Retro Software is both a community dedicated to supporting the development of new games for retro computing platforms and a publishing label for Acorn micros.
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9 Apr 2023
New Easter game for the Acorn BBC Master from @educraftuk
PIXEL DASH - Rabbit Rampage
bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=4…
By Andrew Rowland with graphics by @colinhoad @femtosonic & @barbarossa69
For more info see: stardot.org.uk/forums/viewto…
For more levels bookmark play.educraft.uk
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24 Apr 2025
Acorn Electron shoot 'em up WIP. Quick screenshot to show the work I've done on the dashboard / status panel at the top of the screen
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17 Feb 2025
I just downloaded Zezito and the Lost Stars by Iapetus iapetus2019.itch.io/zezito-a… #indiegames via @itchio
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8 Jan 2025
The first video upload to the #ABug YouTube channel in several years: part 1 of last night's interview with BBC Micro/Acorn Electron games and coding YouTuber @colinhoad, by Paul Bussey (Tosk).
youtube.com/watch?v=L6k6Zgd0…
Part 2 will be added to Youtube in a few day's time ...
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15 Nov 2024
Electroniq WIP. Showing the main menu where you can insert/eject/save/create media (tape/disk/sdcard). There are 2 disk drives now. Loading/saving compressed tape files now supported. You can also load media straight from GitHub, or drag&drop local files onto my online emulator
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31 Oct 2024
Ghouls: Revenge - bitshifters.github.io/posts/… - updated version of the BBC Micro classic
* 2 new game modes
* 60 new levels!
* Includes level editor
#bbcmicro #retrogames
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12 Oct 2024
How about a bit of Unreal II by Purple Motion on the Acorn Electron? (albeit with no volume control, limited frequency range, no noise channel and only a single tone channel)
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30 Aug 2024
Continuing to grow the #GTW archive, here are two more new unreleased game entries added today, including Cyberdyne Warrior on the #BBCMicro and Rise of the Robots for the #SEGA Master System:
gamesthatwerent.com/2024/08/…
gamesthatwerent.com/2024/08/…
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28 Jul 2024
Flappy Bird for Acorn Electron WIP. Sneak peek at the new backdrop and the bird itself. I managed to create enough space for a second screen buffer, which will be the next step
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17 Jul 2024
I know you have all been eager to get your hands on my CHIP-8 emulator for the Acorn Electron 🤣
Well, the wait is over! Here is release v0.1. Let me know what you think about it, enjoy!
github.com/0xC0DE6502/CHIP-8…
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23 Jun 2024
I can now throw any CHIP-8 or S-CHIP game at my emulator (running on the Acorn Electron) without problems. I added a menu that allows me to quickly switch between games on the disk
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28 May 2024
A classic BBC Micro track originally coded in BASIC - Addicts' Anthem by Daniel Pugh. There always seemed to be a very slight pause between pattern transitions, so I've taken the music data and re-implemented in 6502 assembler (Hence the strange playback rate).
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28 Apr 2024
Revisiting another #C64 #SID conversion to the #SN76489. I loved playing Last Ninja 2 on the Acorn Electron and #BBCMicro... but lacked any music.
Here's a conversion of Central Park Loader by Matt Gray. Can't reproduce all the SID character, but the SN76489 is giving it a go.
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11 Apr 2024
The RiscPC will reach the ripe old age of thirty on Monday, 15th April - so why not mark the occasion by joining the RISC OS User Group of London's meeting that evening?
riscository.com/2024/sing-ha…
#Birthday #Celebration #London #Meeting #RiscPC #ROUGOL #UserGroup #RISC_OS
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Acorn Atom版 AntiAir #acornatom
inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/ant…
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19 Jan 2024
The Classic Adventurer - Issue 01
A bookzine dedicated to the golden era of text adventures.
Featuring Twin Kingom Valley, The Hobbit, Level 9, Adventure I, Doomsday Lost Echos and @ZXadventurer.
Download for free, or print-on-demand.
classicadventurer.co.uk/
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29 Dec 2023
Sideways RAM support for the BBC Micro LZSS Music Player is in - will use as many banks as you have available to fit the track into memory, but few need more than 4.
Here's a classic C64 conversion running in the player - Cybernoid by Jeroen Tel
#bbcmicro #sn76489 #c64 #mos6581
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16 Dec 2023
'Pew-pew-pew-pew !!'
The wall gap is nearly done.... just thought I'd move onto the ship missiles and come back to that later on.... just for sanity reasons you understand ! 😅
14 Dec 2023
Electron Fortress
Started work on the wall gap, which is being pesky, and slow.... I'm a bit too tired I think, so will pause a give it another go tomorrow ! WIP on the stats area to the left !
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Modern day tools are so cool for developing games on retro computers. Here's the BBC Micro source code for 'Crazee Rider' assembling using VSCode, Beeb VSC and BeebAsm. It then packages up the object files into a disk image suitable for loading and running on an emulator.
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14 Nov 2023
Multi-room levels are working now 👍
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