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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

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2013/08 ... /#comments

More images in link above.

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...

https://twitter.com/ArcapCreative/statu ... 1924214784



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.