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Acorn RISC PC 700 Demonstration – Part 1

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6 months ago
by Andy in

In this video, you will see a Acorn RISC PC 700 booting RISC OS 4.02 from ROM, then soft-loading 4.39 from the hard disk.

You will also see a bit of gameplay from Zool and Speed Ball 2, as well as a bit of the World Wide Web courtesy of the NetSurf web browser.

Raspberry Pi Prototype Photo

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6 months ago
by Andy in

Here is a photo of the Raspberry Pi on display at the Risc OS London show today. It was running Risc OS. Looks like there is a problem with the video at the moment, but its looking good!

 

Nyan cat for the BBC Micro

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7 months ago
by Andy in

This is Nyan Cat for the BBC Micro by CRTC. This demo was released at the Sunrise Demo party in 2011. See the following pouet page for more info : beebnyan by CRTC You can download a SSD containing beebnyan from that site to either run inside a emulator, or on a real BBC Computer.

Can you watch the video to the end?

I recorded this video on a real BBC Master 128. The original sound output from the BBC wasn’t great, so I recorded the audio direct onto my laptop and overlaid the sound onto the video. The BBC isn’t known for its audio quality!

You may also notice I have copied the demo to the :0 ADFS hard drive. My :0 is a 512mb CF card attached to a RetroClinic Datacenter USB/IDE interface.

BBC Micro Advert – The Story of Daphne

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7 months ago
by Andy in

Just found this great TV advert for the BBC Micro. Check it out!

80s advert for the BBC Microcomputer. Daphne’s invested a lot of money in that thing – it’s got the Prestel adaptor, the disc drive, the additional Z80 processor and something else… teletext adaptor perhaps.

Retro Computers YouTube Channel

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7 months ago
by Andy in

 www.retrocomputers.eu also has a YouTube channel. You can subscribe by going to Retro Computers Youtube Channel, or click the YouTube icon at the top of any page on this site.

Here is one of my more recent videos – a BBC Model B playing Commodore 64 SID tunes thru the BeebSID device. There will be a new one soon about the BBC Master 512 – a 80186 PC inside a BBC Master 128.

Replacing the battery in the BBC Master 512

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7 months ago
by Andy in

The battery pack in my Master 512 (The model with the 80186 CPU) had died.

I followed this simple guide to build my own battery pack. Once the new battery pack was built, and installed, I had to reconfigure the systems settings.

CO. BAUD 4
CO. NOBOOT
CO. CAPS
CO. DATA 4
CO. DELAY 50
CO. NOTUBE
CO. NODIR
CO. FDRIVE 0
CO. FILE 9
CO. FLOPPY
CO. IGNORE 10
CO. LANG 12
CO. MODE 135
CO. LOUD
CO. PRINT 1
CO. REPEAT 5
CO. SCROLL
CO. TV 0,1

My Mater 512 is happy again. Its now time to re-create the DOS and GEM disks. Wish me luck!

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