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- Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:39 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn hardware
- Topic: 5.25" drive
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1998
5.25" drive
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" ...
- Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:31 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Name the game
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4636
Re: Name the game
Could be one of many..
Starstriker and Video's Revenge (over and above those named above) come to mind...
Starstriker and Video's Revenge (over and above those named above) come to mind...
- Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:52 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: ELITE appreciation thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8235
Re: ELITE appreciation thread
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...!
Bizarelly enough, I had an even lower success rate with a joystick than I did using the keys...!
- Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:49 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Repton levels?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 52035
Re: Repton levels?
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...
- Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:28 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: ELITE appreciation thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8235
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...
- Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:24 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: ELITE appreciation thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8235
- Wed Jul 09, 2008 8:23 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Help with a football management game
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4997
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...
- Thu May 24, 2007 1:34 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Elite and the different versions
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6207
- Wed May 23, 2007 1:31 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Name this game
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3914
- Wed May 23, 2007 1:29 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Superior Software
- Replies: 57
- Views: 17612
- Fri May 18, 2007 1:57 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Repton 3... screens :)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 17062
- Fri May 18, 2007 1:56 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Another Best of question...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6510
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...
- Wed May 02, 2007 2:02 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Game ID req
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2910
- Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:59 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Repton 3... screens :)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 17062
- Wed Apr 25, 2007 1:55 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: What set of default keys do you use to play keyboard games?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6451
- Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:25 am
- Forum: off-topic
- Topic: What makes a good username?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4302
- Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:19 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic adventure games
- Topic: New Text Adventure?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 15583
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...
- Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:32 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: The best BBC game ever?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 27823
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...
- Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:35 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Would you pay full price for a Granny's Garden disk image?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6295
- Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:27 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: The best BBC game ever?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 27823
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...
- Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:05 pm
- Forum: stardot FORUM
- Topic: Name that game...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1780
Name that game...
...seems to be a very popular topic at the mo!
Maybe a separate forum for this would be good
Maybe a separate forum for this would be good
- Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:04 pm
- Forum: stardot FORUM
- Topic: Arc games...?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11345
- Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:53 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Repton 3... screens :)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 17062
- Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:01 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: another game id request!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3454
- Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:58 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Repton 3... screens :)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 17062
Repton 3... screens :)
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...
- Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:57 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Anyone help, name this game!?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5350
- Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:54 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Frak!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2587
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...
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...
- Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:19 pm
- Forum: off-topic
- Topic: funny vid clips
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2009
- Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:14 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Fortress Scrolling
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6192
- Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:38 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: other
- Topic: Yellow Brick Road - Educational Software
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5027