Please see below for 2026 updates to BeebMaster

1st January 2026	1986 was a good year for Acorn, bringing out the Master Series in its various forms throughout the year, right up to the end of November when the Domesday Machine appeared. Forty years later, here I am still using them and talking about them. For this 2026 new year update, we begin with some programming topics:
		This started, in September 2023, as a set about the BASIC CALL command being broken in Pi Tube PanOS but it drifted a little towards the end.		There's a bit of memory above HIMEM in 25-row screen modes.
		I participated in an informal programming challenge in October 2023 to draw a "Klauber triangle", which is a triangle shape where each plotted point of the triangle is coloured in one colour to represent a prime number, and another colour to represent other numbers.		Getting the parameters to a *SAVE command right can trip up a lot of people, so in October 2023 I decided to make a picture set on it.
	Continuing with some 8-bit hardware:
		By September 2023, the LEDs on Station 128's keyboard were on the blink, or no blink, again, so I gave it an overhaul.		Here's a modification I made to Ken Lowe's adapter for the Pi1MHz to allow multiple devices on the 1MHz bus at the same time.
		I discovered a problem with my ROM Box, connected to Station 112, in October 2023 so I decided I had better fix it.		After I fixed the ribbon cable on my ROM Box in October 2023, I decided to take it to bits completely for a bit of a clean and a closer look.
	A fix to my new IDFS variant of ADFS, so that it actually works with the LV-ROM player, and an external version, XDFS:
		It was bugging me that my new "Internal ADFS" didn't work with the only original hardware using the internal 1MHz bus, so I set about fixing this in August 2023.		External ADFS, or XDFS, is a special build of ADFS I made in July 2023 which alters the hardware address for the Winchester disc on the 1MHz bus. This allows two completely separate units to be attached at the same time, so that files and data can be copied from one to the other. XDFS has a different filing system number and selection command to the normal ADFS, so that it appears as a totally separate filing system to ADFS and therefore can be used with utilities and commands which copy between different filing systems.
	Some 32-bit topics now:
		I bought some VGA switches like this one in September 2023 so that I could share monitors between Archimedeseses.		This is a set on the Net Filer Desktop icon using my RISC PC which I made in October 2023.
		My system for making screenshots of Archimedii isn't as sophisticated as the Beeb arrangements, but here's a look from December 2023 of the A305 at work.		Here's a look at using long filenames with Econet on the Acorn A305.
	A special feature on setting up the Acorn Econet Level 3 File Server using a Compact Flash hard drive, which I did two Christmases ago, meaning I am making very good progress catching up with the picture sets:
		This set is the first of several I made in December 2023 to show the setting up a Level 3 file server on a BBC Model B using a Retroclinic Compact Flash IDE hard drive.		Having set up my new CF card for use as two ADFS hard drives, the next step is to let the Level 3 initialiser WFSInit loose on it.
		This is a look at trying out some file server operations until we figure out how to fill up the new file server discs with utilities.		This set shows modified version of Level 3 FS 1.33, with 21st century date support fixed, running on our new Compact Flash hard drive at Station 128.
	And more on the theme of Econet here:
		Another batch of BBC B Econet upgrade kits came along in December 2023 and you can see the production line here.		Eyeball is a RISC OS utility to view a remote RISC OS station's screen over Econet.
	As we enter the new year, it's always customary for me to invite you have a good scrat around these maniferous pages, and in particular some of my non-Beebing sections. Today I can help you learn more about two of my other favourite topics, Tea and Dr. Who:
		In April 2023, when I was unsuspectingly making a brew so I could go back to finalising my May 2023 website update, I was instructed to tidy up my tea cupboard.		What, I hear you have been asking, am I doing about the 40th anniversary of the "missing" season 23 of Doctor Who? Well, I decided to reconstruct the series as best I could, and have on what should have been on in the first quarter of 1986, forty years on, of course, in line with my whole Who proclivity in that direction.

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