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The Kraken wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 7:36 am They aren't standalone; you need to load them inside the Repton Infinity game engine to play them.

So how does Nectar Collector work then?

Wasn't the BBC production ceased in 1985 too? When was the last Master produced? Acording to Wikipedia All BBC Lifespan 1981–1994 Introductory price £235 Model A, £335 Model B (in 1981) Discontinued 1994; 29 years ago **** BBC Master Release date Early 1986; 37 years ago Discontinued 1994 **** I as...

I remember thinking in 1993 that just a few years ago boundaries were being pushed and conversions were coming out every month including from the 16 and 32bits and now there's almost nothing. I did a quick count from the games archive which might not be that accurate due to duplications and I tried ...

baz4096 wrote: ↑Fri May 19, 2023 10:16 am These are better photos of the three aftermarket cases we've mentioned here:

oak.jpg

viglenbeeb.jpg

viglenmaster.jpg

Could it have been the Viglen Model B perhaps?

Maybe but I seem to recall seeing no brand name on it.

Browsing through some old Micro Live episodes the other day, I came across a piece on Acorn's launch of the Master series. Amongst the footage, I found this shot of the Master Scientific co-pro board. Not sure I've ever seen a picture of one before so thought it was worth posting. You can see the 3...

"Acorn drops Scientific" , Acorn User, November 1986. How weird. I was drawn to this post because I was intrigued by the name ‘Master Scientific’. “What on earth was that?” I thought. And now I realise I probably wrote that news story! Can’t remember a thing about it. I also shuddered at ...

I think it must have been the oak beige equivalent of the gold plated Beeb. Not the one pictured above though.
That board is ?...

I looked at Castle Master on the C64 and it seems noticeably slower than Darkside on the ZX Spectrum. The versions of 3D pool seem of similar speed for all 3 computers.

Depends though, because the Z80 tends to excel in 16 bit maths, which is kinda what you want for a 3D game. It would be a great contender for a 2nd processor machine though, host doing the rendering, parasite doing the mathsing. #-o presumably at c64 performance level then although I haven't seen it.

If memory was so expensive then how did Sinclair include 48k in 1982 and Commodore 64k a year later than the BBC micro?

So Freescape should look pretty impressive if on the BBC micro.

I was reading about the variants of the BbC Micro including clones and the Gold-plated Beebs in view of the fact I saw modified BBC micro in a skip outside a University science department around 2001 (message me if you want to know which). It was identical if memory serves to the gold-plated Beeb, e...

Wasn't the BBC production ceased in 1985 too? When was the last Master produced?

Some of the Freescape games (Driller / Total Elclipse from Incentive) would possibly work reasonably well on the 'Beeb. Saboteur (Durell Software) may also of been one that should of possibly been 'dragged over' Loads of simpler platform games too like Frankenstein (PSS Software) or BombJack (Elite...

"Where time stood still" has a mention in Retrogamer Inoticed this month. It seems a game with some depth and there were a few role playing games for the BBC micro but none like this.

Towards the end of the commercial lifetime we were getting complex dithered colours e.g E-type, Holed Out, Exile, big sprite action games e.g. cyborg warriors, Ballistix? and Nevyron; and 3D solid filled vector.graphics I.e 3D Pool. Have always wondered what would happen if people took up the baton ...

Yes that looks familiar.

I have this disc with a number of the files from my "Repton 5" project of 2010. If it helps to verify that your program is working correctly, you can see a playlist of these levels here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAF93A953D627FB75 Don't Repton infinity games count as standalo...

So are all variants above either based on the formula of a circle or altenratively trigonometry?

I find simonsideburns' plotter the best as while I don't fully understand it yet it seems simpler than the Bresenham ones. This based on that plotter is what I wanted to do: 10MODE5 30r%=150:h%=300:v%=300:c%=RND(2) 35VDU19,1,2+RND(2)-1;0;0;0; 36VDU19,2,4+RND(2)-1;0;0;0; 40PROCfilledcircle(h%,v%,r%,c...

Ok im not sure how .Biged is implementing that with the 3 loops but fine. Also am I right in thinking that the circle can't easily be filled by this method but requires the iterative method mentioned earlier in this and another thread? My object is to fill the circle with a limited set of random col...

This helps a bit: 30 FOR i%=0 TO 89:x=COS(i%*S):xc%(i%)=100*x:yc%(i%)=100*SQR(1-x^2):NEXT Total time 4.74 Edit, but 28 FOR i%=0 TO 89:xc%(i%)=100*COS(i%*S):NEXT 29 FOR i%=0 TO 67:yc%(i%)=xc%(i%+22):NEXT 30 FOR i%=68 TO 89:yc%(i%)=xc%(i%-67):NEXT is just 3.35. With a very slight wonkiness because 90...

I got this from chatgpt which I tried to speed up a bit:
Why is it PI/180?

I notice that chatgpt can program in BBC basic and 6502 assembler. In future could this be a potential games creation tool?

Is there enough space to insert a mystery ship like a Generation Ship? It would be fun to know that there’s a few ‘out there’ somewhere that you have a (slim) chance of stumbling across. This is exactly what Angus Duggan did with Elite-A. This is the updated ship list - he added brand new ships fro...

From the cover of the latest it seems they are looking at more recent retro e.g. resident evil which is fair enough. They have to bring the clock forward a bit?

The 80s one seemed the most eye catching personally but I assume few Acorn mentions.

I used to buy Retrogamer magazine occasionally when it first came out. Has anybody bought it since. Has there been much Acorn coverage over the years?

I couldn't belive my eyes when I read it earlier. I always thought it was a missed opportunity to some extent but then to find out the code was there all along...

How hard would it be to activate the Trumble code in Master Elite?