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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

Hello from another Hampshire based Beeb fan. If you like, add your details to the 'where are we all located' thread. I'm sure it's not called exactly that but you'll find it. It's a map I think. The "Where is everyone? An information gathering topic" thread? https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic....

Nostalgia Nerd's Studio Tour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=breDkVtf7Xc

Adrian Black on Troubleshooting and fixing a dead Apple IIc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8YVX75Qr-0

Download and play 'Hamsters'. A wonderful platformer where you chase and splat small brown fury creatures with a large mallet.

https://www.acornarcade.com/downloads/

Jan Beta is restoring an Atari 1040STF.

New Part 2 : Retrobrighting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTrmlBD9uDE

The Older Part 1 : The Electronics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F0Y4kwT5es

Sad news. Chuck Peddle, the main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, passed away on the 15th December 2019.

https://wdc65xx.com/in-memoriam-of-chuc ... Z-sfwIJXjo

https://www.team6502.org/

GadgetUK164 is restoring several Acorn A3010s.

Part Two : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhjGmUn4s-Y

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GadgetUK164 - starts to restore a stack of Acorn A3010s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5nOSKW7WuI

Jan Beta is restoring an Atari 1040STF.

Part 1: The Electronics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F0Y4kwT5es

GadgetUK164 - starts to restore a stack of Acorn A3010s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5nOSKW7WuI

Adrian Black has finished his PET Rescue. Part Four of the Commodore PET restoration is here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaytj2uZOcI Previous episodes : The Commodore PET Rescue (Part 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn12t... PET Rescue Part 2 - Bath Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jyu...

The in-game music to Bubble Bobble is nice. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c9abQIXJGI )
Or the loading music to Dare Devil Dennis. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acKm7V-joeon )
The in-game music to Pengo is quite good as well ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_j0xHIM5mw )

A nice review by ChinnyVision of the ElkSD64 - Acorn Electron SD Card And Memory Expansion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2czhp7QUl4

A video from Dartmouth College on the birth of the BASIC programming language.

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

Thank you for making such a nice video on Santa's Sleigh. The game was originally written on an Acorn Electron and submitted to Electron User magazine, with a small rocket man instead of 'Santa'. EU asked me to add a Christmas theme to the game for the December 1986 issue of the magazine, so the roc...

On the 50th Anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 12 mission, how "Set SCE To AUX" saved the day after the Saturn V rocket was twice struck by lightening during launch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4TXNZW ... h0CTn8ebkQ

I want to animate them. So my question is what format do I save them in from Edit tf to display on a beeb and also is there some code to load a series of mode 7 pages then flip between them quickly? I think that the two programs below do something similar to what you are looking to achieve. They cr...

Hi, i am wondering how the CRT vertical sync position can be read ?. In my poor games moving characters will disappear in certain horizontal bands even when using *FX19. The few other documented bbc games seam to be reading the CRT draw position but i was not able to easily grasp how with all the o...

Welcome, Chris. :D I haven't heard of Keynsham since the days of radio Luxemburg on my trannie and that guy selling a method for winning the pools. :lol: Welcome! I remember my father talking of Horace Batchelor of Keynsham (spelt K – E – Y – N – S – H – A – M). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydQ8...

A really nice project, looking forward to future episodes.

Amigos Retro Gaming review 'Jump Man' and 'Atic Raid' on the Jupiter Ace Computer, from the Amigos Studios in Hurricane, West Virginia.

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

There is a nice page in the C64's palette here :
https://www.pepto.de/projects/colorvic/2001/

To be fair to the Commodore engineers and their "15 shades of brown" palette, they made the colours so similar to reduce the appearance of the dot crawl effect on 1970s and early 80s vintage NTSC TV sets.

"Micro Men - 10th Anniversary - With Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser". A YouTube video set to premier on the 8th October. "To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the BBC's premiere of Micro Men, starring Alexander Armstrong and Martin Freeman, the Centre for Computing History has gathere...