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It’s an Acorn Electron coding video. Something different per chance? 🤔
This is the start of a BASIC programming journey for me.
Fancy coming along for the ride? 😁
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It’s an Acorn Electron coding video. Something different per chance? 🤔
This is the start of a BASIC programming journey for me.
Fancy coming along for the ride? 😁
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I may have 'accidentally' bought an Acorn Electron computer on ebay.
So, never owned one, but did play with them in boots n whsmith as a kid when i was in. plus we had the old BEEB micro at school.
so what to do first when it arrives?
(I'll definately be checking the outrput of the powerpack before pluggin it in. learned that lesson well, RIP atari lynx.)#retrocomputing #acornComputers #acornelectron #bbccomputer #retrogaming
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I may have 'accidentally' bought an Acorn Electron computer on ebay.
So, never owned one, but did play with them in boots n whsmith as a kid when i was in. plus we had the old BEEB micro at school.
so what to do first when it arrives?
(I'll definately be checking the outrput of the powerpack before pluggin it in. learned that lesson well, RIP atari lynx.)#retrocomputing #acornComputers #acornelectron #bbccomputer #retrogaming
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I may have 'accidentally' bought an Acorn Electron computer on ebay.
So, never owned one, but did play with them in boots n whsmith as a kid when i was in. plus we had the old BEEB micro at school.
so what to do first when it arrives?
(I'll definately be checking the outrput of the powerpack before pluggin it in. learned that lesson well, RIP atari lynx.)#retrocomputing #acornComputers #acornelectron #bbccomputer #retrogaming
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I may have 'accidentally' bought an Acorn Electron computer on ebay.
So, never owned one, but did play with them in boots n whsmith as a kid when i was in. plus we had the old BEEB micro at school.
so what to do first when it arrives?
(I'll definately be checking the outrput of the powerpack before pluggin it in. learned that lesson well, RIP atari lynx.)#retrocomputing #acornComputers #acornelectron #bbccomputer #retrogaming
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I may have 'accidentally' bought an Acorn Electron computer on ebay.
So, never owned one, but did play with them in boots n whsmith as a kid when i was in. plus we had the old BEEB micro at school.
so what to do first when it arrives?
(I'll definately be checking the outrput of the powerpack before pluggin it in. learned that lesson well, RIP atari lynx.)#retrocomputing #acornComputers #acornelectron #bbccomputer #retrogaming
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Inufuto ataca outra vez, com Swordwork.
https://retropolis.com.br/2026/07/10/inufuto-ataca-outra-vez-com-swordwork/
#MundoRetro #AcornElectron #AmstradCpc #AmstradCPC464 #AppleII #Ascend #Atari8bits #colecovision #Commodore64 #CommodoreVIC20 #Creativision #FM7 #FMR30 #GameTank #Inufuto #Jogos #JR200 #MattelAquarius #MegaDuck #MSX #panasonic #PC6001 #PC6001mkII #PC88 #RafaelLima #SegaSG1000 #SharpMZ #SharpX1 #TI994A #TRS80ColorComputer #TRS80MC10 #VZ200 #ZXSpectrum #ZX81
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Inufuto ataca outra vez, com Swordwork.
https://retropolis.com.br/2026/07/10/inufuto-ataca-outra-vez-com-swordwork/
#MundoRetro #AcornElectron #AmstradCpc #AmstradCPC464 #AppleII #Ascend #Atari8bits #colecovision #Commodore64 #CommodoreVIC20 #Creativision #FM7 #FMR30 #GameTank #Inufuto #Jogos #JR200 #MattelAquarius #MegaDuck #MSX #panasonic #PC6001 #PC6001mkII #PC88 #RafaelLima #SegaSG1000 #SharpMZ #SharpX1 #TI994A #TRS80ColorComputer #TRS80MC10 #VZ200 #ZXSpectrum #ZX81
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Inufuto ataca outra vez, com Swordwork.
