BBC Micro Emulator
Unfortunately the days of the BBC Micro have been and passed, but the technology has been kept alive by the fans and the games can be played using an emulator, that will enable you to run BBC Micro software on your PC.
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Anyone over 30 is sure to feel a nostalgic inner-glow whenever the BBC Micro is mentioned.
The world has changed so much in the last 30 years with regards to computing. Now it is common for households of people who are not even considered geeky to have a couple of computers, a playstation, myspace and facebook pages, mobile phones with internet connections, etc... But for a large chunk of the 1980s the 'Beeb', was one of the main ways people in the UK accessed computer technology.
[ more... ]The Dark Wheel
The Dark Wheel is a 1984 novella set in the Elite computer game universe and distributed with the original boxed game for most 8 and 16 bit versions. It was written by noted fantasy writer Robert Holdstock, and was the first novella to be included for distribution with a computer game.
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