Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> writes:
Does anyone have any interest in playing anything on a BBC Micro? I would love to know which games are the best out of the hundreds on there. Maybe we have a joystick from the museum that can be used.
Doing "Sort by Popular" on bbcmicro.co.uk is a good start: https://bbcmicro.co.uk/index.php?sort=p Elite, Exile and Revs are all complex simulation-y games that originated on the BBC and take advantage of its reasonably fast CPU. Mark Moxon's compendium versions of Elite and Revs are the best way to play them: https://elite.bbcelite.com/hacks/elite_compendium_downloads.html https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=365549 Other games that were distinctive on the BBC... The Repton series of Boulder Dash-style puzzle games was very popular, as were platformers like Castle Quest, Imogen, Citadel and Frak!. There were also some distinctive text adventures developed at Cambridge, including Philosopher's Quest, Countdown to Doom and Acheton. Schoolchildren of the 1980s will remember Granny's Garden, L: A Mathemagical Adventure (I remember breaking into this and reading the BASIC code to solve some of the puzzles!), and Podd. And while the genre wasn't especially common, Fire Track is an impressive vertically scrolling shooter. I'd recommend Michael Brown's compilation disks for most games, since he includes fixes and instructions where available: https://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8270 Note that most games don't have joystick support -- the most common BBC joysticks were Voltmace analogue sticks, so they're best-supported in games like Elite and Aviator. Cheers, -- Adam Sampson <ats@offog.org> <http://offog.org/>