Date : Sat, 25 Oct 2003 21:58:39 +0100
From : "Colin" <cwhill@...>
Subject: Re: introduction and EPROM question
Good for you!
I never managed to afford the BBC so I still have my Electron and Plus one
(and that cost an arm and a leg) and a brother printer (for which I still
have the printing ink tapes which I bought a crate of just before they
stopped making them) - never able to afford the disc drive either so still
using a very old cassette player.
I don't think I could sneak one in past my wife now but maybe someday I'll
persuade her.
Congratulations again on such a bargain- wish I'd seen it!
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren T. Brown" <darren@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 8:37 PM
Subject: [BBC-Micro] introduction and EPROM question
Hi guys (and girls?)
I never could quite get over my acorn electron, and as a youngster it was
the best I could afford- the BBC was out of my price range. I did get myself
a Plus One for some serious gaming, and even set up my first business using
the electron and my own BASIC programs for printing flyers and customer
databasing. Many happy our typing in games from electron user, and leaving
the computer on overnight whilst Mandlebrot ran on a black and white TV set.
But the BBC was always my ultimate machine, time past by as did the
Electron, only to be dusted off every couple of years to try and get past my
'deadly' rating on elite and wishing for some missions which were cut out of
the Elk version.
And then last week I saw on ebay (item no. 3052941939) a BBC and dual disk
drive with a possible fault-fuzzy screen. I looked carefully at the cable
(check out the auction and you can see the cable) and realised why the TV
screen was fuzzy so I bid on it. cost me £22.00 including carriage.
And there it sits, nice clear screen with the correct cable and (very loud!)
beep.
BBC Computer 32K
WATFORD ELECTRONICS DFS1.43
BASIC
OS 1.20
is on the screen
*HELP shows:
DFS
FILES
SPACE
UTILS
Luckily I have Elite on cassette to play with and I spent a happy few hours
trying to remember simple commands like *TAPE as I have no disks yet.
I have tons of games on cassette for both the BBC and the Electron, but
these days I just dont like sitting by the cassette player, watching the
screen for the dreaded "data?....searching"
I have an eprom programmer attached to my PC which I use reguarly for work.
Can I use the disk and rom images to burn onto an eprom? Also what is the
model of the eproms i should use? (27C128 for instance?)
If its not possible to use the images already available, I obviously have to
do it the hard way, but where do you start with a stack of 50 odd cassettes?
Finally, its good to be here- and 20 years late I have myself a BBC B...yey!
Darren