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by BernardUK
Tue Jun 24, 2014 11:12 am
Forum: General
Topic: Acornsoft titles
Replies: 2
Views: 4692

Acornsoft titles

I forgot to ask Jon at the ROUGOL meeting whether old Acornsoft titles originally written for the BBC Micro were
(a) ported to run under RISC OS
(b) available to the preservation project.
I ask because a program such as Snapper was (to me) much more appealing than Pac-mania.
by BernardUK
Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:37 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: ROUGOL talk
Replies: 4
Views: 12883

Re: ROUGOL talk

JonAbbott wrote:I've now attached the PowerPoint presentation I used, to the OP above.
Thank you, though my Win7 wouldn't unzip it. SparkFS dealt with it OK, but being really a .pptx file, it doens't benefit from zipping! :)
by BernardUK
Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:17 am
Forum: Research
Topic: Superior Software
Replies: 4
Views: 31161

Re: Superior Software

Hooray: David Braben awarded OBE in the 2014 Birthday Honours.

(Surely you'll be able to find him now, even if only by jumping out at him as he comes out of the Palace!).
by BernardUK
Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:36 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: ROUGOL talk
Replies: 4
Views: 12883

Re: ROUGOL talk

Excellent talk. Good presentation and very convincing and interesting demonstration of some of the games on a Pi. Hope you can show off your successes at the next RISC OS London Show (25-Oct-2014). Big thank you to Jon. Bernard. PS. I'd love to see Fervour working again, but is that a particularly d...