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It's been quite a while since I used this board - pleased to see that my account is still available! After having my old BBC B restored and spending a good bit of time playing through my old games on tape, I've been trying to get my old 5.25" disk games going but without success. My 5.25" ...

Could be one of many..

Starstriker and Video's Revenge (over and above those named above) come to mind...

Thing is, I always thought I'd lined myself up pretty well and was rotating at the same speed as the station etc... only for a large explosion and the 'game over' screen to pop up...

Bizarelly enough, I had an even lower success rate with a joystick than I did using the keys...!

I started a thread about this a year or two ago as I've got loads I designed... some on 5.25" disk and some on tape! Think there are probably about 10 sets of screens, although in some cases not all 8 levels are complete... takes you aback when you start a new level only to discover there are o...

For 'it's', read 'its'...! Just thought of another - got really into Privateer 2: The Darkening in about 1997 and managed to get to the end of the story (I think) and at that point it becomes pretty much free-for-all. Pretty impressed that you mastered the art of docking as despite taking out dozens...

Fantastic for it's time and you have to wonder why there still hasn't been a 2000s version...

I'd be interested to know if anyone ever mastered the art of docking... i.e. able to do so most of the time without crashing, as opposed to the once or twice I made it without a docking computing!

Woah, not been here for a looooong time! Again, no idea what this is (but it sounds like a mag's type-in game rather than a commercial effort) but I'd give Superior Soccer a go... you can either play or manage or both. It's from about 1988 so pretty reasonable on a technical level as well. Must chec...

A little off-topic but I've got to give the Archimedes version a quick plug here... widely regarded as being the best version of the original game.

Worth getting hold of an Archie emulator to play... or even an old Arc!

Doesn't ring any bells, but it makes me laugh that you used to play this at school??!!

Blimeh

I've got a complete list (I think) of what's on which PIAS which I can put up if you get stuck... lemme know

Promise to get round to dealing with mine soon

Brian Jack's Superstar Challenge (which I think came up in the worst games ever thread... I quite liked it though)... Holed Out... and if you really push it, Pole Position (which I guess was as close as an F1 simulator as you could get back in them days)... there was at least one boxing game as well...

Was it definitely on the BBC and not the Archimedes?

There's an Arc title which springs to mind...

I'll get round to putting mine on soon... been going through them recently and getting stuck... and I'm sure they were all possible 20 years ago...

Definitely Z, X, *, ?, Return - I thought of Felix in the Factory and it's bizarre, non-editable keys before I even opened the thread!

I did kinda get used to it though...

Mine's the name I gave myself one night in a chatroom after a beer or four down the student union bar

I wrote a text adventure called Advent (rather than Adventure cos filenames couldn't be that long) in about 1989. It's all IF, THEN and GOTO and one wrong move usually kills you off, plus it's impossible to solve without looking at the listing as I missed a few clues off the text... so it's not grea...

Maybe there should be an Elite forum... How much you need a docking computer depends on how you play(ed) the game. I wouldn't just jump in somewhere and then head straight for the space station... I'd go around blasting pirates for a good 20 minutes first and after all that effort the last thing you...

Maybe they're testing the water to see whether it's worth carrying out with their enforcement of the copyright...?

Hmm... think I'm going to go against the weight of opinion and go for the Repton series... or Repton 3 if it's got to be one particular game... easily the one that took up the most of my time, some of which was designing new levels (see me thread below... I will definitely get round to sorting my le...

...seems to be a very popular topic at the mo!

Maybe a separate forum for this would be good

How's the Arc site going STH?

I'd be more than happy to contribute my ramblings if you're looking for contributors

OK... At the moment I've got most of them on tape and a few on 5.25" disc... I assume these could all theoretically be transferred...? Think it'd probably be good for me to test them again myself... I last loaded them up a few years ago now and there were a few definite errors... blocked off di...

The second one sounds a bit like Danger UXB... all the screen blocks were blue as I recall... did the background disappear once you'd stepped onto it?

OK... not sure if this should go here or in the suggestions area... please move if needs be :) I've got quite a number of screens I designed for R3 way back in the 80s and was wondering if anyone else did the same... I can't finish all the screens I created myself, even though I remember testing the...

Was it definitely on the BBC? I've just got this vague memory of something like that being on the Doomsday discs/ computers which did the rounds in about 1986...

Not sure about a high score competition, but if you're after a benchmark check this out:

http://www.beebgames.com/highscores.php

Jeremy Grayson posts on here from time to time as well

I came to the conclusion that the second level of Frak was impossible, but I'm sure that's just me being crap...

Also, try searching for 'treadmill dance' on youtube...

Going a bit off-topic, did anyone ever get to the end of Fortress? I never got past that buzzing gate thingy... always wondered if that was the entrance to the fortress itself and the end of the game...?

Are you sure it was on the BBC?

From me adventuring days in the mid-90s I remember a PC game called Yellow Brick Road... or summat very similar...