Driving the kids to school this morning, I tuned into the Dave Berry Breakfast Show to hear words that sent shivers down my spine: Granny’s Garden. Way back in the 1980s (and perhaps the early 1990s), Granny’s Garden terrorised children across the UK. Forced to do computer time by theirRead More →
No two games of Elite are the same. But to improve your chances of a completely new gaming experience whenever you launch the game on a BBC Micro or emulator, developer Mark Moxon has built the Elite Universe Editor. Describing it as a mod is a little unfair – it’sRead More →
With a mini Commodore 64 and a full-sized variant, a VIC-20, a mini Amiga, an Atari 400, and now a ZX Spectrum, Retro Games Ltd has amazing at supporting retro gaming. But what could be coming next? While we don’t know, we’ve compiled some possibilities; a sort of slightly-likely wishlist…Read More →
This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of a very important British computer. The Acorn Electron celebrated its 40th birthday on August 25th, ,marking four decades since its release at an astonishing £199, around £700 in modern terms. (For comparison, a Commodore 64 in 1983 would set you back around £300.)Read More →
As a Commodore 64 owner, I looked upon the release of the Commodore Plus/4 with a fair dose of derision. After all, what was the point in releasing a machine that didn’t run the same software? Back in 1984, this was Commodore’s “business-oriented” alternative to the C64, along with theRead More →
Reto systems developer Electron.Greg has released Super Star Trek for several 8-bit systems, including the C64 and VIC-20. On his Itch.io page for the Acorn Electron version, he says, have taken the original 1970s source code of the 80 column printer terminal based simulation and converted it to run onRead More →
These days, Usborne coding books are popular, but this is an area of publishing that was first explored back in the 1980s… As you probably know, the 1980s were amazing. While we didn’t have supercomputers in our hands, we had teletext, powered by a BBC Micro. Eventually, 8-bit computers wereRead More →
System 3’s The Last Ninja is one of the best-selling games on the Commodore 64, releasing in 1987. The title performed so well that it snagged a couple of sequels (The Last Ninja 2&3) and was ported to several systems in the following years, including the Apple IIGS, BBC Micro,Read More →
You have never seen a BBC Micro like this. The RGBeeb is an original BBC Micro that has been given a new home in an open-frame ATX case. The brainchild of retro hacker dekuNukem, the RGBeeb includes original and working 5.25-inch disk drives, along with a stunning RGB backlight. AsRead More →
Fancy recalling the halcyon days of Micro Live and and computer classes at primary school? VirtualBeeb is an online BBC Micro emulator that is based in your browser, meaning it can essentially be run on any device. Several computers have made an impression on me over the years. One withRead More →
