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I have written a number of articles, including some that were published in magazines A & B Computing (1980s) and Elektor Electronics (1990s).
A & B Computing
![]() | Old English Font | A utility for printing text in an Old English font |
![]() | Life | An implementation of Conway's 'Game Of Life' |
![]() | Brainteaser | An implementation of the game 'Mastermind' |
![]() | Android | Defend yourself against waves of descending aliens |
![]() | Easyword | A full featured word processor |
![]() | Advanced Buffer | Enlarge your printer, sound or RS423 buffer |
![]() | Beginners' ROM | A framework for building sideways ROMs |
![]() | Procyon | A sideways ROM containing various useful utilities |
![]() | Elite Fleet | Browse through all the ships available in Elite |
![]() | Master Keys | Master style startup options for earlier machines |
Elektor Electronics
![]() | Black-and-white video digitizer | A video digitiser for the Acorn Archimedes (black and white) |
![]() | 24-bit full colour video digitizer | A video digitiser for the Acorn Archimedes (colour extension) |
![]() | Video digitizer for PCs | A video digitiser for PCs (black and white / colour) |
Various
![]() | SN76489 sound chip details | I delved deep into this sound chip (used in the Acorn BBC) to improve some sound emulation code. Some might benefit from my 'research'. |
![]() | CMOS RAM for the Acorn Atom | Surprisingly, the 2114 RAM chips used in the Acorn Atom do not only come in the regular and 'L' (low power) flavours, but CMOS as well. |
![]() | RISC OS graphics benchmarked | A comparison of graphics benchmarks performed under RISC OS 4.39 and 6.20, using the native video system, ViewFinder, and VPod. |
![]() | Various sources | A gathering of sources that may be of use to someone, somewhere, sometime, in some way. Or perhaps not at all ... |