Remember to read this page from bottom to top if you are a newcomer
to 8BS!
12/12/2002 Thanks to Jonathan Harston for pointing out a problem with a
couple of discs in the 512 section. I have redone them 512-17 and 512-61
05/12/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending a manual he has written himself
for BBC Explorer 2. It is in Word format, downloadable from the 'Manuals'
page of the website
23/11/2002 Thanks to Alastair Seggie for a diagram of the ROM Box Lead.
Placed on the 'On Line Magazine' page
19/11/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for the S-Pascal manual now available
for download from the 'Manuals' page
13/11/2002 Thanks to David Hawkins for the Micron Plus Eprom Programmer
manual and ATPL battery backup instructions, placed on the 'Manuals' page
11/11/2002 The marathon of entering all of the Electron Games reviews/info
pages into the index is now finished. 889 files! Thanks to Dave Edwards for
sending me all of the files. Now viewable from the 'Electron Games' link
09/11/2002 Thanks to Lee at Vintage Computer for the Ebay advert. Thanks
to Keith Nolde for pointing it out to me. Placed in the 'On Line Magazine'.
Thanks to Lee for a picture of a 16k RAM chip now placed on the 'Pictures>other'
page. Thanks also to Lee for the improved photo of the M128 6502 co-processor,
replacing the existing one on the 'Pictures>boards' page
07/11/2002 Thanks to Matt Cocker for an HTML version of the RomIt manual
now viewable and downloadable on the 'manuals' page
03/11/2002 Thanks to Matt Cocker for a substantial number (57) of scans
of A&B Magazine covers now placed in a page of their own available off
the 'Magazines' page. Thanks to Dave Edwards for the 'Sprite Utilities' manual,
now placed on the 'Manuals' page for download. Thanks to Dave Edwards for
sending the Paintbox manual. Placed ready for download on the 'Manuals' page.
Thanks to Janny Looyenga for slight updates to 512-19 and 512-52, info added
to the zips. Thanks to Janny Looyenga for a new disc in the 512 section. 512-85,
Time Traker a time and billing system now available for download from the
512 section of the catalogue. Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending the Slogger
Elkman User Guide, placed on the 'Manuals' page for download. Thanks to Dave
Edwards for the PRES Advanced File Manager manual. Now available for download
from the 'Manuals' page. Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending his completed
'Electron Complete Games Guide', now in a page of its own available from the
main menu
25/10/2002 Thanks to Janny Looyenga. 512-74-3 a manual for Flodraw added.
Thanks also to Janny for 512-84 a new disc in the pool. A cooking program.
Thanks to Ronald Barr for a disc containing graph plotters, now available
for download as TBI-175
22/10/2002 Thanks to David Hawkins for photos of his setup and an LTM Portable,
placed on the 'pictures>Computers' page
19/10/2002 Thanks to Richard Hall for photos of a Watford hand scanner,
80186 co-processor, and an unusual board placed on the 'Pictures' page. Thanks
also to Richard for an article placed in the 'On Line Magazine'. He made a
repair to the legs of a faulty board that I sent him. I offered to take it
back off him, but he was determined to repair it and managed. This is the
story, with photos, of how he did it
18/10/2002 I have added the rest of the John Ilsley electronics articles
to the 'On Line Magazine'
15/10/2002 Thanks to Dave Moore and Jeremy Grayson for a scan of the Bugbyte
Magazine 'Beebon' placed on the 'Magazines' page
13/10/2002 Alastair Seggie's Starturn Lathe Nighmare put into the 'On Line
Magazine'
12/10/2002 Thanks to Jon Irvine for a load of scans of A&B Magazine
Covers. Placed on the 'Magazine Scan' cover page. Thanks also to Jon for a
load of pictures for the 'Pictures' pages
10/10/2002 Thanks to Mark Bush for sending a new fix for the Master Y2K
problem. Placed in the 'On Line Magazine'
09/10/2002 I had to do it. I put the Repton tune into my Motorola. Codes
on the 'On Line Magazine' page. MP3 version of it too, recorded off my phone.
Thanks to Richard Hall for sending scans of info about the 6809 Co-Processor.
Placed on the 'Scans>Leaflets' page
08/10/2002 A Large number of Tape Game cover scans placed on the 'Scans'
page. MP3 version of the Nokia Repton ringtone placed with the entry in the
'On Line Magazine' from yesterday for those of you without a Nokia
07/10/2002 Repton 3 Ringtone for Nokia phones placed on the 'On Line Magazine'
Thanks to Gary McCallum for sending it. Loads of photos added to the 'Pictures'
pages over the last few days. Thanks to everyone for these. The 'For Sale'
page is worth a quick look, I have added a large amount of things to it. Article
by John Ilsley on how to construct a light pen added to the 'on line magazine'
03/10/2002 A new disc added to the TBI section. Thanks to Jon Hogeslag.
TBI-174 a DFS disc catalogue extender allowing file descriptions to be added.
Now available for download from the TBI section of the catalogue
02/10/2002 A fourth type of BBC keyboard discovered in my loft after Wouter
Scholten pointed out differences to me. Photos added to the 'Insides/technical'
page
29/09/2002 Thanks to Michael Foot for sending photos of an Electron (see
them on the 'Pictures>Computers' page) and a BBC car shade (see it on the
'Pictures>Other' page)
28/09/2002 Fixed 'Recent Pool' and 'Recent Pictures' utilities. Since moving
to the new owl server they had not been working correctly. I had not realised
this until today
18/09/2002 WHS section removed from the website at the request of Wouter.
