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If you search on the main torrent sites you should find some BBC game torrents, especially the TOSEC archives.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

- 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...

If the black maze is the one I'm thinking of and it probably is if you've only got the coin and lamp then you need something else to get past it.

Can't help otherwise - I just remember that maze cos I felt really clever when I solved it on my own.

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Missile Command didn't have a dome, I don't recall a BBC version either.

Gorf did indeed have a force field that looked like a dome in the first level, but this wasn't available as a BBC game either as far as I'm aware.

What kind of game was it?

A shoot-em up?

Fixed screen or scolling?

Jon.

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. ...

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 ...

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...

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...

I don't know why we have to change the clocks at all.

Why can't we all just get up earlier or later instead?

Change school and work hours to match.

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...

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...

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...

The official Xport forum is here: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showforum=96.

You can download them from 'the usual places'.

Jon.

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...

I had my first mixed tape in '91 by Dj Carl Cox, tunes were She's bittin' back (bionic man), R&S Spectrum. Actually, R&S was the label, Spectrum the group and I'd imagine the record was the Brazil EP - the title track being the biggest but the rest wasn't bad. I got my first set of decks ba...