https://retropolis.com.br/2026/07/10/inufuto-ataca-outra-vez-com-swordwork/
#MundoRetro #AcornElectron #AmstradCpc #AmstradCPC464 #AppleII #Ascend #Atari8bits #colecovision #Commodore64 #CommodoreVIC20 #Creativision #FM7 #FMR30 #GameTank #Inufuto #Jogos #JR200 #MattelAquarius #MegaDuck #MSX #panasonic #PC6001 #PC6001mkII #PC88 #RafaelLima #SegaSG1000 #SharpMZ #SharpX1 #TI994A #TRS80ColorComputer #TRS80MC10 #VZ200 #ZXSpectrum #ZX81
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Inufuto ataca outra vez, com Swordwork.
https://retropolis.com.br/2026/07/10/inufuto-ataca-outra-vez-com-swordwork/
#MundoRetro #AcornElectron #AmstradCpc #AmstradCPC464 #AppleII #Ascend #Atari8bits #colecovision #Commodore64 #CommodoreVIC20 #Creativision #FM7 #FMR30 #GameTank #Inufuto #Jogos #JR200 #MattelAquarius #MegaDuck #MSX #panasonic #PC6001 #PC6001mkII #PC88 #RafaelLima #SegaSG1000 #SharpMZ #SharpX1 #TI994A #TRS80ColorComputer #TRS80MC10 #VZ200 #ZXSpectrum #ZX81
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Inufuto ataca outra vez, com Swordwork.
https://retropolis.com.br/2026/07/10/inufuto-ataca-outra-vez-com-swordwork/
#MundoRetro #AcornElectron #AmstradCpc #AmstradCPC464 #AppleII #Ascend #Atari8bits #colecovision #Commodore64 #CommodoreVIC20 #Creativision #FM7 #FMR30 #GameTank #Inufuto #Jogos #JR200 #MattelAquarius #MegaDuck #MSX #panasonic #PC6001 #PC6001mkII #PC88 #RafaelLima #SegaSG1000 #SharpMZ #SharpX1 #TI994A #TRS80ColorComputer #TRS80MC10 #VZ200 #ZXSpectrum #ZX81
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Repórter Retro 126
https://retropolis.com.br/2026/06/24/reporter-retro-126/
#ReprterRetro #3DO #acorn #AcornElectron #ActionRetro #AmstradPPC640 #AppleLisa #BASIC #cartuchos #CommodoreAmiga #CommodoreVIC20 #CreativeLabs #Emuladores #FbioNMI #hotbit #IBM #KonradZuse #Laptop #leiles #LGP21 #Macintosh #MarcosFelisberto #microsoft #os2 #panasonic #RetroRio #Spriteworx #TechNibble #TimBernersLee #TimexSinclair #TrashToTreasure #UsagiElectric #VCF #VCFMidwest #VeimDosGame #VictorTrucco #VisualBA
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Repórter Retro 126
https://retropolis.com.br/2026/06/24/reporter-retro-126/
#ReprterRetro #3DO #acorn #AcornElectron #ActionRetro #AmstradPPC640 #AppleLisa #BASIC #cartuchos #CommodoreAmiga #CommodoreVIC20 #CreativeLabs #Emuladores #FbioNMI #hotbit #IBM #KonradZuse #Laptop #leiles #LGP21 #Macintosh #MarcosFelisberto #microsoft #os2 #panasonic #RetroRio #Spriteworx #TechNibble #TimBernersLee #TimexSinclair #TrashToTreasure #UsagiElectric #VCF #VCFMidwest #VeimDosGame #VictorTrucco #VisualBA
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Repórter Retro 126
https://retropolis.com.br/2026/06/24/reporter-retro-126/
#ReprterRetro #3DO #acorn #AcornElectron #ActionRetro #AmstradPPC640 #AppleLisa #BASIC #cartuchos #CommodoreAmiga #CommodoreVIC20 #CreativeLabs #Emuladores #FbioNMI #hotbit #IBM #KonradZuse #Laptop #leiles #LGP21 #Macintosh #MarcosFelisberto #microsoft #os2 #panasonic #RetroRio #Spriteworx #TechNibble #TimBernersLee #TimexSinclair #TrashToTreasure #UsagiElectric #VCF #VCFMidwest #VeimDosGame #VictorTrucco #VisualBA
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Repórter Retro 126
https://retropolis.com.br/2026/06/24/reporter-retro-126/
#ReprterRetro #3DO #acorn #AcornElectron #ActionRetro #AmstradPPC640 #AppleLisa #BASIC #cartuchos #CommodoreAmiga #CommodoreVIC20 #CreativeLabs #Emuladores #FbioNMI #hotbit #IBM #KonradZuse #Laptop #leiles #LGP21 #Macintosh #MarcosFelisberto #microsoft #os2 #panasonic #RetroRio #Spriteworx #TechNibble #TimBernersLee #TimexSinclair #TrashToTreasure #UsagiElectric #VCF #VCFMidwest #VeimDosGame #VictorTrucco #VisualBA
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Repórter Retro 126
https://retropolis.com.br/2026/06/24/reporter-retro-126/
#ReprterRetro #3DO #acorn #AcornElectron #ActionRetro #AmstradPPC640 #AppleLisa #BASIC #cartuchos #CommodoreAmiga #CommodoreVIC20 #CreativeLabs #Emuladores #FbioNMI #hotbit #IBM #KonradZuse #Laptop #leiles #LGP21 #Macintosh #MarcosFelisberto #microsoft #os2 #panasonic #RetroRio #Spriteworx #TechNibble #TimBernersLee #TimexSinclair #TrashToTreasure #UsagiElectric #VCF #VCFMidwest #VeimDosGame #VictorTrucco #VisualBA
