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This is a rabbit hole I’ve been avoiding for years. My childhood and teenage years were spent glued to a BBC. I’d got bored of the games within a couple of year
by qz2 6y ago
This is a rabbit hole I’ve been avoiding for years. My childhood and teenage years were spent glued to a BBC. I’d got bored of the games within a couple of years though and proceeded to learn 6502 assembly and stick things in the user port instead.
- teh_klev 6y agoGot my BBC B in 1983 for passing my 'O grades' with reasonably decent scores. Whilst I loved the gaming it was the programming that I enjoyed the most and honing my 6502 assembly chops I'd been getting to to speed with on the school Apple ][; to the extent I wrote a sideways ROM (to provide modem control capability for running a BBS app I wrote) with some bodgery around the user port as well to capture the RS-232 signals the RS-423 port couldn't...carrier detect, ring indicate (all before the days of AT Hayes commands and responses). I think this is the first time I've seen Demolator available on an emulator, I spent hours playing that, and of course Elite. Ooh, the waves of nostalgia are almost overpowering :)