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My first computer was a BBC B Microcomputer when I was about 7 or 8 years old. I played Elite with my brother for about one and a half years. Great memories. A

by junto 12y ago

My first computer was a BBC B Microcomputer when I was about 7 or 8 years old. I played Elite with my brother for about one and a half years. Great memories. Anyone other Acorners remember Repton? Also a cool game. You had to wait 10 minutes for the game to load off a cassestte though!

davidjgraph 12y ago
Still have my 31 year old beeb working. That said, the PSU has had a lot of work on it and there's a ton of heatsinks added, but it's stable for 1-2 hours before crashing. Can't get disks or cassettes to load (still got all the Acornsoft and Superior stuff), but I plan on linking it up to something like a Pi and add a custom file system to be able to load stuff up again. Interested if anyone already has mananged this.
- murkle 12y ago
  Check out GoSDC: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/J.Kortink/home/hardware/gosdc/index.htm http://web.inter.nl.net/users/J.Kortink/home/hardware/gosdc/... Also you can now get ethernet! (BBC Master 128 only) http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/masternet.htm http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/masternet.htm
murkle 12y ago
Repton (without the 10 minute wait :) http://bbc.godbolt.org/?disc=sth%3ASuperior%2FRepton.zip&autoboot# http://bbc.godbolt.org/?disc=sth%3ASuperior%2FRepton.zip&aut...
- junto 12y ago
  That's awesome. Thanks for sharing!
csmeu 12y ago
Ex-acorner here. Repton 2 was my favourite game at the time. Elite actually took a back seat to that and inline assembly programming in BASIC and crudely wiring Lego cranes and trains to it. A friend and myself were the two man demo team on school opening evenings. The beeb was and still is the peak of computing for me. I capitalised on lots of them being chucked out from my school in the early to mid 1990s. Must have had about 30 of them and piles of disk drives and hundreds of disks but alas they're all gone via ebay now. Occasionally I fire up BeebEm but that's it now :(

by junto 12y ago

davidjgraph 12y ago

Still have my 31 year old beeb working. That said, the PSU has had a lot of work on it and there's a ton of heatsinks added, but it's stable for 1-2 hours before crashing. Can't get disks or cassettes to load (still got all the Acornsoft and Superior stuff), but I plan on linking it up to something like a Pi and add a custom file system to be able to load stuff up again. Interested if anyone already has mananged this.

murkle 12y ago
Check out GoSDC: http://web.inter.nl.net/users/J.Kortink/home/hardware/gosdc/index.htm http://web.inter.nl.net/users/J.Kortink/home/hardware/gosdc/... Also you can now get ethernet! (BBC Master 128 only) http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/masternet.htm http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/masternet.htm

murkle 12y ago

Repton (without the 10 minute wait :) http://bbc.godbolt.org/?disc=sth%3ASuperior%2FRepton.zip&autoboot# http://bbc.godbolt.org/?disc=sth%3ASuperior%2FRepton.zip&aut...

junto 12y ago
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing!

csmeu 12y ago

Ex-acorner here. Repton 2 was my favourite game at the time. Elite actually took a back seat to that and inline assembly programming in BASIC and crudely wiring Lego cranes and trains to it. A friend and myself were the two man demo team on school opening evenings. The beeb was and still is the peak of computing for me. I capitalised on lots of them being chucked out from my school in the early to mid 1990s. Must have had about 30 of them and piles of disk drives and hundreds of disks but alas they're all gone via ebay now. Occasionally I fire up BeebEm but that's it now :(