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    From Avon@21:1/101 to All on Sat Jan 8 18:04:22 2022
    Hey troops :)

    Not sure if you have come across this one yet but I found it today and enjoyed it.

    Head to https://virtual.bbcmic.ro/and have a play on a virtual BBC Micro :)

    You can read more at https://www.dompajak.com/virtualbeeb

    Best, Paul

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  • From TALIADON@21:3/138 to Avon on Sat Jan 8 21:28:26 2022
    Head to https://virtual.bbcmic.ro/and have a play on a virtual BBC Micro

    Complete with working keyboard and CUB monitor!

    This is pretty special to be fair.

    Did the beeb make it as far as NZ back in the day?

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to TALIADON on Sun Jan 9 16:19:29 2022
    On 08 Jan 2022 at 09:28p, TALIADON pondered and said...
    Complete with working keyboard and CUB monitor!
    This is pretty special to be fair.

    It's very cool IMHO.

    Did the beeb make it as far as NZ back in the day?

    yes, we had a BBC B with the speech synthesis kit installed, we played a lot of Elite and I liked a game called Sentinel.

    We had a floppy drive and did a lot of programming of the micro.

    I loved the literacy show that accompanied the BBC and still enjoy watching some of those older shows with Ian 'Mac' McNaught Davis :) I really admired his ability to tel folks in plain terms what was going on with this new thing called a 'home computer'

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  • From TALIADON@21:3/138 to Avon on Sun Jan 9 13:41:42 2022
    It's very cool IMHO.

    Brought back so many memories; I even used to tilt the monitor up onto the
    back of the beeb as portrayed here.

    Elite and I liked a game called Sentinel.

    These were both fantastic performance squeezes on the been; I believe Elite
    had several multiplication routines that were optimised for different scenarios. Clever programming at its best.

    I loved the literacy show that accompanied the BBC and still enjoy watching some of those older shows with Ian 'Mac' McNaught Davis :) I really admired his

    Yeah, Mac absolutely loved the beeb - everything else was a toy as far as
    he was concerned. Fred Harris was a familiar face back in the early 80s,
    so I guess he was always my favourite.

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    * Origin: TALIADON BBS (21:3/138)