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Online BBC Micro Emulator

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:45 pm
by Gandelf
Try this link to a BBC Micro Emulator.

http://www.drobe.co.uk/micro/

If you click the "Eject Disk" button and then click the "Load Disk" button you can select virtually any game that was written for the BBC Micro. If you click on the BBC Micro screen then press SHIFT+F12 it will the load the game up.


There's one game you can load, which I remember playing back in 1984. It's called "1984" and gives you the chance to run the British Government. It's only a text based game, but it's quite tricky to keep the budget balanced and keep everyone happy.

Loads of games.

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:45 am
by Arcsalin
Gandelf wrote:Try this link to a BBC Micro Emulator.

http://www.drobe.co.uk/micro/

If you click the "Eject Disk" button and then click the "Load Disk" button you can select virtually any game that was written for the BBC Micro. If you click on the BBC Micro screen then press SHIFT+F12 it will the load the game up.


There's one game you can load, which I remember playing back in 1984. It's called "1984" and gives you the chance to run the British Government. It's only a text based game, but it's quite tricky to keep the budget balanced and keep everyone happy.

Loads of games.
There's been lots of emulators running around for various old format comps for years now, difference to them these days is how well the library for the old software is kept. For example, ZX spectrum has a very large library of old games and software, would be interesting to see how well the old library of BBC micro games has been stored on the net and how accessable it is.