Time for memories of schooldays now for my fellow old folk as this BBC Micro emulator gets an update, no doubt many of the younger people reading this may try this and wonder how we managed with the system back in the day, well it was a pretty good machine for its time and lets not forget it did give birth to Elite, let’s ...

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... to form Acorn Computers. These were the bubble years of the micro-computer. It seems that Curry had the idea first but couldn't distract Sinclair ... Apple II), but then Curry and his colleagues won the contract to make the BBC Micro under license. Sinclair responded by trying to outflank Acorn ... RAM unit on the ZX80.) {Full disclosure: I have a ZX81 and a BBC 'B' in a box in my storeroom ...

This trailer - for a new season on BBC4 - looks interesting. Not sure about Charlie Brooker's assertion that BBC Micro owners were "posh". For that matter, it wasn't Spectrum vs BBC - I owned one of each... (Maybe that does make me posh...) ♥ this trailer for the latest series of Top Gear... And this ...

... . Edit: the reference solution, in extras/project-euler/004.factor, is on the lines of my first attempt, but does everything strictly. In one of those "I don't think we're on the BBC Micro anymore, Toto" moments, I'd totally failed to realise that you could just load the whole million-element array into memory and sort it. On ...

... Every games journalist worth their salt, or at least those old enough to remember this classic, have been hankering for a return of the space based trading classic. Originally created for the BBC Micro by programming team David Braben and Ian Bell Elite took the gaming world by storm. With it’s open-ended gameplay and a massive 8 ...

Another thought provoking talk by Steve Furber (BBC Micro, ARM et al), this time on High Impact Research. Hopefully, I'll find time to blog about this later. I've heard him speak before and he's a good speaker with interesting things to say. If you ever get the chance to hear him, take it.

I was talking to a friend of many years today.  I first met Andy Hutt sometime around 1990, this was after the BBC micro but before the World Wide Web.  Recently he gave the key note address at the ICT Conference at UWE in Bristol and today it was the turn of the Wiltshire Council conference at the Corn ...

... ;s Gemmell Awards and this year's Gollancz party, just two months ago, when we talked about The Dark Wheel, the novella he wrote that accompanied the original BBC Micro release of Elite in 1984 and was almost certainly the first work of science fiction I ever read. Robert's last public appearance was at an event celebrating the classic computer ...

... things off - saving an average £100 per household in trials. And by removing the cost of meter reading the energy companies could afford to fit them free. But the big dividend could come from micro-generation. Everyone doing their small bit to increase the amount of renewable energy on the system. The US company GE have a launch of the technology at the Berkshire headquarters to time with the ...

You get its thrust. You wait 23 years for a rehash of the BBC Micro classic Thrust, and two come along at once - both exclusive to PS3 on the PlayStation Network. PixelJunk Shooter, not yet released but the recipient of an 8/10 review last week, is the very ...

... behind Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley and Micro Men. Audience members - including the Queen and ... the strongest performer among the sixteen-to-tirhty four demographic, according to the BBC. Overall, the broadcaster's reach to that age group is ... programming that the free market would simply not provide. And with BBC HD and the iPlayer we continue to pioneer the use new technologies ...

... JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. bbc.fmtj.av.emp.load( function() ... disease. Armstrong has more than two million followers worldwide on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Such has been the effect of the 38 ...

... A model, almost. Because you’re delivering news almost to the school gates; the BBC can do the rest… All we need to do now is re-populate the rest of the UK with similar micro-sites for the news that really matters to you… and we might be onto a winner. Just. But the answer will come from the bottom up, not ...