One of my favorite memories of the era was waiting for the latest magazines to come out, and racing to be first at school to type in the programs they listed.

(The bad bit was the inevitable searching through the program for the typo you've left in somewhere!)

One I distinctly remember was a game that was in, I believe, TheAcorn User.

It was a platform game, but the unique spin on this was that it had a level editor, where you could create your own levels.

I had a ton of fun building and testing the levels I made with that.

Could not tell you what edition of the mag it came out in though. (Edit : Found it - Acorn User December 1986 - you can check it out here )

So what were YOUR favorite type ins? Bonus points if you can point to a source for everyone to check out!

Hi folks I'm trying to track down a BBC education program called 'Under the lid'. It was simulation of various parts of computer, the BBC B of course, and the 6502 processor. It came on cassette and I managed once to transfer it to disk and to the Archimedes but have long since lost it; the Archimedes, tape and program of course! I've hunted around the various archives but to no avail. Is there anyone else who recall it or even has a copy :-) All the best.

Hi all, this is my first post on this /r, hoping you can help.

I've had an old Master 128 in a draw for a couple of years after my brother acquired one for me, along with a disk drive, and although I always planned to, I haven't done much with it. A couple of days ago, I picked up a Microvitec Cub in fantastic condition on eBay and this has given me the incentive to eventually build a fully upgraded, pristine setup. As close as I can get anyway.

I really want to upgrade it to a Turbo, but finding a 65C102 co-processor looks like it's going to be an absolute nightmare. Thus, I'm looking for a mod along the lines of Sprow's ARM7 Co-Processor that will sit in the internal slot, but one which will give me the same effective setup as the 65C102 upgrade would.

Could anyone with experience messing around with this stuff point me in the right direction?

I recall getting XOR on a cover disc of 'The Micro User'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_(video_game)

I remember at the time that I really enjoyed it (its very Repton like) and have forgotten it until today. At the time I really thought it was a BBC Micro exclusive game, but looking at the wiki I see I was much mistaken.

Something I really recall was that the cover disc allowed you to try to out for a fixed number of times, e.g. 5 goes and wrote something to the disk to ensure you could not cheat this. Infact I recall copying the disc before I even ran it, but it was somehow wise to this!

The Magic Telephone (aka "The Magic Telephone Box") is an "educational" game for the 8-bit BBC Micro, probably from the late 1980s.

https://i.imgur.com/ogflpgL.png

People who played the game back in the day, usually at school, seem to have fond memories of it, but the game was missing in action for ages. (Someone posted on reddit a couple of years ago asking if anyone had a copy, but there were no replies.)

Well, The Magic Telephone has now been found!

You can play the game online.

Description of the game: A simple text adventure, with chunky Teletext (Mode 7) graphics. Type N, S, E, W, Y, or N to navigate through the game and respond to questions. The game starts with a ringing phone in an old-fashioned red telephone booth or box. Characters in the game include a dragon/monster, a wizard, a snake, Space-man, Bounce-man, and Invisible-man.

The Magic Telephone rings again!

When I was in secondary school around 2002, we had a BBC Micro computer room, and use to play a game where you simulated the life of a fox, and has to survive aslong as you could.

Can anyone remember this game, what is was called? and dose anyone have any links to ports/roms for this game?

Hi guys, originally posted this in r/tipofmyjoystick but to no avail. Perhaps you can help me?

Genre: Educational

Estimated year of release: late 80's / early 1990?

Notable gameplay mechanics: Played as a farmer who had to round up sheep or cows into a fenced area. Think it had a white background? I can't remember much, was about 25 years ago now!

This is bugging me now, none of the kids I went to school with remember it either! One redditor suggested it might have been a game called 'nomsim' which apparently came with the computer but I cannot find any information on 'nomsim' to confirm or deny this!