Latest posts tagged with #BBCMicro on Bluesky
It would be cool if there was a kind of compendium of all the different things a #bbcmicro was used for. What job it did with what expansions and what software. This one ran a lab between 1983 and 1989 using custom software that controlled… etc
Brand new weekend reading: even more deep dives into The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's #BBCMicro epic
Batch #5 covers the unique equirectangular projection system, drawing filled polygons, the screen mode and more
thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives
Batch #6 soon…
Enjoy!
#retrocomputing #c64 #8bit
I'm (slowly!) releasing 50+ deep dives into The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic #BBCMicro game
Batch #4 is now ready: 5 new articles about 3D objects (defining, drawing, managing)
thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives
Batch #5 (drawing polygons) coming on Friday
Enjoy!
#retrocomputing #c64 #8bit
Training a Neural Network on a 1982 BBC Micro www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/neural... #BBCMicro #retrocomputing #machinelearning #neuralnetworks
Just released: 6 brand new deep dives into The Sentinel on the #BBCMicro and #C64
This is where it gets interesting!
Generating 10,000 3D landscapes; tile data and shapes; enemies and trees; secret codes
thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives#latest
Batch #4 coming soon
Enjoy!
#retrocomputing
43 years ago:
These first two letters from Computer & Video Games magazine are hilarious 🤣👍
#ZXSpectrum vs. #BBCmicro
"The Endorian Forest" – The 10th level in 'Manic Miner'. Screenshot from MSX version.
"The Endorian Forest" – #ManicMiner – Just a nice place to be.
My favourite level. Apples, bears and foilage, what's not to like?
🍎🍏🐻🌳🍃
#RetroGaming #ZXSpectrum #MSX #C16 #C64 #Amstrad #Amiga #Dragon #BBCMicro #Oric #SAMCoupe #TatungEinstein #MTX #PMD85 #MatthewSmith #BugByte #SoftwareProjects
This is pretty cool.
It's a visualisation of the internals of The Sentinel on the #BBCMicro.
This is it generating the game landscape for the first level from 256 pseudo-random numbers.
Next week I'll be releasing a deep dive into exactly how this works.
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #c64 #8bit
@retrocollective.co.uk's spectacular series w/ Professor Steve Furber CBE, instrumental in hardware designs of #Acorn & #BBCMicro #microcomputers and the #ARM architecture.
1st hr: #retrocomputing
2nd hr: Building a brain with ARM.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2yD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh9p...
I'm (slowly!) releasing 50+ deep dives into The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic #BBCMicro game
Batch #2 is now ready: 7 new articles about maths, geometry, trigonometry… and Revs
thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives
Batch #3 (landscape) coming soon
Enjoy!
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #c64 #8bit
Retro Game Review #421
Mined Out
(Quicksilva)
BBC
Home Computing Weekly issue 38: 5/5
#randomgamereview
#bbcmicro
The Sentinel on the BBC Micro (and others) was a brilliant 3D strategy game featuring 10,000 (!) levels. A highly innovative game and great fun. Written by the great Geoff Crammond #thesentinel #bbcmicro
Found myself recreating the classic BBC / C64 game Thrust including the original physics and timing and an emulation of the BBCs sound chip and OSWORD interface. You can read about it and play it online here.
www.jamesdrandall.com/projects/thr...
#retrogaming #bbcmicro #typescript #gamedev
I'm releasing over 50 deep dives into The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic #BBCMicro game.
Batch #1 is now ready: 6 new articles about memory maps, program flow and interrupts, all at thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives
Batch #2 (maths!) coming soon.
Enjoy!
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #c64 #8bit
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A bearded man in a historical military uniform gazes into the distance and contemplates freedom for his people at any price
Mistigram: this dashing #BBCMicro high resolution graphics portrait of #ToussaintLouverture, the key leader of the Haitian Revolution, was drawn by @pixelblip.bsky.social and included in the MIST0221 artpack collection released five years ago this month. Happy #BlackHistoryMonth!
An original copy of “Aviator” for the BBC Micro Model B, placed on a table.
Ready to take-off in “Aviator”, a wire-frame flight-simulator for the BBC Micro Model B computer.
Flying towards a bridge across a river in “Aviator”.
🧒 How it started…
🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #BBCMicro
Retro Game Review #400
The Hobbit
(Melbourne House)
BBC/Commodore 64/Oric/ZX Spectrum
TV Gamer Jun-84: Gameplay 4/5
#randomgamereview
#bbcmicro
#commodore64
#oriccomputer
#zxspectrum
Later in the episode @davevelociraptor.bsky.social mentions “sometimes you can get Infocom games which you can bolt on an auto-mapper to a lesser or greater success.”
What are these 'auto-mappers'? I have no familiarity with this 😯
When I were a boy I wanted to code a #BBCMicro map creation tool 🤓
The list of deep dives that I am working on
I've started writing a series of deep dives into Geoff Crammond's epic #BBCMicro game The Sentinel.
Here's the to-do list.
I will post a link here whenever I add a new one to thesentinel.bbcelite.com
It's going to take a while! But it should be worth it...
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #c64 #8bit
If you think a #BBC #online #space is fanciful, think of what BBC technology has brought us inc: Marconi microphones, loudspeakers, stereo #TV and #computers like #BBCMicro and micro:bit; #@BBCiPlayer its video on demand service, launched on Xmas Day 2007. Change through #publicservice innovation.
And in the 2020's 😜
Here's a quick SN76489 interface I cobbled together for the SAM Coupe along with coding a simple .vgm player to play music from the BBC micro. (Here playing a rendition of Supremacy converted from C64 to SN by Negative Charge)
#soundchip #samcoupe #bbcmicro #retrocomputing
Morning retro game fans! So you thought Dark Souls is hard? It has nothing on Ghouls for the BBC Micro. Modern gamers don't know the pain we went through! #retro #bbcmicro #darksouls #hard
There is an Apple IIe in the fire-house by the ghost containment unit.
Dr Venkman has a Commodore Pet in his office.
Dr Pinfield uses a BBC Micro to control the equipment that extracts ghost from haunted objects.
Ghostbeebsters: www.starringthecomputer.com/newsitem.htm...
#computersinmovies #BBCMicro #AppleIIe #CommodorePET
It was an absolute pleasure to speak to the Bodleian Libraries' Friday Coffee gathering this morning about the BBC Computer Literacy Project, the BBC Micro, and British gaming culture of the 1980s - youtu.be/Q-WFzEk8cKA?...
#bodleianlibraries #gamehist #bbcmicro
End screen for Perplexity on the BBC Micro, showing the regular game UI and the text "WELL DONE ! - You have completed PERPLEXITY - Can you complete it starting at screen 01 ?" LumKitty's VTuber on the left hand side celebrates her victory
Another #Retro puzzle game has fallen tonight!
Perplexity on the #BBCMicro. It might look like a shit Pac-Mania clone, but it's actually a good Sokoban clone with some unique gimmicks. Was good fun
