Donkey Kong Jnr. almost saw an impressive #BBCMicro release thanks to author of Killer Gorilla, Adrian Stephens. Sadly, when Atarisoft collapsed, the game was canned - but thankfully a final version managed to sneak out into the wild, so you can play it!
Reportedly inspired by a Boulder Dash review, Repton took the diamond-finding, rock-falling concept to the Beeb, losing the frenetic arcade pace along the way, but creating something more puzzle-oriented and thoughtful. Sequels followed, including the brutally tough Repton 2 (which neglected to provide enough diamonds to complete its single colossal level) and Repton 3 with its map editor.
#Bolo is a classic tank game that was ported to the #Macintosh from an inital version on the #BBCMicro. Let's take a quick dive into a single-player world to get our feet wet—and maybe try multiplayer next time?
Angus Duggan's Elite-A is a masterpiece of hacking, taking the original BBC Micro version of Elite and extending it with more ship designs, the ability to buy and sell different ships, delivery missions, an encyclopedia and lots more. It is legendary, and quite right too.
But Elite-A was only released for the BBC Micro, and it simply hangs if you try it on a BBC Master.
Until now, that is!
Elite-A contains a bunch of not-quite-finished code that tries to make it work on the Master, so I've extended and debugged this until, finally, it's working. Elite-A's version for the 6502 Second Processor also now works on the BBC Master's internal co-pro, for maximum luxury.
And it’s also available in a version with flicker-free ships, which looks really slick.
For more details and download links, see this Stardot thread:
Last year I got a #Pi400 from my spouse as a birthday present. It's such a fantastic little #RISCOS machine. Running it natively and maybe the last generation of #ARM machines that does? Now with 64bit only Pi5 etc.
Anyhow. I need to explore this OS more and especially BBC Basic which is built in.
Is there any recommended software like particularly good IDE etc. for #BBCBasic on RISCOS that I should use?
I'm delighted to announce the release of my latest Elite-related project: the Elite Compendium for the BBC Master.
The Compendium is a collection of the very best of Acornsoft Elite, updated with as many hacks and enhancements as I've been able to fit in. If you're looking to play 8-bit Elite, then this is a pretty good place to start.
The Compendium contains four versions of Elite - BBC Master 128, 6502 Second Processor, BBC Micro disc and Teletext Elite - plus the Elite Universe Editor.
All the games have been updated to run beautifully on the Master, with flicker-free ships and planets, music, and volume control for both music and sound effects.
The BBC Master 128 version also has features backported from the various other 6502 versions (such as Trumbles! red lasers! insta-docking! and more).
So... I just discovered that https://xr.bbcmic.ro is a thing - #MetaQuest users who loved the #BBCMicro may want to give it a try! @DominicPajak how come CHAIN"REPTON" reports a disk error! Why can't i play Repton!!
B2 Release b2-20240423-163255-0fcf3c3-prerelease · (github.com)
BBC Micro emulator for Windows, OS X, and Linux...