Hello!
Today we have a retrospective feature on one of the world of computing’s early greats, the BBC Micro.
Join me as I look back at this classic machine and some of the great games it played that made us what we are today!
-K
Wow, Fred Harris at 2:24 … That brings back a lot of memories!
I never had a BBC Micro. My first foray into computers came from a Dragon 32 and then a Commodore 64.
Yes - great memories of the BBC micro.
Anyone remember the game Citadel?
“CITADEL - CITADEL”
Classic stuff…
I never had one, but there was one at my primary school…
Here are some links…
This site will let you download BeebEm for Windows and also has links to sites with downloads for other platforms:
http://www.mikebuk.dsl.pipex.com/beebem/
This site is an enthusiast site for Acorn 8-bit micros and is chock full of interesting information:
http://bbc.nvg.org/
And this has lots of nostalgic info and downloads of the best games for the BBC:
http://www.bbcmicrogames.com/
Enjoy!
Yeah, same here, we had Beeb micros in some classrooms in school. I realised after firing up some games that the reason it all looked so unfamiliar was because our school had them in Welsh, which I ’spose is not a great deal of effort when dealing with such a small amount of text. At home we had the mighty Amstrad 6128 with it’s inbuilt disk drive, fancy monitor and a vast 128k of memory. ’twas a beast.
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I do not recall ever hearing of the BBC Micro before, I would assume that is because I grew up in the US but I did live in England for two years around 1990. Even still it was very interesting to hear about not only the history but also the way it is remembered.
Thanks for another great episode, I like that you are straying a bit from just reviews and adding other topics as well. I guess the emulators episodes where not reviews either but this one and the Green episode both seemed further way but still very good.
I was in the computer club at my primary school (sounds very geeky, I know!) and have fond memories of the Beeb. I loved playing ‘Zaxxon’ in particular.
My childhood is coming rushing back to me in waves just from looking at that thing, but the only thing I can really remember is putting rude words into POD and Granny’s Garden when I was in year four, which frankly explains a great deal about the sort of person I am.