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Frak worked first time, haven't seen that in a while. Very nice. There are loads of good text adventures on BBC and of course Elite but has anyone else got any good recommends?
I used to love the puzzle adventure things like Repton. edit - and Castle Quest and Ravenskull.
I had a ZX Spectrum at home so that made me one of the 'techie' kids in my school who could use the class BBC better than the teachers. It was my second experience with BASIC, and BBC BASIC was a little different to ZX Basic so I had to learn to adapt the syntax of my kiddie code.
And the games! Anyone else play Podd? I still remember the first time I figured out you could make him explode.
without a working "*" key, makes it pretty unusable!
Physical: '*' is next to Enter/Return
Natural: '*' is shift-8
Natural is just shift + 8 (where the asterisk is normally located).
without a working "*" key, makes it pretty unusable!
10 PRINT "HELLO "; 20 GOTO 10 RUN Ah, the memories. But I forgot how to break out of such a loop. Lucky there's a hard/soft reset option in the website menu...
= -> ↑
' -> :
: -> +
and so on. Why?
Tried the entries on the Keyboard menu, which didn't seem to change much.
10 PRINT "HELLO "; 20 GOTO 10 RUN Ah, the memories. But I forgot how to break out of such a loop. Lucky there's a hard/soft reset option in the website menu...
10 PRINT "LOOK AROUND YOU ";
20 GOTO 10
RUN
Default keyboard symbol mapping is surprising: = -> ↑ ' -> : : -> + and so on. Why? Tried the entries on the Keyboard menu, which didn't seem to change much.
Very nice, how do I run elite? I never had a disk system edit: Ah got it, shift-break on BBC, fn-shift-right_command-F12 on macbook pro touchbar
I've been trying to do that but I can't seem to make it work. fn-shift-right cmd-f12... on MBP non touchbar
>CHAIN "LOAD"
