Retro Computing Meet-ups
Connect, Share and Celebrate Classic Machines
RetroRendezvous now serves as a meeting point for retro computer enthusiasts in both Falkirk (Scotland) and Andalucía (Spain). Whether you use an Acorn machine, or any classic 8-bit/16-bit system, the goal is the same:
face-to-face meet-ups where people bring their hardware, show their projects, exchange knowledge, and enjoy the hobby together.
I continue to support occasional gatherings at the Falkirk Business Hub, while also helping coordinate local meet-ups with the RetroBytes community in Córdoba.
Photography by Richard Keeble
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Exploring Wilderland – Map of the Game
Google AI Studio has helped me create an exact map of my Exploring Wilderland game. This includes the starting positions of the NPCs as well as the objects. I say “starting” since NPCs can pick up objects and randomly drop them again. Not all the NPCs move in the game. https://retrorendezvous.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/TheHobbitMapEnglish-scaled.png Here’s the equivalent map…
The Hobbit : Exploring Wilderland Completed
This is the final version of “Exploring Wilderland” – a BBC BASIC game based on the original “The Hobbit” text adventure game by Melbourne House This is running in Owlet, so you’ll need to click into the righthand window in order to start typing commands for the game. Click HERE to run in Outlet After…
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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…
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.…