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Rather than make a new topic, I might as well add to this one: there was a game which may or may not have been Master-exclusive which involved a bouncing ball from an overhead view. You could control the ball in 8 directions, and it would have to be over a ground tile when it bounced. The ground ti...

Traditional group piccie, taken Sat afternoon...

Finally managed to escape Arcade Club, leaving now, should get to the hotel for between 2 and 3am (!)

Was proper gutted after tonight's football result but getting to see this astonishing Scramble build - that is now playable - has cheered me up a bit! Thanks Tricky!

Hi Alex, I passed it on to Phil M recently to see if he could fix it up, as if you remember it wasn't in the best shape! Let me check how he's getting on, maybe we could bring it down to Leicester in November!

Voted for the colour version (which I think looks really smart!) though I think I'd prefer it if the Retro Hardware logo featured its original blue/white colour scheme.

Also maybe adjust the strapline to 'For the Acorn Electron and BBC Master 128' ?

Good work Tony!

Electron User is my fave magazine of all time and I'm so happy to see the new eMag in the same style and spirit of the original!

Good luck!!

Enjoyed catching up with everyone again today, nice to meet you HullBeebMan! Thanks Rob for the Beebsid PCB, Daniel for the Smallymouse PCB and Tricky for fixing up my dodgy controllers! I took some photos of the 8-bit stand holders as well as Anthony's AMCOG stall (below). Thanks to Beebmaster for ...

I'm so sorry to hear this awful news Ed, thinking of you ...

Thanks for flagging this, good observation. Whilst I personally would be happy to combine the two, it'd be nice to get some input from Kees, Wim, Phill, Dave, Roland and the other stalwarts of the Atom group, as well as the other mods/admins of course. Adding a new subgroup for the System machines s...

Were you aware some of the Akom Crossword Puzzles are available on E.G.G.?

http://www.everygamegoing.com/egg/searc ... _type_id=7

Can I add an extra VFS board so which will enable me to have both M+F versions?

One of each here too please Daniel

I'd like this - I could collect today if you're around?

Do it.

Wow, thanks for posting the new clip Sarah, it's staggeringly impressive! Fog effect seems to work really well also!!

Hi, it was me that created all of the Acorn FDI files that were previously available via the Acorn Preservation site. They are contained on a shared dropbox drive (together with the associated media scans) which several people have access to, and I know that a number of us have multiple offline back...

pau1ie wrote:

Arcadian wrote:Are you able to easily provide a list of all the games that have two publishers?

Yes. And the ones that have three, four and five!

Ah sorry for not being clearer - I meant, can you also include the identities of the publishers for games with more than one?

Arcadians suggestion of only including the publisher if there are two games of the same name doesn't stop there being two publishers. Are you able to easily provide a list of all the games that have two publishers? What if, in the case of two publishers, an additional '+' symbol was inserted betwee...

... the TOSEC format does seem quite ungainly and over-detailed to me. I like the simplicity of Title-Publisher-ID.ssd or similar. Agree (I seem to agreeing a lot with Chet tonight! ;) ). I also think that year of release should never EVER be featured within filenames (goodness now I sound like JGH...

pau1ie wrote:What about when games have more than one publisher?

Oh, in my mind we would only include the publisher in the filename if there are multiple games with the same title

e.g.
Reversi-Acornsoft
Reversi-Micropower

If the title is unique then no need for the qualifier.

Ref: ReversiComputerConcepts-1165.ssd ReversiBeebug-2966.ssd ReversiAcornsoft-968.ssd I do think filenames would look neater if there was a dash between the title and the publisher if possible e.g. Reversi-Beebug Then as per my example, I'd rather use an underscore to the prefix the disc no rather t...

I guess we could get a subdomain set up for the educational archive e.g. edu.bbcmicro.co.uk ? Oh and seeing as you asked, I think the desktop app concept sounds very cool, I think it could be really useful (especially the MMC picker) but if I was asked which should be higher priority I think I'd hav...

I'd suggest stripping the "DiscNNN-" prefix off each .SSD filename before adding the .SSD to the zip because the prefix isn't really relevant to the typical user, who probably just wants a download of all the games as individual games and doesn't care which of Mick's DSDs each game was originally t...

Thanks Dave, Kees and co for another great release of the archive!!

CMcDougall wrote:Weird, I thought modelA would have rough case and the other keystrip, like my early Issue3

I think Acorn were still producing Model A's into 1984, so they can be any issue really ... I remember seeing an unmodified issue 7 'A' once many moons ago, on ebay ...

It's not a BASIC I <> BASIC II incompatibility is it? Lovely little game though. DA Computers is still going in Leicester I believe - I bought some RAM and a PC from there 2-3 years ago (that's one of the things that attracted me to put a bid in on the tape! ;) ). Thanks for the uploads and 'fix' Co...

Well, yes - they can go for £400-500, especially if they're completely unmolested, which this one may well be.

Serial no is for a Model A...

There's a shot of the back of the machine but it's quite dark and I can't quite make out whether the rear connectors are present. But if it's an unmodified Model A that would make it rather desirable, even if it requires a little attention to make it 'go'.

I'm not sure if we need to buy anything - all games are already available online? UEF and SSD of Battle of Britain already on STH. UEF for Subhunt may be decipherable from the WAV above (Peter? Col?). SSD for Blockade already on STH. DaveE has all three cassettes I believe and scans are on E.G.G. We...