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- Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:45 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Downloading whole catalogue of games in one zip?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1639
Re: Downloading whole catalogue of games in one zi
If you search on the main torrent sites you should find some BBC game torrents, especially the TOSEC archives.
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:58 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: BBC Game Programming Books
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5327
There are some other books I found in the same box, nothing much exciting - I'll put a full list up once I've gone through the rest of my BBC stuff at the weekend. I will scan at least something in, I'm a bit anal with that kind of stuff so unless I can get a good scan I won't bother (hence the ques...
- Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:11 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: BBC Game Programming Books
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5327
BBC Game Programming Books
I was just clearing out a cupboard and found some old BBC game related programming books; - How To Write Adventure Games by Peter Killworth - Creative Assembler How To Write Arcade Games by Jonathan Griffiths - Creating Adventure Programs On The BBC Micro by Ian Watt - BBC Micro Assembler Workshop b...
- Thu May 22, 2008 1:51 pm
- Forum: off-topic
- Topic: Anyone know of a good Linux Web hosting company?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2137
Most if not all web hosting companies will offer LAMP hosting (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP), though they'll most likely refer to the actual Linux version they use (normally FreeBSD). I've used Pair for the last few years and they're the best of many that I've used. They might not be the cheapest bu...
- Wed May 07, 2008 5:26 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Ultimate games and modes used
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7444
I'm still hoping that Rare have got the code for Mire Mare somewhere safe and that it will see the light of day at some point. I'm surprised they haven't knocked something together (if it wasn't already completed) for release on Xbox Live Arcade - I reckon they'd sell a fair few just on the hype sur...
- Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:17 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: I need some advice
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3250
Well if its games you're after the most obvious choice would be to get him a Nintendo DS - there are plenty of puzzle games for it and other challenging games designed for adults. Of course the games are expensive, but there are ways round that!!!! If you want to stick with Repton, you could downloa...
- Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:03 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn emulators
- Topic: BeebEm 3.3 for the Mac
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3811
I'm having a problem running Snooker from Acornsoft. Basically when you play a shot everything seems ok and then suddenly it hits the fan big style. Everything speeds up and all the balls fly round table for a few seconds with at least half of them ending up in pockets. I just pocketed 5 of the colo...
- Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:50 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Text Data Encryption
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4003
I recall reading an article in one of the BBC magazines about text compression in adventure games, in one of the adventure columns I think. If I remember correctly it described one method where you'd compress on a character by character basis, with the most used characters stored in a single bit and...
- Thu Mar 08, 2007 5:03 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: The best BBC game ever?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 27821
- Castle Quest - good looking, thoughtful and original aspect. When it came out Castle Quest was pretty ground breaking, especially the very smooth scrolling and the puzzle elements. There was a price to pay, which was mainly that it didn't last very long and the ending is pretty crap. I don't thin...
- Sun Aug 27, 2006 4:26 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic adventure games
- Topic: Castle of Riddles
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4781
- Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:03 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Most advanced BBC game?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 25123
Just thought of another couple of possible candidates... KnightLore and Alien8...? Don't know much (read: anything :)) about programming... but I'd have thought it'd be tricky to cram all that into the BBC's memory...? Not sure about Knight Lore. It was released on the Spectrum first and it wasn't ...
- Sat May 20, 2006 1:06 am
- Forum: off-topic
- Topic: Sony Playstation3
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5102
I remember seeing Xbox 360 games at £50 in my local games shop when the system first came out. I thought they were this price due to the high demand for the system and games - so they pushed the prices up to make a quick buck. But no, the shop assistant said that was the normal price. £50 for a game...
- Thu May 18, 2006 1:02 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Most advanced BBC game?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 25123
The thing I always remember about Firetrack was the load music, which I still hum on a regular basis. I just had another go at Firetrack to remind me. The scrolling is near perfect and the in game music is excellent. But it seems a bit too easy and the sprite collision detection doesn't seem as accu...
- Mon May 15, 2006 6:34 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Most advanced BBC game?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 25123
Most advanced BBC game?
I was wondering what the most technically advanced BBC game was? I'm not talking about the best game, best graphics or anything like that. Just the games which used every single trick in the book to push the hardware to the absolute limit. Some discussion on the tricks that were used as well would b...
