Date   : Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:13:22 -0000
From   : Andrew Hancock <Andrew.Hancock@...>
Subject: Re: Elite A (Elite III) under BeebEm/ModelB Emulation

Just found this on RickyNets cached page:-

"For some curious reason, using any DFS other than Watford's 8271 DFS makes
Elite-A behave... no idea why..."

Dated Saturday October 13 2001 - 12:54PM

Should have read this before trying!

Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Foot [mailto:mjfoot@...]
> Sent: 28 October 2003 22:28
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] Elite A (Elite III) under BeebEm/ModelB Emulation
> on PC!
> 
> Quoting Andrew Hancock <Andrew.Hancock@...>:
> 
> > Tar.gz is okay.
> >
> > Elite A + BeebEm 1.41 + 8271 + HDFS still causes Not Found message and
> > hangs
> > on launch!
> 
> I had exactly the same problem with early versions of my BBC emulator. The
> fix
> was to set the 8271 status byte correctly. I recall there was a discussion
> about this on this list towards the end of 2000 so it should be in the
> archives. Alternatively, I can send my 8271 emulation code to whoever
> wants to
> correct BeebEms 8271 code.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mike.
> 
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