in which I complete Lucas's Haunted House, figure out how to carry a 10 foot statue, and explore the historical web of plagiarism and semi-plagiarism surrounding the work
https://bluerenga.blog/2026/01/15/haunted-house-pray-hard-with-a-vengeance/
#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #bbcmicro
You didn't know you needed this in your life, but you do.
Marine Beaufils is a French artist who creates beautiful embroideries of... The Sentinel (amongst others).
It's inspired and quite beautiful. Enjoy!
in which I tell the story of how a company called Silverlind got formed due to the shenanigans of the mighty International Computers Limited (a combination of 9 distinct companies) and one of the three adventure games that they published
https://bluerenga.blog/2026/01/12/haunted-house-lucas-1983/
#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #bbcmicro
#bbcmicro version of #retroart by Eric Cubizolle (original version was for the #cpc464 ). The BBC has higher vertical resolution (useless here) but fewer colours.
I was quite excited when the first BBC Micro I turned on yesterday seemed to largely work (and the monitor!) I think this message means it doesn’t have a functional BASIC ROM chip? The second Micro just beeped continuously and the Master didn’t seem to do anything. #BBCMicro #weeknotes
Have you ever wondered how big the full landscape is in The Sentinel?
It's 1856 pixels high and 2048 pixels wide.
Here's the first level. The initial 192x160 screen is in red. Panning jumps the view to different grid points.
It's a big old world!
So the game screen shows shows 1/9.7 of the full height and 1/12.8 of the full width of the landscape.
The weird figures are because the screen is a different shape to the full view.
Also visible is the point carée equirectangular projection used in the game. This is taken straight from Revs.
For those who don't know, The Sentinel is a classic game from 1986, written by Geoff Crammond and published by Firebird.
It was originally released on the BBC Micro, and was converted to lots of other home computers, including the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum.
See https://thesentinel.bbcelite.com/ for more.
I've just released the fully documented source code for The Sentinel as an easy-to-browse website.
It's a lot more fun to explore than the GitHub repository, with cross-references, popups, indexes, statistics and more. I hope you like it!
The next step is to add a whole load of deep dives explaining how Geoff Crammond's proto-VR masterpiece works under the hood, with links into the code itself.
This part will take some weeks as there's a lot to explain, but I'll try to publish them as I go.
Watch this space...
I have documented the #BBCMicro version of the game to start with, and I hope to add the #Commodore64 version later.
On both platforms The Sentinel is a stone-cold classic.
It boasts filled 3D graphics, eerie silences, utterly unique gameplay and an atmosphere you can cut with a knife.
3/9
I am delighted to announce the release of my latest project:
Fully documented source code for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond’s 1986 masterpiece.
Here’s the repository; deep dives coming soon.
See thread for details.
1/9
https://github.com/markmoxon/the-sentinel-source-code-bbc-micro
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Mistigram: @blippypixel wishes you all a #HappyNewYear 2026 (or else a very belated Guy Fawkes Night) with this #BBCMicro high resolution graphics screen depicting the pyrotechnic festivities in London. Here’s hoping 2026 has greatness in store for all of us!
#2026 #BBCMicro #bigBen #blippypixel #fireworks #HappyNewYear
Mistodon: @pixelblip wishes you all a #HappyNewYear 2026 (or else a _very_ belated Guy Fawkes Night) with this #BBCMicro high resolution graphics screen depicting the pyrotechnic festivities in London. Here's hoping 2026 has greatness in store for all of us!
@upmultimedia
You could probably replace most of the TARDIS with a BBC Micro (that's how good they were) and also at least a couple of the recent Doctors. I'd watch that.
🙂
#DoctorWho #BBCMicro #TARDIS #VintageComputing
I would put a BBC Micro back into the modern TARDIS console and have the Doctor use it in-universe like they do their pocket-watch or record player.
I'm hoping to release my latest ultra-comprehensive gold-standard 6502 disassembly in the next few days.
It's been four months in the making and is almost complete.
Elite, Aviator, Revs, Lander… and now this.
Let the countdown begin: 🤖🪨🌲
Yes, that... that certainly is simplified.
I always imagined the sound made by thieves attacking a village in Yellow River Kingdom to be like the Monty Python skit "The Death of Mary, Queen of Scots: Part 1" (viz. various crashes, thumps, "ooh"s and "argh"s) even though the game has no sound at all.
Don't mind me: just emulating a Commodore Amiga 500 emulating a BBC Micro ...
This was done using "The Emulator", a package that Commodore UK commissioned from Ariadne Software. It's not exactly a BBC emulator, but a rewrite of BASIC and many core systems in 68000.
Today on All the Adventures, interconnected histories including: Jet Set Willy, excessive parties, police violence, business scandals, and an extremely difficult text adventure by a 14-year old written in BASIC.
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/12/16/old-father-time-1983/
#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #zxspectrum #bbcmicro
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
