Can My Old BBC Master 128 Play The 8-Bit Games I Loved As A Kid?

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My old BBC Master 128 Micro has been under the bed for over 10 years!
Will it still work? Will the disks load?
Should I upgrade it with an SD card reader?
Will it bring back my childhood of playing classic 8-bit games?
Acorn BBC Master 128
Technomatic 5.25" Floppy Disk Drive
TheFutureWas8Bit SD2BBC SD Card Reader
00:49 Floppy Disk Fun
01:39 SD Card Reader
02:35 Teletext Mode
04:32 Arcade Clones
06:54 Speech
07:30 Platform Adventures
11:51 Revs
13:32 Elite - Master Enhanced
16:27 Exile - Master Enhanced
19:03 Group Photo
Teletext Art - Thanks to Dan Farrimond
danfarrimond.co.uk/
‪@illarterate‬
Teletext Elite
www.bbcelite.com/
Acornsoft - Arcade Action, Arcadians, Meteors, Planetoid, Rocket Raid, Snapper, Revs, Elite
Superior Software - Speech, Citadel, Palace Of Magic
Superior Software / Acornsoft - Exile
Micro Power - Castle Quest
A+F Software - Chuckie Egg
Aardvark Software - Frak

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26 дек 2023

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@GeorgeStanmore 6 месяцев назад

Frak, castle quest,palace of magic,citadel, defender. I love you this takes me back . Repton, codename droid, tapper. Kissing cousins, caveman capers

@johnny5805 6 месяцев назад

Back in the day, I remember being ASTONISHED by REVS ! I remember thinking it looked photo-realistic, and how could computer graphics EVER improve beyond this !? 🙂

@lilacfloyd 6 месяцев назад

I felt the same. I also remember being amazed playing formula one grand prix a few years later on the Amiga. Geoff Crammond, what a legend.

@beagsx3 6 месяцев назад

Can distinctively remember we had a BBC micro at my primary school,and it used to get wheeled about from classroom to classroom. What an incredible machine it was

@hiroprotagonist1587 6 месяцев назад

Used to go to computer club at high school just so that I could play Elite, Chuckie Egg, and Imogen unless I was lucky enough to get on one of the Archimedes. Even after I upgraded from a ZX Spectrum to an Atari ST at home there was always something about the games on the BBC machines.

@siturl5834 6 месяцев назад

I had a bbc master compact as a kid….”Revs” was a brilliant game at the time.

@inphanta 6 месяцев назад

I was a C64 kid but played on the BBC a lot as they were everywhere back in the day. Citadel was confounding and creepy. I also played a hacked version of Frak called “Fuck” that I encountered at a computer camp. The same camp introduced me to Imogen, which is one of the best games I ever played on the BBC. A special shoutout must also go to The Sentinel as this started life on the BBC as well.

@alexandermirdzveli3200 Месяц назад

This is the best review of BBC games I have ever seen!

@pixel_fandango Месяц назад

Thank you. That's very encouraging for me. Cheers!

@mattmyers9351 Месяц назад

You did a great job explaining the Master's capabilities. Especially for a guy from the U.S. who hadn't grown up with the standard BBC Micro or Master, let alone even heard of either until 2016 until I discovered it in Retro Gamer Magazine.

@pixel_fandango Месяц назад

Thanks. I'm hoping to do more videos on the Master and other Acorn machines (as well as other stuff) in the next month or so. Cheers!

@illarterate 6 месяцев назад

Awesome to be featured, thank you! "What do you mean 'we'? I did that!" ... It's the royal we. 😂 Palace of Magic looks hard. Think I might give it a miss. ;)

@pixel_fandango 6 месяцев назад

Cheers! Have a great new year!

@GreyHulk2156 6 месяцев назад

A great video... and I didn't feel tempted, even once, to switch to videos of cats that look like celebrities. :)

@melthebell33 6 месяцев назад

Chuckie egg and frak two of my all time favourite games

@davidholmes2932 6 месяцев назад

Your videos are getting better and better and more entertaining

@pixel_fandango 6 месяцев назад

Thanks Dave. 👍

@CharlieAngel-vy5zi 6 месяцев назад

Cheers. Played at School and got one home for summer holiday, could never have afforded one. Amazing games Chuckle Egg, Thrust, Ghouls, Snapper, Great Britain Ltd, Frak all copies. Never liked Elite. Awesome machine way before its time

@darrenwells2277 6 месяцев назад

Really enjoyed that video... I too had the Master back in the 80s and it was great to relive some old memories.

@pixel_fandango 6 месяцев назад

Thanks. That's good to hear.

@camptube7621 6 месяцев назад

I had the Kenneth Kendal chip in my BBC for speech. The first digitised analog speech. This was the machine that got me into Basic. Yes chuckie egg was the best. But Magic Mushrooms with its amazing game design was one of my favourites. Good times.

@Retro4u 6 месяцев назад

I’ve just done a video on my bbc I got working glad to see another my fav game was Imogen great video enjoyed it used to love playing games instead of doing science lol

@michaelhill6453 6 месяцев назад

Great stuff! Exile. One of my all time faves.

@AmigosRetroGaming 6 месяцев назад

Great video! I got to play a BBC Master at Boatfest last year, and I was VERY impressed. I love the look of it, and the keyboard is quite good. I gotta try Exile...that looks like a big winner!

