Tag: BBC Micro
Stefan Vogt aka @8bit_era on Twitter recently announced a new horror text adventure is coming to various vintage home computers. Bookmark his itch page here, we’ll keep you updated with more News. My brand new #Infocom style Horror #adventure "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" is due to be released soon for all major home computers of the #80s. Here are…
Repton 3, released 5 November 1986, was developed by Matthew Atkinson at Superior’s invitation since Tim Tyler was not interested in programming it—although he did design some of the levels for the new game. While the first two games had only taken a month each to program, Repton 3 took eight months. It reverts to the form of a series…
Your local coastline has become polluted with discarded plastic, which is harming the aquatic wildlife. Dive in and collect the rubbish, before the fish consume it and die. Each level contains eight items to collect. You then proceed to the next level. The fish are initially harmless, but later levels require you to avoid the fish if you can, or…
Here we are again with yet another update for our ever-growing homebrew gaming section! Update #6 contains another 50 new Homebrew titles. As usual, you can find the games for your desired system by accessing the “Homebrew Database” underneath the site banner. Don’t forget to take a look at the list below to see the new entries added. Also, if…
The group Bitshifters has released a port of Jordan Mechner’s Prince of Persia to the BBC Micro. Project coder “Kieran” writes that After the original Apple II 6502 source code was recovered and uploaded to GitHub by the author Jordan Mechner, I decided to take it upon myself to port this to the BBC Master computer, given that it shares the same…
ChrisB over at stardot forums has announced a new game for the BBC Micro. Castle Defender currently is the BBC Micro’s only tower defence game. Use your skill and judgement to place three types of defensive towers to protect your castles from attack. Featuring 75K of original high resolution mode 1 graphics over four levels of machine code action! Can…
The year is 1862. You received a letter from your old childhood friend Raynard. You have kept in touch on and off since you left your village for the city to find work and a more interesting lifestyle. Raynard elected to stay and eventually moved to a neighbouring village called Raven Wood to take over the running of his fathers’…
We have been hosting a forum for many years, but with so many good forums around the internet, we assume we never were able to gain regular members, helping to increase the interest. For many months, we’ve been using the Facebook groups more actively, and the results are really amazing, with interesting discussions, news, photos and whatever comes to your…
The National Museum of Computing in UK is trying to get help to maintain its collection of BBC Micro, first launched in 1981. Most of the collection is used on an interactive exhibit, and the need for maintenance also includes peripherals like CRT monitors. The museum, which is located on the Bletchley Park estate, has about 80 BBC Micro computers,…
