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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...

Here is a table showing the layout of the 44 rooms in Planet Nubium Two. ****NOTE : Table updated on 14th March 2020**** The number of collectible objects for each room is shown in brackets. There are 72 items in total, and 70 need to be collected to complete the game. When chip tunes are not playin...

I have made three changes to the original Planet Nubium game, to now reach Version 1.8. The .ssd disk image available below. The disk is bootable, or type ' CHAIN"NUBIUM" ' to load and run the game. Changes since Version 1.7 : * I found the flashing effect on my real Master when Rocketman crashes ir...

I have a brand new game for the BBC Master, and a sequel to Planet Nubium. The game is called Planet Nubium Two! The game uses a much improved Planet Nubium engine with more and larger sprites, and forty four all new rooms arranged as a large flip screen game. The game uses the awesome chip tune pla...

The latest version (V1.0) of Planet Nubium Two is attached to this post along with a map showing the layout of the game.

A book of the complete Jetman comic strip that appeared in CRASH magazine! The 'ultimate' tribute to this space hero! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/47744432/jetman-the-complete-published-works-all-in-one-book?ref=project_facebook&fbclid=IwAR1mj6SEz-c-lkXqqHBl71je169UUxzq9qL4Ej3qaiRFYMndF1vjKW...

"New! Games That Push The Limits of The ZX Spectrum"

New games that push this Rainbow Revolutionary to the edge, and keep it rocking in the 21st century...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEl4fecZeGE

Great to see the return of this series, Colin. I am hooked.

Nostalgia Nerd's review of the ZX Spectrum Next.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckYN_Tw ... -THzh_OsEc

To my mind, a very nice project to extend the retro-user base of BBC Basic would be to port Richard Russell's Z80 BBC Tube BASIC to the Spectrum NEXT, as Jonathan Harston did with the ZX Spectrum.

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

YouTubers Octav1us and Nostalgia Nerd both visited the museum, their videos are below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8URSXa9J5qY&t=412s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8dexRPxeRs

Ben Heck is making an 8-bit SBC based on a Z80, 64k RAM, and an Arduino Leonardo for I/O and programming the OS into RAM on boot up. There are two parts to the series so far, links to both parts below. Looks interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL2Wrdqy63o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wg...

Retro Man Cave's superb interview with Prof. Steve Furber, who, with Sophie Wilson, designed the BBC Micro and the ARM architecture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5BcbwkCSsM

Amigos Retro Gaming interview with David Haynie at at Amiga Ireland 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8fhzburF3E