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Good to know !

Thanks all. I will poke around with these suggestions

Hello Archi fans,

Did anyone use Arcol, or its successor Arcol Desktop back in the day?
I was a fan of its painting interface, despite it only having one level of "undo".

It was not as sophisticated as Longman Logotron's Revelation ... but was a big step up from the native !Paint application.

Hi all, If you were to target the early Archimedes machines ( A305 to A5000 ) - what would you recommend for assembly dev tools / environment? ( presume that the goal would be to make a typical 1 MByte pure assembly ( with maybe some BASIC bootstrap ) computer game, that is compatible with RISC OS 2...

Hi all,

Some Archimedes games like Lemmings and Chocks Away seem to be easily available on the web in ADF floppy image format. Others are non-existant such as Grievous Bodily Arm.

Is the reason merely due to imaging from physical floppies never took place?

Thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3WjiuQwtdM

Interview with the co-creator of "The Pit" arcade game.
THE PIT is the forerunner to games such as Repton and Boulderdash.

Thanks!

rockasoo@yahoo.com

Link to the model here:
https://www.docdroid.net/L195VB7/bbc-micro-ver1-pdf

The creator's email address is above, should you wish to drop him a word of appreciation.

http://rockybergen.com/whatsnew/2020/6/17/bbc-microcomputer-papercraft-design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/564229dee4b0d16067409cb0/1592401185320-BXP28VJ4XO7MUM4DYJQJ/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kE2sd21yzM2uIGhWiBO8oh57gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QPOohDIaI...

Always good to see a new emulator, especially one that makes strides in certain areas. Competition is healthy. :) For reference, on another thread, we previously discussed stand-out games (that typically do "interesting" or challenging technical stuff) for the BBC and Master. Here: https://stardot.o...

Thanks for the info and link!

Quick question: Obviously HFE/FSD and so forth are more sophisticated formats compared to legacy "convenience" formats like SSD/DSD and so on. Nonetheless... are there tools that transform from HFE to legacy formats? ( Or is such a utility not feasible, given the logic required to automatically depr...

Thanks guys. Good to see a similar mindset!

Hi beeb-ers, There has been good efforts by community people here to offer enhanced versions of game disk images, over the recent years. Thanks for that. On another track, is there any definitive reference of "non-enhanced" (i.e. completely vanilla unaltered) disk and tape images? And how should/cou...

I did this for a number of Acorn related items and posted the pictures on my Flickr account. The pictures are CC licensed and you can download the original size images; for example here's a BBC Micro: This is definitely along the lines of what would be the photos. :) The background is mostly plain ...

Cool, thanks. Must look at this code more thoroughly later.

Interesting. So this code is already available in the Warlords source ? On github ?

Hello folks, What would be the best approach to simultaneously connect dual 3-button digital joysticks to the BBC Micro? http://www.haku.co.uk/pics/SegaJoypadPinout.jpg Note, that this is mostly theoretical... I'm just interested to know what your approach would be, since the usual approach of havin...

I find the photos from http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/182/Acorn-BBC-Micro-Model-B/ are probably the best out there, though what they make publicly available are probably reduced in size. Thanks for the link, but not great photos, to be honest. All the criticisms previously mentioned are fea...

Great papercraft computer models here: https://rockybergen.com/papercraft Example: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/564229dee4b0d16067409cb0/1543580402042-MMQ8VVI9XRCWGLTQFNH5/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kNiEM88mrzHRsd1mQ3bxVct7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z4YTzH...

That would be super to see. Thanks. I think it would be a great resource for the Acorn retro community to have huge semi-professional evenly-lit photographs of our favourite microcomputers.

( Even monitors / peripherals ... but that's a bit of a stretch for a first attempt. )

. Question : Are there any excellent studio-quality photos of Acorn microcomputers available on the web? :?: There seems to be an infinite supply of half-arsed photos of BBC Micros / Archimedes / Electrons ... but every one I have seen are low resolution ( i.e. dimensions barely reaching 1000 x 1000...

In addition to daniel's concerns... some others off the top of my head the lack of clarity of to-be-confirmed prizes. a strong suspicion that no matter how good a Beeb fighting game / Beeb scrolling beat 'em up might be... that a C64/Spec/CPC entry would win overall simply due to platform familiarit...

While a new beat 'em up would be welcome, I remain skeptical of this competition, for a number of reasons.

welcome

Viola...

It pays to be a paranoid data hoarder...

The ultimate Archimedes talk :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf67JYkUCHQ

I have attached a higher-resolution scan, for convenience.

Here's one from magazine "MC Microcomputer" from December 1986:

http://www.vintads.it/file.php?cod=675