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Reminds me of Geordie Jumpers from BITD.

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

LGR unboxes a new but old stock 1984 Tano Dragon Computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK5eFZT2fVI

Hi Joe,


I have an A3010, and am looking to replace the bottom half of the white plastic case as one of the four plastic protrusions that the keyboard sits on has broken off. As you are breaking the A3020 for spares, would you be interested in selling the bottom half of the case to me?


Andrew.

Hang onto that copy of Killer Gorilla, somebody has paid a record $114,000 for a Super Mario Bros. video game.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/11/us/super ... index.html

ChinnyVision's "Five Acorn Archimedes Games Reviewed!"

A very nice video. I signed up to became one of Chinny Hill's Patreons today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zihs2lu ... e=youtu.be

I have a tiled background and a second layer of sprites - players and a cursof- over it. I want to move the layer 2 objects especially the cursor without havinv to redraw the whole tiled map which really slows the cursor down. What is the best option to remove the layer 2 sprite 'smudge'? Rather th...

Is there a document that explains how many Sideways RAM slots there are? How do you load a ROM to them , what the addresses are? Basically everything you need to know to get ROMS to load in your Master Cheers! I like the book 'Advanced Sideways Ram User Guide' by Bruce Smith. https://www.brucesmith...

The Rocketman sprite in the first Planet Nubium game was drawn using the XOR method. Here the background undergoes a bitwise XOR with the sprite. The method is quite simple and the same bitwise XOR routine is used to remove the sprite. However, with this method when Rocketman crosses over a coloured...

Planet Nubium Two uses a sprite mask to display the Rocketman sprite. First, the background where the sprite is to be plotted is copied to a scratch area of memory. The screen memory then undergoes a bitwise AND with the sprite mask, then undergoes a bitwise OR with the sprite itself. The result is ...

- There are lot af games, but finally "few" classic games coming from C64/Spectrum/CPC on this computer. Why ? Because it was consider as an educational computer ? (like Thomson computer in France). The BBC Micro had many great conversions from the 8-bit arcade games, but as software houses stated ...

The Wikipedia article (below) on the Rugg/Feldman benchmarks (used by PCW magazine back in the day) found that BBC BASIC was the fastest of the 8-bit BASICs. The reference does not give a figure for Locomotive BASIC and I guess this figure for BBC BASIC is for BASIC2 rather than BASIC4. It would be ...

I found the book 'Advanced Sideways Ram User Guide' by Bruce Smith useful when writing Planet Nubium and PN2. Both games use all four SWRAM Banks of the BBC MASTER, some lines of BASIC in the main game loop, and both main and shadow video RAM for two separate video frame stores to double buffer the ...

I thoroughly enjoyed Andy Remic's superb movies on the ZX Spectrum. He now has a new Kickstarter for his next project, a film on the '8-BIT WARS' including an interview with David Braben. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andyremic/the-8-bit-wars?fbclid=IwAR2R35-q4N6DJpfuViIGZi9GUYlulS4e-TIsbmF0R...

My games for the BBC Master, Planet Nubium and Nubium 2, keep the guardian sprite bitmaps and blitting code in SWRAM Bank 7, with the location in screen memory of each sprite in a parameter block in main memory, just below screen memory. To draw the sprite in PN1 a CALL is made from the BASIC part o...

0xC0DE wrote: ↑

Wed May 20, 2020 2:58 pm

I have never played Planet Nubium (spending too much time in my Acorn Electron bubble ) but I just gave PN2 a go in jsbeeb. Very cool game, well done!!

Thank you. My childhood machine was an Electron, so it is great to see your demos pushing the Elk to its limits.

pure brilliant =D> =D> =D> How did you design your loader? Nice. Thank you, AJW. The loading picture is based on clip-art from the Internet, modified, colourised and resized with Microsoft Paint. I imported the image into the BBC Micro using the 'BBC Micro Image Converter'. The loading tune runs of...

This thread (below) maybe of interest.

I have not yet figured out how to make an interrupt timed palette switch work for both interlaced and non-interlaced displays though.

viewtopic.php?f=54&t=16206

"The History of Calculating Devices"

From the 1980s series 'Great Experiments' with Professor Heinz Wolff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtMLlS6uUT0

The Commodore Pet Killer POKE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bMJ0NIuWU0

I have run Jonathan Harston's BBC Basic for the C64 on the VICE emulator, and very good it is too.

http://mdfs.net/Software/BBCBasic/C64/

Jon also has a port to the Spectrum.

http://mdfs.net/Software/Spectrum/BBCBasic/

Article on POP from Hackaday.

https://hackaday.com/2020/03/23/ingenio ... yqNfpp-juc

Planet Nubium Two gains a page at BBCMICRO.CO.UK

http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=3381

And at ITCH.IO

https://andrewwaite1.itch.io/planet-nubium-two

Version 1.0 of Planet Nubium Two is now finished! The new Version 1.0 brings a new loading screen and several bug and 'feature' fixes. The .ssd file for the new version is attached to the bottom of this post. I have tweaked the layout of many rooms. These changes are minor, so KarateEd's map still g...

Just to add to Kieran's to do list of games to port to the BBC :D I enjoyed playing Starglider back in the day on the PC. There is a C64 version of the game, written for the C64's 6510 that could perhaps be ported over to the Master's 6512. The game is in 3D as well, just like Stunt Car Racer. The C...

I have a Spectrum Next Accelerated on order, which means I get to watch green and yellow with envy all these folks on the internet who have received their machines as I wait for mind to be delivered. The Spectrum Next has a 28MHz Z80 mode. Any chance that the BBC Master's host soft processor can run...

Hey Andrew, I think your map may have a couple errors on them. I think Departures, Delays and Cancellations only has 2 artifacts in it and..... Seen any interesting Hills and Valleys doesn't have any in it bringing your total to 70. I did a double check and realized somehow though I'd been to all t...

KarateEd wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 08, 2020 4:37 pm

So, do I get a prize? Finished!!!

Good game sir.

Holy Cow Ed, I thought the game would take you longer than that to complete!

The 68 was there to test game completed routine. I will fix the 'feature' for the Version 1.0 release, or you can change 'ob%=68' in line 390 to 'ob%=0'.

Acorn machines come to Amigos Retro Gaming in Hurricane, West Virginia.

ARG review Oddball and Chock's Away in their brilliant and inimitable way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agdnro7maVg

What a superb way to map the game, Ed. Popcorn is already stacked next to my microwave in anticipation of seeing the original Planet Nubium on the Stardot HSC.

Here are the credits for the chip tunes used in 'Planet Nubium Two', along with links to the original tunes on the 'Battle of the Bits' website. Tunes were originally written for the Sega Master System and converted to the BBC Micro by simonm and kieranhj. The Sega Master System and the BBC Micro ha...