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First couple of goes at this are not impressive, but here's the score so far...

Where do I stand on Firetrack? Hmmm, I know its a great from a technical standpoint, but give me the choice of playing Lightforce (Speccy), Powerstrike (Sega), Quark (Acorn 32bit), Tyrian (DOS), 1943 (Arcade) (thats all my favourite top/down scrolling shootemup games by the way) or Firetrack, then ...

Always wanted to See a port of Quazatron by Hewson.
It was an isometric port of Paradroid for the ZX Spectrum.

That and Arcade Game Designer by Argus Pres Software (also ZX Spectrum)

I always liked (and still like) the piracy game 'Plunder' by CCS.

Right, I think this is the best I'm likely to get on this one now

Here's my attempt.
Not as easy as I remember

I've decided to expand my Retro collection (its barely a collection really but...)
I've already bought a VideoNULA upgrade, so a BBC Master is needed to put it in if anyone has a good one spare?
Many thanks.

It seems I used the version of this that we used last time it featured in a High Score Challenge with the fixed High score table.

Thanks Mark

Right, done my video.
I can't remember how to embed it on the forum so here's just a link to it:
https://youtu.be/cOuYVnXU_gM
Hope its ok.

[Moderators note:]Here you go... Mark

Thanks for that.
I see two there that I haven't tried yet.
Cheers!

Sort of although I won't be doing a boring voiceover or commentary.
Just sort of show them each being played (and how bad I am at playing some of them!)
I dont like to slag off other peoples efforts since I can't really program myself, but some of them are stratospherically awful!
Cheers!

Hi, Since we now have Trickys excellent version of Frogger, I started having a look at all the previous versions of it for the Beeb. I have the following versions: The Frog - Software for All Leapfrog - Model B Computing Hedgehog - Beebug/Elbug (not quite a frogger game but...) Froglet - Argus Press...

Have you tried VirtualDub (it's an editor really, but also playes back), I use it to rescale my videos before posting on youtube as they need to be at least 720p to playback at 50Hz? The problem with VDub (good though it is) is that it uses only the encoders/decoders installed on the system. Same a...

Hi,
Thanks for that.
I am using windows 10 (forgot to mention that!)
If i try it with windows 7 then i can at least load it into TMPEG and recode it.
Cheers!

Sorry to hear of your loss Ed.
My condolences to you and your family.

Hi, I've been having this same problem with Beebem for some time now. Whenever I try to playback videos captured with Beebem, only the sound plays, i get no video. My player of choice is Media Player Classic Home cinema (latest version), but even if I try to load the video into TMPEG Video encoder 6...

Probably a silly question, but how do I eenable Nula in B-Em?
I couldn't find the option anywhere and yet I'm sure I've had it working before...
Thanks.

Going slightly off topic (well, everyone else has ) is the BBC not very good at producing racing games?
I ask this because it never got ports of Outrun, ChaseHQ, both of which were done reasonably well on the humble Spectrum (well, maybe not Outrun but ChaseHQ was excellent.

Not owing a C64 back then, and not having access to a C64 back then, I can't comment on, but do wonder if some BBC titles had the minimum work done to convert from the C64 versions. Mark Maybe, but I do think that Jet Boot Jack on the BBC is better than on any other system (Atari 8bit, Amstrad and ...

For me, Atic Atac was one of those that was most disappointing on the Beeb. It just didn't seem right considering that it required a high number of colours and on the Beeb that meant MODE 2 with its fat pixels when compared to the Spectrum version. I'm also not normally a fan on the fat pixel Mode ...

I think Paperboy, which is also an Elite conversion, could also be massively improved. I've sometimes thought about doing it but I was never a great fan of the original. Yes, I'd forgotten about Paperboy. The BBC version is definately bad, but some of the other home versions aren't great either. Th...

By that I mean disappointing compared to other 8 bit (or 16bit for that matter) versions. I'll kick off with Commando which I've just been watching on Youtube. (I've just had a play of it as well :( ) The BBC version is just so slow and has none of the gameplay that other versions (even the Spectrum...

That was odd.
Seems to have been a Libre office problem. I've updated it to the latest version and now it works fine.
I can begin...
Thanks

I'm trying to fill in my list of games, but Libre Office tells me that Protected cells cannot be modified...
Any thoughts?
Cheers!

All I need now is a Plus 1 interface to use the cart with...
What's the going rate for these?
Cheers!

This is a great conversion.
Very tough to play but really well done.
I'm determined to reach the mothership level somehow
Thanks for this Tricky.

Thats great!
Thanks for the information and all the work that you're all putting into this.
Cheers!

There are a lot of games not listed in the spreadsheet. Im still hoping they will be added at some point before I buy mine. Which ones were you thinking of? Ok, I've been cpomiling this for a while, here goes.... Anarchy Zone Bug Eyes 1 Bug Eyes 2 Commando Cops and Robbers E-Type Evening Star Exile...

Great! Hopefully itll be a general feature that can include some of your other remakes as well.
I vaguely recall that they missed your version of Carnival a while back as well, showing Acornsofts Carousel instead.