This is pretty cool.

It's a visualisation of the internals of The Sentinel on the #BBCMicro.

This is it generating the game landscape for the first level from 1024 pseudo-random numbers.

It’s an animated GIF. If you can’t see the animation, you can see it here:

https://thesentinel.bbcelite.com/images/landscape/generate_landscape_0000_dark.gif

Next week I'll be releasing a deep dive into exactly how this works.

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A big thanks to Simon Owen, whose excellent repository I forked and enhanced in order to build this visualisation. It's well worth a visit.

https://github.com/simonowen/sentland/

#bbcmicro #retrocomputing #retrogaming #c64 #8bit

DOS on a BBC Micro - GOTEK, Raspberry Pi PiTubeDirect, 1779 Floppy Controller upgrades.

https://makertube.net/w/1AHecXebUz4zxzjuiDDyH7

That time the UK Government tried to turn us all into coders - The BBC Micro

https://makertube.net/w/4iRpHfj64eyeMbsW13fY3Q

LOGO - Obsolete Programming Language #1

https://makertube.net/w/nuT3hXBtwB1C97R6nJ6LQ9

@PaulaMaddox

Rendered using a program (above) thats less than 500 bytes.

#BBCMicro #AcornElectron

I'm (slowly!) releasing 50+ deep dives into The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic #BBCMicro game.

Batch #2 is now ready: 7 new articles about maths, geometry, trigonometry… and Revs.

https://thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives

Batch #3 (landscape) coming soon.

Enjoy!

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #c64 #8bit

I'm releasing over 50 deep dives into The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond's epic #BBCMicro game.

Batch #1 is now ready: 6 new articles about memory maps, program flow and interrupts, all at:

https://thesentinel.bbcelite.com/deep_dives

Batch #2 (maths, lots of!) coming soon.

Enjoy!

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #c64 #8bit

@lobsters
Wow! There's a blast from the past!

#BBCMicro #6502 #6502bug

I had a daft idea.

Connect a BBC Micro B monitor port to ESP32 and use quad SPI to clock RGB+line sync triggered on frame sync and then mapped to original resolution PNG image via WiFi/web page.

Technically tricky. Tiny bit of circuit for sync and levels. Small. Powered by the port. Could be in-line working to a monitor.

I decided not to, as you can just buy RGB to HDMI, and HDMI capture cards, and job done, to video/stream even.

And, I’d have to fix one of my beebs.

#tech #bbcmicro #ESP32

Mistodon: this dashing #BBCMicro high resolution graphics portrait of #ToussaintLouverture, the key leader of the Haitian Revolution, was drawn by @pixelblip and included in the MIST0221 artpack collection released five years ago this month. Happy #BlackHistoryMonth!

Heh. Again, bigger than I was expecting!
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Rifflab

Repton FTW :-) #retrogaming #bbc #repton #bbcmicro

I've started writing a series of deep dives into Geoff Crammond's epic #BBCMicro game The Sentinel.

Here's the to-do list.

I will post a link here whenever I add a new one to https://thesentinel.bbcelite.com/

It's going to take a while! But it should be worth it...

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #c64 #8bit

Miss Potter (Renée Zellweger). #bbcmicro mode 1 (320x256, 2bpp). #retrospecs

@penguin42
How very curious - I wonder what I'm remembering then. LOL
#BBCMicro

@penguin42
That's interesting - I'm sure *my* Beeb has MIDI. (I can't get at it at the moment so am unable to check!).
Am I suffering from false-memory syndrome?
#BBCMicro #music #MIDI #DINsockets

Some nostalgic fun here for #Commodore64 users with a musical bent.
(Obviously, this sort of thing didn't exist for the BBC Micro because it had a MIDI socket - unless you know differently(?))

https://tinkerbetter.tube/w/9uoHMyz4ZYC1rytaKJNLXn
#music #retrocomputing #BBCMicro #6502

"Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire" has a small collection of somewhat anachronistic appearances. There is a brief glimpse of an Apple IIe and a Commodore PET 2001 appears in the background. Rather strangely for a film set in the USA, there is a fairly important role for an Acorn BBC Micro.

http://www.starringthecomputer.com/newsitem.html?i=2026-01-25%2021:05

#computersinmovies #BBCMicro #AppleIIe #CommodorePET

Anyone who thinks the #bbcmicro can’t display serious dramatic artwork really isn’t trying. (mode 1, 2bpp, 320x256) #retrospecs @retrospecs

Hans Egede monument, Greenland.
#bbcmicro #retrospecs

@argv_minus_one

People have brought up the TOPS-20 command processor already.

Just for completeness, I'll mention DCL on VMS, which had long parameter names (e.g. /COPIES to PRINT and /FULL to DIRECTORY).

There's also MCR on VMS (and RSX), with HELLO and BYE for logging on and off.

Don't forget the whole "* commands" system on the BBC MIcro, either.

#VMS #CLI #TOPS20 #DCL #DIGITAL #retrocomputing #MCR #RSX #BBCMicro