He is maintaining these things himself. Link to be placed on the 'Links' page
shortly
17/09/2002 Thanks to Jason Watton for prompting me. I finally sussed copying
BBC discs using my machine with Windows XP. How I did it on the 'PC><BBC'
page
15/09/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending a new disc for the Beebug
section of the pool BUG-28 Murom. Now available for download from the catalogue.
Thanks to Philip Mulrane for sending the final version of the Ample ROM patch
with article about it. Available from the 'On Line Magazine' and the 'MUS'
section of the catalogue
14/09/2002 A further update to BBC-57 from Dave Edwards, including a new
ADFS version. This disc is now full and a further disc is promised shortly.
Thanks Dave
13/09/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for sending an update for BBC-57. The
following text by Dave: Wowza! Amazing new BBC music demo of Eminem's STAN
added to BBC_57. We're still looking for any music demos that are missing
from the archives as well. If you have any to contribute please get in touch!"
12/09/2002 Thanks to Philip Mulrane for sending an Ample ROM patch. This
enables you to use any of the Ample Software with your Ample ROM. Available
from the MUS section and the 'On Line Magazine'. Stop press! I have temporarily
disabled the links at the request of Philip while he finishes the testing.
Watch this space...
10/09/2002 MUS-21 22 and 23 added to the music section. Music 5000 tunes
sent to me by Gareth Babb. Some are duplicates of what is already in the pool.
09/09/2002 The last 5 discs added for the ARC section. Thanks to Philip
Mulrane for scanning the Computer Concepts Speech Manual. Now available for
download from the 'Manuals' page. A Domesday system went up for sale on Ebay.
The full collection of photos are placed on a separate page available from
the 'Pictures' > 'Computers' page
04/09/2002 Five discs added to the download section. I have imaged some
of the Archimedes Discs I have. Please see the ARC section of the catalogue
01/09/2002 Thanks to Richard Hall for sending some photos of a Master ET.
Thanks to Dave Edwards for an update to ELK-01, available for download now
12/08/2002 The website was broken for a while. I also accidentally deleted
a purchase enquiry e-mail. So if you did not get a reply from me, please try
again
31/07/2002 Thanks to Janny Looyenga for submitting another disc for the
Master 512 section. 512-83 Flexical a calendar/appointment program. Now available
for download from the 512 section of the catalogue
30/07/2002 Econet page added. I would appreciate help from anyone who would
like to add things to this page. Thanks to Alan Hulley for sending me a cover
scan of Beebug 5-5. Thanks to all who have recently sent me photos. I have
not included thanks on this 'What's New' page but have mentioned who sent
what with the actual items. I seem to have had very little spare time this
last month and have not updated this 'New' page at all, as you can see :-(
28/07/2002 Thanks to Stweart Goldwater for an update to the Cub Service
Manual
17/06/2002 Thanks to Gordon Dyer for an OCR of the Electron User Guide Errata
sheet. Placed for download on the manuals page and also within the scan of
the Electron User Guide
16/06/2002 Only 3 short now! Thanks to Dave Moore for sending TMU-83-4,
now available for download
15/06/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for 4 new discs in the pool at the start
of the EUD section 83-10 11 12 and 84-1
01/06/2002 Thanks to Richard Hall for some more scans of game and utility
covers. Placed on the 'Scans' page
31/05/2002 Thanks to Dave Edwards for an update to EUD-07, now available
for download from the EUD section of the pool. Thanks to Richard Hall for
sending scans of a Master 512 advert and Mini Office II box and several games.
Placed on the scans page
30/05/2005 Thanks to Richard Hall for another 16 Acorn User cover scans.
Placed on the 'Magazines' page
29/05/2002 Thanks to Stewart Goldwater for an HTML version of the Microvitec
CUB Monitor Service Manual. Now available from the 'Manuals' page. Thanks
to Gordon Dyer for a cover scan of a Micro User Education Special. Now available
on 'The Micro User' cover scans page
28/05/2002 With the recent addition and promise of further magazine cover
scans, I have separated the magazine scans from the Manual scans page. Creating
a new entry in the main menus 'Magazines'. Beebug Magazine cover scans placed
on the 'Magazine' page. Thanks to Richard Hall for scans of A&B Magazine
covers. Placed on the 'Magazines' page. Thanks to Martin Hodgson for sending
his HTML OCRing of the Master Compact Welcome Guide. Now available on the
'Manuals' page. Thanks to Richard Hall for some Acorn User cover scans. Placed
on the 'Magazines' page, more to come.
27/05/2002 Thanks to Richard Hall for scanning parts of an 'Interface' magazine
from Janualy 1982 containing some BBC info and also for a scan of the front
cover of 'Acorn Programs' magazine issue 1. Thanks to Gordon Dyer for sending
it on to 8BS. Now available for viewing from the 'Manuals/Scans' page
26/05/2002 Thanks to both Gordon Dyer and Richard Hall for sending scans
of covers now placed on the 'Cover Scans' page. Thanks to Richard for sending
the Watford Hand Scanner manual. Placed on the 'Manuals' page
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