US YouTuber The New Retro Show reviewing some new games for the BBC Micro (you might just recognise some of the games and authors ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzJFyxP86Ps
Is that Chris Williams as in "our" Chris Williams of Drobe fame?
Yes. I always thought his level of sarcasm would be a perfect fit for The Register. He now lives in San Francisco and is their US editor - https://twitter.com/diodesign
However for added confusion, if you look at old ElReg articles (pre-2011ish) by Chris Williams, it is a different one!
Another Beeb spotted in a later segment about Revs, demoed by race driver David Hunt, at the time sponsored by Acornsoft, here: https://youtu.be/16NwJwAmbcs?t=21m40s
Then a bit with Geoff Crammond talking about writing the simulation. And then a quick mention of Olivetti's takeover of Acorn.
Neither recent nor on YouTube, but on Vimeo there's a small collection of 5 min films on Cambridge inventions, including
- the BBC Micro
- the ARM
- the Raspberry Pi
The first two are mainly interviews with Sophie Wilson, but somehow don't feel just like more of the same - worth a watch. The second is an interview with Eben Upton.
(Eben was also featured in a recent episode of The Life Scientific on Radio 4 - probably geo-locked to the UK.)
(Edit to add: Also on the Pi, I thought I'd look out some of the earliest mentions, before it was even released.
2011 May 5, on the BBC tech blog, with David Braben and a prototype Pi (also here) - this is the one which went viral and jolted them into a deadline mode
2011 Oct 26, Raspberry Pi presents the $25 PC at ARM TechCon 2011
I'm not sure about recent or remarkable, but I was watching EEVBLOG this morning about how PC joysticks worked and noticed a few beeb mentions/overlays which suggest he may be a fan, at least of the electronics.
Not sure if self plugging is the done thing but as the use of the BBC Micro for this was partly inspired by the members of this forum....
Mr PSB (train fanatic and Train Sim expert) and I drive the Southern Belle to Brighton on my BBC Master. To complicate things, Mr PSB is on the other side of the country! A complex setup which include a cameraphone running Skype (all balanced on top of my Master) pointing at the capture screen resulted in this video!
I enjoyed it, thanks. Seems amazingly complicated though, I think I will stick to watching the demo!
Re: Remarkable videos recently posted on Youtube
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 9:15 pm
by tricky
I enjoyed it, and people should be informed
Re: Remarkable videos recently posted on Youtube
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 12:09 am
by chinnyhill10
pau1ie wrote:I enjoyed it, thanks. Seems amazingly complicated though, I think I will stick to watching the demo!
It really isn't once you understand how the train works (Mr PSB does a good job explaining). You can do a run like we did non stop with the basic controls and its fairly straightforward. It's only the regulator, the cut off and the brake to worry about. Once you master that you then try stopping, more controls etc etc. The trickiest bits on the easiest runs are starting and stopping. I did a test run beforehand and crashed into Brighton station hence my hesitancy when we did the actual recording!
Re: Remarkable videos recently posted on Youtube
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2018 11:12 am
by chinnyhill10
Not BBC Micro related strictly speaking but fascinating from a Southern Belle perspective. Mr PSB re-enacted the run we did on my BBC Master in modern Train Sim. So a similar steam loco on the modern track. Interesting to see the points they choose to model in the Hewson game including the ornate tunnel about 10 miles out of Brighton.
Of course if you use that line it will probably be a big yawn (although still interesting from the steam side). But I've never been on the line and was interested to see what bits had been modelled. And all the big stuff that would have been there in the 30's is there!
Re: Remarkable videos recently posted on Youtube
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 12:29 pm
by Commie_User
As I recall, there was an interesting review of this game in The Games Machine. My copies are buried somewhere but I think PDF copies are out there.
Computerphile (a regular series on comp sci topics), just posted a video on software preservation. The example used was a bit of beeb educational software going via an A3000 to BeebEm on Mac.
Computerphile (a regular series on comp sci topics), just posted a video on software preservation. The example used was a bit of beeb educational software going via an A3000 to BeebEm on Mac.