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Re: MBBack

From Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.apps
Subject Re: MBBack
Date 2025-06-12 12:07 +0100
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Message-ID <5c2bc81f71News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> (permalink)
References <5c2bbb8e52news@Torrens.org>

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In article <5c2bbb8e52news@Torrens.org>,
   Richard Torrens (News) <news@Torrens.org> wrote:
> I run Martin Bazley's MBBack
> http://starfighter.acornarcade.com/mysite/downloads/mbbback.zip
> with about 10,000 jpegs in it's list of backdrops. But recently, on
> a Titanium, it has started throwing up an error:
>    Invalid controller/port ID

Any clues like the line number?
Does it happen on startup, or randomly while running?

> After this error disc reads seem to be OK, but attempting to write
> gives "Bad Freespace Map" so it seems to be quite a serious bug!

Nasty. Do you use DiscKnight to fix it?

> Initially on the Titanium the error was that there was insufficient
> memory available. It would do this every few days, so not a huge
> problem. Then the error changed, apparently without cause. I
> updated the OS to 5.30 (15-May-24) but this hasn't changed things.

> The program is written in BASIC and has never given an error in
> several years running on an ARMX6. Martin doesn't have a Titanium
> to investigate.

I have a Titanium ... but have not run MBBack, but I would have hoped
it wrote little to a disc.

Martin

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Martin Avison 
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MBBack "Richard Torrens (News)" <news@Torrens.org> - 2025-06-12 09:50 +0100
  Re: MBBack Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2025-06-12 12:07 +0100
    Re: MBBack "Richard Torrens (News)" <news@Torrens.org> - 2025-06-12 19:38 +0100
      Re: MBBack druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-06-12 22:12 +0100
        Re: MBBack "Richard Torrens (News)" <news@Torrens.org> - 2025-06-13 08:56 +0100
          Re: MBBack druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-06-13 21:21 +0100
            Re: MBBack "Richard Torrens (News)" <news@Torrens.org> - 2025-06-15 10:47 +0100
      Re: MBBack Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-06-13 23:42 +0100
        Re: MBBack "Richard Torrens (News)" <news@Torrens.org> - 2025-06-15 10:53 +0100
    Re: MBBack Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-06-12 19:43 +0100

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