A slight aside first, I hadn't even considered trying to put a FAQ together - can anyone think of any other questions that should go into one? ... I probably...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Sep 1, 2001 3:52 pm
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... I've noticed that one of the versions of Moon Raider on TSTH fails to load. I think that it's the "original" version. The re-release works fine. Has anyone...
david@...
Sep 1, 2001 5:58 pm
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... Have you tried redefining the key in the "Keyboard" tab of ElectrEm's GUI? You might need to do something like this: 1. Click on "Select all shifts". 2....
paul@...
Sep 3, 2001 8:09 am
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... Hmmm. Both versions seem to work OK for me on Beta 9B, though the original crashes if the Plus 1 ROM is enabled. On a side note, I've made a working UEF...
Dave M
dllm@...
Sep 4, 2001 3:03 pm
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... original crashes if the Plus 1 ROM is enabled. I wonder if that happens on a real Electron. I might get around to checking at some point. ... Mineshaft...
david@...
Sep 4, 2001 11:18 pm
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... UEFtrans! (http://www.david.boddie.net/Software/Python/UEFtrans/) I've just written a class for Python which would facilitate a tar-like front end if the...
david@...
Sep 4, 2001 11:22 pm
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... Well, you know how people like to use tools which behave exactly like the ones they use already. For example, the Java jar utility behaves a bit like tar -...
paul@...
Sep 5, 2001 12:32 pm
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... I decided to go for a more command-like approach to avoid using switches. So, that would look like UEFtrans.py mytape.uef append...
david@...
Sep 5, 2001 7:24 pm
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It's bad form to reply to my own message, but... ... I've put UEFfile in with MoonMap, since that now supports direct patching of the Moon Raider UEF file. You...
david@...
Sep 6, 2001 8:34 pm
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I was just wondering - what are people's opinions on implementing a feature to allow the emulated Electron access (as much as possible) to genuine floppy discs...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Sep 11, 2001 9:01 pm
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Of course, I should point out that this is already possible on most UNIXes (definitely Linux) by configuring a /dev entry for the correct floppy geometry and...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Sep 13, 2001 2:57 pm
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Just to say : BBC Connect, a freeware BBC Micro and Electron emulator front-end for Windows by Brian Jones (ninsei0@...) and available at ...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Sep 24, 2001 7:01 pm
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I've been looking more closely at the replacement MRB OS ROM that I have and have observed principly that none of the drawing routines actually do any RAM...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Sep 24, 2001 7:06 pm
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... I can't see any replies to this message, so perhaps everyone is either indifferent or away at the moment. It sounds very convenient for transferring those...
david@...
Sep 26, 2001 12:03 am
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... Well, you know, there is a lot going on in the world . . . although this isn't quite the correct forum for political stuff so its probably best to leave it...
Thomas Harte
t.harte@...
Sep 26, 2001 1:01 pm
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... the ... Hi there, I have only just seen this group so I don't know if you have answered this yet, but your question caused me to dig an old MRB out of the ...
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 john.wike@... wrote: Erk, the John Wike ... ... Not neccessarily, don't know about your MRB, but my MRB has a link on it to enable...
gARetH baBB
hick@...
Nov 28, 2001 2:27 pm
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... on it ... OS - ... What was dodgy about the Slogger OS? As far as I remember it was just a copy of the Acorn one with extra routines for the MRB switching ...
... I always took it to be a disassembly and then muck around to see where they could fit stuff and then re-assembly - and as such I never trusted it. One...
gARetH baBB
hick@...
Nov 28, 2001 4:33 pm
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... [...] ... How does the MRB know which reads are instruction reads and which are data - Is it just assumed that C000-DFFF is necessarily instructions?...
... Ah, yes, I remember that now. I also saw one in the local hospital. ... I can't remember seeing any British Telecom branding though, so this could be...
gARetH baBB
hick@...
Nov 29, 2001 11:10 am
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... are data - ... Similarly, ... something ... seed a ... zero ... One of the pins of the 6502, called SYNC, has a signal which is high during an instruction...
... a ... emulated ... unit ... Ah, well, the old memory is not what it used to be (if it ever was)! The teletext chip is the 6850 and the CRT controller chip...
I still have not found out how to transfer files from old Electron Acorn ADFS disks into Electrem (see previous post). Any help would be appreciated....
... Thats okay, I know the 6845 inside out (the PC uses it for EGA/CGA/VGA/MCGA), and the 6850 sounds really simple. Am I right in thinking that if your ROM...
... Erm, the 6850 is a UART. The SAA5050 is the teletext chip....
gARetH baBB
hick@...
Dec 3, 2001 1:11 pm
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... was)! ... Thanks to Gareth for pointing out that, of course, the teletext chip is the SAA5050. ... even in ... the 'normal' ... Yes that was the intention....
... That'd be nice - I'm not sure which version I have (it most probably came from the BBC Lives! archives, but I haven't checked), and it may be something...
... I remember showing you at a show my Viewdata emulator which ACP were interested in at the time, they wanted to combine it with a serial port design Dave...
gARetH baBB
hick@...
Dec 5, 2001 11:46 am
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... port ... going, ... me ... Yes, I do remember. At the time I thought it was interesting but unusable in a true BBC emulation package because of the use of...
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