[HN Gopher] Complete BBC Micro Games Archive
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Complete BBC Micro Games Archive
Author : tosh
Score : 95 points
Date : 2020-10-09 17:10 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (bbcmicro.co.uk)
(TXT) w3m dump (bbcmicro.co.uk)
| hyko wrote:
| You can't have a complete BBC Micro Games Archive without
| Granny's Garden!
| pidg wrote:
| No BBC tie-in games like Geordie Racer or Through the Dragon's
| Eye either!
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| It's not included because, astonishingly, it's still for sale.
| http://www.4mation.co.uk/retro/retrogranny.html
| hyko wrote:
| Wow, amazing! The same approach Nintendo has taken with Super
| Mario 3D All-Stars.
| aardvark179 wrote:
| It lacks some of the crazy things people have done with co
| processor ports. There's a port of Doom to the ARM 2nd processor.
| chakalakasp wrote:
| Heh. This got me down memory lane and I started looking things
| up. Can you believe you can still play Tradewars 2002?
| https://www.tradewars.com/default.html
| zem wrote:
| sweet, it has "the valley"[1], the first roguelike i ever played.
| someone remade it for dos, but it didn't have quite the nostalgic
| feel of the original (the monochrome graphics actually help with
| the atmosphere).
|
| [1] http://bbcmicro.co.uk//game.php?id=2250
| forinti wrote:
| Most games aren't interesting anymore. I can't play Revs again
| after Trackmania. But some of them I still enjoy: Repton, Thrust,
| Chuckie Egg.
| codeulike wrote:
| Thrust is a masterpiece
| implements wrote:
| It looks like a _Scramble_ clone.
| codeulike wrote:
| It's a physics game really, about velocity, mass and
| angular momentum
| mavhc wrote:
| With pixel perfect collision detection.
|
| And once you finish all 6 levels you get to play them
| again, with inverted gravity. And once you get used to
| that it reverses back but the walls are invisible. And
| then both inverted and invisible
| erik wrote:
| Scramble is a side scrolling shooter. Thrust has a
| different sort of game play, with a lot more in common with
| Gravitar.
| kingrolo wrote:
| Ah this looks great. My Dad would buy and sell second hand BBCs
| and my whole family were well into all of the Repton 3 games. I
| remember loving discovering the level editor too and proudly
| making my own themed set of levels which I think scratched a
| similar itch to programming for 7 year old version of me.
|
| I always thought Repton was the greatest game ever. Am keen to
| see how it holds up now.
|
| I also remember Imogen being very clever, Citadel I found a bit
| creepy, and everyone loved Chuckie Egg except me for some reason.
| boltefnovor wrote:
| Repton was one of the best games for the Commodore 64 but a
| completely different game.
|
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M3c1F6-7qL8
| egypturnash wrote:
| Today I learnt that BBC kids had a weird knock-off of Boulder
| Dash called Repton instead of a weird knock-off of Defender
| called Repton. :)
|
| (Wikipedia claims that Beeb Repton was built entirely on the
| description of Boulder Dash found in a review, rather than
| actually playing Boulder Dash.)
| cogburnd02 wrote:
| I was going to ask if it had Nohzdyve, but remembered that it was
| only for ZX Spectrum.
| colatkinson wrote:
| Another awesome resource for BBC Micro/Electron software:
| https://www.stairwaytohell.com/bbc/index.html
|
| That one is especially cool IMO because it provides archives of
| the old cassettes in UEF format, which aims to preserve some of
| the audio properties as well (i.e. phase switches, dead spots,
| etc.).
|
| Not super practical, but it does let you experience the screaming
| speed of 1200 baud while the computer makes loud noises at you!
|
| Someone even wrapped it with a JS decoder, so you can assault
| your eardrums in your browser:
| https://www.8bitkick.cc/playuef.html
| qz2 wrote:
| This is a rabbit hole I've been avoiding for years. My childhood
| and teenage years were spent glued to a BBC. I'd got bored of the
| games within a couple of years though and proceeded to learn 6502
| assembly and stick things in the user port instead.
| teh_klev wrote:
| Got my BBC B in 1983 for passing my 'O grades' with reasonably
| decent scores.
|
| Whilst I loved the gaming it was the programming that I enjoyed
| the most and honing my 6502 assembly chops I'd been getting to
| to speed with on the school Apple ][; to the extent I wrote a
| sideways ROM (to provide modem control capability for running a
| BBS app I wrote) with some bodgery around the user port as well
| to capture the RS-232 signals the RS-423 port
| couldn't...carrier detect, ring indicate (all before the days
| of AT Hayes commands and responses).
|
| I think this is the first time I've seen Demolator available on
| an emulator, I spent hours playing that, and of course Elite.
|
| Ooh, the waves of nostalgia are almost overpowering :)
| jeffkeen wrote:
| Castle Quest is the game my family measured all games against for
| couple of decades following its release. There is no way that
| game will live up to my expectations if I attempt to play it
| again now.
| sshagent wrote:
| i should have read your last sentence before i shattered some
| childhood memory of the graphics of Citadel.
| mrspeaker wrote:
| I think nostalgia hits me harder than you: I yawn at the
| latest PlayStation demos with a gazillion polygons - but
| after image-searching "BBC Citadel", I'm all "take my
| money!".
|
| I gotta play that this evening. I'm sure the game play will
| be awful, but I love the graphics ;)
| sshagent wrote:
| I don't care for graphics really, dwarf fortress is the
| best game ever, IMO. this was more how my memory from 35
| years or so compares to reality.
| iainmerrick wrote:
| Agreed on Castle Quest, on both counts.
|
| Did you ever play Imogen? I think that one honestly holds up,
| graphics included. And of course Elite and Exile.
| zem wrote:
| i'd never heard of imogen, which surprised me given that it
| made the top 20. i'll give it a play through.
| yitchelle wrote:
| Shameless promotion to my twitter handle for retro tech adverts.
| I've been posting those amazing old tech adverts out of magazines
| 90s, 80s and older.
|
| https://twitter.com/OldTechAdverts
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