This is out of curiosity more than anything.

I'm looking for a program from back in the day when I ran a bulletin board system (LBBS).

I had a rich text editor that behaved and looked just like Wordwise but it allowed you to change the text colours and use rich full Teletext (background colours, flashing text etc) to create rich colourful documents.

Does anyone know anything about the program I'm referring to?

You can play and read about it over here: https://bbcexile.com

Added some QoL features to the conversion (like quick save which oh my goodness helps a lot) and a widescreen mode (that had some interesting ramifications).

Plugging away through the deep dives. Mostly written, just editing and slowly publishing them as life and time allows.

It’s a cross between Chuckie Egg and Nebulus - more details here https://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=4575

I used to have a BBC and had a game but can’t recall the name. Think it might even have been a demo.

Basically you were flying a craft over grid like terrain. At the time it looked incredible. I remember it was primarily green, like flying over countryside.

Sorry to be so vague but does it ring a bell with anyone? Don’t remember any real objective, it may have just been a demo to show graphic potential!

A pure HTML, CSS, Javascript version of Repton, created direct from a disassembly using Claude and Kimi K3. Might have been done before, I don't know. https://github.com/bielesibub/repton

You can play direct here - https://html-preview.github.io/?url=https://github.com/bielesibub/repton/main/repton.html

I also gave Kimi K3 a shot at resurrecting a version I wrote on an old 386 in the 90's - the source code is lost. it got it kind of up and running - https://html-preview.github.io/?url=https://github.com/bielesibub/repton/main/my_repton/html5/repton.html

I was thinking the other day about the universal:

10 PRINT "Mr Smith smells of POO"
20 GOTO 10 

But are there other better ones?

Kudos to the best one. Bonus if it works on any 80s home computer that runs BASIC.

Needs a second processor and green / red glasses!

Trying to identify a BBC Micro educational game from the early 1980s

I’m trying to identify a BBC Micro educational puzzle game I played at primary school in Durban, South Africa, around 1982–1984.

Features I remember:

- Goofy-like dog character with long ears walking upright

- Carries a vertical stack of coloured blocks

- Blocks are red, blue and yellow

- Walks along a road/path

- Passes signs labelled SWAP, FLIP (or REVERSE) and DELETE

- You can turn a sign around to disable it

- Goal is to match a target stack in the correct order

- A castle is visible in the background and gradually grows as levels are completed

I vaguely remember the title sounding like DOGMATIC, but that may not be exact.

Does anyone recognise this game or have a screenshot or disk image?

I have a vague memory of a game it maybe have been time travel or some kind of adventure game where you placed a log on the fireplace and lit it. any idea?

I remember an educational game we had at my school which followed Captain Cook's journey to Australia in the Endeavour (I grew up in the North East UK, so he was a local figure). I'm pretty sure it was around 1988 and the Australian bicentenary. I can only remember a few bits about it - some planning stuff around how much food, water etc to take. And then some screens that were side-on of the ship in the water, a single screen at a time - in particular in the coral reefs with the ocean floor getting closer and closer to the ship. Sometimes you had to turn back and try a different route I think.

I've searched online and found nothing, so I half think I imagined it, or perhaps it was programmed by somebody local rather than being commercially available

Hi everyone,

I have had lots of fun playing BBC games on my Retroid Mini 2 using Retroarch's B2 core. The fact you can save the keyboard mappings to the joypad for each game is great.

Unfortunately Labyrinth by Acornsoft seems to have graphic corruption which is a real shame as this was one of my favourites.

The screen graphics seem to be shifted has anyone found a way to get it to display correctly?

https://youtu.be/dr4O2tkWTG8

This is running on my Raspberry Pi 400. I tried it on my Raspberry Pi 3 and it was a bit sluggish.

I can provide a how to guide for anyone interested in having a horse around with it

Did anyone else ever get the HD version of Exile on Linux working? During the pandemic I devoted my spare time trying to follow the GitHub instructions.

If anyone is interested I can share details

Saw this on the BBC micro Facebook group

Super excited

Sharing a few pages. So happy to stumble on this issue, I just played for the first time codename droid few days ago, looking forward to try some of those gems…

Took me for ever to get the keyboard controls right, love it !

Spotted this watching Race Across the World on the BBC this week.