Wow! A Speccy game developed on BBC Micro, fabulous, love it! #Retrocomputing #ZXSpectrum #Sinclair #BBCMicro

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:io6owsze2yxsfsl2cd7znmik/post/3llqg4rbdf22t

At All the Adventures, the conclusion to the Very British game Time Adventure, involving Merlin in a high-tech laboratory, the boat Queen Elizabeth 2, and warding off a fantasy creature with Terry Wogan's smelly socks.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/03/31/time-adventure-queen-elizabeths-revenge/

Peter Smith, who previously borrowed heavily from Supersoft's version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to make his own "Hitch-Hiker", returns in this time-travel game which seems to be mostly (?) original and includes a mechanic very rarely seen in this period.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/03/30/time-adventure-1982/

Thought it about time I finished a game instead of having several *coming soon* games. So here we go ...
#GameDev #Pico8 #Retro #Remake #Repton #BBCMicro #Puzzle
https://minionsoft.itch.io/repton

In anticipation of June's Econet LAN Party at the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley, I've updated Elite over Econet.

It now supports flicker-free graphics, up to 100 players in multiplayer, better server support and more. Game on!

For more details and downloads see https://elite.bbcelite.com/hacks/elite_over_econet.html

For tickets to the LAN Party on 7-8 June, see https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/econet-lan-party-2025-tickets-1244748870379

And for discussion on Stardot about the event, see https://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30405

See you there!

Interesting article about Mastertronic game sales figures:

https://mastertronic.co.uk/mastertronic-collectors-archive-they-sold-millions/

40 years ago, C&VG magazine produced a listings issue with a selection of games to type into your computer.
#Commodore64 #C64 #ZXSpectrum #VIC20 #Dragon32 #BBCMicro #AcornElectron #TexasTI99A

My Microvitec CUB monitor is here!!! Sitting on my newly constructed platform for my #BBCMicro

Mistodon: also served as a side with our newly-released Imbibe food-themed e-mag is a tasting flight of other delicious text and semigraphics art - here is a sampling of some tasty #teletext and #ASCIIart, an Xbin and a #BBCMicro high resolution graphics screen. Check it out at https://16colo.rs/mag/imbibe01

Just found out about a 2009 TV film on retro computing called "Micro Men". It's a sort of comedy-drama about UK computer manufacturers in the 1980s, done on a tiny budget by mixing in archive footage. It works really well!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH5L-iTIbP8

There's also a video of some of the real people depicted watching it and commenting on the authenticity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaonVYOTSsk

cc @retrocomputing

New deep dive: How the Apple II version of #Elite was developed on a #BBCMicro

In which I pick through the clues on the source disk, and try to piece together the original 1986 development pipeline for Apple II Elite.

https://elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/developing_apple_ii_elite_on_a_bbc_micro.html

Oops. In compiling the #Elite source code family tree, I omitted Elite-A, arguably the poster child for a forking history of Elite.

So I've added it to the tree and updated my article. That's better!

https://elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/the_elite_source_code_family_tree.html

Pretty amazing that the #NES, #AppleII, #BBCMaster, and #BBCMasterCompact versions of the seminal 3-D space trading and combat video game #Elite all fundamentally base their source code from the #Commodore64 port. (All pre-dated by the #BBCMicro and #AcornElectron versions, of course.)

https://universeodon.com/@markmoxon/114008400839205726

New: I've analysed the source code for all 9 versions of Elite on the 6502, and I've put together a family tree showing the decade-long forking history of the source.

Software archaeology in action!

https://elite.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/the_elite_source_code_family_tree.html

Welcome to the BBC Computer Literacy Project — https://archive.org/details/bbcmicro-welcome

Not sure if anyone really needs a copy of the BBC Welcome tape, but I was given one, so I put the scanned manual, tape audio and UEF emulator tape file on Internet Archive.

Not sure if I can get the UEF file to run from the link directly on one of the online emulators.

This version of the tape is complete. Others are missing the first program

Fully documented source code for Elite on the 6502 | … I spent days, weeks playing this
https://alecmuffett.com/article/111102
#BbcMicro #ComputerHistory #elite #games

Remember the really old text adventures from the 1980s? I spent hours puzzling with Castle of Riddles played on a #BBCmicro. It's now long abandoned - time for an update. I remade it, added more puzzles, graphics and sound. Play it FREE on any browser (even a phone) at https://jaydax.co.uk/corr

Fully documented source code for Elite on the 6502 | … I spent days, weeks playing this

Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Apple II and NES

https://elite.bbcelite.com/

Via:

https://www.threads.net/@yannlecun/post/DFiQfC2TrxP

Concentrating on finishing/polishing Airline Boss v2 for the #BBCMicro/#AcornElectron.

Improved TONS of things and made it bullet proof, even when trying to load incorrect game-save files.

Unfortunately the original author has disappeared off the face of the earth so I will hold back on releasing this (and the C64 version) for a bit, even tho he did state Public Domain in the source code.

Last week I released fully documented source code for #Elite on the #Apple II.

I've now added it to my Elite site, where it's syntax-coloured, cross-referenced, indexed and categorised.

So that's every 6502 Elite - done!

https://elite.bbcelite.com/apple/