R0Jaws BBC Master - It's alive!

Hi folks,

I'm passing over a BBC Master system to our good friend R0Jaws at R3play this year but wanted to get it working first!

Thanks to TheCorfiot - it is working! Yay!

1st off I had to replace the battery pack; so as per recommedation from TC, I got a battery holder from Maplin and installed it. I managed to salvage the Diode and Resistor from the original battery pack.

Found that I could slot the new battery pack neatly under the keyboard :)

Now it was time for getting the settings configured because the machine was coming up with "Acorn MOS - not a language".

Again from TC's guidance I input the lines I had to and then - still wouldn't work lol

Still getting the same message. :blink:

I called on TC again who asked for a screen shot of the ROM's which all had a status of "unplugged". TC knew what to do from there and gave me more settings to input. Once this was done - Viola! A working BBC Master!

I hooked up the Floppy drive; found a blank floppy and formatted and verified it so I know that the floppy drive is working too!

Yay! A nice working computer with machine powered Floppy Drive and CUB monitor will be happily traveling to R3play :) Remember and leave enough space in your vehicle to take it all home Phil!

Thanks a lot TC - it would have remained an unusable BBC Master if you hadn't been the all helping guru that you are :thumbsup:

Cheers

John

great stuff john

No Probs my friend, Anytime.

The diode mod you have is perfect (as long as you have insulated it :lol:)

What can I say looking great :thumbsup:

Best Wishes
TC :cool:

@Johnim; thanks mate

Hehe - cheers TC and yeah I have insulated it :) Just left it like that for the photo so you could see it in case there was a problem with it :)

John

thats the exact kit i used at school and if i had the room i would buy the same set up as yours.

found memories of my first network..

*I AM ME

grannies garden and a kid brought in a disk with Cindy lauders new hit , time after time and the beeb played in midi?

That's almost the exact kit I have here, too; I am converting a 3.5" floppy into the old 5.25" floppy drive housing, using a black drive bay converter.

We didn't have computers at our school until I had almost left. My first real use of a BBC Master came when I was at a YTS in an ITeC (Information Technology Centre) in Clydebank and we used them to control robotic things (just to do it - no real purpose lol).

My mate there could program the heck out of it though. The stuff he used to be able to do was awesome! I lost contact with him but it wouldn't surprise me if he went on to be a games programmer.

John

Ahhhhh YTS!

remember that period well.....


Awesome stuff with the beeb, another one back from the past =D

Hehe yeah - Thatchers 80's Keith and no jobs meant YTS for me! It wasn't a very modern ITeC in Clydebank at the time either; I remember taking my C64 in to show them along with the new invention that no-one there had actually seen before - namely my Mouse! It's hard to believe that something so fundamental and part of everyone's life now hadn't been seen by anyone of my peers in 1986! Incredible!

John

John, that is fantastic mate! I'm touched you went to so much trouble.
Thanks again, I really appreciate it. :)

Thanks too to TC, I know Bas helped out loads with this, and was part of the 3 way PM triangle, and phoned up offering loads of advice.

Guys you are the greatest! Now I have to find some games for it. :thumbsup: