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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 22h

This is looking truly amazing!

Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The Psion MC600 has been emulated in MAME for awhile now. We weren't aware of any software specifically released for it ... until now. We found mention that some DOS apps were released on SSD, ie. Lotus 1-2-3 and dBASE III, then promptly found an SSD image of both apps, licensed to Psion!

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

In the next MAME 0.289 release we have the rare Psion 618C emulated. It's a Psion Revo for Traditional Chinese regions. The standard Revo has 8MB ROM but this has 16MB which adds a couple of games and English<->Chinese translators. There's also a Psion 618S with Simplified Chinese yet to be found.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hide your ROMs, am on my way!

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Snuggsy187 @snuggsy187.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

CHUCKULUS - for the Acorn Electron Version 1.0 now available ! 🥳 github.com/Snuggsy187/C... Download and play on an Emulator or real hardware ! ....or play online in Electroniq - an emulator by @0xc0de.bsky.social

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

There's a 4K character ROM on the terminal board too. I have a ROM set so this is just for comparison until I get it running.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Can you dump the ROMs, this is not yet emulated so should probably take a look at it sometime.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The world needs more Torch resurrections!

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I really should've changed the keys when I played, too many missed lifts due to indecisive finger and thumb.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Always ZX:/, never use SPACE for anything requiring precision, as many were destroyed thanks to the likes of Planetoid.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Also started with ZX81, dad had to search wide and far to find a WHSmith that had one in stock and would hold until we get there.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Not heard of this Paxton variant before, a more common luggable Master was the LTM Portable (a B+ version was also available).

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Was my score beaten on day 2?

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

He hadn't, and got that score on his second attempt!

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

That was a tough score to beat, I came close a few times. I'm the other two on the left, though one of them was beaten at the end of the day.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Not a widely used CPU, but Tomy narrows it down considerably.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Here's some emulation progress of the rare Wren Executive, only 1000 made. An interesting CP/M machine with 64K/256K RAM and graphics capabilities with colour attributes. It also came with BBC BASIC and had a 40 column mode with 8 colours for Prestel.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Oh, different issues! Is the Limpet test disc imaged too?

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

What does the /38 signify? I started some emulation improvements on the P2000 range a few months ago that I need to get back to.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Not a lot of clues there, maybe a VideoWriter?

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Same here, my i7-4770K is still plenty for my uses. Have enrolled in the free extended support to get another year out of it though.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Looks like a much smaller event back then.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The only BBC game in the top 30 being 747 Flight Sim sounds a bit suspect.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Wireless video? Not seen anything like that before. Is it even legal to transmit in the UK? I remember in the 80's we had a video sender box that would transmit the VCR to other TVs in the house, am sure it wasn't legit.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I knew it looked familiar, but still had to look it up to be sure.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Looks like some dodgy bloke is nicking bits out of them!

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Ah, so yours announces itself as 68000XD for the disk version, and the ROM is 68000XR, never knew that. More of this Crossware stuff needs archiving as so little is available to play with.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The Crossware 68K ROM that's archived is from 1985. I'd be interested in any Crossware ROMs you have in case there's anything not yet archived.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Don't think I've ever seen you with anything Acorn before!

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Speaking of Dragons ... no meetup this year, or are the usual suspects at GameFest instead?

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

With the latest video improvements in MAME 0.280 we can now also play with the PMS Genie ROM (with PMS Clock). It's quite an impressive package for the time with 32K battery-backed RAM to keep it's data safe.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Another clone of the BBC Micro, the extremely rare (only two known to exist) Hope Dolphin from India is also now officially supported.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The latest MAME 0.280 release has lots of BBC Micro improvements, fixing lots of silly issues, and is finally able to render Elite correctly. Another nice addition is the emulation of the Acorn speech upgrade, which currently no other emulator supports.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Ah, the emulator that has no source for the ROMs it requires.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Which emulator are you referring to? MAME emulates both the PHC-20, thanks to Tony, and PHC-25.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Yes, the 6847 does generate colours, but NTSC! My interpretation is that it generates a colour NTSC signal that cannot be decoded by a PAL TV decoder, so the result is black and white. I'm sure someone will correct me if wrong but isn't it also 60Hz which PAL TV's just about manage to lock onto?

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Our first phone in the 70's was a Trimphone, and family home still has the same number that was allocated back then, albeit now with an extra digit.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Ever wondered what it's like to have a Votrax Type 'N Talk hooked up to a BBC Micro via the RS423 port?

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Another ROM for the Psion Series 3mx was dumped yesterday, this is a Dutch version and will be supported in the next MAME release. We're always looking out for non UK versions of Series 3a/3c/3mx, and already have a few for the 3a/3mx but only a UK version of the 3c. Get in touch if you have any.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

A few months ago I started work on emulating the Psion Series 7. The machine starts to boot and confirms I have the palette and screen rendering implemented correctly, but still lots more work required to understand the hardware.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Also have almost an original of Debug and Copy-All, shared purchase with friend and have one of the authorised 'backups'.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Here's a preview of something coming soon to MAME!

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don't have many originals in my collection, but this was definitely a worthwhile purchase!

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

You probably already own more CEFUCOM assets than anyone else on the planet!

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

All that power to play ASCII invaders!

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

A disk image that'll boot without any input would at least let me know if the rest of the emulation is good.

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Had a look at my TripleX notes and now reminded that keyboard/mouse emulation is stuck without someone dumping the internal ROM from keyboard 8749 MCU :(

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Nigel Barnes @pernod70.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I have the 'portable' image, so if I can emulate the mouse to acknowledge the 'Icon file corrupted' then it should boot?

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