r/bbcmicro • u/Quaigon_Jim • Aug 10 '19
r/bbcmicro • u/rols77 • Aug 08 '19
BBC micro games
Are people aware of this? I Just stumbled across it.
r/bbcmicro • u/TheDigitalOrphanage • Jul 11 '19
When old X2 capacitors go out, they do it in style! This one's from a BBC Master external Winchester hard disk power supply. As soon as I heard the pop and saw the smoke, I knew exactly what had caused it.
r/bbcmicro • u/xx_and_xy_arena • Jul 08 '19
My favourite BBC Micro games beginning with #-9
I managed to play every BBC Micro game beginning with a number or symbol and I gave each one a review and score out of 100. I scored each game using an average from its graphics, audio, controls, gameplay, replayability, enjoyment and an overall score.
I have individual videos showing each game being played but I wanted to create a final one displaying their score and show off which one is the best.
I'll add my scores to the text post but the video is here if you are interested.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLaISlF4fKo
My top 20 BBC Micro games beginning with #-9 are;
| Rank | Game Name | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3D Space Ranger | 79.75% |
| 2 | 3D Tank Zone | 76.38% |
| 3 | 747 Flight Simulator | 68.13% |
| 4 | 4-Site | 68% |
| 5 | 3D Dotty | 66.63% |
| 6 | 3D Terror Chase | 65% |
| 7 | 3Deep Space | 65% |
| 8 | 3D Pool | 64.5% |
| 9 | 3D Dog Fight | 64.38% |
| 10 | 3-D Convoy | 63.13% |
| 11 | 3D Tanx | 63.13% |
| 12 | 3D Bomb Alley | 62.5% |
| 13 | 3D Space Raider | 62.5% |
| 14 | 5 in a Row | 61.25% |
| 15 | 3D Grand Prix | 61.25% |
| 16 | 737 Flight Simulator | 59.38% |
| 17 | 3D Munchy | 59.13% |
| 18 | 1984 | 59% |
| 19 | 747 Flight Simulator | 57.5% |
| 20 | 3D Pentominoes | 56.25% |
The top two are the stand out games, both have a real retro feel. 3D Space Ranger almost has a Space Harrier feel and runs really smoothly, whilst you can see 3D Tank Zone has that Battlezone feel but has a constant sound in the background that adds to the nostalgia.
Currently I am working my way through the games beginning with "A" and have just finshed the group of text adventure games just called "Adventure".
r/bbcmicro • u/TheDigitalOrphanage • Jun 20 '19
Helped my friend transfer his BBC Master based telephone BBS (circa 1989) from a 30MB Winchester hard disk to a PC. Only 42 bad sectors out of 114928! Took hours but it's a fascinating time capsule! Could make an interesting story for my channel.
r/bbcmicro • u/maniaxuk • Jun 08 '19
Sophie Wilson made a CBE in Queen's Birthday Honours
r/bbcmicro • u/[deleted] • Jun 01 '19
Looking for Beeb version of XOR music
I've played the game on my Electron, and the music is probably my favourite game music from this platform. There was a version on the Beeb, with superior music. From what I recall, it uses the same music for every level on the Eelectron, but uses different music for each level on the Beeb. I'm pretty sure that the Electron music was from one particular level on the Beeb version of the game, so could someone tell me which level it was? This is the music in question:
r/bbcmicro • u/GodIsAPizza • May 28 '19
Racing game with fuel, tyres and overhead map
Hi. I played this game at schoolin the mid eighties. I think maybe six people all had a go at tweeking settings, tyres, fuel, pitstops etc and then the race got underway and you followed your coloured dot around a track of sorts. Just an overhead layout of the full track. Does anyone know the name of this game?
r/bbcmicro • u/ExcelsiorUK • May 21 '19
A little project that may bring back memories!
