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Welcome, there are a few new add-ons for the Archimedes and I hope you have found the riscos groups and projects.

Someone asked for the source, so here it is: Feel free to ask questions, but I may not remember all the answers ;) I am in the middle of recovering from an HD failure and installing windows11, which is really a lot more trouble that it is worth! I have spinning discs 20 years old that still work fin...

In this picture, the red and white wires are connected to the pins nearest the camera and the two bare pins point towards the back of the beeb.

Sledgehammer solution would be too install a virtual machine, but I don't know how well MS supports them now. Afaik, VB always needs a runtime, but C++ can be compiled with the runtime statically linked, some don't do this to make the exe smaller, but I always do so that it "just works". I...

I don't know if any blind users used the computer concept text to speech ROM and the internal speech chip but somewhere I posted a video of that working with one of the text adventures. The blind accountant that I used to help in the late 80 used an external speech box, but I can't remember which it...

I don't have any post numbers, but might have an eBay listing for the jack sockets, I'll check. I'll try to remember to post a pick from a better angle to show the full construction but the pictures at the start of the thread show nearly everything. The circuit board is just four holes and only ther...

I made a batch for me but decided that it took so long that I wouldn't want to sell them.
If you catch me in person, I can show it working and you could maybe twist my arm, but I don't like the idea of it not surviving the post, or more precisely someone on ebay saying that it didn't.

More of a possibility than a recommendation

I think one of the emulators had an option to export vgm data, but although this may allow you to produce better quality recordings, you might still have to edit them in an ordinary audio program.

SimonSideburns wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 8:36 pm ...I seem to have lost all sound from BeebEm except the sounds of the floppy drive. No idea why.

Iirc, there is a menu option to turn the sound chip on/off.

I like the two tunes in phoenix, but only converted them from midi as I don't have a musical ear!

I also asked about it when I read that the 6845 could do it, but that would require rewiring!
I think the nula has everything practical apart from the way you describe the apple outputting a colour until it sees a new one. I wonder if rob has room for that in the nula!

I like Orlando's music, plus PoP

Some try to access the font directly which you can't do on the master.
With other file systems etc page is likely to be raised which will stop some more games from running.
The experimental set in my games menu should mostly be ok with the tube but obviously I haven't tried many!

Personally, my Vic-20 had put me off commodore, that and I hadn't even heard of the c64 when I got my beeb ;) When I went back to my school to help out, they had 2 Beebs for over 1k pupils :lol: but I expect they soon got more. As for the orac, wasn't that on the liberator although a friend had an O...

They look way more professional than mine

Welcome, I'm sure someone will be asking with Archie advice, probably to do with batteries, unless that is the model without them. Good luck with your a5000.

I think DFS only has 2 bits and I seem to remember beebasm said no when I used &FF0000, but it might have been updated since then.

If you set the load and run addresses to be in the beeb's memory space, you can probably leave it on.
&FFaaaa, or if writing from beebasm &30000 + &aaaa.

Nothing jumps out at me either, but I haven't really written anything for about a year! I usually do: 380 LDA &FE6D \ Check bit 6 of 390 AND #&40 \ IFR register and exit 400 BEQ returnToOS \ if not set. 410 420 STA &FE60 \ Clear interrupt flag but that is just because I have been copying...

I even tried, "it's for an art installation, we are going to take all the insides out" but, "it needs pat testing first". You can cut the power lead off for me nowhere either!
I didn't realise it was the law, I assumed it was just council health and safety

On the subject of mapping joystick to keyboard, I wanted a database of them when I added sorry to Beebem and b-em a few years ago and wrote a launcher, but couldn't find one. I'd still like one :) I was wondering about trying to scrape the instructions from BBC micro.co.uk but didn't get around to i...

I did get a portable with scart a couple of months ago in a seaside charity shop, so not really saved from the tip but looking at the price ticket it probably wasn't far from it. At Christmas currys were offering £5 trade in on your old TV and my wife intersepted a chap with a similar portable heade...

Welcome, there are plenty of new bits of hardware to maybe give you some inspiration
And everything that hoglet does

The menu is *run so it ignores page. We have seen disc doctor and other ROMs block the commands to the gotek. Either way, disabling all unnecessary ROMs might help. I'll see if I can get a beeb set up for a gotek for the show, the two I have are internal to a master and compact. I think the newer go...

Test versions with 512 byte sectors for GOTEK and drive selection instead of &80 (current drive, no checking). https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/q2o58ox8f5p4d5z27m05j/h?rlkey=dmfzsaio6dwap6mna5bw7fsy1&dl=0 should work on all GOTEKs, but I don't have every possible model, infact mine are early m...

I have seen this sort of thing before, then an identical item appears and also achieves a higher than usual price, although nothing near the previous one.
I am NOT saying that that is what is happening here.

It depends on the games, but most work better with digital joysticks.
Having said that joysticks weren;t that popular on the beeb and most games were designed to work with keyboard, although some have joystick options (all mine except the paddle ones).

Thank you, I make them mostly because I love them, but I also appreciate a bit of appreciation :) I should go back and fix the challenging stage as I don't think it is very challenging ;) Someone took the beebfpga (by hogley ?) and potted some of all of it to the mister, you would probably have more...

Sorry I was late and missed most of the fun