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Sadly, I don't think I'll be there today, as I'd planned. If I can get away I will, if not I'll see you all tomorrow morning!

I'm starting to get the hang of it. Now up to level 2... 12,500

Can I join in the low score competition...?! I'm stuck at level 1. Best so far: 4400.

Happy xmas! Catching up... 57,580

A small increase ... 35,320

And a bug ... I collected all the dots but somehow the last square didn't fill, so I couldn't complete the level.

Some good Acornsoft classics there... Trying to find some games not played at all so far in the competition:

Jet Power Jack
Kissin Kousins
Road Runner

A bit better this time, I got to level 3 with 2 bonuses ... 29,220

This is a nice game, another pretty good Beeb arcade conversion. I think I got one bonus out of two, haven't figured out the pattern yet. Is it the same for each bonus round? Best so far... 22,290

Just getting started, so I'm only up to level 2 so far, hopefully I can catch up with you guys... 2035

This one's a bit fast ... need to get practicing ... 9300

Can you put my name down, please... with kit, Friday to Sunday. Thank you for organising!

A small improvement ... 19,210

Hi, guesser! I'd like to work with you to update BeebEm with your changes. I tried PM'ing you, but it seems you may have these disabled?

It's great to play this again... 16,770

A little better, but still on level 1... 7580

I never played this before, great game. I didn't know the Beeb had an R-Type copy! Here's my first attempt... 2930

I have Studio 5000, Studio -2, and Studio 5000-4 Issue Discs, not sure which releases they are. I'll upload photos when I get a chance. It'd be great to have links to all those disks already archived!

I really like this game. Fun, frustrating, but well executed. Now up to level 8... 1136

I nearly completed level 7, but lost control at the last corner... 886

Hi Ian, I'd like an 8-bit V2 with DOM, please!

Took me a while to figure out level 2, until I realised the start position is kind of hidden... Up to level 5 so far... 502

I've just been playing this. Congratulations streaks, it's a really good game, nicely done!!

I'd like to say a big public thank you to Chris Jordan for sending me this pristine, never out of the poly's Music 1000 :-o Music1000-1.jpg Music1000-2.jpg Music1000-3.jpg Paul That's great :D I'd like to also say thank you to Chris, he has also sent one to me, after I had the pleasure of meeting h...

Well done on getting to 100k I'm happy for your score to stand.

I'm just about keeping up with you, FS ... 76,950.

There are 6 levels ... I originally wrote 5 by mistake. For my last score, I think I got to level 3, second time around. I'm following the same strategy as you, but I'll try to use boulders as much as I can. I just noticed a bug in the gane. There were only the 2 green monsters left on level 1, I dr...

New high score ... 58,330.

That went fast ... I'd like to come, but I'll wait for the next one ... Hopefully ABUG south in January.

You may have, I just remember playing it somewhere along the line. I may have been testing out games for choice so don't despair. It's a great game that I suck at but it is fun. Yes, this isn't a bad one ... Only 5 6 levels though, and not sure if the difficulty increases when you go back to level ...

Ooh, I hoped I'd chose something we haven't played in the competition before. I used to like this game BITD. It's a bit annoying how the dragon's flames pass through the earth though, watch out for that... 23,120.

The ABUG meetup this weekend was excellent. Thanks to jbnbeeb for organising everything so well, and to Jason and all at the Cambridge Centre for Computing History for hosting us. I brought along my Beeb with Music 5000, plus keyboard and MIDI interface - which hadn't been used in decades. It was a ...