Wouter's BBC microcomputer stuff

BBC microcomputer stuff

Introduction

Introduction I wrote in 2001

10 years ago: 1996

My first web pages about the BBC micro were put online ca. late 1995, and it was the first website for the BBC micro of the type common today, with a games archive, hints, programs to read/write disks on a PC, how to transfer tape games that have the locked bit set, to disc etc.

Here are some later ones with the 'BBC archive'. The software published on my website was mirrored by Robert Schmidt whose website later became "The BBC lives!", and in these later webpages, I referred downloads of the mirrored files to Robert's website as he had plenty of webspace, whereas I had just 2MB to play with. Only the newest files were hosted on these pages by ca. late 1996 on.

If you have other versions of these pages (from 1995/1996), please email them to me as I don't have them anymore...

index originally at http://homepage.cistron.nl/~wouters/bbc/bbc-etc.html (from ca. mid 1996, or maybe late 1996? =>It looks like the main page is from early august 1996)

My BBC system

bbc-whs

Software

PC software (unix, DOS/windoze) (Basic file viewer, disc/tape reading & writing, suggested tape format)
BBC software including a ROM archive (transfer to your BBC or use in an emulator)
Decoding the exile runes

Magazines and books

Discussion of magazines (BBC micro & multi format)
List of multi format magazines that I know of
List of articles relevant to the BBC micro in multi format magazines
Book covers: I had pages with scans/images of about 103 titles (mostly small images from other sources that needed replacing) but I got no help at all so I removed them. I can't do everything myself, so this section will only be put back if people (like you!) contribute with scans of the front/rear covers of books.
List of known books for/about the BBC microcomputer
List of books for/about the BBC microcomputer that I recommend

If you have any comments on or additions for the above lists (new titles or missing details such as publisher names/dates/ISBN) send me an email!