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In an email, fuzzel wrote:Side 1 of the disc [53] contains a game called Future Kingdom which I think was supposed to be a sequel to The Worm in Paradise. There's also another word wrap routine (SPLIT2), two multi-sized sprite programs (RMOVE and DEMO1), a character definer (DEFINER), a sprite movement program (S.MOVE), a flood-fill routine (MODE5BL) and a graphics demonstration program (GRAPHI) which I think was a demo for a potential Twin Kingdom Valley type game. I also dabbled in creating my own roms - GROMMAK which is the creator file for GROM, and ROM3 which is the creator file for DHROM. I also have a copy of EXMON which I presume I was using as a template. Side 2 contains another of my sequel attempts, this time Journey through Time (JTT), there's a couple of mock teletext pages (W1 and W2), a tape-unlock program (T.UNLOCK) which I can't test, a flood fill circle routine written in Basic (CIRCLE1) and an interrupt save routine which changes the filename with each block (INTER3). I think I got the idea from one of Kevin Blake / Jason Sobell's games.
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In an email, fuzzel wrote:Disc 54 looks like a freebie disc from The Micro User (December 1988) and contains demo versions of Clogger and Cheat It Again Joe 1-3.
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In an email, fuzzel wrote:Disc 57 sides 1 and 2 are part of my music collection which I was pretty fond of. Here's a summary - could you post this as a code box on stardot with the disc please?

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Side 1

(A) Toccata & Fugue in D Minor - JS Bach (BBC version by B.A. Bramson)
(B) Twelve days of Christmas (BBC version by Douglas Nunn, Beebug Dec-83)
(C) Prelude XII - JS Bach (BBC version by ?)
(D) Unknown - JS Bach (BBC version by ?)  
(E) Unknown - JS Bach (BBC version by ?)        
(F) Minuet - JS Bach (BBC version by ?)                                          
(G) Cuckoo Waltz - C Kinkel (BBC version by ?)
(H) Rule Britannia - On menu but not on disc
(I) Yesterday - Lennon & McCartney (BBC version by ?)
(J) Golden Brown - The Stranglers (BBC version by J.P. Cope)  
(K) Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin (BBC version by ?)
(L) Free Bird - Lynard Skynard (BBC version by ?)    
(M) Cold Tea / Clod Eat - Andrew Robinson (BBC version by R Cope)
(N) Arpegiator - Jean Michel Jarre (BBC version by ?)      
(O) Cavatina - Dvorak (BBC version by Shawty) - my version doesn't scroll!
(P) Sweet Dreams - The Eurythmics (BBC version by J Cope 1983)  
(Q) Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr (BBC version by D. Hankinson)
(R) Axel-F - Harold Faltermayer (BBC version by Micro Kid and his brother)
(S) Hooked on Classics - Jarratt, Reedman (BBC version by ?)
(T) Hill Street Blues - Mike Post (BBC version by ?)

