Whomwah.com » bbcbasic http://whomwah.com The website of Duncan Robertson, currently working for the BBC in London, Uk Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:51:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Repton and BBC Basic, a blast from the past http://whomwah.com/2008/10/02/repton-and-bbc-basic-a-blast-from-the-past/ http://whomwah.com/2008/10/02/repton-and-bbc-basic-a-blast-from-the-past/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:30:36 +0000 Duncan http://whomwah.com/?p=602 I recently found some old Flash games I had written about 7 years ago, and it got me reminiscing about all the old games I used to play on my Acorn Electron when I was a boy. Here’s a screenshot of one of my favorites, Repton.

Repton screenshot

I also have fond memories of Chucky Egg and of course Elite. Mode 2 graphics *sigh*. I can even remember the first program I ever wrote:

10 VDU 23,0,10;0;0;0;
20 MODE 2
30 GCOL 0, RND(128)
40 MOVE RND(640), RND(512)
50 PLOT 85, RND(640), RND(512)
60 GOTO 30

This used to draw random coloured triangles on the screen. I think the VDU 23 bit used to make the cursor disappear, and meant that you had to press break to stop the program. Oh and this was written from memory .. 25 odd years ago of memory too. Can anyone clarify this actually does anything?

[UPDATE] Just checked it in Electrem and it bloody works!

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