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What if the Government backed Sir CliveHere is a question I have always wondered about... What if the Government had backed Sir Clive back in the Eighties... That is, placed his computers …
... all this "complexity" in to BBC BASIC did reduce usable RAM ... mode. Personally I enjoyed the BBC BASIC programming I did at ... Electron was better than the BBC Micro and is one of the ... -
What if the Government backed Sir CliveHere is a question I have always wondered about... What if the Government had backed Sir Clive back in the Eighties... That is, placed his computers …
... all this "complexity" in to BBC BASIC did reduce usable RAM ... do with screen layout, BBC BASIC fit in a single ... . MODE 2 on the BBC however is a 4 bit ... resembling an OS on the BBC Micro, it was much easier to ... were made. For what the BBC was used for the tradeoffs ... -
Hi againBeen a while since i was last here :P How is everyone else? What have you been up to? I have expanded my collection to: Commodore 64 Electron BBC mi…
[QUOTE=Robin;504977]I have expanded my collection to:
Commodore 64
Electron
BBC micro[/QUOTE]
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Hi againBeen a while since i was last here :P How is everyone else? What have you been up to? I have expanded my collection to: Commodore 64 Electron BBC mi…
[QUOTE=Robin;504977]
I have expanded my collection to:
Commodore 64
Electron
BBC micro
ZX spectrum
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Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... mode power supply in the BBC Micro because a linear supply made ... far too much heat (the BBC originally insisted "you must use ... running at radio frequency. The BBC relented when they saw how ... -
Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... to ?300. And who won BBC educational contract Sinclair initially was ... seeing the cost of the BBC Micro's BOM it's impossible ... -
Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... seeing the cost of the BBC Micro's BOM it's impossible ... -
TimelordsDoes anyone know about this game? All I know is that it was Julian Gollop's first game. Even Sinclair Infoseek doesn't have it!
... probably because it's a BBC Micro game.
You can ... -
Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…
... and write code for the BBC Micro instead...
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Jet Set F*****g Willy - Clive gets remixed.[youtube]z1QU60cTyh4[/youtube] May be NSFW because of that one expletive, only used once.
the acorn electron and bbc micro.. well a fair bit of ... (of ocean) started out on bbc micro
all the ... rich kids had BBC micros .. faling that, their folks ... -
What (Speccy) game are you currently playing ?(Quite a few threads on what youre listening to, watching etc) What Speccy game are you currently playing ? After playing a LOT of Invasion of the …
I've never seen that either, but I've only played elite on the [URL="http://hubpages.com/hub/BBC-Micro"]BBC Micro[/URL] and the Amiga.
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Did I dream this game existed??Huge apologies for the fact this game (probably) wasn't on the speccy but it has been bugging me for yonks and I can't find any reference to it's exi…
... The Lost Frog on the BBC Micro at school and completed it ... -
Jet Set Willy 2What did everybody make of Jet Set Willy 2? I remember at the time i disliked it, I thought it was a cash in, and hated the way they just expanded t…
... an exit?
The BBC Micro / Electron tape versions also have ... -
True 3D in PC gaming?What ever happened to Nvidia's (I think it was them) claims that they would be making true 3D possible using their drivers and suitable glasses? I'm …
... worked rather better on the BBC Micro where that's not a ... -
David Braben on the BBC[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2011/03/david_braben_-_an_elite_gamer.html[/URL]
... were people crowded around the BBC Micros at school/college playing ... play it (he had a BBC Micro - rich kid).
At ... could be created in a BBC Micro.
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WoS missing magazines listAs regards your missing magazines list, there were: 10 issues of Computer Choice (Dec'83-Sep'84) 15 issues of Games Computing (Jan'84-Mar'85) 109 is…
... the cover - plus THE "NEW" BBC MICRO REVEALED as the cover feature ... -
Welcome back Spectaculator!Hmm, I have to evaluate this again. It's the first emu I've tried that actually seems to boots the PlusD. Is there any way of speeding up the disc …
[QUOTE=dekh;522661]Actually, having heard the fantastic sound effects of the heads moving and the disks accessing I don't want it speeded up. :smile:[/QUOTE]
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The Commodore 64xI was reading my Daily Mail this morning when I espied an announcement that the Commodore 64 was back with Blu-ray drive and other accoutrements. [u…
... saying c64 / atari 8 bit / bbc micro are all the same , just ... -
Yay! I'm Elite!Not in the game anyway (did that 20+ years ago), but on WoS! Woohoo! Totally lost track of how many posts I had made though, so sadly this very messa…
that looks like the bbc micro or electron version ? :)
the documents on the site just mentioned are interesting, including a law suit etc..hehe
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Yay! I'm Elite!Not in the game anyway (did that 20+ years ago), but on WoS! Woohoo! Totally lost track of how many posts I had made though, so sadly this very messa…
[QUOTE=fog;526624]that looks like the bbc micro or electron version ? :)[/QUOTE]
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Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…
... pixel display
* Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, C64, IBM, Atari ST, Oric ... /> * the ACG font
* the BBC mode 7 font
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help in valuingHi guys. You probably remember me telling you about my friend who passed away last year. I've started sorting stuff out. A few photo's below of wh…
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World of Spectrum JAM - All Abilities Welcome.Well I since I got my new keyboard the other week I had this brain wave for a World of Spectrum Jam. I aim to have it work like this. First someone …
... e.g. commodore, spectrum and BBC Micro. I'd love to contribute ... -
Slicks (Codemasters) for the ZX Spectrum?If you were like me, you also owned Commodore 64 back in the days, because of the games like Slicks - multidirectional smooth scrolling "Pit & Run / …
... I didn't own a bbc micro ;) )
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Spectrum - Show in London area, April 2012Hello Folks, we have been already discussing in another thread. Here I simply want check the interest.So the question is easy: If we will organize a …
... doing something similar for the BBC Micro at this year's show ... event, and I'm a BBC nut! ;)
[*]I ... hundred people who'd bought BBC stuff from me over the ... -
Help me identify a PC keyboard plug!Erm, it's not a din plug, nor a usb or a PS2. It's more like a modem / telephone plug. It's for an old x86 computer with 5 1/4" drive built into th…
... atari 8 bit... oric atmos.. bbc micro .. vi 20 ... dragon 32 .. ti ... -
Scott Pilgrim the Movie and Zx SpectrumOk, I keep forgetting about talking about this matter, so here it goes, if it's about 1 year late: They used zx spectrum loading sounds to censor Ju…
... the ZX81. Elite on the BBC Micro. Knight Lore on the ZX ... lot of the Spectrum and BBC Acorn games. I think in ... -
Help me identify a PC keyboard plug!Erm, it's not a din plug, nor a usb or a PS2. It's more like a modem / telephone plug. It's for an old x86 computer with 5 1/4" drive built into th…
Student looks for material stuff to do with 80s gameplayHi everyone, Thanks to everyone for their help in advance by the way! I'll be posting this message or something like it on other retro gaming forums …
... name a few
bbc micro.. expensive machine.. I had a ...Good LOGO program on Spectrum?Does anyone know a good LOGO program on the Spectrum? Ideally machine code, but a good BASIC version will do. I found a few using the search function…
I'd say use a BBC micro one , under emulation.. as there was a few .
I saw this one
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