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New game release: PIXEL DASH - Rabbit Rampage (c) Andrew Rowland 2022-23. Published by Educraft Limited, 9 April 2023. For the Acorn BBC Master 128 (ADFS "L" format image) https://stardot.org.uk/forums/download/file.php?mode=view&id=91541&sid=9cc51cfe6306a75ce97ee1ea91fef6ab Educra...

Anobium wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 11:00 am I have the PM but as a 'new user' .. joined 2011... I cannot send PMs back.

PMs enabled. See you at the weekend.

That's wonderful news, really pleased to read this

Looking so polished already! I've always hoped we'd see some Llamasoft conversions for the Acorn 8-bits - you're doing a sterling job! Keep it up!

I love my Crazee Rider poster! Really would like a matching Galaforce one. I did actually get the Galaforce artwork vectorised during the lockdown when I was bored (see piccie). As it's effectively a line drawing, there's less texturing than on the original art, but it doesn't look too bad I suppos...

Sophira wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 1:20 pmClearly I haven't reached a threshold of posts to be able to reply yet... how many do I need to have in order to be able to do so?

Hi, I've enabled your PMs.

Hi, I still have plenty of posters left but I don't have time to pack/post stuff out at the moment, hence my 'hiding' the old sales thread.

If the situation changes I'll post on the forum.

[I shared these posts on the BBC/Acorn Facebook pages over the weekend, re-posting here mainly for Beebmaster's benefit, who I know doesn't use Facebook!]. [Saturday] Thought these images/info may be of interest to any sci-fi fans in the group ... I was able to grab a few chats with this gentleman t...

Beautiful!

We were actually talking about your DigDug port on the ABug meeting when you posted the new version!

Hi, no source code was recovered, just the binary.

This is brilliant, please let me know how you get on with the mapping.

Also if you could pm me any direct links to existing download/torrent links I'd appreciate it.

Here you go. I've renamed the 'Retro Software Volunteer Forum' (which only contained one post, however by coincidence the post is actually relevant).

viewforum.php?f=66

Thanks to 'Mel' who was our 1000th subscriber approximately 10 minutes ago!

I don't think there's an arcade conversion I could be more excited about you coding! A fine, fine choice - good luck, I'll be downloading and trying every dev version you post for sure!!

Saturday and Sunday please.

I may be able to call in late Friday evening too.

I can drop Mel an email and pass on your email address if you wish?

Trelach wrote: ↑Sun Feb 26, 2023 1:55 pm If people are still interested I can try and dig it out and post?

Yes please!

It seems the issue is that the DNS hasn't been redirected to point at the new server after all.

I've followed up with the hosts to see if something got missed ...

fizgog wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 12:31 pm I would use beeb spriter, it used to be on retro software but it went down, but you can get it from here

https://github.com/simondotm/stardot-wi ... eebSpriter

Ah, the Retro Software Wiki is back online now:

http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk/wiki/ind ... eebSpriter

Just to let you know the DNS for https://www.retro-kit.co.uk has just been updated to point to the archive on the new hosting, the change could take up to 48 hours to propagate around the web.

Then on Monday we'll update create a DNS entry for the http://archive.retro-kit.co.uk sub-domains.

Hi, thanks for the reply, admittedly I've potentially got a specific purpose in mind ... I was wondering if it could replace the menu I'm using on this page which automatically scans a disc's contents (which consists entirely of BASIC files) and allows each to be loaded. menu_example.png The issues ...

This is quite tidy, I like it! Thanks for sharing. There does seems to be a bit of text corruption top-left if you run (or emulate) it on a BBC Master: SNAPSHOT.png Also, a few suggestions: - could it automatically display the titles in alphabetical order? - rather than having to manually add each t...

Thanks Simon for your continued work on the Stardot Github page Oh and I also uploaded an export from the retrosoftware.co.uk MediaWiki site I'd been meaning to do for a while. It's a snapshot of all the raw files from the site - perhaps someone out there might be interested in seeing if its possibl...

Still negative here, thankfully. Hope everyone that's tested positive and/or are feeling under the weather can shake it off pronto. Enjoyed my first physical ABug in years, was good to catch up with everyone (and meet some new faces). Thanks judgebeeb for organising (and jbnbeeb for the lengthy writ...

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Just watched it (twice), I especially like this bit.

Grabbed the zip too, though I don't think either of my A5000s have been switched on since before the lockdown, but this has given me the kick up the backside I needed to fish them out ...

I haven't spent too long on this, but here's a stitched / brightened version of the map picosonic posted.

I'll have a BBC Master set up and one of my tasks over the weekend will be to sort out/consolidate some of the graphics/levels that kids created at various Educraft holiday clubs over Xmas, for a new BBC Micro game ("Santa's Super Sprint" / "Pixel Dash") that was created especial...

Their BBC Bonanza and Power Pack comps both contained 7 games, and both include Wizzy's Mansion, Contraption, Space Ranger, and Ultron. Additionally, the cover art for Bonanza clearly shows the main character of Wongo - a game which only features on the other compilation 😂 https://stardot.org.uk/fo...

I know it's a bit late, but if anyone wants me to bring anything please let me know. I'll most likley be bringing my soldering / fault finding kit as usual if anyone has anything they want me to look at. Hi Phill, ooh - I bought an Oric Atmos off ebay a couple of years back, that was DOA. I could p...

This fascinating video was published about a week and a half ago ... and definitely deserves more views! TBA Software was an Archimedes/RISC OS games publisher who were clearly well ahead of their time - and the same can be said for their TAG games development engine! The story of TBA Software (Alan...