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I'm a Richard too.

Never lived in Hampshire, but had a mate who lived in Fleet.

Welcome!

@Adam - definitely had the same association with the "cheating" "scene" back in the day - but maybe they had it right and it's taken us this long to realise it. :?: I'd feel it was "wrong" to try the codes that were in the magazines because I'd "spoil" my experience - but I was spoiling my own exper...

Ohhh the suspense!

Looks like you are making good progress, well done.

Oh, yes, I did finish ONE of the Megaman (NES) titles - either 1 or 2. Think they are up to well over 10 (X) by now?

EDIT: and Resident Evil 2 on PS, but I'm a bit off-topic! Don't worry my list of completed games is VERY short!

I've been playing since the late 1970s and I have hardly ever finished any game. I think Doom II and maybe one of the Quakes ... but that's about it. Thought I'd finish Mario Odyssey on the Switch but after two "end" sequences there seems to be yet more to do. Don't think I've ever finished an 8-bit...

Oops, that's a bit of flaw in my thinking ...

Also on a Master, you've got the sideways RAM ... so you should have a lot more space?

That's the theory, never done it myself ...

I have noticed that I get an extra life occasionally although I have seen no trigger for it. Instructions (from a photo online) seem to say new life at 3000. That's on the Electron version instructions, anyway: https://www.everygamegoing.com/inlal_back/electron/micropower/tapes/Felix-In-The-Factory...

There are BASIC compliers but I think :-k they are for different dialects. And as Coeus says - whatever you do will be crackable. The simplest solution from BITD for a BASIC listing was something like this: 10 REM **** ?&1906=21 That 1906 is a guess - it assumes PAGE is &1900 and a rough offset from...

A further interesting point about the problem with Manic Miner is that I don't think it's in-built scoring system can be correlated to skill, even when trying to respect the current rules of this high-score competition. If two people just try to get to the end with no exploits, and both succeeded, ...

Find the ULA chip - IC42 - on your motherboard and see if it is in a socket or soldered to the motherboard. Do you have the information you need to find IC42? EDIT: this might help identify it: http://8bs.com/in128.htm Move your mouse over each IC and you'll see the URL change at the bottom of your ...

There are also speed runs - fastest to finish first level of game X.

Not sure how you measure that sort of thing - the times - easily, though.

I think Planetoid really likes a working 6522 so it's back to eliminating that.

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And if you don't have to get rid of it, it might be a good idea to keep for spares ... if your main machine develops a fault it will be good to have a set of spare parts.

Imogen has the combine-things-to-solve-problems aspect ... but not exactly Minecraft-like! In the same vein, Castle Quest.

understand nothin, i need to progress Slow down ... you are trying to pick everything up at 300 miles-an-hour! Even the old 8-bit machines have so much in them, plus you are trying to learn all the new features that are available with newer electronics. It's a learning marathon, not a sprint! :D An...

Hardware not my thing, but have you tried another TV/cable to eliminate those?

From what you've said seems unlikely, but just to eliminate them.

Wow Richard. You smoke me in one game and now you're trash talking me? Pfffffff :P You weren't even trying last time. I'll be happy if I manage to even get in the high score table for this one ... ](*,) Definitely a good game, showing what the old BBC could do =D> Just wish it started a litle bit e...

I thought what a rubbish score, Ed, even I'll beat that in a game or two ... haven't got past 300 yet! Too many varmints!

Good colourful game but probably a bit too fast for old dead-cat-reflexes me!

Do you ON BBCs? Or any machine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_Dangerous

I think you mean on BBCs.

there are good learning tutotials for the BBC micro ? I've used this as an answer to a few of your questions - definitely go and look at the magazine archives. Beebug and The Micro User had really good articles on how to write programs from fun short programs to utilities to games - in BASIC, assem...

I haven't figured out the IM business yet, getting that privilege doesn't seem to have any correlation with the apparent value of ones contributions. So stick with the email in the footer I think, I have no way of replying otherwise. Do you mean the PMs - private messages? You can receive them afte...

Pi machines are quite underpowered and throwing large images at them to convert to PDFs is probably a bit too much for them, especially the low-end machines. ImageMagick etc. is quite a beast. How much RAM does it have? If you open top in another console window can you see where the pressure is (RAM...

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Wed Jun 24, 2020 9:07 am

Woooooooow! Hens teeth / Rocking horse muck . . . Absolutely brilliant

@awilliams: I'm not entirely sure but I think Dave is really pleased you posted this.

Best: Mr Ee! for Mr Do.

Worst: Will have to do some research!

I can't seem to add attachments - do I need access granting on a per forum / per post basis? Not that I know of. What sort of attachments are you trying to use (JPG, PNG, ZIP, whatever?) and what is stopping you? i.e. does it just not work or are you getting some sort of error message (if so, what?)

I was so nervous as I was performing the organ transplant that I ended up having to set up a fan to stop me sweating into the BBC! I came so close to permanently snapping legs and botching the soldering. The green wire is soldered on by just a few strands. Oh well, it works, and I've stuck some Gor...

I think the programmer was Kevin Blake (but he knew what he was doing too!) - if you look at the splash screen it looks as though Adrian Stephens was involved but doesn't say how exactly.

Hmm, goes a bit better if you read the instructions (and your hints when I asked about the C key) but still can't quite make it bounce how I want to ... and this game requires more patience than I am willing to give it 70487

Aren't CF cards a bit more difficult to get these days - superseded by SD? Not sure, just wondering aloud.