pop them in the post for me!! Ok, no worries 👍 - we're travelling tomorrow as well and have to set up camp (literally) so it’ll be hopefully be early next week for posting but I’ll keep you informed. I’ll PM my email address to you shortly, reply to that ...

Thank-you Mark


Tea, milk two sugars please....

Yes, I guess there’s a fine line between generosity and stupidity....

(...and Colday will probably disappear for another week now.... )

Hello again - I brought the items away with me and some packing so if you don’t mind waiting a few days until we’re settled in to our hols, I’ll get them off to you? Let me know again on here and I can PM you an email address if you’re still interested.

Somewhere , as a proof-of-concept project, I have a patched version of Beeb OS1.2 where I modified the CFS code such that whenever a byte was required, instead of it coming from tape via the serial chip, I served it up via the UPURS (viz UPCFS>UEF) engine. It only supported CFS reading and had a co...

Copy protection may well be a factor but only if the alternative loader doesn't 100% replicate CFS. Because UPCFS was a 'bonus' feature of UPURS where the latter is not a stand-alone FS rom, I had to do extensive vector-stealing and endeavour to hide lots of code ditties in ram holes in the hope tha...

The UPURS rom contains exactly this functionality in the form of UPCFS . It loads games etc in UEF format directly from a PC via the UPURS high-speed serial link decoding the UEF chunks and extracting/loading the 'tape' data blocks on the fly. Speed-wise, its not much slower than disc loading with t...

The one in the pic does look to be an unusual form but just checked my AL03 deck (I don’t have a stock PSU either) and it is actually just a standard 3.5mm OD 2-pole audio-style jack.

I could do you the two below for a fiver plus First or Second postage as required at cost, all PP Gift? Be sharp if you want to check elsewhere first (maybe Retroclinic? 8) ) because I’d have to post by Friday latest as we’re away on hols for a while from Saturday onwards. Anyway, let me know on her...

This is the unit I always perceive as the Electron cassette player/recorder - an ALF03.........



and this is the associated PSU.....




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I put it to the public vote and we have a clear winner....

Have a look at the BIT instruction too which is specifically designed for testing individual bits as you require. It’s advantage is that it is non-destructive, only setting status flags and so is excellent for iterative bit-testing of a sequence of bytes..... EF86AF2F-8524-4618-BA4B-B7A3E8EF72AC.jpeg

Without that line, the address will move up in memory each time you type RUN in a given session - that’s why you are seeing it changing all the time.

EDIT : You just found that out

You’ve got a REM in line 30 which shouldn’t be there.

What Dave said and, you could have line 110 as RTS and not bother with lines 140 and 150 - your message data can live after the end of the code, it doesn’t have to be embedded within the executable instructions. On your comments query, ‘;’ isn’t valid to precede a comment if there is no code on a pr...

Your OPT PASS% should appear first between the ‘arrows’ so you need to swap it around with the LDX#0