Portaram o BBC BASIC pro Atari 8 bits!

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/12/05/portaram-o-bbc-basic-pro-atari-8-bits/

#MundoRetro #Atari800XL #AtariXE #BASIC #BBCBASIC #BBCMicro #GitHub #port

Who else writes their own programming utilities?

Here's my UDG designer for the #AcornElectron and #BBCMIcro

Fedora Hat plot using 160 column TEXT on the #BBCMicro / #AcornElectron

Plotted with random alphanumerics

earlier today i obtained a BBC Micro, a common computer fixture in British primary and secondary schools in the 1980s, made by Acorn Computers in Cambridge, England, and widely successful due in part to the BBC branding and the various TV and radio programmes created as part of the BBC's Computer Literacy Project to teach the nation that computers weren't scary or obtuse, but could be useful tools for education, programming, industry and science. also one of the people who worked on the hardware for the humble beeb, Sophie Wilson, is a prominent trans woman in the field of computing and technology.

#BBCMicro #RetroComputing #RetroGaming

Hi, it's me, back on my gig of documenting the fonts of British microcomputers. An advert for Repton 2: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/64732/repton-2-video-game

but thanks to @fhardwig for identifying the missing font as Steve (not Dave).

#Steve #Repton #BBCMicro #RetroComputing #RetroGaming

fun old computer fact: there was this Doctor Who game for the BBC Micro that shipped with a ROM chip you'd have to install into the computer to play it since the game was larger than what the Model B Beeb's 32 kilobytes of RAM would allow, and the cost of producing the ROMs alongside the game tape meant that it put the publisher six feet under because the game was too expensive to produce and also the suggested retail price for it was a major turn off for would-be buyers.

#BBCMicro #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #DoctorWho

MIST1025/BLIPPYPIXEL-ALCHEMIST

Mistigram: this animated #BBCMicro high resolution graphics #pixelart loop of an #alchemist surrounded by his bubbling kit was drawn by @blippypixel and included in last month’s spooky MIST1025 artpack collection.

#alchemist #bbcMicro #blippypixel #halloween #mist1025 #pixelart

Mistodon: this animated #BBCMicro high resolution graphics #pixelart loop of an #alchemist surrounded by his bubbling kit was drawn by @pixelblip and included in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection.

Some projects just take a long time to work through. I mean, I’ve got to make sure it can stand alongside the others.

It should be worth the wait, though.

#8bit #bbcmicro #disassembly

So pleased I found
@themaritimegirl
on makertube and the fediverse ability to connect it to here.
Old computers are my thing since I had my first use of a BBC micro at school all those years ago. The proliferation of home computers that followed was a significant part of my grounding and ongoing interest

#retrocomputing
#tandy
#ibm
#dell
#windows
#bbcmicro

BBC Micro (and BBC Master) core has been updated for MiST and Sidi :ablobcatenjoy: ⌨️

==== bbc_251117.rbf ====

- Add Music5000 synthesizer by David Banks (thx slingshot2)

MiST: https://github.com/tdelage26/mist-binaries/tree/master/cores/bbc

Sidi: https://github.com/tdelage26/SiDi-FPGA/tree/master/Cores/Computer/BBC

#MiSTBoard #Sidi #FPGA #BBC #BBCMicro

7 Random BBC Micro Games: Bandit, Asteroid Storm, Wizzys Mansion, Nutter, Cruncher, Parachute, Scramble & Mutant Spiders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TwEXjmPNfs
#Acorn #BBCMicro #RetroComputers #RetroGaming #8bit

Rewatched “Micro-Men” (https://youtu.be/XXBxV6-zamM), the BBC’s own dramatic retelling of the birth of Acorn Computers and the BBC Micro:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Men

Only now did I notice the cameo by Sophie Wilson. 🤦🏽‍♂️

#MicroMen #BBC #BBCMicro #Sinclair #UK #Cambridge #Acorn

The follow-up talk by another legend in #BBCMicro and #ARM mythology, Steve Furber, is also available now:

“From Little Acorns…”, The Centre For Computing History (https://youtu.be/eeQn_AJqX54).

#Acorn #ComputerHistory #CPU #RetroComputing #Beeb

Mouse Trap 🧀 🐁 (1986)

Perhaps one of the first games that I became obsessed with on Atari ST. So much so that I dreamed about it at night! I still remember it 😅

Here's the attract mode!

#MouseTrap #BrianJobling #MicroValue #RetroGaming #BBCMicro #AtariST #Amiga #Commodore64 #Atari8Bit

I wrote a bouncing balls demo on my BBC Master Turbo (which has a 4MHz 65C102 coprocessor, but the host is handling all the graphics). Sprites are drawn by the Spriter ROM image on the Master Compact Welcome disc. It’s slow, as you’d expect, but not bad for pure BASIC. It creates three versions of each sprite to allow pixel-accurate movement because the Acorn sprite rendering code only plots to byte granularity. (One byte is four pixels in mode 1.) Masks are not part of the sprite format. EOR-plotting effectively treats black pixels as transparent but only works on a mono coloured background (e.g., ugly if sprites can overlap). Consequently, a ‘hole’ must be cut by AND-plotting a silhouette before the real sprite. It also uses double-buffering. I initially made a version that grabbed each region of the background that was about to be overwritten as a temporary sprite but that spoiled the performance far more than any other single operation; the frame rate was as low as 1.86 FPS! So, I replaced my randomly generated background with an ECF pattern. With the coprocessor on, I now get 4.5 FPS; with it off, 2.14 FPS.
#bbcmicro

BBC BASIC 3.10 has been ported to #Atari8bit computers https://github.com/ivop/atari-bbc-basic #atari #bbcmicro

I get that they wanted to celebrate the 40th birthday of #ARM precisely at 15:00, but why couldn’t they schedule the talk after that or left some buffer earlier? 😒

We really wanted to hear more about the early ARM & RISCOS.😢

#CPU #ARM #BBCMicro #BBC #RISC #Acorn

41 Jahre später: ELITE für Atari-Homecomputer

Wenn es etwas gab, auf das Nutzer von Atari-Homecomputern damals neidisch geschaut haben, dann war das der Science Fiction-Spieleklassiker ELITE

https://phantanews.de/wp/2025/11/41-jahre-spaeter-elite-fuer-atari-homecomputer/

#Atari #Atari8bit #BBCMicro #Computerspiel #Elite #Homebrew #Retrocomputing #Retrogaming

#ELITE has been portet from the #BBCMicro disc version to #Atari #8Bit computers with many improvements and new features:

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/385615-elite-ported-from-the-bbc-micro-disk-version-to-the-atari-8-bit/

#RetroGaming