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The #AcornElectron - the little machine that could. This cheaper alternative to the #BBCMicro was released in the UK in 1983, and gained its own version of Elite the following year. Not as capable as other Elites, but still a must-have for the machine. See ALT text for links.
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A gorgeous Acorn Electron, here is mine 😍 #AcornElectron #Retrocomputing
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2qy5zinwl3vaecwt5bf5pimx/post/3mmafalteyo2u -
Mistodon: One final silly April Fool's screen, mashing up a little #Easter into the heady mix, this #AcornElectron high resolution graphics screen was drawn by The Elk and included in the MIST0418 artpack collection released 8 years ago this month.
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Mistodon: One final silly April Fool's screen, mashing up a little #Easter into the heady mix, this #AcornElectron high resolution graphics screen was drawn by The Elk and included in the MIST0418 artpack collection released 8 years ago this month.
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Elite for the #AcornElectron often gets a bad press for its cut-down features, compared to the BBC and other versions. But instead of focusing on what it lacks, we should be amazed that the game was able to run on the little machine at all, thanks to David Braben & Ian Bell!
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Mega Vintage Computer Collection Donation
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Mega Vintage Computer Collection Donation
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Chatting with Chris (Mogway/Jamsoft) Creator of the JamSoftElectronULA
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Chatting with Chris (Mogway/Jamsoft) Creator of the JamSoftElectronULA
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There’s an exhibition of retro / classic home computing machines this week (Aug 21-28 2025) at Kingston University, so I had to drop in.
It was fun to see some old favourites again, and it was nice to see some youngsters engaging with the games I used to play. Turrican, Hunchback, Mario, Puzzle Bobble, Lemmings!
The Townhouse building at Kingston University has been open for several years already and I drive, walk or bus past it regularly, but never had a reason to pop in until now! It has the university library on the upper floors, and a cafe and event space on the ground floor. For the duration of this week, the Archive of Retro Computing has taken over the event space with this display.
It is nicely put together, with some machines set aside for coding, some for gaming; information about each system displayed alongside; some meta-history on topics like the British computing scene (Acorn vs Sinclair), Commodore and Amstrad, and the US elements. The back section is dedicated to vintage home gaming systems, from the 1977 Binatone Pong game, through Atari / Nintendo / Sega, up to the Super Nintendo and Jaguar.
There are also some super “deep cuts” in the collection, including the Tatung Einstein, which I don’t remember ever seeing or hearing about before…
From my personal history, the Binatone Pong game on display is I think slightly older than the simple dial paddle controllers than we had hooked up to the TV at home when I was young. No sign of the metal-clad Commodore PET that I remember tinkering with at primary school, but a range of other Commodore machines are on show, including the classic Commodore 64 (I have one of these, from a former Twitter coworker!), and several other models I’m less familar with.
My first home computer, the Acorn Electron, is right there, running Arcadians, a Space Invaders clone I must have spent hours on back in the day. My own Electron ended as a hand-modded machine featuring switchable headphone or regular speaker output. I’m still quite proud of that relatively low-tech little hardware hack from back then.