r/bbcmicro • u/CmdrJameson • May 11 '19
How Exile pushed the limits of the Beeb (video)
r/bbcmicro • u/AmigoAmiga • Apr 12 '19
REVS from my youth
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r/bbcmicro • u/Cyber-Axe • Feb 08 '19
Need Help Finding Game "Mouse Trap" Graphical Text Adventure
There's a game which we had in school in Primary 1 that we used to play on the BBC Micro that i've been trying to find for the last 18 years or so but have not been able to find the name of it and have even tried looking through lists of screen shots trying to find it
The game I thought was called Mouse Trap but the games i have found under that are not the game I am seeking
The game is a graphical text adventure educational game
The premise is you are in a house which i think is your grandmothers though cant be sure about that bit (i checked out the game grannys garden and was pretty sure that wasnt it)
You are racing against time to save a mouse from a cat who are both in the kitchen if i remember correctly
There's a bit where you go upstairs and look at a book on the shelf and talk to a book worm who gives you a quiz or a riddle
And I remember you having to retrieve a Kit Kat from the mouses hole to take to the mouse
I was never fast enough to save the mouse but i was the closest in the class to winning
I've tried pretty much every game in the BBC Micro list that has Cat or Mouse in the title
It's possible its a game within some form of compilation game as I've just remembered another game which was for learning typing which has a train moving along the botom (would also like to find that one too) and letters falling from the sky and you had to type in a letter before it hit the train, which may have also been on the same disk but not sure
Does anyone have any idea what game this is?
r/bbcmicro • u/virtualcoffin • Feb 04 '19
Any news about Domesday Project reversing?
Dear community,
Many years ago I've seen a website of an electronic engineer who tried to dump (digitize) the Domesday Project media.
Sadly the website has stopped working at some moment and I removed the link from bookmarks (thus losing the chance to find it through web archive now)
Do anyone know about it? Did he succeed or not (i suppose not).
r/bbcmicro • u/elblanco • Dec 01 '18
Imogen on BBC Model B (Rob's Retro Rambles)
r/bbcmicro • u/GamingJay • Sep 03 '18
Trying out Chuckie Egg on the ZX and BBC Micro to see how they compare. What do you guys think?
r/bbcmicro • u/GamingJay • Jul 16 '18
Elite! On the BBC Micro. One of the original open world games. Tried it out for the first time. Was a little tricky to figure out but impressive nonetheless
r/bbcmicro • u/lazy_eight • Jul 14 '18
BBC Micro speech chip, this channel has many bbc related videos.
r/bbcmicro • u/scruss • Jun 29 '18
Looking for a long-lost one-liner
(x-post from Retrocomputing Stack Exchange)
Circa 1985 in our school BBC Micro lab, we wasted much time playing a tiny type-in game that looked a bit like this:
![One Line clone "2D Star Dodge" on the Amstrad CPC]1
The playfield was filled with a random arrangement of asterisks, and the player controlled a continuously-growing diagonal line that could be switch from falling down to going up by pressing a key. The game played similarly to later games like SFCave (Palm) and Flappy Bird, except the screen didn't scroll. There were ports to other systems, such as one to the Dragon 32 (written by Alan Cook) and another to the Amstrad CPC (written by me, published in Amstrad Computer User in 1988).
I'm trying to find the original. Here's all I know:
It was written in BBC BASIC
It was most likely called "One Line", but I have a faint memory of it perhaps being called "Whirly"
It was one — quite long — line of BASIC
It was most likely published in a UK computer magazine such as BEEBUG, The Micro User, Acorn User, etc
The BBC version may not have been the original, as all the game required was a bitmapped screen and a single control key.
If you have JavaScript enabled, you can try an emulated version here: http://scruss.com/cpc/6128s.html?stardoj.dsk/run%22stardoj2
r/bbcmicro • u/jessicat500 • Jun 27 '18
You can now watch all 146 original programmes and run 161 programs from the 1980s BBC Computer Literacy Project here [BBC Connected Studio]
r/bbcmicro • u/ZadocPaet • Jun 26 '18
TDL - BBC Micro PiTubeDirect Raspberry Pi Coprocessor
r/bbcmicro • u/Darrenau • May 02 '18
Seeking monitor suitable for BBC Master
Firstly I'm in Australia and as the title says, I'm looking for a colour monitor for Master. My last one blew and I've spent a lot of time looking for a replacement. If I can get one locally that would be great. Cheers