- Mon May 15, 2006 6:23 pm
- Forum: off-topic
- Topic: Future Emulation
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1486
Future Emulation
All of the next gen games consoles have some method of allowing games to be downloaded from the internet - Xbox has Live Arcade and Wii has Virtual Console (not sure what the PS3 system is called). At the moment these are being used to release; old arcade games, budget games and old console games. T...
- Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:57 am
- Forum: off-topic
- Topic: Free online file storage/sending
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4810
There are ways of using Google Mail (or GMail) for online data storage (a quick Google will show you how). I'm not sure how much disk space they give you now, but I have 2.7Gb at the moment - I think they are increasing this gradually. If anyone needs a Google Mail invite let me know as I've got a 1...
- Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:47 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Lunar surface shooter
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11048
How do we know they didn't pay for a license ? You are right, maybe they did pay for a license. I doubt it though. In general no one was paying license fees, I think Elite were one of the first to start licensing along with Ocean (and Imagine). I don't recall Acornsoft, Micro Power or Superior gett...
- Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:17 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Lunar surface shooter
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11048
I've just played it on the emulator Very Happy Go to main page, type gorf into search, made by DoctorSoft. Well I didn't remember that.... I just had a go....not one of the best arcade conversions, surprising as I don't recall the arcade version being that brill (other than the sampled speech). Its...
- Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:08 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Lunar surface shooter
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11048
- Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:04 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Best original BBC micro games?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 35912
Castle Quest was definetly a landmark BBC game, not sure about comparing it to other platforms at the time though. Its a pity it wasn't a bigger game with more to do - I went back to it and completed it the other day and I found it a bit of a let down. Castle Quest was out a long time before Exile. ...
- Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:23 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Complete Acorn Archive?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2005
Complete Acorn Archive?
Looking around the net there appears to be numerous sites (including STH) which have archives / downloads of Acorn material (disk/tape images, inlay scans, roms, magazines etc). With lots of duplication and no doubt missing items as well. Is there a complete, standard archive out there anywhere? Is ...
- Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:45 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Best original BBC micro games?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 35912
There were three one on one martial arts games which were developed almost simultaneously. It was pipped to the release post, I think, but I think it can hold a claim to defining the genre from the start. There is an article in Retro Gamer magazine this month on karate / beat-em up games in which i...
- Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:26 am
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: classic games
- Topic: Best original BBC micro games?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 35912
Way of the Exploding Fist (originally released first on C64 but it was actually developed on a BBC B+) Is this definetly true? I've read some articles which say it was definetly C64 first with no mention of the BBC, developed in Australia - did they even have the BBC? Besides which is wasn't really...
- Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:01 pm
- Forum: off-topic
- Topic: Lighter evenings?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2053
- Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:59 pm
- Forum: stardot FORUM
- Topic: RSS 2.0 / Atom 1.0 Feed (Please)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5941
Whilst it has been around a while RSS is still more of a techie type technology. Sure a lot of people use it, but it hasn't hit the mainstream yet. It should do though as Microsoft are planning big support for it. Some of the things that you could do with RSS are pretty amazing. Of course I can't re...
- Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:19 pm
- Forum: archive requests
- Topic: C+VG mags
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4495
Personal Computer Games was always my top computer magazine, more so than the BBC specific magazines. So thanks for the link - I'll be downloading all those scans and printing them out! One thing I've always remembered is that Elite wasn't awarded Game of the Month. If I remember correctly, in a lat...
- Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:35 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn software: other
- Topic: Info Needed!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1587
Info Needed!
There was a bloke at our local BBC Micro club (in Swindon) who released some utility software - there was a disk copier and some other stuff as well. I seem to recall his name was Martin Walker (but I could be wrong), but I can't remember the name of his software label or any of the utilities. Thoug...
- Fri Mar 10, 2006 9:00 pm
- Forum: 8-bit acorn emulators
- Topic: BBC Emulator For Xbox?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7137
The official Xport forum is here: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showforum=96.
You can download them from 'the usual places'.
Jon.
You can download them from 'the usual places'.
Jon.
- Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:05 am
- Forum: off-topic
- Topic: Sony Playstation3
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5102
I'm waiting for the Nintendo Revolution. Whilst I can see the attraction of the PS3 / Xbox 360 they don't do anything for me. I've never played Halo or GTA and I have no plans to. Great games maybe but not my cup of tea. It will be interesting to see what the new Revolution controller is like, poten...
- Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:56 am
- Forum: off-topic
- Topic: What music r u into?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7755