BBC / Electron stuff.

Tepic · Post by **Tepic** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 8:27 am

Stairway to Hell is more of a gaming site. I haven't found a good coders site, but I am sure one will exist somewhere.

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:00 am

There seems to be something at http://bbc.nvg.org/ although no news since a year. http://www.acornarcade.com/ also looks promising. Maybe it is asking too much to find a c64.com/c64.sk/CSDB or WOS/Raww equivalent.

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:44 am

In a few weeks, I'll get a hopefully working BBC Master Compact. We'll see if I try to program for it.

Tepic · Post by **Tepic** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:05 pm

Nice find.

BBC Basic rocks. The built in assembler really helps as well

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 2:07 pm

Well, it was not for free. The winning bid was 23 Euro + shipping and payment fees, a total of 67-68 Euro.

Tepic · Post by **Tepic** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:23 pm

Still a good price if you ask me. I'd have paid it without a second thought!

My collecting has kind of slowed down at the moment. We are getting a bit low on storage space! I'm even thinking about sticking to Vic and Atari ST stuff and selling the rest.

ruud · Post by **ruud** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:50 am

Tepic wrote:Still a good price if you ask me. I'd have paid it without a second thought!

I own three Acorn Atoms and two diskdrives for them. Somebody wanted to give me 30 Euro for it but I wasn't interested for several reasons. One reason was that somebody told me that that guy was a bit of a crook regarding old computers. Are these Atoms and drives worth anything?

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:55 am

On the auction held by Dimitri Kokken, there was a boxed Acorn Atom which sold for 150 Euro. No peripherals though. If that was a typical price or a fluke, I don't know - eBay etc should give a clue.

Tepic · Post by **Tepic** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:32 pm

I don't know how much they are worth, but I've never seen a working Atom for sale.

I'm guessing that if you find the right person they'll do pretty well.

Lloyd Mangram · Post by **Lloyd Mangram** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:46 pm

Theres coding questions in the forum at STH.

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:33 am

I picked it up, and apart from dodgy SHIFT keys (may be fixable), it works fine. The composite video appears to be monochrome, so I'll have to look up a pinout for the RGB to get some colour out of it.

The 3.5" disk drive took a while to figure out how to use, but fortunately the computer has ADFS 2.10 with a built-in format command - earlier DFS versions appear to require a program loaded from disk to format a disk. I found a type-in that either doesn't work or I made some mistakes:

http://www.mdfsnet.f9.co.uk/Software/BBC/FormDFS.txt

That's something Commodore did right from the beginning (at least IEC 15xx drives - I don't know how intelligent the IEEE488 drives are). Imagine to have to type in a 25+ line listing to format your first disk, if you didn't have the original welcome disk.

Of course there is PC software to read/write/format disks of various formats too.