Hi!
I am from Kiev, Ukraine.
I have still working Acorn BBC model B.
Our ministry of education of Ukraine get some Acorns with Econet lan for testing at school but our burocrates like to put at schools MSX-2 computers.
I have idea write Linux like 8bit OS for BBC based on C64 TCP/IP stak contiki.
I find paraport-II ethernet for printer port that can work on BBC userport.
As desktop can use AMX mouse with support rom.
Other project why not ? run 128 BBC computers as cluster.
Other project use BBC for control electrical heating at office.
I have MLR russian language ROM image which rewrite for Ukrainian symbols.
Interesting is any way make new phrom for speech with russian voice ?
Other idea use Bitstik + handmade Midi interface for BBC as control Midi synth Kawai X40-D.
Other idea I have Music-500 I like it stereo music, is it way use it as sound card from my programs or games ?

Hi,

Welcome.

Sounds like you have a lot of projects there and enthusiasm for the BBC Micro.

I think at one point someone was working on contiki for the BBC Micro, I think about 3 years ago ? But I've heard nothing since. I could be wrong though, perhaps it was some other desktop system but it does seem familiar.

Contiki would probably work very well on a BBC Master machine as they had a lot more built in memory as well, you got another 64K sideways RAM on top of the standard RAM available in the BBC Micro and you got 20K shadow screen ram too.

You might want to take a look (if you've not done already) at the sister site to this one which covers more general topics;

http://www.stairwaytohell.com

Only a few weeks ago, a fellow on the bbc-micro mailing list wrote about his relative success with Contiki on the Beeb. Dominic, was it? However, I got the impression the port was not quite ready to be published.

Hello again! You wrote to me in 2005 about an OS project you were thinking of writing. (I can barely resist quoting his original email. He is full of ambition and knows the Beeb inside and out. Look out for this guy!)

I hope RetroSoftware proves to be a useful resource for your projects.

Regarding a Russian language PHROM, Robert Sprowson (http://www.sprow.co.uk/) sells reprogrammable PHROM emulators and recently converted some Star Wars sound clips, you could try asking him how he generated the PHROM image.

Best of luck

--Greg.