Repair and restoration links
Inspired by a recent Facebook post (one of the links below), I’ve created this page of links to repair and restoration information: Acorn Archimedes 3000 Repair & Restoration – Adam Wilson …
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Nostalgic Acorn Books
A number of books have been published that look back on the Acorn 8 and 32 bit era from a nostalgic viewpoint. Here are the ones that I’ve come across. …
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Modern BBC hardware upgrades
I’ll try and put details of modern hardware updates available for the BBC here. Gotek floppy drive emulator – acts as a floppy drive, attaches to the floppy interface, but …
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Manuals, books and documentation
My plan is to update this post with details of useful Acorn documentation available on line. The BBC Lives website has PDFs of lots of manuals available. Usborne have PDFs …
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Transferring BBC Micro discs with KryoFlux
KryoFlux is a USB floppy disc controller board which bridges the gap between modern computers and old disc drives. It can be used for connecting 5.25″ or 3.5″ BBC/Acorn DFS/ADFS …
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Transferring programs from tape
I recently attempted to transfer my old Acorn Electron tapes onto modern emulators. This post reports what I’ve discovered so far. Hopefully, I’ll update it as time goes on and …
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Revisiting Imogen
Author: Michael St Aubyn | Publisher: Micro Power | Released: 1986 Imogen is a puzzle game in which you take the role of a shapeshifting wizard. The idea is to …
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8-bit Acorn Emulators
I’ll try and keep this page up-to-date with a list of the latest BBC/Electron emulators for Mac, Linux and Windows. Another useful overview Is provided at the Emulation General Wiki. …
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