Anyone ever own an Acorn computer?

Ah conqueror lost hours to that game and phaeton or however it was spelt and a couple of other similiar pseudo 3D games where you had to guide a ball along a track.

Think Rick Dangerous was released on RISC OS too, also spent quite a long time wracking up high scores on spheres of chaos and xenon.
 
F2kSel said:
MY favourite part though was the BBC basic language, it was easy to use and very powerful for basic.
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Being able to drop in and out of ASM seamlessly inside the BASIC code along with the pure power of modules, SWI calls (equivalent of API) and the template editor maded for many fun hours spent coding, makes developing for windows seem hideously backwards and clumsy.

This thread is tempting me to see if the red squirrel project is still going or maybe virtual acorn and license one of the newer RISC OS packages and see if I can recover the files off my old HDD - not sure how I'd interface it to a PC tho :S
 
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Had them when I was in school, remember chocks away and a 3d spaceship game.

When our teacher left for maternity leave we told the stand in teacher that every Friday we were allowed to play games all lesson, he believed us lol.
 
I had an acorn electron with a massive expension thing bolted onto the back which also had a cartridge slot. I remember finishing the game Beach head.

I also had:-
Sphinx adventure
Boxer
Snapper
Planetoid
Meteors
Hopper
Free Fall
Nightworld
 
MeAnBoY said:
That game is called fever, used to absolutely love it! I still catch myself humming the background tune from the first level sometimes :p
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Are you sure it's "Fever"? Can't find that anywhere and name doesn't ring a bell, also it's not Marble Madness

+ I remember all the stages were set in space
 
Rroff said:
Being able to drop in and out of ASM seamlessly inside the BASIC code along with the pure power of modules, SWI calls (equivalent of API) and the template editor maded for many fun hours spent coding, makes developing for windows seem hideously backwards and clumsy.

This thread is tempting me to see if the red squirrel project is still going or maybe virtual acorn and license one of the newer RISC OS packages and see if I can recover the files off my old HDD - not sure how I'd interface it to a PC tho :S
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Virtual Acorn is still going. I have Virtual A5000 :)
 
I have an A7000+ I think it is upstairs, takes a standard keyboard and mouse so its easy to setup. Can't find the games for it anywhere though so it sits there. :(
 
Afran said:
Are you sure it's "Fever"? Can't find that anywhere and name doesn't ring a bell, also it's not Marble Madness

+ I remember all the stages were set in space
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I'm almost certain it was called fever!

The levels were all in space and I guess it reminds me of Super Monkey Ball! Yellow tiles slowed you down I think... It's going back quite a long way now and I was only young'un :cool:

Had a quick 5min google and couldn't find anything to back me up.
 
MeAnBoY said:
I'm almost certain it was called fever!

The levels were all in space and I guess it reminds me of Super Monkey Ball! Yellow tiles slowed you down I think... It's going back quite a long way now and I was only young'un :cool:

Had a quick 5min google and couldn't find anything to back me up.
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The game is called Fervour. So close with Fever

Youtube vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbPQ2pvPdTw

The Acorn gaming database: http://www.acorn-gaming.org.uk/index.php3?p=Database/index
 
No problem. I remember that one of the levels just went through on its own and if you tried to control the ball, you'd mess it up and lose a life.
 
I had an Acorn Electron back in the old days. Poor man's BBC micro as b3ta so eloquently put it.
Then we got an Archimedes A440/1, and then a RiscPC 600 with a StrongARM 233.
I spent most of my childhood playing Elite :eek:, also Fervour, Phaeton, Saloon Cars, Stunt Racer 2000 (what a game), Star Fighter 3000, Chocks Away, Lemmings and loads of other games I can't remember.
I have some ISOs of some RISC OS gaming CDs kicking about that I fire up now and then for nostalgia. Up until about a year ago ArcElite was still the best Elite clone going.
 
I remember playing Granny's Garden on the BBC... Scared the carp out of me the first time the witch caught me! :p

Moon Lander, Chuckie Egg, Repton 2 were all great :)

I seem to remember some more obscure titles... Frak being one of them.
 
Just remembered another great one - deathball. Great music and really fun to make levels for.

Ah looking through that list I've forgotten so many games i.e. zool, high risc racing, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11h1d-Ij-jg

used to love that game lol

EDIT Oh found a vid of Phaethon I always used to consider it so much better than Fervour, tho watching that Fervour vid brought back so many memories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLIT6eZr44g

Not a game - but one of the classic demos of the time - remember it was running on a 8-25MHz CPU with no 3D hardware acceleration...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRLlwxWLNnM

And Star Fighter 3000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueae6bfPYaM - amazing what people managed to pull off on the hardware - it would play smoothly on a 12Mhz CPU again with no 3D hardware.
 
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