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I notice Level7 has done one of my favourite games from BITD, Elixir. I really loved this game as it's a hybrid sprites and 2D vector graphic game that was rather like a load of things I later coded in Flash 2 when I used to do Flash games. I always wondered how it worked. I'm going to really enjoy ...

Software Invasion's "Attack on Alpha Centuri" used green and magenta stripes for "grey". On a CRT it looked absolutely fantastic.

I wonder if level7 will ever look at the tape version of Skirmish, which has probably the BBC Micro's best ever tape loader. The cassette version of Uridium would probably be interesting too. However the game I am most curious about is Elixir. I often wonder how that worked.

It's really interesting to do something like this. I made Fruity Freddy in the Godot Engine...

https://github.com/DaveJeffery/FruityFreddy

chrisn wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2023 12:14 pm Krakout

If you chose this, the image on bbcmicro.co.uk may need to be fixed so it retains the high scores in the top bar; it could be a bit frustrating otherwise.

Roland Waddilove covered this exact topic in The Micro User, in his series about Writing 6502 Machine Code Games (this series was a sequel to Kevin Edward's original series). At the weekend I'll be able to find which issue this was in and send you a link.

It's such a shame the reviewer never saw the Acorn Electron 3.5" disc version. If you have 16K of sideways RAM it looks and plays exactly like the BBC version.

Yes, there's an enhanced version of Repton The Lost Realms (ADFS disc version) that can use the extra memory so you get the BBC Micro graphics. It's quite incredible and I really don't know how Sarah managed it.

I didn't buy a physical copy of this because once the customs, postage and travelling to the customs place had been taken into consideration it would have worked out costing me double. So I was delighted that a download was released (I was hoping against hope that one would be) and I am thoroughly e...

When writing games for Repton Infinity you soon realised that there were certain REPTOL commands that were very slow, the slowest being the ones that checked the map. The optimum game for the engine was Robbo, as that had no curved elements, no pursuing monsters, and was mainly pushable items where ...

BigEd wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 10:59 am A couple of ideas came up in the ABUG dev night when we talked about this situation

I was trying to find this on the ABUG dev night to throw into the conversation, but couldn't find it at the time. I think this page is a very nice way to teach 6502.

https://skilldrick.github.io/easy6502/

I always wanted to have this as a t-shirt…

My experience over the years has been that Acorn enthusiasts are generally of the opinion that the only 'legitimate' BBC BASICs are those created by Sophie. No, not at all. When I think of BBC BASIC I immediately think of you. I owned a Z88 so I have enjoyed using one of your BBC BASICs almost as l...

ive tried gimp before but I never really looked through all the settings, but today I went through everything and found a way who would have thought you could control the pixel aspect ratio through the print size menu ! madness Yes, I'd have never thought of that! Sometimes I also use BeebSpriter b...

That's really interesting. I've been using GIMP to design graphics for the Beeb for years, but what I had been doing was using a 2x1 pixel grid and a 2x1 pixel brush. This doesn't stop you from getting a pixel half way between two pixels, so your method is much better.

My goodness, you are incredibly prolific, I can't keep up - I'm mapping Electrobots at the moment so that I can do the cover art for it and it's massive ! I've just discovered the very spiky underwater area with the magenta key and the huge area at the top of the land section where the game turns in...

It'll always be Melbourne House's Gyroscope for me. It was so bad, when we took it back to Boots they gave us back our money and let us keep the tape!

Wonderful surprise to see the game released and I've had a lot of fun with this today; it's interesting how you have to play the three areas in parallel in order to unlock places you can't get to. This was exactly the sort of game that went down well on the BBC and Elk BITD and I think it's a huge a...

Morning and afternoon for me if possible, please.

Morning and Afternoon please, if possible.

One of the most interesting things I found in your listing was how you had to move some bits of code out of what might be the most obvious order to put them in, so that you could keep the lines within the character limit. It's a really remarkable little program!

I had a quick play with getting the game to work on BBC Basic for SDL (attached). You'll need to rename it to OUTBREA.bbc. It was interesting as the centre of the "O" character is not in the centre of the "O" on this version of BBC Basic so the collision detection didn't work. Wh...

I'd be happy to attend the 2nd March meeting if you'd like me to come.

Just noticed this and had a quick play (about an hour!). I would definitely have bought this BITD, it's fantastic and precisely the sort of game I enjoy. Congratulations!

I'll have to download ClockSignal now and try the Elk version!

Good choice; I'd love to see a faithful conversion of Lady Bug. My favourite version is Bumble Bee, although it's a little bit different to the original. It's one of the most addictive of the old MicroPower titles.

This is as close as you can get to it at the moment...

http://bbcmicro.co.uk//game.php?id=1842

I've been reading this with interest as I actually bought Birdstrike BITD from Gill's newsagents in Chard; they had a rack of Firebird games. The thing that impressed me about Birdstrike was the smoothness of the sprite movement but it never seems to get a mention so I'm glad you've given it some (q...

Many thanks for this - I have your entire collection on my PocketBook and I'm currently reading through Ian Birnbaums's 6502 book and cross referencing the User Guides and Advance User Guides as I go through. It simply amazes me the amount of work you are putting into this project. I assure you that...

I've made Kevin Edwards' 1985 Micro User series "Writing Machine Code Games" into a little ePUB 3 file as I wanted to read it on my PocketBook. I know it is available as a PDF file, but ePUB files are much easier to read on an eBook reader. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gqCClXECKabo6nt1...

I've made a version of the Jonathan Griffiths book Creative Assembler, as scanned originally by Chris Dewhurst in 2006, as an EPUB3 file so I could view it in my PocketBook eBook reader. I've tidied up the diagrams (I've redrawn them as SVG files), and fixed some scanning errors (a lot of v's were p...