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RE: BBC game in 1988

GNC — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:52:43 GMT

Ahh...we only remember the success...never the hours of typing and finding one piece mis-typed...and it all going belly-up :P

RE: BBC game in 1988

mfraser — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 14:56:59 GMT

[quote][b]jhsanders (04/11/2006)[/b][hr]Blimey, Clogger!

That takes me back! I never owned it myself but it makes me think of Repton and E-Type and Barbarian and Crazee Rider and I'm going to play with my Electron now....[/quote]

Wish I still had my Electron, but I sold it some years ago complete with 5 1/4" floppy drive. After that I had an A3010 and now a RISC PC. Thankfully I can still play all the old 8bit games with WSS's 6502 emulator or Michael Foot's Beeb It. (That reminds me, I'd better check I have the latest version).

RE: BBC game in 1988

jhsanders — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:13:51 GMT

Blimey, Clogger!

That takes me back! I never owned it myself but it makes me think of Repton and E-Type and Barbarian and Crazee Rider and I'm going to play with my Electron now....

RE: BBC game in 1988

mfraser — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:23:14 GMT

The game you're looking for is Clogger. It can be downloaded from http://www.stairwaytohell.com/bbc/archive/diskimages/Impact/Clogger.zip

You'll need something like BeebEm to play it on Windows or 6502Em to play it on RISC OS.

RE: BBC game in 1988

logicman — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:53:01 GMT

[quote]We're all n00bs till we get the knowledge & skillz, its just that some are n00bier![/quote]I'm the n00biest geek dude! (Yup. That sounds s0 c00l!)

W0w, Sn0wbum. S0 y0ur int0 this h0t secret c0de stuff t00 I see!
Can't blame BBC basic.
I was doing this silliness at Grammar school in the early 1960s. :)

A human is a finite size reservoir seeking to be filled with infinite knowledge.

RE: BBC game in 1988

SnowBum — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:34:03 GMT

[quote][b]logicman (17/09/2006)[/b][hr]Hi, Danny.

I don't recall that game, but I do recall programming in BBC Basic.
In fact, it's still available:
[url]http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic.html[/url]
[url]http://www.compulink.co.uk/~rrussell/bbcwin/bbcwin.html[/url]
(Ignore the 'best ever basic' reviewer. Xbasic was, and still is,
the best ever basic. Probably because it is C in heavy camouflage.)

I just found these games links, in case that helps:
[url]http://www.bbcmicrogames.com/[/url]
[url]http://www.acorn-gaming.org.uk/index.php3?p=Features/BBC/BBC2[/url]

I was more into Galaxians. :P[/quote]

LOL same here, in my middle school our computer teacher was brilliant. In fact thinking back he was probably one of my main reasons for getting involved in computing. We had a little group of 3 or 4 of us and he was writing an educational game. The idea of the game was that you were a diver and you had a limited air supply. You had to dive down to treasure chests which had numbers in them. Once at the surface you had to put the numbers into different equations to get the correct answer (which was given along with the mathematical functions between the number spaces). Then that gave you a longer air supply to reach deeper treasure chests. We were involved in doing the graphics and sounds. Wow, this brings it all back. They were fun times and i learnt such a lot off that guy, i can't even remember his name now.

RE: BBC game in 1988

cardcrash — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:25:41 GMT

No way! I remember playing on the BBC at boarding school too! Used to get in trouble for playing 'key-basher' games like aqua attack which was basically a version of centipeed, and you hammered the enter key as fast as you could!!

Wow... what else do I remember... detonator dan was one of my favourites, so was dive bomber, oh and the teacher used to like x-or which was a puzzle game which got really hard. There was another game which I can't remember the name of where the screen was split in 4, 1 for each character, or 'comrads', and they each had different powers or something... what was it????

RE: BBC game in 1988

logicman — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 15:25:40 GMT

Hi, Danny.

I don't recall that game, but I do recall programming in BBC Basic.
In fact, it's still available:
[url]http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic.html[/url]
[url]http://www.compulink.co.uk/~rrussell/bbcwin/bbcwin.html[/url]
(Ignore the 'best ever basic' reviewer. Xbasic was, and still is,
the best ever basic. Probably because it is C in heavy camouflage.)

I just found these games links, in case that helps:
[url]http://www.bbcmicrogames.com/[/url]
[url]http://www.acorn-gaming.org.uk/index.php3?p=Features/BBC/BBC2[/url]

I was more into Galaxians. :P

BBC game in 1988

Danny1 — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:29:41 GMT

I was at boarding school in 1987 to 92, during my spare time, I used to play a game on BBC microcomputer, I had forgetton what the name is, I wonder if you had played it before?

The game is about a puzzle maze, a bulldozer with a roller pushing a piece of puzzle from around a maze to central of a maze to make a picture to complete a game, it is a 2d game.

I hope you can remember as I would love to play it again.

Danny:)