Anyone ever own an Acorn computer?

[barmyllama]

I had a BBC Model B and some unmemorable game called Elite

This.

 

[KnightsWhoSayNi]

I forget how much time I lost to elite on my BBC, the memory's not great, I remember manic miner, green beret? chucky egg, meteors....way of the exploading fist (speccy??) and the repton mind meld

 

[molinari]

First computer at home was a BBC model B . At middle school we have BBC Model B and BBC Master, and at high school the Archimedes a3000 was added to the list. Spent loads of time playing Chocks Away with friends after school, great fun .

 

[Amidar]

Just found a pic of it - http://ti ny ur l.com/2v2ryua

Still can't find out what it was called though, any ideas?

Was it marbel madness?

 

[HazardO]

BBC Master 128, with custom write protect toggle switches for the sideways RAM

Elite (The colour wire frame version) on a floppy disk (Not that tape ****).

 

[alle]

...1st computer was an Acorn Atom. A whole 2k of ram (before the extra 6k expansion )

 

[Tealc]

Had a BBC model B, monitor and disc drive which my Mum accidentally brought home from school for the summer one year and forgot to take back for a couple of years. Spent soooo much time playing Elite. The drive was so much faster than the pathetic attempt by Commodore.

She also brought back an Acorn Archimedes a few years later but had to take that back in September. Virus was the game to play on that thing.

A friend had the Acorn Electron and it was pants in comparison with the Beeb.

 

[JK1]

I had a BBC B and then an Acorn A5000. I spent many hours playing Elite, Twinworld, etc. The Acorn also had a side scrolling shooter called Nevryon. It only had 6 levels and every one of them was a nightmare.

For the BBC I had all the Repton games. They were great.

 

[[TBR]MadMark]

BBC model B with monitor and twin 5.25 floppies, spent most of my childhood playing Elite or Danger UXB

 

[JK1]

Anyone else have the Stryker's Run games on the BBC?

 

[gettothechopper]

BBC micro B

elite, repton 3, strikers run!, ravenskull etc

 

[Paradiso]

Acorn Electron here with Elite, Repton and erm I cant remember playing anything else they were so awesome

 

[MeAnBoY]

Also had one at primary school, was awesome One game thremember quite well, you controlled a ball (kind of like a metal marble) and went forwards through stages, about as best as I can desribed it Anyone know what that would've been?

That game is called fever, used to absolutely love it! I still catch myself humming the background tune from the first level sometimes

 

[SteveOBHave]

BBC B+ and then an A410 followed by one of the early RISC PCs

Great intro to computing IMO.

ZARCH for the win!

Oh - also:

Flashback
Gods
Twinworld
SWIV
and the one that wasted many hours of mine - Apocolypse.

Oh and also Interdictor 1&2

 

[Cosimo]

I had a BBC Model B and some unmemorable game called Elite

Same here.

 

[Cuchulain]

I remember a game that involved you versus a pixelated dude and you had a paddle thing, shuttle puck I think it was called. Really can't remember.

Sounds like Shufflepuck Cafe, but that was for the Amiga afaik, great game though.

 

[markweatherill]

My BBC B has the Kenneth Kendall speech upgrade, remember that?
plus the ATPL ROM board, no less.

If you ever saw the Repton level editor in Acorn User, I wrote that.

 

[Cosimo]

My BBC B has the Kenneth Kendall speech upgrade, remember that?
plus the ATPL ROM board, no less.

If you ever saw the Repton level editor in Acorn User, I wrote that.

I had two floppy disk drives attached to mine.

 

[Vaglin]

Also had an Acorn Electron, I remember playing Frogger on it.

Had an Amstrad CPC464 with the green screen after that.

 

[F2kSel]

I had an A310 and years later a RISC PC with PC emulator.

Elite, still the best space trading game I've ever played.
Chocks Away was excellent

MY favourite part though was the BBC basic language, it was easy to use and very powerful for basic.

The only reason I left Acorn tough was the lack of software support.