Mike Wyatt released v3.82 of BeebEm which features fixes to periodic
noise emulation, video emulation and AVI capture.
 Four
months without an update (sorry!) but today we have some great
additions to the site ... and some big news too ... so
hopefully this will go some way towards compensating for the
lack of updates (and remember, even if things are quiet
on the STH news front, you are always welcome to join and participate
in our [fairly] active Forum).
Anyway ... nowadays, the highlight
of running this site (for me at least) is when we are able to
present an unpublished game from the 1980/90s that for one reason
or another, never made it into the shops back in the day.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly what we have in store
today! :D
So, do read on ...
Updates:
- Kevin Edwards (author of Galaforce & Crazee Rider)
submitted an unreleased arcade game called Eyes that was
written by Paul Proctor - the man responsible for all
bar two of the Ultimate - Play The Game titles on the
BBC Micro.
For more background on the game - and of course the actual
download - please pay a visit to our Lost and Found section (oh, and if you're
wondering how Kevin came to acquire this; well, he went to school
with Paul and Martin!).
- Towards the end of last year,
STH member Stuart Goodwin conducted a number of interviews
with the following key members of the BBC Micro world:
- Sophie Wilson
- Richard Hanson
- Peter Scott
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- Peter Johnson
- Jason Sobell
- David Braben
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Only portions of each interview
appeared in BBC Micro article he wrote for Retro Gamer but Stuart has kindly provided
us with the full transcripts, which you can find on our Authors page (with the exception of the Wilson
& Hanson interviews, which are linked from the Articles page).
- Michael S. Repton - author of the Life of Repton Walkthrough/FAQ - has written
similar Walkthroughs for both Repton: Around The World and Repton Thru Time [ Game Help ]
His Walkthrough for Life Of Repton has had a minor update. [
Game Help ]
- Bert Molemangler provided his own Solution and Screenshot
Map for Citadel 2 [ Game Help ]
News:
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Some time less than a year
ago, we started to notice that a number of talented 8-bit Acorn
developer bods were gathering over in the STH forums.
Never one to miss a bandwagon,
a few pints later and it was decided the best thing to do was
to exploit them all.
Therefore, we're proud to
invite you to the unveiling of www.retrosoftware.co.uk. |
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It's a community which is
designed to help people develop for old machines, particularly
the 8-bit Acorn machines. As well as a forum to discuss with
like-minded individuals, the site can provide you with hosting
for your project and an army of volunteers to help with gameplay
and platform testing, as well as artwork and distribution if
you make it to a final cassette and/or disk release.
There are already a number
of 8-bit Retro Software projects covered on the site. However,
we also have some very useful PC development tools, including:
- SWIFT - an IDE by Steve O'Leary, with built-in code
editor, designed to aid development of software for 8-bit Acorn
microcomputers.
Projects can make use of multiple third party cross assemblers
such as the free Python assembler, P65, as well as multiple emulators.
SWIFT provides Error Throwback highlighting in offending source
code, One-Click Testing and One-Click Source Assembly with the
option of writing the assembled code direct to a DFS disk image.
- BeebAsm - a portable 6502 assembler by Rich Talbot-Watkins,
designed specially for developing assembler programs for the
BBC Micro. It uses syntax reminiscent of BBC BASIC's built-in
assembler, and is able to output its object code directly into
emulator-ready DFS disc images.
This site is for anyone who'd
like a crack at 8-bit coding for old-times sake, or those PC
developers who'd like to contribute to the effort with useful
development tools or, finally, anyone who'd just like to get
an early look-see at what's going on. There's plenty of scope
for beta-testers or anyone of the artist temperament, who'd like
to help with poster/cover artwork or loading screens. Simply
join-in, list your skills and see which projects come running
to you first.
http://www.retrosoftware.co.uk
Hope to see some of you there
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- Lots of BBC Micro-related articles
appeared on the main BBC
website throughout last week, all of which were triggered
by a reunion of former-Acorn and BBC staff members at the Science
Museum in London:
- Back in January, Jon Welch
released v3.3 of BeebEm Mac:
Changes:
- Added remote client/server ethernet
option for serial port emulation (so you could write software
to telnet to a remote network, write a simple web browser or
ftp client etc, running on the Beeb)
- Added print screen function
- Added copy screen to clipboard
function
- Added three new higher resolution
screen modes
- Added freeze when minimised
option
- Added load/save user keyboard
layouts
- Added protect on load disc option
- Bug fix - Missing scan line
at top of screen
- Bug fix - Non-default window
size not set on startup
- Bug fix - Random crash when
changing from mode 7 to any other screen mode
- Bug fix - Cursor position wrong
when in column 1 in editing mode
- Slight tweak to source code
to get it to compile using Xcode 3 on Leopard
- Slight change to sound routine
to remove some artefacts.
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