Next along in my own line would have been the Amstrad CPC (with 3″ disk drive) that my uncle had, and pointed me towards on most visits to his house. I have memories of Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner on that one. The little info card here tells the story of how Alan Sugar did a deal on the disk drives such that Hitachi ended up having to keep making them, at a loss, even though the 3″ disk format was otherwise dead in the water.
My school had a very well-equipped computer room with (I think) about 30 BBC Master and Micro computers, so I was very much an Acorn boy and learned BBC BASIC as my first proper coding language (along with a tiny bit of 6502 assembler). Later on, the school computer room was upgraded with several Acorn Archimedes. My brother had an A3000 in his bedroom… I had an Acorn Risc PC with a StrongARM processor, way faster than the x86 PCs available at the time! The BBC Master and A3000 are present and correct in the exhibition (there’s a BBC Micro as well, alongside the Electron).
We also had a Super Nintendo, which is one of the last of the home gaming consoles in the exhibition (I overheard someone say that the Playstation, our next games console as a family, was where gaming all went wrong and 3D and got boring… I can sometimes understand that point of view!).
As an aside, I had a quick go on Wolfenstein 3D on the Jaguar in the corner there, and the controller for the Jaguar was bonkers! Chunky and not very friendly to use. The graphics seemed decent, with some kind of interpolation at distance? I don’t remember ever actually playing on a Jaguar when they were current…
Pretty much all of the machines had some kind of modification, both to output graphics to the LCD monitors in use, and/or to replace disk drives with some form of USB-floppy emulation, often with a Pi or something else doing the interfacing.
A fun trip down memory lane!
https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/08/25/retro-tastic/
#Acorn #AcornElectron #Amiga #Amstrad #archimedes #bbcMaster #BBCMicro #commodore #Computing #exhibition #gaming #nintendo #retro #riscOs #RiscPC #Technology #zxSpectrum
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There’s an exhibition of retro / classic home computing machines this week (Aug 21-28 2025) at Kingston University, so I had to drop in.
It was fun to see some old favourites again, and it was nice to see some youngsters engaging with the games I used to play. Turrican, Hunchback, Mario, Puzzle Bobble, Lemmings!
The Townhouse building at Kingston University has been open for several years already and I drive, walk or bus past it regularly, but never had a reason to pop in until now! It has the university library on the upper floors, and a cafe and event space on the ground floor. For the duration of this week, the Archive of Retro Computing has taken over the event space with this display.
It is nicely put together, with some machines set aside for coding, some for gaming; information about each system displayed alongside; some meta-history on topics like the British computing scene (Acorn vs Sinclair), Commodore and Amstrad, and the US elements. The back section is dedicated to vintage home gaming systems, from the 1977 Binatone Pong game, through Atari / Nintendo / Sega, up to the Super Nintendo and Jaguar.
There are also some super “deep cuts” in the collection, including the Tatung Einstein, which I don’t remember ever seeing or hearing about before…
From my personal history, the Binatone Pong game on display is I think slightly older than the simple dial paddle controllers than we had hooked up to the TV at home when I was young. No sign of the metal-clad Commodore PET that I remember tinkering with at primary school, but a range of other Commodore machines are on show, including the classic Commodore 64 (I have one of these, from a former Twitter coworker!), and several other models I’m less familar with.
My first home computer, the Acorn Electron, is right there, running Arcadians, a Space Invaders clone I must have spent hours on back in the day. My own Electron ended as a hand-modded machine featuring switchable headphone or regular speaker output. I’m still quite proud of that relatively low-tech little hardware hack from back then.
Next along in my own line would have been the Amstrad CPC (with 3″ disk drive) that my uncle had, and pointed me towards on most visits to his house. I have memories of Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner on that one. The little info card here tells the story of how Alan Sugar did a deal on the disk drives such that Hitachi ended up having to keep making them, at a loss, even though the 3″ disk format was otherwise dead in the water.
