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The Hobbit : Exploring the Wilderland

My next BASIC coding project is to squeeze a very simplified version of the classic text adventure game “The Hobbit” by Veronika Megler, Philip Mitchell and David Johnston into a BBC Basic program. This would be for a 32K BBC Model B. I’ll be using the Owlet editor in the main and cross checking the…

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The Lords of Midnight : Landscaping

The Lords of Midnight was a popular and epic graphic adventure game by Mike Singleton for the ZX Spectrum (and other platforms – but not for the Beeb) originally released in 1984. Here’s a few screenshots of what it looked like:- I never completed the game but did remember these landmark graphics. The technique that…

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Notes on Owlet – A Modern BBC Basic Editor

Owlet is a welcome modern editor for BBC Basic since editing Basic on the original BBC Micro was clunky and slow. Try it here with this example of “Space Probe” a game I’ve written recently. A Trip Down Memory Lane In a remarkable fusion of past and present, a trio of innovative programmers – Dominic…

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Solid State Storage for a BBC Micro

My BBC Micro B came with a solid state storage device, allowing a Micro SD card to provide many of the original games published for the Beeb in the 80s. It was fantastic to have this included and great to have any of these games load in a split second. Fast, reliable solid state storage.…

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