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[challenge entry] I loved the BBC Micro-- and it'd survive a power strike

with that clockwork adaptor

From the Power Strike challenge. See all 238 entries (closed)

(I helped save b3ta! drunkenoaf, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:06, archived)
# christ
I can remember trying to code duckhunt on one of those bastard things
(I helped save b3ta! GrandmaOfShoes, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:07, archived)
# surely that was the game on the NES
with the light gun.
(I helped save b3ta! drunkenoaf, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:07, archived)
# yeah I made a lazy version
that involved no y axis in the end

it was pretty easy, you sort of just waited and pressed space bar
(I helped save b3ta! GrandmaOfShoes, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:09, archived)
# *respects*
(I helped save b3ta! drunkenoaf, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:13, archived)
# hahahahaha
why would you respect a cock like me?
(I helped save b3ta! GrandmaOfShoes, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:14, archived)
# A 5' 9" Cock DEMANDS respect!
What was the 'BREAK' button for, pissing off your classmates aside?

(I helped save b3ta! Lord Manley of Ven www.justgiving.com/manley - please?, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:17, archived)
# 6'
but true a wang that large does in fact demand it

and break was fun on many levels
(I helped save b3ta! GrandmaOfShoes, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:19, archived)
# I respect the geekery
and that image of you on the b3ta image toolkit, heh heh

OLD
RUN
(I helped save b3ta! drunkenoaf, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:20, archived)
# haha
SWIFT
JOG
RUN
(I helped save b3ta! GrandmaOfShoes, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:23, archived)
# surely
SWIFT
PINT
(I helped save b3ta! drunkenoaf, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:33, archived)
# Breaking execution of code, Shurley?
D BREAK - CONT repeats

Edit: Yes, it's a speccy. No, I don't know the BBC version. Magic Mushrooms was fun.
(I helped save b3ta! Red wine and cheese., Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:23, archived)
# Not the command
The button.

But thanks anyway.

(I helped save b3ta! Lord Manley of Ven www.justgiving.com/manley - please?, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:27, archived)
# The Spectrum has a BREAK button, too
Most useful when your BASIC programs end up infinitely looping.
(I helped save b3ta! Red wine and cheese., Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:28, archived)
# ZX48?
(I helped save b3ta! Lord Manley of Ven www.justgiving.com/manley - please?, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:29, archived)
# All of them.
I still have a '+2',
which I bought after my 48k died :(
(I helped save b3ta! Red wine and cheese., Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:30, archived)
# Yay!
I remember playing 'Slippery Sid'.

I graduated on to a Commodore 16 after the ZX48.

I must still have it somewhere, but to be honest it was shite.

(I helped save b3ta! Lord Manley of Ven www.justgiving.com/manley - please?, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:31, archived)
# Except on those occasions
When you'd used a POKE number that you weren't 100% sure of. (YS magazine type-ins usually)
(Borusa's Weetabix, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:36, archived)
# Got a clockwork
TV too?
(I helped save b3ta! NobbyNobody 21 years a b3tan, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:07, archived)
# no
a clockwork microvitec cub monitor


/fancy
(I helped save b3ta! drunkenoaf, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:08, archived)
# furry muff
(I helped save b3ta! NobbyNobody 21 years a b3tan, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:10, archived)
# Wouldn't
it have to be renamed the B*C micro though, what with the Beeb not being able to actually broadcast anything much (other than seed I suppose)
(I helped save b3ta! Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:08, archived)
# When I was younger
my father tricked me into believing he had a coal-powered TV when he was a lad. bastard.
(I helped save b3ta! Malaka omdz, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:12, archived)
# Ha ha!
Come to think of it, I seem to remember showing my son how to pick up radio transmissions with a cat's whisker once...
(I helped save b3ta! Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Wed 3 Aug 2005, 19:17, archived)