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BBC B+64k question 8 43 (2/3/2011 4:04:59 PM) comp.sys.acorn.misc This may be a wee bit esoteric, but... I've got a BBC B+64k. As I understand it the extra 32k is divided into a 20k chunk (for video memory) and a 12k chunk. Can that 12k chunk be used to store an 8k ROM imag... Jim

MMC Card / BEEB.MMB file 2 37 (1/31/2011 9:55:42 AM) comp.sys.acorn.misc I bought one of the card reader interfaces a while ago and I must say it's pretty good. It's the kind that uses a BEEB.MMB file that stores over 500 .ssd images and allows you to access them as though they were... Jim

BBC Micro jumper S21? ATPL board fitting 2 33 (7/28/2010 2:46:58 PM) comp.sys.acorn.misc I've got an ATPL board that I bought off eBay. However, there are no fitting instructions. It's going into an Issue 7 BBC B. From what I can gather I need to connect the two power leads to S21 on the motherboa... Jim

MMB disk image format 1 36 (7/19/2010 6:39:54 AM) comp.sys.acorn.misc I recently bought one of the CF card kits for use with a BBC Micro that uses the BEEB.MMB file for mass storage of individual floppy images. I was wondering if the MMB file format is documented anywhere? The M... jim

Turbo MMC solid state drive 1 90 (7/11/2010 11:03:15 AM) comp.sys.acorn.misc I've just bought one of these and fitted it - very nice wee device. (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220632417371) However, the disk transfer software is a bit lacking (IMO). What I'd real... jim

Strange DHCP issue 2 204 (2/20/2010 9:34:01 AM) comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc This is probably not actualy a FreeBSD issue, but I'd appreciate some ideas. I've got a FreeBSD 6.2 box with two ethernet cards in it - dc0 and re0. The machine basically acts as my internet gateway and do... jim

Very basic sound programming question 15 24 (3/31/2009 9:04:33 AM) comp.sys.apple2 I'd like to have a subroutine in BASIC that emits a fairly low beep, followed by a fairly high-pitched beep. Both beeps would be of very short duration, say less than 0.5seconds. Any pointers as to how I could... Jim

"You do not have the necassary permissions.." 4 23 (3/4/2009 1:00:49 PM) comp.databases.ms-access I've been given an Access database (unknown version but not probably not 2008) but I'm unable to open it due to the error in the subject. As I understand it it's to do with something called 'workgroup permissio... Jim

ITT2020 question 10 32 (9/12/2008 3:06:38 PM) comp.sys.apple2 Sorry if this is technically off-topic, but: there's an ITT 2020 on the UK eBay site at the moment. The comments for it are that it powers up with a lot of '?'s on screen (it's item number 140264974487) and is ... Jim

SQL 2000 DTS tool - 256 char limit? 1 25 (8/1/2008 8:55:52 AM) comp.databases.ms-sqlserver I'm using the DTS tool (generally called "Import and Export Data", two cogs) to export a table to a text file. However, it seems to be truncating the char(1024), in that it's only outputting the first 256 chars... Jim

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Use of Apple JS classes 7 39 (10/23/2009 10:39:57 AM) comp.sys.mac.system I see that Apple has developed a set of JS classes for use with Dashboard Widgets. However the licence text at the start seems to restrict their use to Widgets, although it's freely useable & distributable f... timstreater (943)

DVD checking 27 47 (2/23/2010 1:50:09 PM) comp.sys.mac.misc I bought a copy of Civilization IV for the Mac, and was somewhat annoyed to discover that it requires you to have the DVD in the drive whenever you play it, despite having copied gigabytes of files onto the har... richard91 (3683)

MMB disk image format 1 36 (7/19/2010 6:39:54 AM) comp.sys.acorn.misc I recently bought one of the CF card kits for use with a BBC Micro that uses the BEEB.MMB file for mass storage of individual floppy images. I was wondering if the MMB file format is documented anywhere? The M... jim604 (552)

BBC Micro jumper S21? ATPL board fitting 2 33 (7/28/2010 2:46:58 PM) comp.sys.acorn.misc I've got an ATPL board that I bought off eBay. However, there are no fitting instructions. It's going into an Issue 7 BBC B. From what I can gather I need to connect the two power leads to S21 on the motherboa... jim604 (552)

MMC Card / BEEB.MMB file 2 37 (1/31/2011 9:55:42 AM) comp.sys.acorn.misc I bought one of the card reader interfaces a while ago and I must say it's pretty good. It's the kind that uses a BEEB.MMB file that stores over 500 .ssd images and allows you to access them as though they were... jim604 (552)

BBC B+64k question 8 43 (2/3/2011 4:04:59 PM) comp.sys.acorn.misc This may be a wee bit esoteric, but... I've got a BBC B+64k. As I understand it the extra 32k is divided into a 20k chunk (for video memory) and a 12k chunk. Can that 12k chunk be used to store an 8k ROM imag... jim604 (552)

Safari mouseover info windows problems 27 34 (7/3/2011 6:12:09 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Hi all, Safari 5.05 and latest MacOSX. I am becoming more and more frustrated with a few things on my Safari. The latest irritation is that mouseovers where a window with information opens a little window wi... Howard.not (206)

Original Macbook OS died. now no space on HD but also no way to rebuild? 101 56 (8/29/2011 3:33:03 AM) comp.sys.mac.system is there any way to rebuild an OS on an original macbook please? I had snow leopard and suddenly it started giving error messages on every plist file. So I tried to reboot as I couldnt do anything in the OS it... dmanzaluni (29)

Running two e-mail programs 7 33 (11/25/2011 5:15:43 PM) comp.sys.mac.apps For some reason, my elderly friend wants to run an e -mail program in addition to Yahoo Mailer that he uses with BT Internet. His reasons for doing so escape me completely. His main problem is synchronising t... pfjames2000 (180)

TW 4.0 4 26 (4/10/2012 5:40:57 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Hmmm, nothing major changed for me in this version. The drawer of open files has become a pane but that's about it. I use "Save a copy" a lot which was why I was disturbed to find this bug in 3.5.x, which do... timstreater2 (1020)