Side 2

(A) Toodle - Duke Ellington (BBC version by ?)      
(B) Melvyn Wright's Musical Snowmen (BBC version by Melvyn Wright)
(C) Georgia - O.M.D. (BBC version by Hoppysoft)      
(D) Penny Lane - Lennon & McCartney (BBC version by ?)    
(E) 20 Christmas Carols - Various (BBC version by ?)
(F) Chu-Chu - ? (BBC version by ?)          
(G) Greensleeves - Anon (BBC version by ?)
(H) Harmony (BBC version by Doctor Soft 1983)        
(I) Round - ? (BBC version by ?)
(J) The Broadway Boogie - Kleban? (BBC version by Luke & Martin)
(K) Star Wars Theme - John Williams (BBC version by ?) * Elite screen as background
(L) Captain Pugwash - Traditional (BBC version by ?)
(M) Air on a G String - JS Bach (BBC version by Broadway Electronics 1983)
(N) Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring - JS Bach (BBC version by ?)
(O) Chariot's of Fire - Vangelis (BBC version by John Horsburgh)
(P) Cuckoo Waltz - C Kinkel (BBC version by ?)
(Q) Fool on the Hill - Lennon & McCartney (BBC version by R.T. Carrington-Jones)
(R) New Song - Howard Jones (BBC version by ?)      
(S) Thriller - Michael Jackson (BBC version by Jon Cope)
(T) Happy Tune - ? (BBC version by ?)
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In an email, fuzzel wrote:Disc 68 Side 1 contains the Viewspell 1.1 rom with dictionary. There's also an instructions file.
Disc 68 Side 2 contains a copy of Chuckie Egg and an Assembly Language tutor (written in Basic) in several parts (not sure who wrote this).
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In an email, fuzzel wrote:Disc 69 Side 1 contains various UV EPROM programming roms, STL Toolkit rom, Solidisk DFS 2.1, Solidisk ADFS 2.1, Solidisk Trace disassembler rom, Solidisk Monitor rom 1.02, a 65C02 assembler written in Basic, a test program for the 65C02 instruction set and a recovery program called SAFE for lost files, directories and Winchesters.
Disc 69 Side 2 contains Solidisk RFS, Solidisk 65C02 rom, Altra Probe 4.02 rom, Solidisc STLDISC 4.00, Scythe rom by Chalice, Disc Doctor rom and another UV EPROM programming rom. It also has a disc copier program called DITTO which I've found a couple of adverts for (attached).
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In an email, fuzzel wrote:Disc 70 Side 1 contains several Solidisk roms (STLE00, STL150, STLDISC, RAMDFS), a menu program which handily shows not only the files on the disc but also the installed roms (MENU), a printer buffer rom (Printer), a Solidisk index program (INDEX), Quickcopy rom by SW Marshall (QUICKY), Syntheser rom by Morten Hermanrud (KEYBRD), Tape to Disc rom (TD), ATARS 1.01 rom (IDISS), a fast disk backup program by H. Tebeka (FBACKUP) and the Toolkit rom (TOOLKIT).

Disc 70 Side 2 contains an Interpreter rom (GCODE) and an Accelerator rom (ACCELER) both by Computer Concepts and a machine code convertor (CONVERT) which runs with the GCODE rom. There's also a file called L3&1900 - no idea what this does.
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Re: fuzzel's personal BBC Micro floppy disc archive

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lurkio wrote: Thu Mar 02, 2023 8:56 am There are some sound sample demos - Laura Branigan's Self Control, Ghostbusters theme and the Buggles' VKTRS and a curiosity called SENTNCE - "This short sentence takes up 21k, a lot really but it's very accurate" - who was that guy?
I believe it's David J Hoskins. At least the disk I have that on from BITD has his name on it.

My disk had
"All Hit Radio" (from the beginning of Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft)
"Cantina Band"
"Zoolook" (two samples)
"Laura Branigan" (self control)
"Knight Rider"
"Vincent Price Laughing"
"Short sentence" (the one mentioned above).

The software could also change the timings. Hearing Vincent Price laugh at high speed is funny!

I think it's the "Digital Music" at viewtopic.php?p=46104#p46104
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Re: fuzzel's personal BBC Micro floppy disc archive

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In an email, fuzzel wrote:Disc 71 Side 1 contains the Basic 4 rom, Viewsheet 1.0, View 3.0, Tape to Disc 1.00 rom by Vine Micros, Telescreen 2.00 rom by Colin Browell, Envelopes 2.4 rom by Watford Electronics, Wizard Joystick Utility rom by Roger Taylor (JOYSTIK), Spy 2 rom, Toolstar 1.77 rom, Help 1.00 rom by Beebugsoft, Enigma 0.04 rom, Altra Probe 4.02 rom, Rom Manager 1.10 by RJ Armitage, Addcomm 1.00 rom by Vine Micros, Gremlin 1.20 rom by Computer Concepts, Multifont 1.50 rom by Roger Jane and NLQ rom by Watford Electronics.

Disc 71 Side 2 contains ADE 1.0 rom, Beebfont rom by Watford Electronics, Watford Electronics DFS1.3 rom and some but not all Perplexity game files.
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