My school had a very well-equipped computer room with (I think) about 30 BBC Master and Micro computers, so I was very much an Acorn boy and learned BBC BASIC as my first proper coding language (along with a tiny bit of 6502 assembler). Later on, the school computer room was upgraded with several Acorn Archimedes. My brother had an A3000 in his bedroom… I had an Acorn Risc PC with a StrongARM processor, way faster than the x86 PCs available at the time! The BBC Master and A3000 are present and correct in the exhibition (there’s a BBC Micro as well, alongside the Electron).
We also had a Super Nintendo, which is one of the last of the home gaming consoles in the exhibition (I overheard someone say that the Playstation, our next games console as a family, was where gaming all went wrong and 3D and got boring… I can sometimes understand that point of view!).
As an aside, I had a quick go on Wolfenstein 3D on the Jaguar in the corner there, and the controller for the Jaguar was bonkers! Chunky and not very friendly to use. The graphics seemed decent, with some kind of interpolation at distance? I don’t remember ever actually playing on a Jaguar when they were current…
Pretty much all of the machines had some kind of modification, both to output graphics to the LCD monitors in use, and/or to replace disk drives with some form of USB-floppy emulation, often with a Pi or something else doing the interfacing.
A fun trip down memory lane!
https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/08/25/retro-tastic/
#Acorn #AcornElectron #Amiga #Amstrad #archimedes #bbcMaster #BBCMicro #commodore #Computing #exhibition #gaming #nintendo #retro #riscOs #RiscPC #Technology #zxSpectrum
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The Acorn Electron : Its not quite the story you think it is
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Micros experts make predictions for the future regarding market developments.
#yourcomputer report, 1983
#zxspectrum #commodore64 #msx #acornelectron #bbcmicrocomputer #retrogaming
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Micros experts make predictions for the future regarding market developments.
#yourcomputer report, 1983
#zxspectrum #commodore64 #msx #acornelectron #bbcmicrocomputer #retrogaming
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40 years ago, C&VG magazine produced a listings issue with a selection of games to type into your computer.
#Commodore64 #C64 #ZXSpectrum #VIC20 #Dragon32 #BBCMicro #AcornElectron #TexasTI99A -
40 years ago, C&VG magazine produced a listings issue with a selection of games to type into your computer.
#Commodore64 #C64 #ZXSpectrum #VIC20 #Dragon32 #BBCMicro #AcornElectron #TexasTI99A -
Pretty amazing that the #NES, #AppleII, #BBCMaster, and #BBCMasterCompact versions of the seminal 3-D space trading and combat video game #Elite all fundamentally base their source code from the #Commodore64 port. (All pre-dated by the #BBCMicro and #AcornElectron versions, of course.)
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Pretty amazing that the #NES, #AppleII, #BBCMaster, and #BBCMasterCompact versions of the seminal 3-D space trading and combat video game #Elite all fundamentally base their source code from the #Commodore64 port. (All pre-dated by the #BBCMicro and #AcornElectron versions, of course.)
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Mistodon: for no particular reason, here's a #pixelart personal statement by The Elk: No Room For Nazism On Earth... likely drawn on an #AcornElectron, originally included in the MIST1120 artpack collection released five years ago.
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Mistodon: for no particular reason, here's a #pixelart personal statement by The Elk: No Room For Nazism On Earth... likely drawn on an #AcornElectron, originally included in the MIST1120 artpack collection released five years ago.
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She's a thing of beauty. #acornelectron #retro
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The First Acorn Electron ULA for (nearly) 40 Years!
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The First Acorn Electron ULA for (nearly) 40 Years!
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UK TV advert for the Acorn Electron from 1984
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UK TV advert for the Acorn Electron from 1984
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A recent photo of my collection. 😎
Which one are you choosing? 🤔 (Click to expand)#retrocomputing #amiga #zxspectrum #bbcmaster #acornelectron
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A recent photo of my collection. 😎
Which one are you choosing? 🤔 (Click to expand)#retrocomputing #amiga #zxspectrum #bbcmaster #acornelectron
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I act smart but it's a facade. Don't believe the hype. In 1988 I spent £5.99 on this game.
#retrogame #bbcmicro #acornelectron #cassette #AltTextIsAnArtform
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I act smart but it's a facade. Don't believe the hype. In 1988 I spent £5.99 on this game.
#retrogame #bbcmicro #acornelectron #cassette #AltTextIsAnArtform
