Announcing BeebEm v4.23. The main new features in this release are:
* Support for modern game controllers, such as XBox controllers
* Support for the Acorn TMS5220 Speech System
* Improvements to the debugger, including Z80 and ARM disassemblers
Download here: www.mkw.me.uk/beebem/
A stack of boulders with a robot on top
Generating the landscape in The Sentinel
A panorama of landscape 0000 in The Sentinel
A contour map of the landscape in The Sentinel
It's finished! The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic game, is now fully documented.
* 41,902 lines of lovingly annotated source code
* 51 deep dives (116,240 words)
* Buildable repository
* 100% handcrafted AI-free content
* 7 months’ work
thesentinel.bbcelite.com
#retrocomputing #C64 #BBCMicro
This is pretty amazing. Draw accurate landscapes from The Sentinel on a pen plotter? And animate them? I'm definitely in!
newsletter.revdancatt.com/p/085-the-se...
I do my projects for a lot of reasons, but seeing what people do with them? Yeah, that's a big one. 😀
#bbcmicro #c64 #retrocomputing
CHUCKULUS
BBC Micro Model B version just released !
github.com/Snuggsy187/C...
22.00 FILM: EVRI-THING, EVRI-WHERE ALL AT ONCE Award-winning multiverse adventure where your parcel is somehow at the depot, in transit, in your safe place, left with a neighbour, delayed, returned to send, in your green bin, all at the same time - but never actually with you.
Based on a true story. About a dozen true stories in our experience...
CHUCKULUS - for the Acorn Electron
Version 1.0 now available ! 🥳
github.com/Snuggsy187/C...
Download and play on an Emulator or real hardware !
....or play online in Electroniq - an emulator by @0xc0de.bsky.social
Suspect it is Amazon Print on Demand, so same amount going to Amazon regardless of where you buy it.
This is pretty cool.
It's a visualisation of the internals of The Sentinel on the #BBCMicro.
This is it generating the game landscape for the first level from 256 pseudo-random numbers.
Next week I'll be releasing a deep dive into exactly how this works.
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #c64 #8bit
Just ordered mine. Heard Rob talk about it at @rougol.bsky.social and looking forward to reading it. Available from Bezos’ place: www.amazon.co.uk/VOICES-FUTUR...
Nice to see my demo effect "in the wild" on a real Electron. What can I say... it's magic! 😎
22.00 THE NIGHT GARDEN MANAGER Episode 12: Pine suspects that Makka Pikka sold the AK47s to the Tombliboos.
VIEWER'S COMPETITION SHORTLIST: we're posting two of fave #ceefauxviewscomp entries each weekday and will count up the most likes/comments/reshares in 24 hours. 2/20 by @geospacedman.bsky.social
Today we have a classic scroller on the BBC Micro with a slight twist... custom font scaled dynamically to 16x16 pixels and continuous gradient applied to give the impression of more colours than supported by Mode 5. All software scrolling (no CRTC abuse) so works on the Acorn Electron too. 🔊
I've just released fully documented source code for The Sentinel as an easy-to-browse website.
It's a lot more fun to explore than the GitHub repository, with cross-references, popups, indexes, statistics and more.
Enjoy!
thesentinel.bbcelite.com
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit
Another great conversion of a classic game to the Acorn Electron! Very polished, well done!
Most people know that the random junk pixels printed around the edges of various Acorn Electron games are sections of game code 'hidden' in screen memory. But not all of it is actually code, because that would lead to an uneven border, so some of the junk characters are just... junk!
My signed BBC Micro B+
I've finally finished pimping my David Braben-signed BBC Micro B+, and it can now run more variants of Bell & Braben Elite than any other contemporary machine ever.
The #BBCMicro B+ is officially the Commander-in-Chief of #8bit #Elite. 🫡
See thread for details.
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#retrogaming #retrocomputing
Moving back to Linux RPCEmu on my Mac
www.iconbar.com/articles/Mov...
I'm a big fan of RPCEmu which provides an excellent RISC OS environment on my Mac when I'm travelling. In this post I'm going to explore why I have switched back to the Linux version and cover some of the issues I encountered.
Atari Missile Command for the Acorn Electron
Is now available on Stardot, please follow the link, log in, read the post, download the file(s) and get playing.
www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewt...
Just released BeebEm 4.21. This fixes a bug with the tape sound emulation introduced in 4.20, another bug in the installer, and makes some improvements to the VIA emulation.
Download here: www.mkw.me.uk/beebem/
The disc menu on the Electron version of the Elite Compendium
I'm pleased to announce the #Elite Compendium for the #Acorn #Electron, containing three amazing hacked versions of Elite on one disc.
It includes a brand new version: musical Elite. On the Electron!
Lots of details here: elite.bbcelite.com/hacks/elite_...
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #bbcmicro
Lave in the Compendium version of Acorn Electron Elite
The Constrictor mission in the Compendium version of Acorn Electron Elite
A Dodo station in the Compendium version of Acorn Electron Elite
A Thargoid in the Compendium version of Acorn Electron Elite
It's done! I have just released the Compendium version of #Elite for the #Acorn #Electron.
This massively enhanced version of the original game contains pretty much every feature of #BBCMicro Elite, but on the Electron. Just add 16K of sideways RAM.
Links in thread.
#retrocomputing #retrogaming
Today's addition to #Acorn #Electron #Elite is the energy bomb animation from the Apple II, BBC Master and NES.
In the original Electron version, the energy bomb did little more than beep gently. Now it rages with lightning bolts! That's much better.
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #8bit #bbcmicro
Star Wars Theme and Imperial March by Floppotron ( 3.0 ). A newer version, now including scanners and hard drives.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KS0...
Fancy a job at Acorn Computers as a Software Engineer ( "C" Compiler )? "The ideal candidate will probably be under 35"! Wow, I'd forgotten that ageism was allowed back then! Advert from 'The Guardian' newspaper, January 1987.
Amazing that this made it to US TV too!
Acorn Electron shoot 'em up WIP. Name reveal! Enemies now shoot back 😰, but our little spaceship has a shield as well 💪
If you are interested in trying out an Acorn System 1, but don't have deep enough pockets for an original, then you could try out a 'System 1 Trainer' by Chris Oddy. He also does replica boards for the Acorn Atom amongst other things!
Atari Missile Command for the Acorn Electron + 16k of sideways RAM.
Progress remains good, moving as much as possible out of the main memory map into the SWR memory space to get the fastest speed possible.
No sound at present, going to be a challenge to emulate a POKEY chip on here.
The 'Freespin' demo still amazes me. This is how to think outside the box. A 1541 disk drive is all you need to run the demo. NO C64!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zprS...
