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Hello chaps, Interesting video here on the subject of fields / frames (in particular, an explanation of the "half line" ) : https://youtu.be/1MY-jUkogbg?t=414 Bear in mind that this is in the context of NTSC land, but I assume the concept applies similarly to PAL 50hz cathode ray tube situations too...

Retro Gamer magazine 188 has an interview with Acorn assembly language (and beyond) game coding hero Kevin Edwards.

Just an FYI !

Thanks, I'd seen that thread before but the voodoo over subselecting colour bits is still not clear to me.

I guess I am looking for a recipe where red in the dominant choice, followed by blue then by green...

Hello archie people, I know that the early Archimedes machines have major restrictions on selecting a 256 colour selection from the 4096 available choices. I would like to see a palette which has a better (larger) selection of salmon skin tones / olive skin tones. Could you help outline what specifi...

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Reminds me of a certain BBC Micro space ship....

Yeah, Mijas C (from the old magazine reviews) seems to be pretty good, and compiled into actual 6502 code, instead of an intermediate interpreted language.

Hello beebers, Does anyone have disc/rom/manual images for either Brasscourt C compiler, or for Mijas C ? I know there are other C compilers out there, but it is these two specifically that I am interested in. As far as I know, there were three revisions of Mijas C for the BBC, with the latest versi...

Good read. Thanks.

I presume you have a Win10 computer. This is a current incompatibility with BeebEm. There are numerous branches and backlogged fixes from various people that have not yet been centralised into an "official" new release of that emulator. As far as I recall, someone here has a working fix for this (ma...

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FYI the title screen says (C) 1990 Jordan Mechner. The original was actually copyrighted in 1989 for the Apple 2. ( You might have taken the title screen from one of the later conversions i.e. Amstrad CPC )

Just nitpicking, but it irked me for some reason!

Great work so far.

This looks very promising! I was thinking recently (since I'm archiving a lot of acorn disks) that a tool like this would be super useful. Out of interest - do you have any plans to open source it? (via Github etc.) I will tie up a few loose ends (like some of those mentioned in this thread) and im...

Cool.

On a slight tangent, is there anything in the database that denotes that the media ( .ssd et cetera ) is truly "vanilla" ? ( In other words, that no gubbins like custom title screens, or custom load menus, or after-release amateur bugfixes, have been added to the media ? ) . . My personal preference...

Is this new device compatible with the specifications / usage of similar add-ons from the Beeb's heyday?

i.e.
1. the original Palettemate device
and
2. the SPX (the Saturn Palette Extension) device

One thing in Acorn User's favour, was 1989's Runemaker game. Great assembly language type-in program that took up several 'yellow pages' of listings to input!

Acorn User was more polished, appearance-wise, but was a bit po-faced in terms of articles. Micro User had better games coverage, and hardware hacking series. Horrible front covers and typography/layouts though (although in later years when it evolved into Acorn Computing - it started to look a lot...

I don't know of site where they are available, pity really as it was a good site for high quality original images of bbc software, for tapes discs and documentation. Yeah, there was a load of FDI files of BBC games. Also, I recall it having super-high-resolution scans of Master Compact game inlays....

Thanks for the effort on this site. Might it be possible to centre and/or crop screengrabs? Example: http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=879 is incorrectly offset to the top. On a real VDU, the the smaller mode 5 screen is centered on the screen.

Nice idea! Looks good in stills, but I see very distracting flickering through emulation.

Am I right in thinking that code running from this 12K RAM bank can directly access the shadow RAM? And in fact that's the only place user code on a B+ can access the shadow RAM from, short of going via the OS? (This is based on a memory of poking around in the b-em source code; I'm at work now so ...

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Exile is fantastic, so thanks all for highlighting/bundling the source.

Congrats to Sir Hermann.

Thanks

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Olivetti-Prodest-Pc128S-Boxato-Nuovo-Monitor-originale-Ultra-RARE-Tested-/152130934169 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Olivetti-Prodest-Pc128S-Boxato-Nuovo-Monitor-originale-Ultra-RARE-Tested-/152130934169 OLIVETTI Prodest PC128S . This is the ultra-rare Master Compact clone in ...

Cool.

It would be nice to see 'vanilla' versions (i.e no modifications) of a diskette highlighted. Just like some other platform's websites distinguish between unaltered versions and 'cracked' versions.

Nice work! The Beeb needs more fighting games. This would be cool to see finished.

As an aside, here's some related info on the VGM and GD3 formats:
http://www.smspower.org/Music/VGMFileFo ... .VGMFormat
http://www.smspower.org/Development/SN76489

What's the target platform (hardware) for this game?