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JSBeeb – JavaScript BBC Micro Emulator

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Re: JSBeeb – JavaScript BBC Micro Emulator

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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'd forgotten about Repton! Is Granny's Garden available freely - I seem to remember they are still trying to sell it!

Re: JSBeeb – JavaScript BBC Micro Emulator

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Oh the feels.

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.

Re: JSBeeb – JavaScript BBC Micro Emulator

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without a working "*" key, makes it pretty unusable!

The top menu has a drop down menu where you can choose between:

  Physical: '*' is next to Enter/Return

  Natural: '*' is shift-8

For me with a UK PC keyboard Physical is shift + ' (that key also has my @ character on it). It'd be where the star key would be on a BBC keyboard.

Natural is just shift + 8 (where the asterisk is normally located).

Re: JSBeeb – JavaScript BBC Micro Emulator

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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
As seen in the BBC cult classic Look Around You intro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBaVwwuErmU

Re: JSBeeb – JavaScript BBC Micro Emulator

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Default keyboard symbol mapping is surprising: = -> ↑ ' -> : : -> + and so on. Why? Tried the entries on the Keyboard menu, which didn't seem to change much.

That's where the keys are, physically, on the real BBC Micro. Good shot of the keyboard on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro#/media/File:BBC_Micr...

Re: JSBeeb – JavaScript BBC Micro Emulator

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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

Alternatively, at the prompt, type:

>CHAIN "LOAD"

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