What's New 2025
Please see below for 2025 updates to BeebMaster
1st February 2025 | February's update begins with more on the Ecodisc: | |||
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I made a new version of my "Count Directory" utility to take into account the space used on LV-ROM discs. Here's the utility before the changes so we can see the difference. | ![]() |
This is the enhanced version which can cope with VFS discs. | |
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Version 1.2 of my Read/Write CMOS utility from July 2022 is here. | ![]() |
Here's a quick routine I drew up to print out a memory dump. | |
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This was a bit of fun in July 2022 when I made up an ADFS disc full of Pi digits. | ![]() |
Shortly after making my Disc of Pi, I devised a way of freeing up even more space on an ADFS disc than is usually available. | |
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Here's a look at the "Bad key" error in BBC BASIC. | ![]() |
This is a very irritating problem with the Level 4 file server. | |
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This set shows the ACB4000 series of Adaptec ST506 Winchester Disc controllers in use. | ![]() |
This is a look at mode select using the ACB4000 series controllers, from July 2022. | |
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In July 2022, 3 years after first introducing my HTML Generator, I devised a method to use Inter-Word to write the caption files. Please click on the picture links above to learn more. | ![]() |
In July 2022, I devised a more automated way of taking Beeb screenshots, using a dictation system footpedal. | |
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A quick set showing how ADFS 2.10 doesn't work with the Master 512. | ![]() |
I had a special viewing of "Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D." in July 2022 in memory of local lad Bernard Cribbins, who played PC Tom Campbell in the film. | |
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You can't tell from the pictures, but Wakefield 2023 took place in Bradford. | ![]() |
I attended my second retro-computing event of 2024 in April when I made a further return visit to Camberley. | |
1st January 2025 | Help to see in the new year with a special LaserVision and Domesday feature for this first 2025 update: | |||
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This is a look at "Helping Your Child To Read" with my Domesday Machine in July 2022. | |||
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This is a look at the "maximum" frame number which will be accepted when communicating with the LV-ROM player via SCSI. | ![]() |
Another look at maximum frames now, with the LV-ROM player being operated under serial communications. | |
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This is a quick recap of the problem of trying to work out how many CAV frames are on a laserdisc which happens to be an LV-ROM Disc. | ![]() |
I worked out a fix for the SCSI communications problem when trying to calculate the maximum disc frame, as used in my LVInfo utility. | |
A major new section about the AIV Ecodisc starts today: | ||||
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This is a new picture set of my Ecodisc which I took in July 2022 to coincide with its thirty-fifth anniversary. | ![]() |
In July 2022, on the approximate 35th anniversary of the publication of the Ecodisc, I tried it out for the first time. It had been in the wardrobe for over 15 years. | |
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Now a look at the Ecodisc with my LVInfo utility. | ![]() |
It shouldn't be too difficult to make a logical backup of the Ecodisc - it will all fit on an ADFS floppy disc. | |
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This is an attempt to see whether the Ecodisc Plan sections will work, even though the Plan files have rotted away. | ![]() |
Here's a look at what happens if we try to run the Ecodisc with the Tube off. | |
To finish this new year update, some bits of programming with functions and procedures: | ||||
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This is a brief look at a programming technique which allows a Function within a BASIC program to be called by building the name of the function using variables rather than having to hard-code the name of the function each time. | ![]() |
This set is a bit of a warning about being careful to use the right arguments in functions, or unexpected results can ... result. |
For previous updates, please see here.