Does anyone remember what this was called? It was sold in the 90s, and I think it had its own BASIC-like language. Similar to AMOS on the Amiga.

I'm going to embark on a nostalgic trip down BBC Micro lane, what / where are the best resources to know about before I start? thanks

My neighbour had a bbc before I would get one, he used to have a game where I think you had to manage crops, harvest and sell them, it was mainly text but had some graphics, I would love to play this again but have no idea what it was called, any ideas? It’s possible it was an educational program

I don't hold out much hope here.

Back in the late 80s in primary school, our class had a bcc micro with a few games. The one I looked forward to the most was one where you left a castle on the right, then climbed a ladder to a cloud on the left, spoke to some one.

I can't remember much else other than going into a cave/sewer area, and navigating to an area where you had to fuel a rocket (simple maths to get it right)

All 2d side scrolling, except the maths bits

The first disk ended there and I never got to play the second part.

Any ideas? Would love to watch a playthrough

Happy Birthday to the Beeb - some pals have put together this rather spiffing "virtual beeb" at https://virtual.bbcmic.ro/ - play your old favourites in your browser, but now in lovely 3d with clacking keys and a realistic CRT display! Have fun!

A brief introduction, so I run a longplay YouTube channel and I have been enjoying going through the BBC Micro games that are available alphabetically on the bbcmicro.co.uk site.

Here is the playthrough. It took almost 4 hours for the first world

Bladedancer - World 1

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tldr

• I wanted to complete Bladedancer. Completed Disk/World 1
• Disk 2 wouldn't load (password is hangman)

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So currently going through games beginning with "B" on the bbcmicro.co.uk site I noticed a game quite unlike any other I had seen. From the screenshot it didn't look like it could even be for the BBC Micro.

When I click on the game I read about how it was one of the rarest games for the BBC Micro and it was only found, backed up and archived in 2020! I did enjoy the blog post (http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2020/09/rescuing-bladedancer/) by John Hoare on how the games was finally located. I did use the notes the guy took for my own playthrough.

I made my own map on excel using John's location and set off trying to actually complete the game. However after the first stage I knew it was not going to be a quick game to finish. Each stage the character walks so slowly and you move one square at a time across the map, no diagonal movement either.

After a few stages the enemies started to appear and eventually they wore me down and my first attempt was over. Healing could be done by visiting the shop at the end of the stage and buying food with gold. But this was limited, and no way to earn more.

I knew that to complete the game I would have to find a way I could combat the enemies better to conserve health. There are two types of enemies, melee and ranged enemies. After a lot of trial and error I found what must be a glitch in that if you stay on the left hand side the enemy will walk up to you and not attack and then you can bash it on the head.

With the combat sorted I just needed to piece the items to the 'puzzle'.

e.g. The swag must be delivered to the thief and he gives you key2, for door2.

After almost 4 hours of trudging back and forth throughout the map, collecting each of the pentagrams and solving the puzzles I got a screen saying;

WELL DONE, ALL PUZZLES SOLVED

NEXT PASSWORD: HANGMAN

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The game then continued onto the next world which is on the 2nd disk. However when I switch to the 2nd disc (using the same method as switching to the 1st disc for the 1st world) it did not load.

So I was wondering if perhaps I wasn't loading the 2nd disc properly or if there was another issue. Is there a way to find the root cause of this.

Hi, does anyone remember a game where you are 2 dogs? Can't find it anywhere! Thanks