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Hi,
The Beebug games that are missing are a double-pack release of " Leapfrog Solitaire" and "Knockout".
(Presumably on a single cassette?)

Lee.

Post the ssd here and I will add it to bbcmicro.co.uk

Lee.

Hi fuzzel,
I don't know which version the game is.
It was posted by Simon on the Pirate Disc thread, here:

viewtopic.php?p=421010#p421010

The adventure discs are 9,10,11 and 26

Lee

Hi Mark,
It was affecting every game.
It looks like it may be Microsoft Edge related?
I installed Opera and it seems to work just fine.
I will test more tomorrow.
Could a VPN cause issues?

Lee.

Anyone else getting a "Network Error" on bbcmicro.co.uk when clicking the PLAY button?

Lee.

The truth is I haven't had time to look at it properly, but I was thinking if a self contained BASIC program could be extracted, then it could be loaded in a straightforward fashion, (and maybe compressed too.) This means looking what the loader is doing... Seeing as we have 2 broken copies it may n...

Hi, Satan's challenge is a rare game. The copy on bbcmicro.co.uk is faulty: http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=2209 A new copy has turned up on this disc: 010-GamesADVENTURES.DSD This crashes out with a NO ROOM error: sc.png This means that the convoluted loader ends up with a BASIC program. (Or ...

This advert is from Acorn User November 1983 from David Tarlton. Screenshot 2024-03-28 173841.png This advert was only searched for after Quest and Chalice were found on a disc! Therefore, we are looking for Vampire Castle, Demon, Demon Dream and Revenge. Chalice is by Andy Mitchell. Chalice was so...

... searching for more references to Dialsoft brought up an ad in A&B Computing March/April 1984: https://archive.org/details/AB_Computing_1984-04_OCR/page/n72/mode/1up?view=theater It includes Fantasy Adventure but no "Mediaevil Adventure". It does have a Four in a Row game advertise...

I know what you mean!
I wanted red (obviously), but couldn't find one at the right price...
It is nicely 'clacky' though...

Lee

Here is my daily driver:

Lee.

This advert is from Acorn User November 1983 from David Tarlton. This advert was only searched for after Quest and Chalice were found on a disc!

Therefore, we are looking for Vampire Castle, Demon, Demon Dream and Revenge.

Tantalisingly, 2 games named LIGHT BIKES and POKER DICE have just been found by Mick Brown on a recent disc trawl.
Can it be confirmed if these are the missing MODEL B computing games? Lee.

ACNEAN MUTOIDS and COSMIC DEFENDER from Soft Joe's Software. This advert is from Home Computer Weekly May 31st to June 6th 1983.
The advert was only found after ACNEAN MUTOIDS was discovered on a disc!
Therefore only COSMIC DEFENDER is missing.

And of course all of Mick's collection here:
viewtopic.php?t=8270&hilit=Anniversary

Lee

Ooh! I used to love Uniwar S!

Lee.

Hi,
I will get the game added over the weekend.
I will ask one of the chaps at CASA to upload the map and walkthrough.

Lee.

I know it's not "weighty" and the parser is only (a very decent) verb/noun jobby, but I am really rather fond of my recent BASIC effort (written in covid lockdown) https://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=3472 In the style of Scott Adams / Brown Howarth games. I think the story is pretty cool......

Here are all the magazine listings for "Space Invaders": https://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/index.php?rt_M=&search=Space+Invaders&on_T=on&on_Y=on&on_P=on&on_A=on&on_G=on&on_S=on&on_Z=on&on_C=on&sort=a And all the magazine listings for "Lunar Lander"...

Here is Micropower's early attempt:
http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=3772 Lee

Thanks Bob, for now I'll release some of the completed SSD versions to this chat. Once Bill's editor is released, new versions can be created either from scratch or by importing existing designs held in BDCFF files. I'll leave Bill to provide the details about the editor. It's really impressive! :D...

Any updates on this tape?
If you are struggling for time/motivation or anything else, you could think about sending the tape to one of us for archiving?

Lee.

The radio silence is making me nervous

Lee

I hope it works!
Apparently the reason it isn't archived is because the quality of the recording on the original tapes is very poor.....

Lee.

If that one works, we will have to do a fresh tape-to-disc transfer.

Lee.

Hi,
Would you mind checking if this version on the Micro Power Magic disc has the bug please? Lee.

Please check that I have got my notes correct!

Lee.

Thanks. Uploaded to bbcmicro.co.uk. There are 3 Acheton discs available on bbcmicro ... Acheton (Acornsoft) http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=2021 The notes for this reference the full (Topologica) version and the hints disc Acheton Hints Disc (Acornsoft) http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=2022 Ther...

Hi Mick,
There weren't any "pages".
The magazine was literally the cassette stuck to a piece of cardboard.
If Dave can't read the tape, the best bet would be to post a WAV somewhere so we can have multiple attempts at making it readable.

Lee

I would be very interested if you have solitaire/Knockout.
See the advert here: viewtopic.php?p=337273#p337273

Lee