MIST0522/BLIPPYPIXEL-CAN

Mistigram: This #BBCMicro high resolution graphics portrait of #Yoda stewing in #TheForce was drawn by @Blippypixel and included in the science fiction-themed MIST0522 artpack collection, released three years ago. Happy #RevengeOfThe5th!

#BBCMicro #blippypixel #MIST0522 #RevengeOfThe5th #StarWars #Yoda

Attention #BBCMicro 'ists!

Any idea why the *ROMS command has stopped working on my BBC B?

I blame Anne Conflict. #FACT!

Significant event for many, many reasons. Especially the fact Sophie Wilson spoke at it considering what is going on in the UK right now. One of the world's most widely used chips wouldn't exist without her contribution.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/arm_40/

#bbcmicro #arm

I use the PET font for normal and the BBC font for boldface on a framebuffer-realized user-space virtual terminal, and they work quite well. The BBC Micro font has thicker stroke widths than the PET one, so fulfils the rôle of boldface nicely.

Square home computer fonts were made for this, of course.

#BBCMicro #CommodorePET #nosh #uservt

I noticed yesterday from a Hacker News post that I hadn't checked in changes that I made to my fork of @viznut's #Unscii back in 2023. So I spent some hours sorting through them and checking them in.

All so that you can enjoy 16by16 script-upscaled and hand-rounded versions of the 8by8 BBC Micro and Commodore PET bitmap fonts. (-:

https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/2.1.1f/src/font-bbcg16.txt

https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/blob/2.1.1f/src/font-pet16.txt

#uservt #BBCMicro #CommodorePET

Had a great afternoon at the Retro Computer Museum in Leicester, UK. Spent some lovely time coding the SAM Coupe, Spectrum Next, and the BBC Micro. https://retrocomputermuseum.co.uk
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #samcoupe #zxspectrumnext #bbcmicro

BBC Basic graphics demo - done in 700s on a BBC Micro(*)

Source code in the alt text. Or below. Program is called "3D" and was shown in the BBC's Computer Literacy Program, in Micro Live 2. See
https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/arm-and-risc-on-the-bbcs-micro-file-1987/4435

https://bbcmic.ro/#%7B%22v%22%3A1%2C%22program%22%3A%2210REM%20%3E%203D%5Cn11REPEAT%5Cn12TIME%3D0%5Cn20MODE0%3AVDU29%2C640%3B512%3B%3AXS%3D2%3AYS%3D6*4%5Cn30VDU23%2C1%2C0%3B0%3B0%3B0%3B%5Cn40ON%20ERROR%20GOTO%20190%5Cn50A%3D640%3AB%3DA*A%3AC%3D512%5Cn60Z%3D1%2F3%3AO%3D24%2FA%3AC%3DC%2FA%5Cn70O%25%3D%2645%5Cn80FORX%25%3D0TOA%20STEPXS%3AS%3DX%25*X%25%5Cn90P%3DSQR%28B-S%29%3AM%3D-P*Z%3AN%3DM%5Cn100PLOT69%2C-X%25%2CM%3APLOT69%2CX%25%2CM%5Cn110FORI%3DYS-P%20TOP%20STEPYS%5Cn120R%3DSQR%28S%2BI*I%29%5Cn130Y%3DI*Z%2B%28R-A%29*SIN%28O*R%29*C%5Cn140IFY%3EM%20M%3DY%3AGOTO170%5Cn150IFY%3EN%20NEXT%2C%3ASTOP%5Cn160N%3DY%5Cn170PLOT69%2C-X%25%2CY%3APLOT69%2CX%25%2CY%5Cn180NEXT%2C%5Cn181PRINT%20%5C%22Done%20in%20%5C%22TIME%2F100%5C%22s%5C%22%5Cn182STOP%5Cn185UNTIL%200%5Cn190ON%20ERROR%20OFF%5Cn200CLS%5Cn210MODE1%5Cn220VDU23%2C1%2C0%3B0%3B0%3B0%3B%5Cn230*EXEC%20BASICBM%5Cn%5Cn%22%7D

(*) in-browser emulation!

#retrocomputing #bbcbasic #bbcmicro #jsbeeb
#owlet

A very productive #Easter! ... With thanks to Brain Martin of Night Owl #BBS my #8bit #BBCMicro went online over the weekend with some classic BBSing from Night Owl & #Telstar

Keeping the Speccy & Micro myself 🤭 might even keep the Commodore! #ZXSpectrum #Sinclair #BBCMicro #Commodore #Retrocomputing

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:duwdbjjurwkiqk6unhbynp3k/post/3lnaghrbop22y

Sometimes it's the small projects that are the most enjoyable.

Case in point: this month I'm building !EliteNet, which connects the #Archimedes version of #Elite to the Econet multiplayer scoreboard, so ArcElite players can compete against #BBCMicro players.

I last wrote a RISC OS application in 1995. That's 30 years ago! Turns out that BBC BASIC V is still a great language to code in.

And I've never written a RISC OS relocatable module before, so even now, this old dog is learning new ARM-based tricks.

And… ArcElite! ❤️

I absolutely love this hobby.

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #riscos

Going through some old negatives and this one stood out as a proper time capsule of a late 1980's office. This was from a work placement I did while at college studying electronics, BBC micros where common at this type of company at the time with PCs just starting to takeover. #filmphotography #history #bbcmicro

It's summer, so it's t-shirt time. New blog post: https://www.kecskebak.hu/?p=511 #BBCMicro #Inkscape

We're in business! And no magic smoke escaping from the PSU.

#retrocomputing #BBCmicro #8bit

cross-posting a photo from @kevedwardsretro.bsky.social (https://archive.org/details/KevinEdwards6502TheMicroUser/page/n1) about #programming on the #bbcmicro where you can see the #BASIC of the machine also allowed you to inline #6502 #assembly

That's almost a love letter to programmers compared to what C64 felt like.

#BBCMicro version Amiga Boing ball demo: blog.mousefingers.com/post/bbc/bbc... #retrodev #demoscene #homebrew #retrocomputing 5/6

BBC Boing Ball

So Ripton, despite being a Repton piss-take with level names like Iguanus (og: Iguana) and Giant crap (Giant clam), is somehow… actually good… the levels are well designed & challenging. I bet the dev was very happy when Repton 3 came out next year with an editor. I wonder if they made any levels?

#BBCMicro #Retro #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #Repton

What monster would setup their 80s workstation like this??

#BBCMicro

Wow! A Speccy game developed on BBC Micro, fabulous, love it! #Retrocomputing #ZXSpectrum #Sinclair #BBCMicro

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:io6owsze2yxsfsl2cd7znmik/post/3llqg4rbdf22t

At All the Adventures, the conclusion to the Very British game Time Adventure, involving Merlin in a high-tech laboratory, the boat Queen Elizabeth 2, and warding off a fantasy creature with Terry Wogan's smelly socks.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/03/31/time-adventure-queen-elizabeths-revenge/

#retrogaming #adventuregames #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #bbcmicro