Just found out about Firetrack for the BBC Micro. Fantastic game. I figured because I'm "okay, ish" at Xenon 2, I'd be "not shit" at Firetrack.

Nope. Orlando and his pilchards have bested me. More practice clearly needed. #bbcmicro

🕹️ Dive into the nostalgic world of 8-bit gaming! 🚀

Discover iconic titles that defined the golden age of computing. From #ZXSpectrum to #Commodore64 and beyond, "The 8-Bit Book: 1981 to 199x" takes you on an epic journey through gaming history. 🎮📚

👉https://thevideogamelibrary.org/book/the-8-bit-book-1981-to-199x

#RetroGaming #GamingHistory #Nostalgia #ClassicGaming #GamingMemories #VideoGameHistory #RetroGamingBooks #Book #Books @bookstodon #AcornElectron #AppleII #Vic20 #AmstradCPC #Dragon32 #PCGaming #RetroPC #Atari #BBCMicro

As a child of the #80s, arguably this is the computer that made me. #BBCMicro

Agon Light, o faixa preta dos 8 bits.

https://retropolis.com.br/2023/08/20/agon-light-o-faixa-preta-dos-8-bits/

#MundoRetro #AgonLight #BASIC #BBCMicro #carto #ESP32 #eZ80 #microSD #MSX #resenha #SBC #usb #VGA #z80

@doskel Yes! I miss that from the old days.

On the #BbcMicro, you could learn about every entry point into the OS, every memory-mapped I/O address, every interrupt, every 6502 instruction, every Basic keyword. These days — phah.

It's like the difference between riding a bike and driving a car. The car is more powerful and more comfortable, but the bike puts you in complete control, and becomes one with you in a way that no car ever will.

Hello #hivemind, does anyone know the case #screw #dimensions for the BBC Micro A/B and Acorn Electron please?

#retro #retrocomputing #BBCMicro #Acorn #AcornComputers #AcornElectron #halp

I wonder if anyone knows the original developer of the Graphic Adventure Creator (Sean Ellis), and the people who ported it to the #Speccy (Brendan Kelly), #C64 ("The Kid" Malcolm Hellon), #BBCMicro and #Acorn #Electron (both Dave Kirby)?

It would just be cool if they still had the original plans of how it worked, even if the code is long gone.

#retrocomputing #retrogaming

I've reached the conclusion to Adventure 200, where our hero sets everything on fire and is too cool to look at an explosion.

https://bluerenga.blog/2023/07/22/adventure-200-through-the-fire-and-flames/

#retrocomputing #adventuregames #bbcmicro #zxspectrum

My second post on Adventure 200, where I've worked out the pattern:

What if you took the treasure-hunting of Crowther/Woods Adventure, but turned it into a heist movie?

https://bluerenga.blog/2023/07/20/adventure-200-casing-the-joint/

#retrogaming #adventuregames #bbcmicro #zxspectrum

A reminder that issue 13 of @pixeladdict_mag is out now! Including the final part 3 or my #BBCMicro in 2023 series. And it looks as if I'll have something new for next months Issue 14 (August 2023)

I embark on a new journey, this time courtesy of a completely obscure company in Yate, England that somehow packed a huge game in a tiny file size, and even bragged about this feat in the game's title.

https://bluerenga.blog/2023/07/19/adventure-200-1982/

#retrogaming #adventuregames #bbcmicro #zxspectrum

I made a new chiptune! This one is a BBC Micro cover of "Human", by The Killers. This one uses the BBC Micro's bass tone capability, which it apparently has. I say "apparently" because the documentation is really unclear about it, but my research suggests it was actually used in Micro tunes so it must be a thing.

I also figured out a neat trick - by inducing a tiny delay between the kick sound and the bass/noise channel, this allows them both to sound near-simultaneously without actually overlapping, and results in a punchier snare sound.

#8-bit #chiptune #bbcmicro #furnacetracker

https://soundcloud.com/hyasynth-869772285/are-we-acorn-or-are-we-micro

Time to play the game of the hour…

#bbcmicro #vintagecomputing #hot

When's the last time you played #SimCity❓

Big thanks to @MossRC for the reminder about these official "Planning Commission Handbooks" that were missing from the library. 📚

All fixed!

You can find them here:
👉 https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/

#SimCity2000 #Maxis #PC #PCGaming #RetroGaming #Retro #VideoGames #VideoGame #Gaming #Gamer #Book #Bookstodon #Books @bookstodon #UrbanDevelopment #Build #Construction #Architecture #Windows #Linux #MacOS #CPC #Amstrad #C64 #MSDOS #Amiga #ZXSpectrum #BBCMicro

In which I give a brief history of MUSE, one of the very old educational software archives of Britain, and an adventure contained within written by children between the ages of 9 and 10.

https://bluerenga.blog/2023/06/30/dragon-adventure-1982/

#retrogames #adventuregame #bbcmicro

This gave me an idea. Although the 8×8 fonts cannot be synthetically obliqued and boldfaced, because they are square, rectangular Ubuntu Mono can be.

So I can use #unscii PET for upright medium, unscii #BBCMicro for upright boldface, and #UbuntuMono for the oblique medium and boldface.

It works out fairly well.

#nosh #VirtualTerminals #vtfont

The 8×8 #BBCMicro font from #unscii works rather better than Ubuntu Mono does, when rendering virtual terminals to the framebuffer with console-fb-realizer, I think. And the PET font from unscii works better still.

#nosh #vtfont #VirtualTerminals

Better late than never. Going live with XOR for the BBC Micro
https://twitch.tv/lumkitty

#BBCMicro #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #VTuber #ENVtuber #SmallStreamer #Twitch

@vga256 @stuartcheshire Very interesting. I remember saving up my pocket money to order a tape of Skirmish by a certain Mr. Delos D. Harriman on the #BBCMicro. There was a magazine article BITD about Bolo running on BBC Micros but I never saw the Mac version.

followup for you #macintosh #bolo enthusiasts:

over 30 years ago @stuartcheshire wrote an incredible master's dissertation titled, "An Experiment in Real-Time Networking"

part design bible, part tech spec, and part post-mortem, the thesis is a well-organized and thoughtful reflection on the creation of Bolo... which began with the #bbcmicro, and became a macintosh project by the end.

what stands out to me now is the beautiful networking architecture that squeezes real-time gameplay packets into a ring configuration (chapter 5), and makes the game incredibly responsive on what were (honestly) typically slow mac LANs at the time

it's eminently readable, well laid-out, and a deep insight into the complexities of 1980s game development on the mac.

https://www.dialup.cafe/~jolo/bolo/guides/dissertation/