Please see below for 2026 updates to BeebMaster

1st March 2026	A new beginning starts here:
		In February 2024, I moved for the first time in 26 years and so the process of reconstituting the BeebRoom in a new location began.		In a little cubby hole opposite the BeebRoom, is the new Beeb Stock Room.
		Despite having moved to the Fylde coast, I still have to work, for at least another 21 years, so I need a lickle office like this.		My new television setup is shown here.
		Work began on the new BeebRoom in March 2024.		The BeebGarage is an important part of the house move in 2024.
		The kitting out of the new BeebRoom continued into April 2024.		More work on the BeebGarage took place in April 2024.
	Moving on to some programming topics, beginning with the first screenshot picture sets made in the new BeebRoom in May 2024:
		This set is a look at how we can use OSBYTE 170 to get information about installed ROMs in a BBC.		A ROM status table is kept in memory and can be used to disable and enable ROMs.
		This set expands on the use of the ROM information table, and is Tube-compatible.		This set looks at using the ROM information table to initialise ROM images loaded into Sideways RAM, made in May 2024.
		Here's a little routine to find if a ROM is present which I did in May 2024.		In May 2024, I expanded my FindROM utility to allow DFS, NFS and ANFS on a BBC Model B to be selected and deselected.
	Everyone likes to talk about all the bugs in the Acorn Disc Filing System, so here are two talking points:
		This set is the beginning of a detailed look at a particular persistent bug, or even "feature" in Acorn DFS, but before I got off the ground, I encountered strange behaviour with Econet when using DFS 0.90.		My attention was drawn to this "bug" in DFS in May 2024, and I decided to investigate when it was introduced, and how long it lasted. The bug is simple: it's not possible to copy a file which is zero bytes in length.
1st February 2026	Warm yourselves up with some BeebCheer this February, starting with some more on the Compact Level 3 Econet File Server I started last month:
		I updated Station 200 to use version 1.33 of the Level 3 Econet file server in December 2023.		This set shows the improvement in drive selection in Level3 FS version 1.33.
		In the early 2020s, the source code for the Acorn Level 3 file server began to emerge. Here's a look at one of the latest versions, 1.33.		I stayed up till midnight on new year's eve 2023 to make sure the L3 FS version 1.33 would correctly update the year.
	Continuing the Econet theme, starting with some new Econet interfaces:
		An even smaller Econet module than the previous smallest Econet module.		The Acorn A4 Econet module being rather rare, Ken Lowe to the rescue!
		A new, version 2, Pi Econet Bridge arrived in January 2024.		Different file servers and different Econet stations report different date information for directories. This set takes a look at some different situation.
	Now for something X-rated. Well, they begin with X anyway, that's near enough:
		In November 2023, I updated the External ADFS to settle important things such as filing system number and file handle channels.		I participated in the Christmas coding challenge once again in 2023.
	A quick look at couple of interesting cabling items, which also in the case of the first has enabled me to finish uploading all the picture sets from 2023, and I am now well in 2024, only just over two years behind!
		This is a quick look at one of my most useful and versatile ribbon cables, my 34-way All Purpose Everything Cable.		This little device I have had for a number of years, but I came to use it for the first time in 2024 when testing some new ribbon cables.
	By January 2024, I had just about got the BeebRoom all ship-shape and to my liking, ready for a photo session, and only days later, took it all completely to pieces again to move it 60 miles away:
		Following a fairly extensive tidying-up session lasting about a week, by January 2024, the BeebRoom was in a fit state to be photographed in its most recent incarnation.		No sooner had I photographed the BeebRoom in January 2024 than the whole lot was dismantled pending the BeebMove.
	Please come back in early March for a special feature on the beginnings of the all-new 2024 BeebRoom!
1st January 2026	1986 was a good year for Acorn, bringing out the Master Series in its various forms throughout the year, right up to the end of November when the Domesday Machine appeared. Forty years later, here I am still using them and talking about them. For this 2026 new year update, we begin with some programming topics:
		This started, in September 2023, as a set about the BASIC CALL command being broken in Pi Tube PanOS but it drifted a little towards the end.		There's a bit of memory above HIMEM in 25-row screen modes.
		I participated in an informal programming challenge in October 2023 to draw a "Klauber triangle", which is a triangle shape where each plotted point of the triangle is coloured in one colour to represent a prime number, and another colour to represent other numbers.		Getting the parameters to a *SAVE command right can trip up a lot of people, so in October 2023 I decided to make a picture set on it.
	Continuing with some 8-bit hardware:
		By September 2023, the LEDs on Station 128's keyboard were on the blink, or no blink, again, so I gave it an overhaul.		Here's a modification I made to Ken Lowe's adapter for the Pi1MHz to allow multiple devices on the 1MHz bus at the same time.
		I discovered a problem with my ROM Box, connected to Station 112, in October 2023 so I decided I had better fix it.		After I fixed the ribbon cable on my ROM Box in October 2023, I decided to take it to bits completely for a bit of a clean and a closer look.
	A fix to my new IDFS variant of ADFS, so that it actually works with the LV-ROM player, and an external version, XDFS:
		It was bugging me that my new "Internal ADFS" didn't work with the only original hardware using the internal 1MHz bus, so I set about fixing this in August 2023.		External ADFS, or XDFS, is a special build of ADFS I made in July 2023 which alters the hardware address for the Winchester disc on the 1MHz bus. This allows two completely separate units to be attached at the same time, so that files and data can be copied from one to the other. XDFS has a different filing system number and selection command to the normal ADFS, so that it appears as a totally separate filing system to ADFS and therefore can be used with utilities and commands which copy between different filing systems.
	Some 32-bit topics now:
		I bought some VGA switches like this one in September 2023 so that I could share monitors between Archimedeseses.		This is a set on the Net Filer Desktop icon using my RISC PC which I made in October 2023.
		My system for making screenshots of Archimedii isn't as sophisticated as the Beeb arrangements, but here's a look from December 2023 of the A305 at work.		Here's a look at using long filenames with Econet on the Acorn A305.
	A special feature on setting up the Acorn Econet Level 3 File Server using a Compact Flash hard drive, which I did two Christmases ago, meaning I am making very good progress catching up with the picture sets:
		This set is the first of several I made in December 2023 to show the setting up a Level 3 file server on a BBC Model B using a Retroclinic Compact Flash IDE hard drive.		Having set up my new CF card for use as two ADFS hard drives, the next step is to let the Level 3 initialiser WFSInit loose on it.
		This is a look at trying out some file server operations until we figure out how to fill up the new file server discs with utilities.		This set shows modified version of Level 3 FS 1.33, with 21st century date support fixed, running on our new Compact Flash hard drive at Station 128.
	And more on the theme of Econet here:
		Another batch of BBC B Econet upgrade kits came along in December 2023 and you can see the production line here.		Eyeball is a RISC OS utility to view a remote RISC OS station's screen over Econet.
	As we enter the new year, it's always customary for me to invite you have a good scrat around these maniferous pages, and in particular some of my non-Beebing sections. Today I can help you learn more about two of my other favourite topics, Tea and Dr. Who:
		In April 2023, when I was unsuspectingly making a brew so I could go back to finalising my May 2023 website update, I was instructed to tidy up my tea cupboard.		What, I hear you have been asking, am I doing about the 40th anniversary of the "missing" season 23 of Doctor Who? Well, I decided to reconstruct the series as best I could, and have on what should have been on in the first quarter of 1986, forty years on, of course, in line with my whole Who proclivity in that direction.

For previous updates, please see here.