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Re: Adventure by Bob Anderson

Bob Anderson wrote a different game called 'Cosmonaut' that appears on the Beebug Cover disk 3-10.
I found no other reference to him.

By the way do you have OCRs of the Beebug magazines?

PJ

Looks like your links are set to localhost:

http://localhost/egg/public_html/egg/la ... ype/games/


comes from clicking on bbc micro b on this page:

http://www.everygamegoing.com/egg/landi ... Type/menu/

Time to get down to the DISCO!

Here comes Sid Disk #18 - Club Hits!

26 Massive Tracks Remixed for the SID!

Hi, Here's a program that sets the base 8 colors to a 'softer' version - much easier on the eyes! It's Basic so you can change it to set your own favourite palette. You run this program first and then run the game of your choice and it will automatically pick up this new palette until you power down...

Hi, I just installed my one Worked perfectly first time (and the Retrocentre amazing didn't get in the way so the lid came back down OK) The first time I powered it up I got a blank screen and panicked until I realized the Scart cable was still unattached - ha! ha! I was very lucky to have an issue ...

Wow! That is pretty cool - the historical intros are brillant - and you attention to detail with all the changed logos etc is really nice. I can think of a few others for disk#2 - Pengo, Firetrack & Crypt Capers come to mind and I always prefered Watford Electronics version of Centipede (Crawler) wh...

Here's a Repton remake I came across for the PICO-8 console:
http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=29694

Video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF81vpXoR4Y

The PICO-8 has some really good games - there's also a version of Mazezam:

http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=29708

PJ

Seems it was a little later - Oracle started in Jan 1987 !

Wow! This is absolutely amazing! (Apart from from the fire sound that sucks) - it made me remember the first time I ever played it which was on one of those cocktail sitdown machines... Love how you've done the colours (the original was monochrome with the colour overlay as I remember ...) Please, P...

Other micros like the Atari 800 and C64 (and also all the Nintendos like NES/SNES/gameboy etc.) all have character mapped screens - perhaps you can investigate how their hardware did it. It aways seemed a big shame that the BBC Micros screen organization was not linear - the ZX spectrum was also a m...

Here you go:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acorn-BBC-B-M ... 0963983247

Works great - I use it often! (The mp3 or wav has to be a decent recording in the first place of course...)

Thanks for that! Just brillant! - I feel like Dracula is going to appear round the corner any second....
And the palette change after each page is sublime...
Damn the Wife has just proclaimed
"Ok, turn that off - enough already."
That's me done for this evening...
PJ

I've seen the same thing - in fact I just tested it: If you do a seach for something like "serial port" it will return several pages of results. As you click on some of the later pages (like page 4) it will say I can't search for 'x' seconds - but I haven't done a new search! Also this is a good exa...

I can see two Masters, a CPC6128 and what looks like a Speccy +3?

Well spotted (Because one is never enough... I think some other people here can attest to that!)
There's also some interresting accessories - and what about the Joysticks?
PJ

Here you go....

I never noticed the AT+CLIPSEND command in my ESP8266 documentation, only an AT+CIPSEND (note that there is no L in the last command) which has a bit more complicated syntax. Sorry I meant CIPSEND. Anyway The device I actually bought is not the ESP8266 and uses a different set of commands and now I...

Hi, Thanks again for all the help - I discovered in the end my Wifi Device didn't actually support handshaking after all - the manual mentions it doesn't even when it's web interface suggests it should. Anyway by setting $FE09 directly and adding a suitable delay sending commands to the device worke...

Thanks so much Guys!

The Magic command is ?&FE09=Y%

With that I've finally got a response from the Device - so stay tuned as I attempt to get it doing something useful!

PJ

Do you mean you turned CTS/RTS handshaking off at the PC end? Yes I don't think you can turn it off at the BBC end and use the OS to send stuff can you? What's the osbyte call for that? Well the only call I could find is 138 and I think that is handshake only (unless there is some other call that c...

Hi, I've been experimenting with using the BBC serial port communicating to and from a PC. I have Sprows BBC to DB9 serial cable that I believe swaps the CTS/RTS lines. With handshaking on that works brillantly in that sending and receiving work fine. With handshaking off however sending data from t...

I didn't know this at the time but Cybertron was a ripoff of another C64 / Atari800 game called Shamus:

http://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Shamus

Wow! - this is the same (almost) question I have at the moment - only in machine code

How do you do a wait( some_ms_amount ) call?

It's for some serial communications code I'm writting that needs an absolute delay.

PJ

I've actually disconnected my internal speaker all togther and take the audio out of the phono port at the back of the BBC straight into some powered pc speakers - that sound alot better and have their own volume control!
PJ

Typically you'd power larger external devices from the Aux power socket, underneath the Beeb (it's where floppies are typically powered from). Other potential places would be the user port and the analogue port. Thanks for the suggestion - I'll keep that in mind for the future. In the meantime this...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/ ... +BBC+Micro

Hi, Thanks for all the Replys. I came to the conclusion that at ESP8266 with a ESP01 to convert 3.3v to 5v will do the job: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ESP8266-Serial-Wi-Fi-Wireless-ESP-01-Adapter-Module-3-3V-5V-Compatible-Arduino-/201604719274?hash=item2ef093e2aa:g:jSQAAOSwvg9XYZtM Although it's not ex...

Did you ever have the Pico-Plug working through the serial port on the BBC?
Or was it only with a UPURS cable to the user port?
Thanks
PJ

The Raspberry Pi W - $10

http://arstechnica.com/information-tech ... bluetooth/

The posibilities are endless....

PJ