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Hi guys, Inspired by the recent sold my BBC Micro I thought I'd look a little deeper into how my early school life developed around the BBC Micro and a handful of other computers. https://youtu.be/f-QYExaqJjw The video is a short musical animation inpired by certain milestones in my personal history...

If I'm making up some maths/physics, I often try it out in a beeb emulator as it is just more straight forward. I agree. When you've got ideas you wouldn't mind sketching or prototyping there's abeeb on an emulator that's ready to go. Most of my best work comes from trying things out and that's exa...

I just thought it makes no sense me playing GTA. Some overhang from American chat servers way back in 2002. Sounded way good back then. And that was just version 3, San Andreas. Lots of Gangsterey type dealing going on. oh The Days. When Bruce Willis was still cool. I suppose this is the outcome of ...

It looks like the Watford 32K Shadow RAM card is still available here:- https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=16147 The thing about Watford Electronics is they've always had a reputation for doing things a bit quick and dirty !! No don't get me wrong I'm sure this stuff works, but I...

Hi, And yes I have to coding in other languages, but I just find them a lot more I don't know less friendly. What I love about retro machines is this naivety they approach life with and I think I relate to that lol :lol: If you prefer BASIC, you can still use it on modern computers. If you haven't ...

I think it won't be long before I sell that setup and get ebaying for a BBC Master. Hi Pablo If you would rather get a Master from a forum member, thats tested and PSU sorted out, then send me a PM when you're ready. We can work a sensible price out. I've got several working standard Masters :lol: ...

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure using a Pi Co-Pro is a decent way to make 'an old dog do new tricks' I just wanna keep my setup standard so when I issue version 1.0 of my Adventure Engine it's gonna have a ready made market of BBC Master owners out there of which I know there are a few. Also I don't mi...

I knew this move wouldn't be taste of the day :cry: But seriously guys, I know the Acorn guys are very clever and the Co-Pro idea is a wonderful way around the issue giving the BBC fantastic clean swabs of memory. The Pablo solution (Pablo being a bit naive and foolish in his ways you see) would be ...

Hi Everybody, Due to hard up / money problems etc.. I had to make a choice about what I can keep this Christmas. As I'm sure some of you guys will know The BBC Micro has long been one of my pet interests for many years. Over the last two weeks I made a decision to kill it. :? why wtf Simple reason. ...

lurkio wrote: ↑Tue Aug 28, 2018 12:37 pm Great pic!

And that's the best use of a Steven Seagal boxset that I've ever seen.

I've seen this guy on youtube.com a lot!! He's constantly saying bad things about ppl

Nice work Pablo! I agree about the creative side of our beloved Acorn 8-bits. The nostalgia fuels creativity. It does truly don't it my mate aerworuld. I think there's a lot to be said for this Art as Art and I think quite often people seem to miss it a bit that it's beautiful indeed. Then again th...

tricky wrote: ↑Mon Aug 27, 2018 10:29 pm I like it

I thought you would. Must be why we get on together so well P

Sup ppl. Thought I’d post this. Not exactly the Retro Art really as it was all done on an iPad as such, however it does as such represent a modern representation of Retro Art if you know what I mean. This painting is about the Retro Arts we as school children grew up with and got to know and love as...

Wow so you really were on the ZZAP!64 team?

This is getting a bit serious; the maplin.co.uk website is down :O

If someone had sehen me a PC, visual studio and a couple of emulators I probably would have ;) ... That's an interesting question actually. I'm sure in your case your a gifted talent guy who can garners ingenious solutions no matter what he got however this does cast a larger question in my mind. H...

Hi. Can you book me for just Sat night? I wanna stay overnight and then be off in the morning that ok??? Cheers, Pablo

welcome Paul and if you're from Manchester you must be hot stuff lots of good stuff at this forum !! I too loved the PET take care

I remember exactly this game for the Commodore PET

New May 2018 Version!! Get a load of this demo https://youtu.be/NlaK8C82obQ =D> =D> =D> =D> Dave H :D Oooh glad you liked it Dave H :lol: I've always been an avid fan of Reader this truly is one of the greatest readers of all time and even by today's standards remains the way it should be in my opi...

New May 2018 Version!! Get a load of this demo https://youtu.be/NlaK8C82obQ the little bug you see in the video should be ironed out with any luck by the time you read this. Unlike previous versions of retroReader this script is aggressively targeted at using Adobe Reader in Full Screen mode. Watch ...

Hi All, I've just read this on a fb group Z80 Assembly Programming On The ZX Spectrum 8) Apparently they've developed a version of Zeus legendary Spectrum Assembler for the Windows platform. The developer, Simon, also adds an IDE to this version, plus an integrated emulator. I thought with so much i...

Wonder why M$ now don't let you turn off auto updates, as previous windows you could, hence why my winXP desktop is always on the ready. You can it's just hidden from the User. The same option to configure or more how updates are done is available using the Local Group Policy Editor :- https://www....

Looks great tricky I was hoping your creative talents would turn somewhere good soon. Scramble was one of my two, three, maybe four all time greatest games at the arcade

Graphic are not on my radar - I would not know where to start! Hopefully I will be able to shrink the main program down and speed it up by replacing some of the stuff with machine code. That way if someone wanted to add graphics they could run it in a mode where that is possible... Might well be wo...

It sounds very interesting this system of yours. I was hoping to do a PAW for the BBC Micro myself, with graphics similar to TKV. Yours seems like it's got some of the right stuff and it's going the right way, I hope you do well LardoBoffin

Sorry to hear this, probably chose the worst time to be off this board since I didn't know this had happened It's a tragic thing this really thinking of you you've been a great guy always there when I needed it I will offer prayers for your wife..

I like this line from the App Store Codea entry
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/codea/id439571171?mt=8

"features..
Generate retro-game sound effects...."
sounds like we need to immediately rush out the door and buy one

richardtoohey wrote:..And then from that to a BBC B ...

LOL

Some disk filing systems let you use star commands as shorthand for loading and running programs with *RUN. So *CENTI would work if CENTI was on a DFS disk, but not if it was on a cassette. I don't know what the underlying mechanism is for this. Perhaps someone will explain it to us. :) Cheers, dav...