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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!

Almost got to the extra life at 20K ... 19800 ...

It's my Master friendly. Do you have the 4-way OS switch from Mark H. Richard? Yes, but where's the fun in that! Just discovered the "press Escape to lose the high score table" issue ](*,) but was only 16K something so can try again. Is it just me or do the chaser cars go from thick-as-planks in Le...

Read the value of e.g. &FE64 ...

I can't remember what's there but it changes ...

Ah, thank you ... doesn't work with my very old version of Unix beeb-em (well Del does but not End) ... but does work with b-em, so I had quick go on that.
13,100 for starters (not that I think I'm going to get a huge score!!!)

Definitely remember this one from BITD; Richard Hanson is the founder/one of the founders of Superior Software IIRC? Might have a crack at changing the left/right controls so I can play on a PC keyboard ... and doesn't seem to be Master friendly. But to get a score I'd probably be best firing up a r...

Enjoy & good luck! Playing the original Elite is on my l-o-n-g TODO list (so long that it's making most of the things on there not fun #-o so defeats the point!) And then want to play Elite 2nd processor version as well. I moved from BBC B version to the Atari ST version but can't remember how far I...

Yea same here, drives me mad when web owners do things like that, you'll have to go all the way to the front page, then click through all the links to get to the right news article and photo, before you can finally click the photo to view it full size. In Firefox if you clicked on the link, just go...

Tried a few of the links (I'm in NZ) and working here on Firefox/Chrome (well, Chromium).

I'm not logged into Google/YouTube (if that makes any difference?)

KarateEd wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 30, 2019 8:15 am

You're not going to let a little clerical error get in your way are you Richard?

It might put me off and I might not win this round!

I was about to play ... but then realised no point ...

Round One starts at 9pm on Monday the 15th of April and ends at 9pm on Monday the 29th of April



But wading through *. posts to try and catch up with things again ... and will get into these last few rounds.

Nothing in the ROMs moving PAGE?

Rather unlikely to get to &2500, and even if it did, not likely to be all zeros ...

Monster: Hopper: So to answer your question I think you are not a Monster, you are a Hopper.

Cough. Shuffles off stage left.

KarateEd wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:21 pm

It ends on this coming Monday, 9 PM UK time.

Thanks, Ed. Had a few more goes but still stuck in the high-20Ks. Too slow, too stupid, and too lazy to work out the ghost patterns.

Will try and get past the 30K mark as a personal goal ... but expecting to fail ...

What a pain. Seemed like things were on the up and now back down again. Frustrating but ... nowt like folk.

Good luck.

klintworth wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 26, 2019 5:26 pm

Ok Richard - over to you!

26670

I want to see if I can get to 30K ... but lost track of when this round ends, but the first page says "9pm on Monday the 4th of January and ends at 9pm on Monday the 18th of February" ...

So how long have I got ?

Sounds like you had lots of fun ...

But don't let him win too often!

fwibbler wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 21, 2019 11:55 am

Had one of my best ever goes at this this morning and got what I thought was a fantastic score until I saw the rest of them
Must try harder still!

Don't worry, I know who is going to be last in this round ... and it's not you!

Sega Mega Drive...greatly regret it now! Me too - Megadrive (never had the CD add-on). But did get rid of the Master system add-on, and a Master system, NES, SNES, Atari 520 STFM & STE, Amiga 1200 etc. etc. :cry: At least my Dad was in charge of the BITD BBC B (well, it was his!) so that was kept. :D

(First two paragraphs are repeated as para 1 para 2 and then para 1 para 2 again. Not that it really matters?)

Great game but I'll definitely be at the bottom of the table for this one!

23,580 for starters.

That's exactly what I was after ... thank you.

No purpose other than my enlightenment.

Plus once you posted links here all the search engines would have started crawling your pages and using up some of that bandwidth to get and index the content.

Sure you'll be back online soon.

Blasting past me and no time for me to have another game ... you win (2nd last place) this time!