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I can do better but wanted to at least post an entry. Excellent game, tricky, but things move too fast and there's not enough fuel. (What do you mean, it's me?!)

BITD I changed Rocket Raid so that one key press did bombing and firing because it was too much for me otherwise!

My Chrome shows the favicon ... Wonder if the grey you are seeing is the ? electrons ? (sorry, didn't pay match attention in physics classes) spinning round? It's the same image as at the top of the stardot page - so it has the red, green and yellow lines going around the star, but as a teeny favico...

My wife had unusually high temperature (41.2°C at one point) last week so we've been self-isolating too. ... Poor old Phoebe has been relegated to gentle exercise in the back garden, although even she has to take it easy for now as she had her spay operation just over a week ago. She seems to be re...

Is this the one?

http://bbc.nvg.org/sw/Acornsoft/Aviator-map.jpg

Good luck & good health to you all. Going to be grim for a while but ... this too will pass and all that. NZ not too badly affected (on the surface!) in terms of known-infections but think we'll be following the rest of the world soon. Some of you boomers are very nice and worth keeping around! :win...

Was working out if I could fit this in with my planned UK trip in May. But looks like I'm not going anywhere now because of COVID-19. Another time.

Don't make the mistake that I did of trying to collect all Acornsoft titles because all you remember from BITD were a few games.

I got quite a few titles ... and then found some Acornsoft catalogues ... Crikey, did they release THAT many titles?!

Don't think you'll be able to PM (you need a certain number of posts) - think someone has said that on another thread. Think tricky will be able to PM you a contact email, though, or something like that.

Welcome; I used to live in Woking in the 80s (and my parents still live there).

Lots of skillful people round here (not me!) to help with poorly machines so you are in good hands.

FourthStone wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 03, 2020 2:52 am

Oh dear, thought it might be like vindaloo, but it's a cheap imitation

From the screenshot and the name, I thought it was a Boffin rip-off. I'll give this one a go!

Look on the bright side - you have three of the most recently printed, most up-to-date (sort of) Master manuals in the world!

So $$RARE$$

Thank you, it's looking good!

Ah, yes, Music 500, another thing I have ... and have (yet!) to learn about ...

Glad to hear it's getting some use!

But no picture?

Eelco's only got 6 posts so might not be able to reply to a PM ... but if you PM an email address I think Eelco will at at least be able to read the PM.

Remklep wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 13, 2020 9:07 pm

Whats the hardware like?

I'm interested too!

Great to see this finally shipping - there have been quite a few failed projects in the last couple of years so good that one has managed to get this far.

Good luck ... I've got a few A3000 corpses lying around ... beyond my skills (certainly beyond my procrastination levels!)

In my opinion there is no canonical version. This game was never released, and nobody seems sure where it came from. It could have been (a slightly bugged) playground hack. But, as lurkio says, just fix the obvious bugs, and leave it at that! lee. But is it the authentic game now? :-k I mean, if yo...

klintworth wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 06, 2020 2:15 am

Just arrived in Canada from half way around the world in New Zealand! Thank you, Richard, for spreading the Acorn love!

Glad to hear it arrived safe & sound. Hopefully not too much dust or cobwebs ...

Welcome and good luck with the machine restoration.

My BBC in Surrey got me launched on a computing career as well.

Whereabouts in Surrey (if you don't mind saying?) I lived in Woking for a while; school in Weybridge, and lived for a while in Sutton before moving to NZ.

The same author has done a couple of books on Wolfenstein and Doom - very interesting reads (but maths got a bit beyond my ability/laziness levels!)

His site is worth a browse.

Well, I'm being rather naughty and playing on PC with the "improved" versions e.g, gzdoom etc.

But definitely a Duke Nukem fan, thanks for adding to my list of distractions!!!

So much good stuff in there

Some dross, too.

Not necessarily from that DOS list but I've already wasted a month or so on Doom, Doom II, Quake, Quake II and just started Heretic. Don't need another 2500 games to look at. Still haven't worked my way through the Acorn lists let alone PC!

Welcome, I'm just down the road from you.

But this is my first visit in 3 months, been a bit busy elsewhere ...

Every time I've tried tweaking the title or font ... something somewhere breaks or screws up something else ... welcome to the modern web

It was much easier in the old days ...

It might be overheating, a lot of the components do seem to get very warm. Haven't even plugged my Pi 4 in yet :oops: but there's lots on the internet saying the heat is a problem - the Pimoroni fan seems to be a popular workaround: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/fan-shim (seems to sell out ins...

Don't think it will be this: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/ ... text-Pack/

Pretty sure that didn't have scrolling ticker ... or the page number stuff ...

I've got the 1st edition book and the Electron ROM. The Electron ROM packaging definitely mentions the longer title: The book LISP On the BBC Microcomputer and Acorn Electron is strongly recommended as a User Guide for the Acornsoft LISP ROM Cartridge. There's another mention on the packaging but do...

Racksus wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 10, 2019 9:05 pm

I just realised the title of this post

(I tried to fix it, but at least fixed the first post!)

There's a bug in jsbeeb ... this game runs a lot faster than it used to BITD!
54,300

Hurrah!