scudderfish
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| posted on 16/12/13 at 01:03 PM |
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BBC Model B question
Can LCB answer this?
I got a Model B from Freecycle with disk drives (but no copy of Elite, I didn't think that was possible!) It also has a word processor ROM in
it which it boots directly to. Is there a magic key combo to get it to boot to the standard ROM? I don't want to take a screwdriver to it to
lever the WP ROM out.
Regards,
Dave
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chrism
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| posted on 16/12/13 at 02:03 PM |
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Have you tired pressing the BREAK key (or CONTROL and BREAK), I always thought you had to do something to load the word processor.
Found this about fitting ROMs, it could be someone has moved them about.
http://acorn.chriswhy.co.uk/docs/CC/CC_ROMFittingInst.pdf
[Edited on 16/12/13 by chrism]
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trikerneil
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| posted on 16/12/13 at 02:33 PM |
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It has been suggested that the ROMs have been swapped over i.e the WP ROM is in the OS slot.
HTH
Neil
ACE Cafe - Just say No.
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nick205
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| posted on 16/12/13 at 02:34 PM |
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Blimey, not seen one of those since I left school 
Those were the days, Green screen and disks like frisbees 
10 PRINT "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10
RUN
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matt_gsxr
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| posted on 16/12/13 at 03:06 PM |
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I remembered it being a physical ROM swap too.
Here is a disc image of Elite
http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/bbc/
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garyo
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| posted on 16/12/13 at 03:54 PM |
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Ours used to always boot in to the BASIC rom then I thought we typed *W. to boot the wordprocessor, so if they've been swapped then that would
make sense...?
[Edited on 16/12/13 by garyo]
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HowardB
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| posted on 16/12/13 at 07:02 PM |
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there was a thing called a sideways rom,. that meant that the machine could be booted into several different ROMS.
sideways rom
When at school we had a 1MB fixed disc that ran the entire library book system, cost over £10,000!!!!
There was also a trick with the hard wired network address, where it was possible to get a student machine to spoof the one in the staff room. Hours
of endless fun,.... 
Not that I would do anything wrong of course
Howard
Fisher Fury was 2000 Zetec - now a 1600 (it Lives again and goes zoom)
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stevebubs
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| posted on 17/12/13 at 12:20 AM |
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I don't remember there being a key combo for this on the B (you could try holding down the number keys), but you should be able to get into
basic by issuing *BASIC from somewhere in the WordProcessor
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