BBC microcomputer

Games! High scores and tactics and more.

High scores collected from magazines, the web, and my own list, and some analysis on which scores are likely not made with the BBC micro version of a game, on a BBC micro, and more such as playing Planetoid and tactics:

• BBC micro high scores, game tactics for Planetoid etc.

My software related to the BBC micro

• Some of my PC software (unix, DOS/windoze) related to the BBC micro (Basic file viewer, disc/tape reading & writing, etc.)
• Some of my BBC micro software (such as to determine what sideway RAM is available)

BBC micro versions and add-ons

• BBC computer versions, serial numbers, repairs
• BBC micro add-ons, making monitor cables etc.

BBC micro software and related material

• Various BBC micro software that I read in from tape, disc. ROM/EPROM, including a ROM archive.
• Some fun: Decoding the exile runes
• Elite: Claims about numbers sold etc. (very poorly researched Guardian article from material by Francis Spufford)
  
• Elite badges
  

And more

• Audio files

In 2006 looking back: 10 years ago: 1996

The introduction above refers to my first BBC micro website, and I thought it would be interesting to put what I still have of the earliest version of those web pages, on the web again.

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. By the way, the first game I put on my website in 1995 was... Elite! They way I transferred software at that time was with Anadisk, and later FDCDEMO, which I later modified into my hacked version called FDC.

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 web pages, I referred downloads of the mirrored files to Robert's website as he had plenty of web space, 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 any more...

• 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). Note that these pages are in old and messy html...

History of this site

• The history and future of this site (which I wrote in 2001, but still applicable)

My BBC micro system, and 'collection'

In case you wonder what I have in a 'collection': not much as I mostly gathered for the purpose of analysing. So I bought a lot, and then sold most of it a long time later. This is the case for all of it, hardware, software, books, magazines... Here is some information:

• WHS' BBC micro system and collection

Links

• Other BBC sites
  

Last modified: 2020-8-18