BBC Micros
Any speccy peeps on here also have a collection of Beebs ? :)
I have a fair few (and some accessories) , il try to get some pics later if anyone is interested ;-)
I have a fair few (and some accessories) , il try to get some pics later if anyone is interested ;-)
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I have the potential details of the DDFS hardware sitting in an email - I need to take it out and trace all the connections to confirm whether that's the right chip.
I have a couple of BBC Micro projects in mind, such as a sideways Flash board (which would be incredibly handy!)
as far as I know, they still sell boxed and unused BBC Masters and Master Compacts, as well as Archimedes stuff!
I much prefer using a BBC to a Spectrum if I am writing something in BASIC, which I rarely do, and if I do, it's probably something out of INPUT or some other teach yourself book.
I have a soft spot for the Master Compact, but it's an absolute pain in the backside trying to buy software for it.
The best thing is that the interface cost less than a tenner to make!
I own a BBC too, but I haven't used it for ages, and have a bunch of software as well.
Alas I can't find any photos or video of the crane I built and exhibited :(
but it worked for 3 days at an exhibition (and I only had to reload the software after a crash a couple of times... :-D)
Hardware...
Standard Master
Master 128 with co-pro 512 turbo board (I think one of the Masters has econet)
Two BBC B`s with DFS (cant remember probably 8271)
One BBC B with DFS and Econet
One near mint BBC B (still tape only) , I dont think its ever been apart
6502 2nd Processor for BBC B (works well with Elite!) I think I had two of these
Eprom Programmer (i think its faulty)
Couple of 5.25 floppy drives
Two 14" Acorn monitors (both have sound input)
Spares...
3 or 4 BBC B Psu`s
1 Master PSU
2 or 3 BBC B Mainboards
1 Master Compact Main Board (i belive it works)
1 Master 128 Mainboard
4 or 5 Keyboards (i think 1 MC128 / 1 M128 / 3 BBC B)
Large bag of spare keytops (most keyboards)
Lots of keyboard micro-switches (most types inc Master)
Some unmarked and some dead eproms
Probably some other stuff i have forgotten :oops:
show off :p
I should really download an emulator and try them. What other BBC/Electron games would you recommend?
Also, Starship Command is another game with excellent playability.
Revs was probably the best racing game of the day. The BBC version of Elite is probably the best version of the day, too - again, much smoother than on other platforms of the same time period.
We had an econet network of Beebs at school. A friend and I wrote a MUD in a similar vein to Shades (a MUD on Micronet)... a true client/server program before either of us had heard of the term client/server applied to a system :-) We used a donated Torch BBC compatible for the server since no one wanted to use it because it had a strange keyboard. Happily, the floppy disc with all this on still exists. But I need to figure out how to copy a 800K floppy formatted for an SJ Research fileserver to recover it (I think I can use the ADT ROM in my hard-disc equipped BBC to do a bitwise copy, then pick over it at my leisure).
sounds excellent :)
and beebem has tcp/ip based econet emulation... so you could get everyone playing :) (well 254 people anyway)
;)
I also have one boxed BBC Micro that doest not work. I turn it on and it goes
Boop beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
Infact the Beeep never stops.
I have checked the voltage on the PSU. I have also swiched in and out both the upper and lower portions or Ram to see if that was at fault. But nope it still goes beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
Any ideas?? I would love to have it fixed.
A few years back I brought a BBC Master Series for ?10 at a boot sale. I put it on Ebay and got ?65. I regret selling it now, it was a good machine.
Andrew.
Fortunately, the ROMs generally are socketed on a BBC Micro.
Does anyone remember something called Mallory Manor or something similar. A teacher at school once showed it us and I'm certain I've got the name correct and we only ever used BBC's so it must have been on that. I can't find any info on it and I just want to confirm that it's not a figment of my imagination!
I'm sure I've heard the name.
we had a game at school on the beeb, that I just can't track down.
it was a cursor point and click, hide and seek, detective type game.
you were looking for something in all the rooms of a house.
another game that we had in the reception class was this game where you had to put an elephant on a lorry with a crane
another school donated a whole class worth of archies too (they had obviously bought a load of PCs or something)
they were RiscOS 3 machines, and had an art program called "Flair"
I really wish I could find a copy of that too
I found several references to it on the web e.g. here:-
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/hkcisonline/missing/Acorn%20BBC%20Microhave.txt
But it appears to be MIA at present.
Snapper is a very good version of pacman,
I had this one http://i4.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/9d/bd/1e09_1_b.JPG
for the acorn electron. (I still have the original boxed version).
Stairway to Hell is a good BBC Micro site. not sure on the address as my laptop is being repaired (again) & i'm using a wii 2 type this.
http://www.stairwaytohell.com/index2.html
:-)