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Awesome, Stew! I've never really been into RPGs but I'll certainly give this a good go!

Top work!!!

I'll be around and trying to do some work on MoonPatrol and maybe show some of my more recent joystick/spinner projects for beeb/Vectrex. Nice will look forward to that!! Could I request a 'room' be set up for BBC/Electron/Atom new games and demo coding/releases? I've been quite busy the last month...

A&F --- Early Warning - Was just going through completed eBay listings and spotted this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/202913005355 Did anyone here win it - or do you recognise the high bidder from the feedback ratings? I know the seller so I've just messaged them to see if they can help locate the wh...

Hey I've just realised, yesterday was the 10th anniversary of Stairway to Hell's closure (and exactly 21 years since it was founded). I still don't have any plans to bring it back (it looks so dated now, lol; in fact - the design was already dated when I launched it in '99!) and besides, the bbcmicr...

Hi Dave, yes it's Matthew. If not you then I have no idea who I sent it to all those years ago. Do you have the original artwork for UIM? I'm pretty sure that the person who has that is the one I sent the source to. No source left for anything I'm afraid. Yes, I bought the art for UIM and Psyanki (...

Dave Moore has all the source for R3 for all versions, I passed it onto him several years ago along with Tempest etc. I'm afraid I certainly never received any source code from you, for any games (I'm assuming I'm replying to Matthew?). That's something I'd have definitely remembered. I still have ...

Ah thanks, I'll give that a try later today - in the end I went and set an actual one up, for testing out Raven Wood (which works fine on the Solidisk DFS, but I'm getting a 'Too many files' message if I try the ADFS version with the interface. Acornsoft ADFS is fine however.

Hi Nigel, did this make it into MAME? If not, is it something you'd look at implementing? Ta!

These are well worth a watch, starts at 9pm (i.e. in about 20 mins!)

www.twitch.tv/enemyofchaos

Hopefully we'll see John's Darkness of Raven Wood game being covered!

Yep, the physical release of Ravenwood is almost upon us now ... I updated the credits screen within the game to reflect the contributions of Carlo (radiorama), Ian (BeebMaster), Richard (Tricky) and of course Lurkio, as follows (original on the left, revised on the right). RavenwoodCredits_bothvers...

A nice, new HP Officejet 7740 A3 Printer (w/ scanner).

Bought specifically to enable me to get some homebrew BBC/Electron releases out over the next few months, as I suspect I'm going to be very unbusy!

Take care Dave, John and anyone else doing the same.

All the events I was due to support throughout the spring have now been cancelled so I'll effectively be self-isolating too!

Michael Brown wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 3:18 pm

Created in March 2020... here is Games Disc 144.

Fab work on another release Mick, Lee and team - incredible how you're still managing to produce a double-sided floppy full of new content every few months!

Full weekend, full table please Jason!

Now we just need Prime to clone and build it ... !

My goodness Andy, what a find!

Thanks for sharing such treasure, and thanks to Alex too for passing the schematic across! Wow!

Just to confirm, though it was part of a batch of ROMs I passed to JGH for dumping, I can't provide any further info as I was never in possession of the actual device.

Sorry for the delay, have just sent you a PM If anyone else is interested, I still have some physical copies remaining of the other Retro Software games available, prices are as follows: Zap*: £4.95 Krystal Connection*: £4.95 Repton: The Lost Realms: £9.95 Mountain Panic: £9.95 White Light: £11.95 P...

Sorry for the delay, have just sent you a PM If anyone else is interested, I still have some physical copies remaining of the other Retro Software games available, prices are as follows: Zap*: £4.95 Krystal Connection*: £4.95 Repton: The Lost Realms: £9.95 Mountain Panic: £9.95 White Light: £11.95 P...

Itching to get my mits on this once it's finished! Great to see that progress is still being made! Keep going Tricky!!

Hi, was recently alerted to this thread on Facebook ... Hello, how can I buy a copy of Repton: The Lost Realms? I wached on www.retrosoftware.co.uk but there it says that I must search on eBay, and finally I found nothing. I would need the ssd file also, because I don't own a physical BBC micro (by ...

Ah, but can you see what I'm getting at regarding the advantages of having a single 'universal' version of the code, that features both gameplay fixes and ADFS-file system fixes? The idea being that if all files are copied from DFS > ADFS or ADFS > DFS the game will still work regardless of filing s...

Chet did you ever incorporate Carlo's fixes into the most recent .ssd you mastered? According to his post above they appeared to be missed?

Hi Jamie, The reason I withheld issuing the physical copies of Raven Wood is because I don't believe we ever quite nailed down the ADFS compatibility issues that were effecting certain versions of ADFS, especially those patched for IDE devices such as Datacentre (scroll up through the thread for an ...

Again, amazing work Mick (and Lee, and Chet, and Paul1e, and anybody else who is helping to type-in old listings from books, magazines and other sources!). Ditto for BillCarr, flaxcottage and CMcDougall for all the hard work deprotecting original discs, sharing educational software and digitizing ca...

This has been a fascinating 'restoration' project to follow, well done to all involved!

I think there was an announcement yesterday on Facebook stating that a huge update was on the way over the next 48 hours - so perhaps that's the cause and if so, hopefully it's only temporary ...

geraldholdsworth wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:07 pm

I do not know for certain if it is correct or not.

The UEF image on STH was created from the original media by me.

No, I traded the Master and Solidisk drive for some obscure European computers, with a member from Belgium - lucifershalo though I recall he also parted with them some time back.

I made images of the FS Roms but no idea where they are at the moment I'm afraid.

brookstermax wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 19, 2020 10:01 pm

I know it says to PM you but I can’t until I have posted 25 messages and I don’t want to make unnecessary posts .

Have removed the PM restriction