Wouter's BBC micro software, scans, pictures, etc.

News

• 2020-8-18: Added some information on the USA BBC which one reader told me has *UK and *US commands to switch between 200 and 256 vertical pixels. I didn't find those in the OS ROM dump that I made of the USA BBC that I once had...
• 2019-5-1: Pictures of PET and FIT testers and manuals, and an Econet test box.
• 2017-11-12: The past few days I updated the page on Elite (about claims on sales, its origins, who wrote the manual and more) and the Elite badges / pins that people could get when sending in their 'Order of the Elite' card.
• 2017-11-5: I reorganised this site, and I removed whatever I felt was no longer interesting or important such as a lot of pictures and scans.
• 2017-7-18: BBC micro high scores and games Added lists of highscores and a little bit of analysis of some of these scores.
• All news

Contents

• BBC micro: software, hardware, ROMs, and more
• General 8 bit computer related information: 6502 opcode tables, old hardware durability, deyellowing plastic and more.
• Thoughts on various 8 bit machines and on collecting, information on how to get the best results when scanning magazines, books, etc.

Wanted

• Wanted to experiment, and to 'play' :) I'd like a few BBC micros as backups and/or to use, because mine are acting up, and some software etc...

from 2002-8-10

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Last modified: 2019-5-1