What's New 2025


Please see below for 2025 updates to BeebMaster


1st January 2025 Help to see in the new year with a special LaserVision and Domesday feature for this first 2025 update:
This is a look at "Helping Your Child To Read" with my Domesday Machine in July 2022.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
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.