Date : Mon, 28 Oct 2002 23:20:14 +0000
From : George Reynolds <george@...>
Subject: Re: BBC game
Is it klax?
thanks
George
On Monday 28 October 2002 20:43, Colin wrote:
> Totally non-technical this but thumbing through my games for my beloved
> Acorn Electron, I noticed one was missing and for the life of me I can't
> remember it's name. It was a puzzle game where you had to fit odd-shaped
> blocks into a grid and you could swivel or flip them to fit. It's driving
> me bats trying to remember it. Anyone remember what it was called?
> Thanks
> Colin Hill
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Van Ek" <p_van_ek@...>
> To: "BBC Mailing List" <bbc-micro@...>
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 7:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] BBC - restarts on it's own - anyone help?
>
> > Hi Jonathan,
> > I once had a similar problem with a BBC it turned out to be the reset
> > circuitry located around the NE555 IC at the back left corner near the
> > P.S.U. , one of the capacitors needed to be replaced to fix the problem.
> > Not having a diagram in front of me I can't give you more detail than
>
> that,
>
> > but if you need more info I can have a look at home.
> >
> > Rep Peter.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jonathan Irvine" <jon@...>
> > To: <bbc-micro@...>
> > Sent: 2002 October Friday 25 15:55
> > Subject: [BBC-Micro] BBC - restarts on it's own - anyone help?
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > My first post. Am testing a couple of tapes using an old BBC i have.
>
> First
>
> > > couple worked fine then all of a sudden the beeb restarted half through
> > > Ravenskull. Since then I've tried various other tapes and it continues
>
> to
>
> > > restart pretty much as soon I type ch."" and hit return....
> > >
> > > also... just a second ago whilst typing above it decided to make
> > > several beebs (kinda tuneful) and then restart again... this time it
> > > appeared to have nothing to do with teh tape player.
> > >
> > > don't suppose anyone's come across this before or knows what it is?
> > >
> > > BBC B
> > > Issue 4 board
> > > No DFS installed.
> > >
> > > Cheers all.
> > >
> > > Jon