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bbc micro - Screen "garbage" in Acorn Electron games
2017年7月26日 · The Electron has a custom ULA designed by Acorn to produce the same video address generation as the 6845 when configured in one of the built-in modes but its …
Acorn Electron to VGA/HDMI? - Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
The Electron outputs an analogue interlaced 625-line image, with a line rate of 15.625Khz. HDMI is a digital input, so cannot comprehend the Electron's analogue output. VGA is analogue but …
Acorn Electron fails to load .UEF files converted to .WAV
I have an Acorn Electron that came without tape recorder, so I'm using Audacity to record and replay programs which works fine. Now I also have some software as UEF (Universal …
Why doesn't the Acorn Electron use fast page mode?
2024年1月2日 · The Acorn Electron, trying to provide 32K of RAM as cheaply as possible, uses four 64k chips, for a 4-bit data bus. Obviously, this involves trading away some performance. …
How long was the production run for the Acorn Electron?
2017年7月22日 · I owned an Acorn Electron during the 1980s. It was a great little machine, which was still supported with magazines and games until about 1990. However I'm not sure how …
bbc micro - BBC/Acorn BASIC, what made it so fast?
2018年5月15日 · Most of BBC BASIC's speed advantage came from Acorn's use of a 2 MHz 6502 with fast 4816A RAM chips. It's a good interpreter, but it's the hardware that makes it near …
Why did Acorn use the 6502? - Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
2024年6月1日 · First of all, Acorn had previously built a number of other machines: the Acorn System 1, the Acorn System 2, the Atom, and the Proton. All of these used the 6502 …
Newest 'acorn' Questions - Retrocomputing Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their …
Why are RAM chips 1 or 4 bits wide?
This did have consequences; the Acorn Electron tried for 32K total with a minimum chip count to reduce cost, ended up with a 4-bit data bus, which basically halved its speed. Certainly at a …
Was it possible to complete the third rotation in Killer Gorilla?
2023年12月5日 · I did find some playthroughs of other versions that got further: Killer Gorilla on the Acorn Electron is an Acorn Electron playthrough that reached the third rotation but died on …