DuB-EnG: BBC Micro SD card reader - no need for tapes or discs anymore! SD2BBC by thefuturewas8bit
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- čas přidán 17. 06. 2020
- Having re-capped and fixed the BBC Micro in the previous video, we go on to add some modern smart SPI ROM functionality giving us the ability to load a beeb.mmb file onto an SD MMC CARD. You access the menu with a simple push of shift+break - All the games and software ready to load at the touch of a button! Fantastic!
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Thanks, another great video👍
Thanks Simon!! :-)
We used to use *FX commands to silence the speaker to play games in the back of our computer lessons, sorry Mr. Chapman and Mr. Parker.
Aha!! - Those of the ones!! Thanks for that memory jogger!!... Hope your computer lessons were less boring while playing chucky-egg!
Do your game saves automatically save to the SD card? Also, how would you go about transferring your files from a 5¼-inch floppy to the SD card? Great video.
Good question! I’m not sure about writing to the SD card, some people say it doesn’t work!
Lovely to see it going again - looking forward to the 8bit games on a big screen - And roll on chuckie egg!
Btw I am guessing that when you save your 'game' position, it does that on the memory card?
Thanks again for the great work!
Actually I didn’t try saving anything... but yes the memory card is read write. I’m told that some games with very specific copy protection don’t work on this device, but they are few and far between!
What happens if the ROM is installed but the SD isn’t? Can the Card? prompt be skipped?
I believe there is a way to switch it off... Need to look at instructions...
Is that where the “echonet” port would of been if it had been fitted? Still love those and wish I hadn’t got rid all those years ago
Quite correct - the internet port :-) I recently got my hands on an Elk and refurbished it as I grew up with that - nostalgia !!
"so I put a missile switch on the back of it!" this should be on a t-shirt
Bahahah... i see a whole new range of t-shirts coming out!
Wasn't waiting 10 minutes for games to load half the fun? Watching all those funky lines at the side of the screen when loading spectrum games was part of my childhood.
Yeah - the anticipation was incredible... and when it didn't load it drove you nuts!! :-)
@dubiousengineering would you be able to share the weblink for that file for the SD card?
Not easily... But it's out there and free :-)
Personally, I would have wired in a volume pot, but I like the missile switch.
Heheh -- Yeah, I couldn't help myself!!
@@DubiousEngineering I understand completely!
Again, its all Greek to me but I enjoy watching you rebuild things. Cheers
I sincerely appreciate you popped a comment in to say so! - Thanks Pat!! Have a great weeked!!
Super vid and very nostalgic. Incidentally, is that horn sample from a song by The Specials? Thanks mate, really enjoyed all that.
Thanks Mark!! At around 6:45 No it wasn't the specials, but I see why you suggest it could have been... I believe it was a turkish funk band that I stumbled across on youtube while making a little music one evening :-) Have a great weekend!!
@@DubiousEngineering They sound pretty good. I really enjoy that middle/east European funk and folk mash up stuff those bands do. They have fabulous horn sections, get it absolutely 'in the pocket' as they say. Thanks again mate.
Off to play elite again now. LOL the BBC is complete it has a missile switch.
Haha... its only +/-5volts... You could permanently install a BBC into Desmond! :-)
@@DubiousEngineering I think I would go the Raspberry pi route. Cracking toy to play with LOL
Glad you got the Beeb working again. That’s a very neat moulded case for the card reader. I have one of the older MMC readers that does the same job but it has a bare PCB so not so attractive. Are you tempted to add a Beeb to your own collection?
I want a Beeb , but they are outside of my budget... :-(. that and a spectrum and an Amiga and imthink in happy :-)
I bought one of these but it was a total let down as the rom was not showing up when I turned the Beeb on, tried it in all 3 empty slots but nothing. £40 wasted
That’s a shame... mine works... did you ask the supplier for any help?
@@DubiousEngineering No reply yet but we'll see. I'm hoping they'll sell me a 2nd rom as I'm thinking I might have fried it fitting it as I had real trouble getting it into the slot and had it in/out over a dozen times.
You should rename your channel "Dubious Camera work" as you gave me motion sickness within minutes of attempting to watch this video. Thankfully, more professional videographers have covered this topic so I'll go there.
Cheerio.
Sorry about that… blooming amateurs!
"Why not a potentiometer for volume?" "Cause i have a missile switch and a fixed resistor! hah!" *lol*
I as remember there was one on the board you could use to turn the volume up and down.
My 2nd hand childhood Beeb had been modded with a headphones jack :).
Great Idea - the headphone jack... I'd be up till 3am!
@@DubiousEngineering I was often
Ah bending chip pins, removing chips with the lid off a BIC pen, its all coming flooding back.
Ahhh yes - The bic biro... great for making peashooters and removing PTH chips!! :-)
There's a pot on the main board for adjusting the volume. But then that's much more boring than a missile switch........
There we go... You live and learn every day - I didn't know there was a control pot on the motherboard. I do like my missile switches... Thanks for the tip-off reference security compatibility of some software with the SD2BBC - I may ask the designers their thoughts on that point. All the best! :-)