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L/+UPDATE
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| Tape/disk: | Home » Personal collection » Acorn ADFS disks » Greaseweazled » adfs_EUG_54.adf |
| Filename: | L/+UPDATE |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 085F bytes |
| Load address: | 2B204556 |
| Exec address: | 41445055 |
Duplicates
There are 3 duplicate copies of this file in the archive:
- AEW website » eug » eug_3_5_discs_Eug-54_A-EUG54.adf » L/+UPDATE
- AEW website » eug » eug_5_25_discs_Eug-54_D-EUG54.dsd » L.+UPDATE
- Personal collection » Acorn ADFS disks » Electron_User_Group » EUG_54.ADF » L/+UPDATE
- Personal collection » Acorn ADFS disks » Greaseweazled » adfs_EUG_54.adf » L/+UPDATE
File contents
UPDATES AND UTILITIES
I'VE been busy behind the scenes working on a couple of projects
recently; one of which is a Do-It-Yourself Guide to repairing the most
common BBC faults. This includes things like "continuous tone on power
up, screen blank" problems or when the machine says "Language?" to you.
Rather than panicing, you can now simply visit the Cyber Doctor part of
my web site at:
http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/doctor.htm
If that doesn't help THEN you start to panic!
Also, I've finally rustled up the PCB artwork for the RAM Disk pro-
ject featured on EUG a few months back. So all of those of you who con-
tacted me (or didn't!) registering an interest, or who didn't feel up to
laying out the components on the strip board (like I did for the proto-
type) can rest assured that a PCB is on its way.
At the time of writing (late August), I don't have any final prices
back from the PCB manufacturer but you could either wait until the next
EUG or contact me individually. The board will measure approximately 3
inches by 3.5 inches and has space for up to 1 megabyte of RAM; the full
eight megabytes supported by the filing system [Which was on the last
EUG disk, RAMFS 0.87 - Ed] is available by making use of a 21-way
expansion connector.
Also on this disk, you will find a new list of BBC things for sale
and an updated version on my screen saver module (which I find submitted
to EUG around 1997). This new one fixes a couple of problems with some
monitors squeaking, the OSWord is now Tube compatible and the saver
doesn't purge the VDU queue any more. More details can be found in the
accompanying manual. As before, there is also a demonstration program
("U.SSTest") which uses the OSWord to set up the screen saver.
Robert Sprowson
6 Bollinbrook Road, Macclesfield, CHESHIRE SK10 3DJ
Email: info@sprow.co.uk
Fax: 01625 431067
EUG #54
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00000720 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 52 6f 62 65 72 | Rober|
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000007b0 20 20 20 20 20 45 6d 61 69 6c 3a 20 69 6e 66 6f | Email: info|
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000007d0 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 | |
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00000800 20 20 20 20 46 61 78 3a 20 30 31 36 32 35 20 34 | Fax: 01625 4|
00000810 33 31 30 36 37 0d 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 |31067. |
00000820 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 | |
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00000850 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 45 55 47 20 23 35 34 0d | EUG #54.|
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