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My parents bought a BBC years ago.. It was awesome! I learned BASIC on that when I was a kid!

It had some great games like Dare Devil Denis and Challenger! :D
 
That is fantastic, they converted it to take a USB drive? lol.

I still have my Beeb, it's in my parent's loft with the tape drive and disc drive. I still have loads of games knocking about like: Elite, Striker's Run and the sequel Codename Droid. I've even got really old stuff like Beach Head, Commando and Barbarian II.

I haven't tried it in years but I'm almost certain it'll still work. I've even got the BBC A3000 that we replaced the beeb with, that's must have been 1989-1990. Lord I miss RiSC OS.

One day I'll fire them all up, but it's a problem finding space.

Really takes you back, to a time when you had no worries :o

edit: Holly crap, I haven't see this in 20+ years:

 
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Another ex Beeb owner here, I started with a Spectrum 48k, then had an Acorn Electron, finally, a BBC Model B, Torch Z80 Co-Processor, twin 80 Track 5.25in disk drives & a Microvitec Cub monitor.

Happy days.

Elite was (and still is) superb, Revs, was another classic too.
 
I have one in the loft, plus some old school robots:

BBC Buggy.
Jessop Turtle.
Cyber robot arm

Here are a couple of vids showing my Beeb controlling the BBC buggy (Anyone remember these from when School was cool and we got to play with robots?)


 
waveydave79 said:
I used to remember elite from my childhood, rather sad really but i spent hours playing this on the spectrum version with the wireframe graphics.
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Same here. 5 minutes to squeal it in from tape, then another 5 trying to get the Lenslok copy protection to work, which often resulted in needing to reload...

At the time, it didn't bother me. Now I get impatient after about 20s of loading time.

A friend at school had Elite on his beeb with a Tube co-processor. I was awed.
 
Werewolf said:
I never had a BBC :( but I did have it's little brother the Electron (with the +2 ROM expansion unit) which was fun and ran many of the same games.

Chuckie Egg, Mars Lander and Space Wreck (I think it was, you went round in a space suit trying to avoid the nasties) were great games :)
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We had an electron as well :) I remember some golfing game and chip buster (the one where you had to repair the circuit board and stop the virus!)
 
The angriest I have ever seen a human being is when I was playing Snakey on a BBC B at school during break and when it was the next guys turn to have a play, after pressing break I accidentally on purpose pressed 0. instead of O.

He actually turned purple with rage.
 
Crumbs, this brings back memories!

I remember Folio, although I'd forgotten its name until now, mainly because I could type faster than the screen could refresh so I'd sit there waiting for it to catch up.
 
I was never a BBC boy, Vic was my best friend. :D Although I did spent a lot of time at school trying to hack the Econet in between bouts of typing code in from Acorn User.
 
The Halk said:
http://www.repton3.co.uk/repton3.aspx :)
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Well there goes my lunchtime! :D

HAz said:
I never used a BBC but i remember at school they had them piled up in a corner all disconnected and ready to go in a skip!
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When I did work experience at a software for schools company I got given the job of putting a couple of these in a skip. Someone took them out shortly after, so we found out who it was and then asked if they wanted the monitors for them too!

PK!
 
I'm 23 and can remember these. I was quite young though, can't remember a lot. We had two of them, and a huge daisy wheel printer. I had one in my room, connected to a TV I think, and never worked out how to do much with it!
 
My gosh thats a blast from the past, used one in School.

Elite! :eek:

Probably my fav. game as a youngster, played it everyday for several years on the Amiga.
 
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