@pixel_fandango 6 месяцев назад

Cheers! Exile is a great game, but it's tricky! Great to hear from you guys. Hope you had a merry Christmas.

@taxibeforesunsetclips7629 6 месяцев назад

I remember the game Granny's Garden on this computer in primary school 1985/86(?). The class took turns in pairs to play it outside in the corridor while class carried on behind the door. It captured my imagination even though it was probably an educational game. Edit: Not sure if it is this computer actually.

@tomproctor8406 6 месяцев назад

Great vid baby

@pixel_fandango 6 месяцев назад

Cheers!

@AlanPope 6 месяцев назад

I wrote a virus for the BBC Master back in the day (~1989). It wasn't super harmful, but would move the !boot file and replace it with the virus loader. It would sit in sideways RAM, and every 32 times you hard-reset (ctrl+break) the BBC, it would print "hello world" in double-height dual-colour mode 7 text on boot. I had all my floppy disks confiscated at college as a result. Oopsie.

@wifflemonkey 6 месяцев назад

Exile WTF!

@pixel_fandango 6 месяцев назад

It's just amazing for an 8-bit game.

@wifflemonkey 6 месяцев назад

Exile was good an most platforms, I had it on C64 and it was excellent.

@pixel_fandango 6 месяцев назад

I'm hoping to try the Amiga version soon. I just hope the magic isn't lost in 16-bits.

@CastleKnight7 6 месяцев назад

I had a Speccy, but I have fond memories of going round to my friend’s house to play Elite with him. We also enjoyed many a game of Frak. Stryker's Run was another classic.

@MrYossarianuk 6 месяцев назад

@@pixel_fandango The Amiga version is amazing.. Make sure you try the standard version (OCS) not the AGA version, that just doesn't play as well, its like they tamed the physics on the newer AGA version.

@The_Last_Ninja 6 месяцев назад

10:12 I think Dino Eggs on the C64 takes the cake for most playable platformer ever

@pixel_fandango 6 месяцев назад

I must admit I'm not familiar with that game. I'll check it out some time. As an Acorn fan back in the day Chuckie Egg will always be special to me.

@David_JA_Noble 6 месяцев назад

BBC computer … the BBC microbit newest hardware … I wish they had added an HDMI and USB on that micro controller and we could have had a BBC back (of sorts).

@pixel_fandango 6 месяцев назад

I'd very much like to see a mini BBC micro recreation like the Retro Games C64.I think a miniature version of the BBC model B case would look great, but not sure how well it would sell.

@johnblythe6261 6 месяцев назад

Great video.... you should go find the new Master software.... Prince of Persia AND Stuntcar Racer both Master exclusive. Ported by BitShifters. Stunning games

@pixel_fandango 6 месяцев назад

Cheers! I might well do that.

@andyw5598 6 месяцев назад

Can anyone remember the 2 player plane game on the BBC? Both played with keyboard and you simply had to shoot your opponent down.

@arwuh 6 месяцев назад

Bandits at 3 O'Clock

@David_JA_Noble 6 месяцев назад

Great video. I watch retro stuff (I used to buy and sell systems , but the market has moved too expensive now and I’m out of stock). Interestingly the video was pushed by the RU-vid algo to me . Am pleased . BBC if it came out a little bit later they would have just designed slightly better on graphics and it could have been better than c64 …

@pixel_fandango 6 месяцев назад

One big problem was that the best graphics modes for games took 20k of the 32k user ram on a model B. That didn't leave much space for code or data. I wonder if they could have given you the option of switching the basic rom out for ram in earlier models, but ram was costly then and the BBC was already seen as expensive. Cheers and happy new year!

@Sinn0100 6 месяцев назад

I do not know anything about this computer or even what "high-street" means. I started gaming in 1986 with the Nes and Master System. I moved onto the Sega Genesis in 1989 and got my Snes in 1991. Having said that...I am fascinated by old computers. Question- How is a game "enhanced" when it is on disk? The disk doesn't include any extra hardware...it it just the storage size? If so couldn't they make a tape theoretically as big as they wanted by adding more magnetic tape?

@pixel_fandango 6 месяцев назад

The enhanced version uses the extra hardware - memory mainly - that the BBC master had compared to the 'standard' BBC model B computer.

@Sinn0100 6 месяцев назад

@@pixel_fandango Oh neat! Thank you. It just didn't make sense to me. The disk version is better than the cassette despite not having any extra hardware (because it's a disk) was such a strange concept. I still don't know why they couldn't do the same thing with the cassette? Was it perhaps because the cost of a disk drive was at times as expensive as the computer? Maybe they felt if you committed more to the machine you should get more out of it?

@garyhart6421 6 месяцев назад

Half the price ? More like a quarter.

@pixel_fandango 6 месяцев назад

The Spectrum was certainly much cheaper than any BBC model. Ideally I should have a Spectrum +2 or +3 for comparison with a Master but I've only got the classic rubber key version - which, IMHO, is more photogenic.

@garyhart6421 6 месяцев назад

I had the Plus (+) which was £50 and DOA Replaced but the wasted time + disappointment

@garyhart6421 6 месяцев назад

I remember I could not get the SAY prog... to say FLAG properly ---- It always came out as FLAP

@pixel_fandango 6 месяцев назад

Yeah :-) , you have to be a bit experimental.