JSBeeb – JavaScript BBC Micro Emulator

https://bbc.godbolt.org/

by robeerob • 8 years ago

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jacknews• 8 years ago

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

sgt• 8 years ago

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

radiowave• 8 years ago

Alternatively, at the prompt, type:

CHAIN "LOAD"

pjmlp• 8 years ago

Pick up the subject of old 8 bit computers, games and browsers.

Get ready for the 20 KB JS shooter competition.

https://gynvael.coldwind.pl/?id=686

thorin4• 8 years ago

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?

delibes• 8 years ago

I used to love the puzzle adventure things like Repton.

edit - and Castle Quest and Ravenskull.

thorin4• 8 years ago

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

dave-f• 8 years ago

A few to try:

Citadel (Arcade adventure) Imogen (Cute Puzzler) Chuckie Egg (Ladders 'n levels romp) Skirmish (Joust) 3D Pool (Lovely 3D Pool simulation) Thrust (Space Physics fun) Firetrack (Shooter)

thorin4• 8 years ago

Don't worry, I already know about Chuckie Egg. I've lapped it a few times, BBC possible the best version? I never really got into Thrust but will give it another go.

Thanks

crtasm• 8 years ago

Frak! I don't think I ever got past the second level as a kid, wonder how I'd fare after ~32years of platforming practice.

zem• 8 years ago

want to see if i can complete twin kingdom valley now! never did get the last lousy point.

FearNotDaniel• 8 years ago

  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...

mmjaa• 8 years ago

Its the ESCAPE key.

nudgeee• 8 years ago

  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

timthorn• 8 years ago

And that, of course, in homage to The Adventure Game: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/adventuregame/trivia.shtml

stuaxo2• 8 years ago

Press ESC or f12 is probably the BBC micro break button, though you may need OLD to get your program back.

rayui• 8 years ago

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

teh_klev• 8 years ago

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).

thorin4• 8 years ago

Look at the keyboard options...

rwmj2• 8 years ago

On my UK laptop keyboard, Shift @ works.

ariehkovler• 8 years ago

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.

stuaxo2• 8 years ago

Pod can pop

Was always funny / sad.

zellyn• 8 years ago

Never got a chance to use a BBC, but I did read Peter Killworth's “How to write Adventure Games” at one point: http://www.mocagh.org/softguide/writeadventuregames.pdf

zaf2• 8 years ago

Have the hard copy, fantastic book.

apo• 8 years ago

Default keyboard symbol mapping is surprising:

= -> ↑

' -> :

: -> +

and so on. Why?

Tried the entries on the Keyboard menu, which didn't seem to change much.

tom_2• 8 years ago

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...

JdeBP• 8 years ago

It's only surprising to those who do not know ASCII codes off by heart, from using the VDU statement. (-:

The BBC Micro had what is called a "bit-paired" keyboard.

It also had copy cursor keys and a reset key.

tom_2• 8 years ago

I think the up arrow here is the poster's rendering of the Mode 7 representation of ^.

SoulMan• 8 years ago

This is the first computer at school that I got my hands on

cjallen88• 8 years ago

I did a couple weeks of ‘work experience’ about 15 years ago at school and I spent some time playing with one. They gave it to me at the end of the last day, I still have it in my attic... it’s probably the reason I work in software.

rwmj2• 8 years ago

Nice that

*.

which lists the directory also makes a disk-whirring noise. And Elite!

    *RUN"ELITE3"

(* = shift @ on my keyboard)

JSBeeb – JavaScript BBC Micro Emulator

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