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[challenge entry] Frak it!

From the British Computer games challenge. See all 108 entries (closed)

(Delay Tactics Intentionally left blank, Tue 28 Aug 2018, 19:25, archived)
# Yay!
Huge fan of this game and Orlando's '80s output!

The above was a regular refrain in the school computer room before I hacked various cheats into the copy on the Econet server...
(I helped save b3ta! Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Tue 28 Aug 2018, 19:41, archived)
[challenge entry] Loved that game.
Have a pea for the c.


(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Tue 28 Aug 2018, 19:46, archived)
# Sweary Frak actually existed.
It's worse than you could imagine.
www.digitiser2000.com/main-page/my-10-favourite-bbc-micro-games
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 28 Aug 2018, 21:28, archived)
# I'm a big fan of the bbc b
Pretty much every game ever made for it can be played online at www.bbcmicro.co.uk

...not sure about sweary Frak though!
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Tue 28 Aug 2018, 23:25, archived)
# I always go for Acorn Electron stuff
if I want something from that period as that is what I used to have so it has the nostalgia value. Not sure I could tell the difference, however.

I like how sturdy both their graphics were. Nice, blocky and bright.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 28 Aug 2018, 23:48, archived)
# I had an Electron,
Parents couldn't afford to drop the cash on a BBC Micro, and I didn't want a speccy or C64...

Plenty of Beebs to hack the fuck out of at school, though (I seriously pwned the school network and was going online, via BBSs, on them).
(I helped save b3ta! Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Wed 29 Aug 2018, 0:43, archived)
# If 32KB of memory serves me right,
the one and only difference was Mode 7, the BBC Teletext mode. Electrons didn't have it, BBC Micros did.
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Wed 29 Aug 2018, 2:02, archived)
# Nah, big difference in memory access contention from cheaper circuitry design
The picture generation on the Electron tied up the memory way more than on the Beeb, slowing down any code running on it, particularly anything redrawing graphics.
(I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 29 Aug 2018, 13:45, archived)
# Thank you
Bookmarked.
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