#BBCMicro

2025-07-06

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

2025-07-05

Important testing.

@0xC0DE6502

#bbcmicro

Electrobots, played on a BBC Master.
2025-07-05

The Compendium version of #Acorn #Electron #Elite now has missions - three of them, in fact.

Here's the briefing for the Constrictor mission, backported from the #BBCMicro; I've also ported the Thargoid plans mission, and the Trumbles from the #C64 and #NES. 🫡

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #8bit

2025-07-04

My new version of #Acorn #Electron #Elite is feature-complete! Now for some testing.

Here's the feature list. It’s big! Big enough that this is effectively a Compendium version of Electron Elite; to sit proudly alongside the #BBCMicro Compendia. 🫡

Not long now!

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #8bit

Feature list for the Compendium version of Acorn Electron Elite
2025-07-04

On the Apple II Lemonade Stand is an iconic game written in Applesoft BASIC. School children across the country were introduced to computers and basic economics with this game.

Did the Beeb have a counterpart BASIC game that every school child was familiar with back in the day?

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #apple2e #apple2 #appleii #bbcmicro #BEEB

Mistigris computer arts, est. 1994mistfunk.wordpress.com@mistfunk.wordpress.com
2025-07-03

MIST0625/BLIPPYPIXEL-GRAF9

Mistigram: this is but one of @blippypixel’s suite of tablet-fingerpainted #BBCMicro high resolution graphics adaptations of actual #graffiti works seen out and about in London recently. (We shared this one first for traffic cone-related reasons.) It was included in the new unthemed MIST0625 artpack collection!

#BBCMicro #blippypixel #graffiti #MIST0625 #trafficCone

Mistigris computer artsmistfunk@oldbytes.space
2025-07-03

Mistodon: this is but one of @pixelblip 's suite of tablet-fingerpainted #BBCMicro high resolution graphics adaptations of actual #graffiti works seen out and about in London recently. (We shared this one first for traffic cone-related reasons.) It was included in the new unthemed MIST0625 artpack collection!

For the public's protection, a corner wall at a crosswalk, covered in graffiti, has been cordoned off behind three stripey traffic cones.
2025-07-03

It's #Thargoids Thursday in the enhanced version of #Acorn #Electron #Elite.

Here's me misjumping into witchspace and being ambushed by Thargoid motherships and their Thargon drones.

Electron commanders can now join in the bug-hunt - at last!

(I'm hoping to release this in the next couple of weeks... Coming soon: the ship hangar, missions and energy bombs.)

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #bbcmicro #8bit

2025-07-02

Such a great machine for interactive fiction. Also, Level 9 - I never got to play these at the time.

#bbcmicro #bbcmaster #gotek

BBC Master running Lords Of Time from the Time And Magic Trilogy. (Image updated, this time text is in focus)
2025-07-02

40 years ago this month:
The cover of…
COMPUTER & VIDEO GAMES (C&VG)
July 1985
Only 95p
#Commodore64 #C64 #Amstrad #ZXSpectrum #BBCmicro #Atari

FREEZE64.com
#PassionForTheCommodore64

2025-07-02

Enhanced #Elite on the #Acorn #Electron now has 31 different ship types (compared to just 11 in the original).

Here's a little clip showing an encounter with a Krait and a Mamba on the way to the sun.

Coming soon... Thargoids!

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #bbcmicro #8bit

Mistigris computer artsmistfunk@oldbytes.space
2025-07-01

Mistodon: this summer @pixelblip has been going out into public spaces in order to practice his computer art making, tablet-fingerpainting #BBCMicro reproductions of #graffiti pieces he finds thrown up on walls. Many of these sketches are included in the new, unthemed MIST0625 artpack collection, and here are a sampling of them!

A 3x3 grid displays square thumbnail images of graffiti logos thrown up on walls
Mistigris computer arts, est. 1994mistfunk.wordpress.com@mistfunk.wordpress.com
2025-07-01

MIST0625 graffiti mosaic

Mistigram: this summer @blippypixel has been going out into public spaces in order to practice his computer art making, tablet-fingerpainting #BBCMicro reproductions of #graffiti pieces he finds thrown up on walls. Many of these sketches are included in the new, unthemed MIST0624 artpack collection, and here are a sampling of them!

#BBCMicro #blippypixel #graffiti #MIST0625

2025-07-01

IS BASIC from the is the foremost advanced dialects for . But it is very(!) slow. The "Creative Computing Benchmark" took nearly 5 minutes to run (comparable to the and the Model 100) but produced excellent results: "accuracy" is quite good (comparable with ) and "random" is the best of all computers measured in the contest from 1984:

2025-06-30

Right now I am writing a short dialect history. Today I arrived in Great Britain's BASIC systems. Looking through different benchmarks I found the one from David Ahl (printed in "Creative Computing" 1983/84) and tested on dozends of mini computers, super computers, mainframes and home computers ... but not on the . So, here you are: The CPC with Locomotive BASIC 1.1 on a Europien CPC (50Hz) is one of the best (only topped by the ):

2025-06-24

I'm pretty happy with how this cleaned up. Could do with a final going over (especially the keys when my key puller turns up with my other stuff) but a big improvement on how it arrived 😍

#bbc #bbcmicro #bbcmaster #acorn

My recent BBC Master 128 acquisition, cleaned up and working.
Mistigris computer arts, est. 1994mistfunk.wordpress.com@mistfunk.wordpress.com
2025-06-23

MIST0524/BLIPPYPIXEL-HERE

Mistigram: Have you ever thought so hard that you warped the fabric of reality? This #BBCMicro high resolution screen was drawn by @blippypixel. It was included in last year’s science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection.

#BBCMicro #blippypixel #MIST0524

Mistigris computer artsmistfunk@oldbytes.space
2025-06-23

Mistodon: Have you ever thought so hard that you warped the fabric of reality? This #BBCMicro high resolution screen was drawn by @pixelblip It was included in last year's science fiction-themed MIST0524 artpack collection.

2025-06-14

@jrose

The funny thing is: It's not as wrong as the architecture of late 1980s IBM-compatible personal computers would have one believe.

Examples:

On a 1980s #BBCMicro home computer with a Second Processor, the I/O processor was the primary boot processor and responsible for initializing the CPU. On a modern #RaspberryPi the GPU initializes and boots the CPU.

On many Big Iron systems there was a Console Processor, not even merely a graphics co-processor but a fully-fledged personal computer, that instructed the central processor; and I/O Processors for DASDs and stuff.

Even the Transputer architecture was designed to have a single front-end processor that would load the initial code into and boot the other processors.

And then there's the very important 80486 running Minix inside some PC architecture chipsets. (-:

#Transputer #AS400 #Minix #IME

2025-06-11

Enhanced #Elite on the #Acorn #Electron now has proper docking computers.

Good to see they're as nail-bitingly dodgy as all the other versions!

Next on the list is to add 21 additional ship designs with spawning and tactic logic. That might take a while...

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #bbcmicro

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