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Don’t mean to jump on your reply immediately but I happen to have just hooked up a frogger board to the monitor to test it. It’s what was on the bench and after a couple of adjustments I’ve got a picture. It’s a pretty reasonable picture still but the focus is all the way up (or down) and I’ve defin...

So, to summarise - have we arrived at the conclusion that there's no reliable / viable alternative for these triplers now? Once it dies should I just take the monitor down the skip? I was planning on digging my Cub out of the loft today. It hasn't been used for probably 4 or 5 years and out of neces...

So unless some kind benefactor donates me a new Spec Next, which is rather unlikely, I don't think I'll be doing this port. Don’t rule it out. I think a LOT of people bought spares this time round whether to flip for profit or otherwise just keep. I think there will be plenty of potential lenders. ...

I think at this point it remains to be seen if Next delivery will even meet 2022 if some of the suggested lead times become reality. Even best case would be pushing it. In the update they say Xilinx will help them mitigate the lead times once the order is in (or words to that effect) but even a $250...

Finally, don't forget the Claus Dormann test suite if you're emulating a 6502. I'll have a nose. I'm nearly done with all the opcodes. So far I have probably 10x the amount of code in unit tests than I do in the emulator itself :D No idea what it will do yet, if it even runs. Will probably create s...

Oh nuts! I didn't consider that.

Well, I think I've nearly debugged it now and got it working without going anywhere near actual hardware.

I don't think a disassembler alone is going to cut it. I already have the disassembly, I want to confirm on actual hardware rather than an emulator the impact of the status register and program counter of certain operations. I've written a crude 6502 CPU emulator - just because, why not? And despite...

As title, I want to step through some simple 6502 assembler on real hardware and examine the status registers and program counter. I know I can do it with exmon (if memory serves) but was wondering if there is anything that can do it from disc without the need for a rom? My machine isn’t accessible ...

Ok, yeah, I didn’t realise it had been that long. This year is just flying by! [edit] on the pricing it would not surprise me in the slightest if they face a choice between a delay or a price increase. Only time will tell. I suppose the big difference this time round is that it’s only the pcb that’s...

I've not heard anything to suggest anything other than an August delivery still, but with everything that's been going on this year I think it would be more prudent to assume it will be later in the year at the least. I'm more concerned about the issue of price. Given the current silicon supply issu...

Mine died a long, long time ago. It’s still in the loft but without any schematics or service info the only place I can see it going is the bottom of a skip. Last time I tried to look at it, trying to measure voltage on it tripped the house mains. I ain’t going near it again!

True. There’s 2 key things here. Will 2nd hand suffice? And will integrated graphics suffice? If the answer to at least one of those is yes then it may still be do-able. If new, then a case, motherboard, cpu with integrated graphics, memory and storage is still going to be a stretch for the budget. ...

Sorry to say but a maximum budget of £500 doesn’t fit with building a gaming PC. Best bet would be a PS5 or XBox-X. Assuming you can find one. Xbox is marginally more available than PS5 but they’re both still rocking horse poop. Right now, £500 isn’t going to buy you a gaming capable graphics card a...

One thing to be wary of with those Duratools is the racket they make! I used to have a Xytronics 960. Probably had it for nigh on 18 years before parts eventually became too difficult to bother with so it ended up in the great recycle bin in the sky. Got the wife to buy me one of those Duratools for...

For the one or two other crazy guys like me that spent a couple of days in soldering the Harlequin 128 DIY kit (a great ZXSpectrum 128k clone, reengineered without the custom ULA!), i can confirm it works fine with RGBtoHDMI using same profile as for the +2/3A, but with RGBrgb (Spectrum) Part of me...

Did I completely dream this up, or is there now a new ROM in development (beta stage) that allows an SD card reader on the user port to be used with simple DSD / SSDs on the card direct without needing the container file?

[EDIT] Never mind - no sooner did I post that than I found it!!

This Beeb is now back up and running incidentally. I offered to look at it FOC. It turned out to be the 245 buffer on the data lines so no amount of swapping chips about would have solved the problem. I'm guessing they're not socketed out of the factory (would be highly unusual for a logic chip) whi...

Well done - I missed that. I just saw the URL based picture option :D So by the way, the ROM has been tried in all sockets at one point or another and just recently tried again after discovering a bent pin but still no joy. I did notice that the sockets are the original ones that look like they only...

It's certainly the right way up now though. I have seen a picture but I can't repost the picture here because I don't have an image hosting account anywhere. Hence the question about whether there is anything else in terms of config that could be preventing it from showing up before Steve goes ahead...

No. I'm saying that MY machine is a Master 128 which is why I'm struggling to remember all the finer details of Steve's machine which is a Model B.

A bit late to reply, but thank you. I have no idea where I got to with all of this. My setup is such that it gets brought out from time to time but ultimately ends up having to be packed away again - right now is one of those times since the house is on the market so I'm having to be tidy and limit ...

Hi guys, I've been trying to help Steve with this because like everyone else, I don't give up easily :D So, my Beeb is a Master 128 and it's been a long time since I've had any dealings with a Model B. Before we get into sending replacement ROMs and the like (I saw that there is an option now for di...

Just going to tag this on the end here rather than create a new thread!

I assume that I can fit a CR2032 with 4.7k resistor and 1N4148 diode in an A5000 ?

It's been on the bench in bits for far too long now and I need to get it back to it's owner

Well it’s not like we haven’t known about this for a long, long time now! Pretty sure this is my only 32bit app left although I do need to check the JDK I use for work. I’ll bow out now as I can’t be of any further help. I only really stepped in to build the current signed version and never got roun...

Oh that's a shame since a Gotek really isn't a replacement - no IDE / HDD / ADFS etc. But, obviously understandable if parts had become a problem.

Just noticed that Mark appears to have discontinued the Data Centre. Sorry if this is old news! I don't actually need one, fortunately I already have one but I'm quite surprised to see this. I guess parts eventually run dry or some such. The website says to email for news on other USB storage option...

That’s good to hear!

Incidentally, I forgot that link was there. It’s the same as the release on the official site now so no need to use my link.

If you want any info regarding where I got to then feel free to PM me.

OK, everything that was on my private git repository, including reported issues is now on the StarDot Github: https://github.com/stardot/beebem-mac I'm not sure if I need to do anything more in respect of permissions or not, if so, please let me know. Obviously all the issues are showing as reported...

I've created a public repository for it in the Stardot organisation but I'm not at the right computer at the moment to upload from my private machine. I'll create a reminder to do it tomorrow. It's only a couple of git commands so it's easier if I just leave it until tomorrow rather than creating ne...