BBC Model B Computer "stuff"

sorry chaps..
here it is:


I thought it all went together, looks like the disk drive is for the Acorn
The BBC has the teletxt receiver WOO! lol
 

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I learn coding at primary school on a model A 16kb, then B (with Disck drive) as my dad was a teacher and borrowed the kit at the weekend :)

Had a electron with plus 1, then master 128 (play electron +1 cartridge starship command on that for a faster game :)), then A310 with upgraded MEMC and Arm3 boards I think My dad went for A440 but I got a RiscPC 610 (4mb with VRAM expansion, double slit case, IDE and 486dx card). Almost thought about the hydra card (multiple arm board) but by that point was out of uni.

My house mate at uni was Tom Cooper who wrote a number of commercial Archimedes games.
 
NickK said:
I learn coding at primary school on a model A 16kb, then B (with Disck drive) as my dad was a teacher and borrowed the kit at the weekend :)

Had a electron with plus 1, then master 128 (play electron +1 cartridge starship command on that for a faster game :)), then A310 with upgraded MEMC and Arm3 boards I think My dad went for A440 but I got a RiscPC 610 (4mb with VRAM expansion, double slit case, IDE and 486dx card). Almost thought about the hydra card (multiple arm board) but by that point was out of uni.

My house mate at uni was Tom Cooper who wrote a number of commercial Archimedes games.
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Haha, I know Tom Cooper's games well! Dinosaw! I think Hamsters was one of his too?

It was funny how when the strongarm came out, it blew the hydra out of the water instantly.
 
vanpeebles said:
Haha, I know Tom Cooper's games well! Dinosaw! I think Hamsters was one of his too?

It was funny how when the strongarm came out, it blew the hydra out of the water instantly.
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Dinosaw, Hampsters, Cycloids, Wavelength (My designs but he beat me in delivering the background renderer over summer break), Darkwood.

Cycloids

Dinosaw

Hampsters

Wavelength
My idea as a game, originally the idea was to have a fully rotating background but the lightning was mine too :)

But Darkwood was all Tom's and I thought it was awesome.
 
Some favourite games of mine.

Zarch

Conqueror

Twinworld - from the Amiga but it was good

Starfighter 3000



On the Beeb master - Firetrack and Dr Who (with additional ROM) was awesome!
 
For the hardware it had to run on Starfighter 3000 was amazing - must have been quite a feat of programming.

EDIT: Was a kid at my secondary school for a year who had a dedicated tutor who was an absolute coding and maths genius (studying for degree level maths in year 8) - I remember watching him create a 3D screensaver in about 30 minutes from scratch one lunchtime on our classroom A3000 - apparently went on to create some commercial games for the Acorn but can't for the life of me remember his name.

Used to bug me though that he'd hit F12 and work from there - always seemed better to me to use the desktop filesystem and use edit or strong ed, etc.
 
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vanpeebles said:
To be fair they always had plenty of horsepower :)
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For the time they were no slouch but especially the older Archimedes were not exactly highly specced for doing 3D type graphics and complex gameplay involving 3D collision detection, etc. even with the relatively powerful hardware media and VIDC capabilities.

EDIT: Shame the video stopped short of the game over music - SF3000 had great game over music heh. I still have a massive collection of tracker music from Acorn games half of which I no longer remember what game they were from :(
 
Rroff said:
For the time they were no slouch but especially the older Archimedes were not exactly highly specced for doing 3D type graphics and complex gameplay involving 3D collision detection, etc. even with the relatively powerful hardware media and VIDC capabilities.

EDIT: Shame the video stopped short of the game over music - SF3000 had great game over music heh. I still have a massive collection of tracker music from Acorn games half of which I no longer remember what game they were from :(
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I did more :) You should have a browse of my channel, its full of Acorn games. I should really make a playlist of them, like I did for the other formats!
 
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