Floppy Days 102 - The BBC Micro, Part 3

The BBC Micro, Part 3 with Daniel Jameson Hello, and welcome to episode 102 of the Floppy Days Podcast for December, 2020.  I just love these old machines and love to learn and talk about them.  The year is 1981 and we are talking about the legendary BBC Micro or Beeb as it’s affectionately known.  This is the final episode on this incredible machine, where we will be covering Ads and Appearances, Modern Upgrades, Emulators, Buying One Today, Community, and current Web Sites. Again, as with the last episode, since the BBC Micro is a British machine I thought it only right that my co-host for these episodes should be someone from the UK.   Daniel Jameson, a prominent member of the stardot forums, graciously agreed to help me with this and provide the “color” commentary during this episode.  I think he adds a lot to the show. Before getting into the details of the Beeb, I will talk a bit about new acquisitions and what I’ve been up to, a very brief mention of any upcoming shows, and then right into the meat of the episode. New Acquisitions PC Junior VGA video card - https://www.ebay.com/itm/164149429851  C64 TapeCart - https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Tapecart  FujiNet for Atari 800/800XL - https://fujinet.online/shop/  book “Beneath Apple DOS and ProDOS 2020” By Don Worth, Pieter Lechner - https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/pieter-lechner-and-don-worth/beneath-apple-dos-and-prodos-2020/paperback/product-g9kwzm.html?page=1&pageSize=4  MVT100 - https://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=VT100 - Steve Adolph  Apple IIC composite cable - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-IIc-2c-DB15-Color-Composite-Video-amp-Audio-Cable-Tested-/233772943854?nma=true&si=tHD2mKl633oUtVis3c7Y7F3AfKY%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557  ZXpand+ - https://www.sellmyretro.com/  MISE/FreHD cases: re490 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-3D-Printed-2-color-Case-Enclosure-for-TRS-80-MISE-w-Pads-screws-NEW-/124383293703?hash=item1cf5d27107  https://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-3D-Printed-2-Color-Case-Enclosure-for-TRS-80-FreHD-w-Pads-screws-NEW-/124383299365?hash=item1cf5d28725  Upcoming Shows April 9, 10 & 11, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival East  June 11-13, 2021: http://southernfriedgameroomexpo.com/  August 7 & 8, 2021: Vintage Computer Festival West  Feedback Adam Trionfo - Computer and Videogame Collection - Video 1 - Books, Books and More... Books! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GhMBeqkfB8  Ads and Appearances Starring the Computer - http://www.starringthecomputer.com/  1980s BBC Micro Used By Everyone/The Story of Daphne Ad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6GQaC4Em8E  ads at 8bs.com - http://8bs.com/othrdnld/manuals/ads.shtml  ads at vintagecomputing.com - http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/657  Vintage PC Ads - https://twitter.com/vintage_pc_ads  https://twitter.com/vintage_pc_ads/status/938943770065764355/photo/1  https://twitter.com/vintage_pc_ads/status/954526425599676416/photo/1  4Corn Computers - http://4corn.co.uk/8bit.php  Modern Upgrades RetroClinic’s “INTERNAL RASPBERRY PI 1GHz MULTI-CORE CO-PROCESSOR KIT” uses a Raspberry Pi to emulate a number of the Tube processor expansions - https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/retroclinic  TheFutureWas8Bit “SD2BBC BBC Micro SPI SD Card Interface” - SD2BBC  SPROW Ethernet Adapter - http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/masternet.htm  Acorn BBC Micro RGB SCART - Cool Novelties  Acorn BBC Micro RGB SCART - RetroComputerShack  RGB to HDMI directly using RPi Zero https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14430&start=90  https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=20404  GreaseWeazle - https://github.com/keirf/Greaseweazle  modern USB mouse adapter - SmallyMouse - https://www.domesday86.com/?page_id=245  Emulation BBC Micro emulators - Emulation General Wiki  B-EM - The BBC Micro Emulator , https://github.com/stardot/b-em  BeebEm - BBC Micro and Master 128 Emulator  BeebEm For Mac  BeebEm for UNIX - http://beebem-unix.bbcmicro.com/  JSBeeb: JSBeeb - Javascript BBC Micro emulator  https://github.com/mattgodbolt/jsbeeb  The Complete BBC Games Archive a website holding nearly all software for the BBC Micro, most with links to play online for free in JSBeeb. Matt Godbolt’s blog and videos - https://xania.org/Emulation  model-b, a BBC Micro Emulator for Windows  b2 - https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13081 , https://github.com/tom-seddon/b2/releases  Community Facebook Acorn Computer and BBC Micro Enthusiasts - https://www.facebook.com/groups/AcornAndBBCMicro/  Mailing Lists - BBC Micro mailing list - http://lists.cloud9.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/bbc-micro  Twitter - BBC Micro (@acornproton) - https://twitter.com/acornproton  Forums AtariAge - http://www.atariage.com  stardot.org.uk  6502.org - http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3482  Current Web Sites General Info BBC Micro - Tips BeebMaster BeebWiki BBC Micro - Wikipedia Inside The Master 128 - Motherboard picture mdfs.net - Software and documentation covering such subjects as Acorn BBCs, Econet and networking  R. T. Russell: The home of BBC BASIC The BBC lives! Sprow's webpages - BBC Mecca The Retro-Kit Collection Yellow Pigs BBC Computer Pages BBC and Master Computer PD Library 8 Bit Acorn Webring  The BBC micro as a `multi-multimeter' - https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989PhyEd..24...44T/abstract  Vic from the 10pence Arcade podcast recently teamed up with Kingy from the RGDS podcast presenters to talk about some of the games for the BBC Micro The Press Play on Tape podcast also did an episode on Acorn a few years back Stores RetroClinic | eBay Stores - Mark Haysman Cool Novelties - BBC Micro & Acorn - Retro Gaming, Electronics and Novelty Gifts DataServe Retro - repair BBC PS - Steve Gledhill