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Join me as I re-visit the 6502 second processor on my BBC Master, and try to configure it correctly this time. 😅
This one’s about the *CONFIGURE command. Who would have thought? 🤔
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Apresentando o PicoZ80: um substituto moderno do Z80 para retrocomputadores.
https://retropolis.com.br/2025/09/08/picoz80-substituto-moderno-z80-computadores-retro/
#MundoRetro #altera #BBCMaster #CPLD #Pico6502 #PicoZ80 #PiStorm #RaspberryPi #RP2350B #SharpMZ #SharpX1 #z80
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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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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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Seb’s Place does Tech Addicts
Gareth and Ted are joined by Seb from Seb's Place, a British YouTube channel covering 8-bit and 16-bit computers. Seb discusses his channel, his loves and hates in the retro tech, his collection and gaming in the modern world.
https://garethmyles.com/sebs-place-does-tech-addicts/
#Podcast #TechAddicts #Amstrad #BBCMaster #Commodore #emulation #homebrew #Nintendo #Ocean #RaspberryPi #retro #Seb #Sinclair #Spectrum
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A BBC Master video from me, telling the story of how I got a 6502 second processor working, all for one particular reason.
You’ll need to watch the video to find out what that reason was. 😎 🚀
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It seems I made it onto Hackaday yesterday with one of my old blog articles from 2020.
The one in question was where I used a Raspberry PI 0W as a WiFi enabled USB drive connected to a GoTek to provide disk images to a BBC Master 128.
NB: this technique works for anything a GoTek can connect to - so I've used it on a BBC Micro, Amiga A1200 and Spectrum +3
https://hackaday.com/2024/12/19/old-bbc-micro-gets-some-disk-help-from-a-raspberry-pi/
#bbcMicro #bbcMaster #amiga #amiga1200 #commodore #sinclair #sinclair3 #retroComputing #raspberryPi
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Elite for the BBC master, enhanced version with all the extras, including music, by @markmoxon .
This is a great version of the game. 😎
Quick video here of the intro screen. -
Name an 8-bit game that triggers instant nostalgia. I'll start... 😁
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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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Pick one. 😎
(Hasty desk shot taken while sorting stuff…)
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@GB followers: Someone interested to exchange my 'Made in GB' #Commodore #C64 breadbin, tested and fully working, against a working #Acorn #BBCmaster in good condition? I'm looking for it for a long time, but nearly impossible in Germany. And this wide used school model lasts in our exhibition.
Please spread the word, thx!
#RetroComputing #ComputerMuseum #LookingFor -
Time to play with this. 😎
I’m planning some stuff for a future video.
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Super humbled to have the article about my BBC Master published in the latest issue of Pixel Addict magazine , with credits to @MoreFunMakingIt for checking it over. Thanks folks! 👍😎😁
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Struggling with getting #Econet to work in #BeebEm #retrocomputing - eventually, I want to connect the emulator to my #PiEconetBridge with some ‘real’ machines (#Electron, #BBCmaster)
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Torna @markmoxon per non far (quasi) flickerare i pianeti, oltre che i vascelli, di Elite #BBCMaster #C64 #Plus4.
Per l'occasione, la versione Plus/4, da me intitolata "Elite +4 Flicker free Π" (Pi, per Planetes, ma anche per Pigmy!) ha la vecchia intro da me "potenziata", per celebrare il genio di András "Pigmy" Szigethy che a 15 anni ha convertito il gioco in pochi giorni usando il solo Monitor LM interno.
Potete giocarlo sul vostro browser qui: http://plus4world.powweb.com/play/elite_+4_flicker_free_pi
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I've managed to update my little website, featuring all 3 of my retro machines.
Expect more to be added to this over the coming weeks, including source code downloads to accompany my programming videos. 😎 -
Reposting this for the weekend crowd...
Part 2 of my BBC Elite Master Adventure video series is out. 😱
Continue the adventure & click the link below. 😎Follow the link to find out: https://youtu.be/ZoRjv_XHWDE
#retrocomputing #bbcmicrocomputer #bbcmaster #elite #retrogaming
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Part 2 of my BBC Elite Master Adventure video series is out. 😱
Do I finally get Elite running properly on the Master?Follow the link to find out: https://youtu.be/ZoRjv_XHWDE
#retrocomputing #bbcmicrocomputer #bbcmaster #elite #retrogaming
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Mark Moxon, che già qualche tempo fa ha liberato dal flicker le versioni #8bit di #Elite guadagnandosi una Medaglia d'Oro sul recente Zzap! 7/92, rilancia intervenendo anche sulla misteriosa routine dei pianeti.
Non ce la farà ad aggiungere questi 88 byte nella primigenia versione #BBCMicro ma per #BBCMaster, #6502SP, #Commodore64, #CommodorePlus4 e #Teletext (!) il signorino qui è già al lavoro.
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It’s 2023 and I have just taken delivery of these bad boys…
… and I am SUPER HAPPY! 😁👍Content for my next video is taking shape. 😎
(The follow up to my Elite video…)