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Rambles/!Help
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
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| Exec address: | 0000 |
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File contents
LED Controller V1.04 Requires WBModules �K Wright 1998 This program is freeware. It can be distributed freely as long as all files of this archive remain in tact and unaltered. It was authored on behalf of the Educational Computing Association of Western Australia (ECAWA). Donations to ECAWA can be made by sending cash/cheque/money order to: ECAWA PO Box 297 Claremont West Australia Australia 6010 This program controls the LED's of the parallel port expansion interface card, (details of which can be found at Jim Fuller's site http://www.southwest.com.au/~jfuller/) on Acorn machines with bidirectional parallel ports...i.e. A3020/4000/5000/RiscPC. It has not been tested on A3000 machines but could work on them along with Mike Cook's modules from Acorn User July 1995. It turns the LED's on and off in any combination. Doesn't sound very exciting, which it isn't, except if you add the second of Jim Fuller's boards you can then add stepper motors to the output and start to control the motors or robots. If you don't have access to the expansion card or don't have the technical know how to make one yourself you can always use Mike Cook's PortMonitor (Acorn User July 1995) to test this software. Thanks go to: Mike Cook for making PortMonitor which allowed me to test LEDCont. Richard Whincup for assistance in sprite control. John Peachey for assistance in sprite control. "WimpBasic" for making something that even I can use. ECAWA for providing the enthusiasm ignition. I can be contacted at kwright@denmarkwa.net.au
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Richard Wh| 00000520 69 6e 63 75 70 20 66 6f 72 20 61 73 73 69 73 74 |incup for assist| 00000530 61 6e 63 65 20 69 6e 20 73 70 72 69 74 65 20 63 |ance in sprite c| 00000540 6f 6e 74 72 6f 6c 2e 0a 20 4a 6f 68 6e 20 50 65 |ontrol.. John Pe| 00000550 61 63 68 65 79 20 20 66 6f 72 20 61 73 73 69 73 |achey for assis| 00000560 74 61 6e 63 65 20 69 6e 20 73 70 72 69 74 65 20 |tance in sprite | 00000570 63 6f 6e 74 72 6f 6c 2e 0a 20 22 57 69 6d 70 42 |control.. "WimpB| 00000580 61 73 69 63 22 20 66 6f 72 20 6d 61 6b 69 6e 67 |asic" for making| 00000590 20 73 6f 6d 65 74 68 69 6e 67 20 74 68 61 74 20 | something that | 000005a0 65 76 65 6e 20 49 20 63 61 6e 20 75 73 65 2e 0a |even I can use..| 000005b0 20 45 43 41 57 41 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 66 6f 72 | ECAWA for| 000005c0 20 70 72 6f 76 69 64 69 6e 67 20 74 68 65 20 65 | providing the e| 000005d0 6e 74 68 75 73 69 61 73 6d 20 69 67 6e 69 74 69 |nthusiasm igniti| 000005e0 6f 6e 2e 0a 0a 49 20 63 61 6e 20 62 65 20 63 6f |on...I can be co| 000005f0 6e 74 61 63 74 65 64 20 61 74 20 6b 77 72 69 67 |ntacted at kwrig| 00000600 68 74 40 64 65 6e 6d 61 72 6b 77 61 2e 6e 65 74 |ht@denmarkwa.net| 00000610 2e 61 75 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a 0a |.au........| 0000061b
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